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COMMENT willing to take the political and fiscal responsibility of paying for them.

Unless you are willing to take such responsibility, then spare us your compassion.

Michael Emerson Little Rock

What do we know?

Eight years of Regressive (Republican) policies deregulated banks, and these banks destroyed the economy.

The practice still continues (Libor, Peregrin, etcetera) and it’s obvious

Horrible Max Brantley’s column “We are Penn State” is a horrible article.

You’re normally a very factual and well-spoken journalist, but you should be ashamed of this article.

What a horrible attempt to put down the athletic program. To compare the situations at Arkansas with the scandal at Penn State is just plain ignorant.

It’s not fair to bash all athletic programs for what happened at Penn State. Jeff Long/Arkansas did the right thing in their situation and don’t deserve this low class smash job you are attempting.

Drew Albritton Little Rock

the Fed is complicit. Those banks are foreclosing on middle class families when THEY are to blame.

The Regressives are blocking presidential job-creating policies so they can destroy the economy and stage a power grab in the election.

“Our No. 1 job is to get rid of Obama!” they’ve said since day 1. Not to create jobs, not to fix the economy.

To rid the country of our black president. Oh, yes, precious; I will play the race card. Regressives are racists.

“Because TEA Party sounds so much nicer than ‘Raving Homophobes and

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The choice is obvious

Why expand Medicaid?

While Gov. Beebe considers expanding Medicaid eligibility, let’s keep a few simple facts in mind.

According to the Arkansas Medicaid director, Andy Allison, the total cost of Medicaid for Arkansas in 2011 was $4,700,000,000 (that’s right, billion).

We pay only 30 percent of this amount, the rest being picked up by federal deficit spending.

The total Medicaid bill is the same amount as the entire state budget for 2013.

Per Mr. Allison, we are running a $400,000,000 deficit. Why on earth would we expand a program we cannot currently afford? To the proponents who flaunt their compassion, my question is: Why haven’t you been advocating the expansion of this program before now?

It is only because someone else is paying for it. I cannot think of a better example of the failure of modern liberalism: legislating benefits that someone else has to pay for.

The simple solution is to not award public benefits unless you are 4

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Racists.’ ” One fine bumper sticker.

Credit for the small businessman and for the middle class is gone.

Retirement is a thing of the past. You work until you die.

The only business the Regressives care about is BIG business. Forget the little guy. CRUSH the little guy. Make him into a servant. SERVICE economy? Bull. It’s a SERVANT economy.

Serve the Rich.

Now an investment banker (yes he is) wants to be president. He promises to deregulate banks further.

Regressives actually complain that the present president is a community organizer. As if that’s a bad thing.

If the banker wins, it proves that the Regressives have been successful. Successful in sabotaging public education for the past 20 years.

What do we know?

NOTHING. Figures.

Vote for Obama. Or serve others.

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The current administration wants to encourage family planning by making contraception available to all, at no charge through their health insurance.

Under the current provisions of the “Affordable Care Act” no one’s religious freedom is compromised, nothing states that a person must use contraceptives, everyone can choose based on their religious beliefs.

Mitt Romney now says he is prolife yet he profits from his ownership in Stericycle, a company that collects and disposes of fetuses.

The Securities and Exchange Commission lists Romney as an active participant in this investment. His deal helped Stericycle grow, while yielding tens of millions of dollars in profits for Romney and his partners.

I agree with my fellow Catholics: We must not leave our beliefs behind when we vote. Who is best to vote for, Obama who is reducing abortions by making contraceptives available to all or Romney who profits from abortions?

Robert Ricker Melbourne

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EDITORIAL

EYE ON ARKANSAS

Eat a burger Aug. 1

Shameless Rick Crawford

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an Democrat Scott Ellington do better as the 1st District’s congressman? He could hardly do worse than incumbent Republican Rep. Rick Crawford.

During recent work on the farm bill, he opposed an amendment meant to restore cuts in the food stamp program. He supported additional government spending and regulation of catfish inspection, a move targeting imported fish. Expensive bureaucracy in the name of local catfish protectionism is OK for teabagging congressmen. Crawford also added an amendment in support of a controversial biomass fuel project. MFA Oil Biomass said the money in Crawford’s amendment would be critical to its future in developing fuel from a type of grass.

MFA showed its appreciation the day after Crawford’s amendment was approved. Former state Sen. Tim Wooldridge, northeast Arkansas project manager for MFA, announced that he’d lead a coalition of Democrats in support of Crawford’s re-election.

It didn’t exactly set off a groundswell for Crawford among Democrats, but he could nonetheless mark his biomass amendment “PAID IN FULL.” 6

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DAVID KOON

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ormer Gov. Mike Huckabee can surprise on occasion with tolerance toward minorities, such as immigrants. But brotherly Huckalove is little in evidence when it comes to homosexuality.

Last week he called on Americans to join him Aug. 1 in eating at Chick-fil-A. Why? He claimed the fast food chain had been “smeared by vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry from the left.”

Chick-fil-A has indeed been criticized for its evangelical president’s recent outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage. He said the U.S. would invite the wrath of God by approving it. In Huckabee world, disagreement with this point of view is intolerant.

Want some intolerance? Chick-fil-A owners have spent millions to fight not just same-sex marriage, but also to oppose a law to outlaw discrimination in employment on account of sexual orientation. They support the unconstitutional federal law that prohibits providing equal benefits to families of legally married gay people.

Huckabee’s record is no better. In recent defense of a ban on gay Boy Scouts, he equated homosexuality with pedophilia. He’s described children of same-sex couples as “guinea pigs” in an experiment. He has suggested people with HIV/AIDS should be quarantined.

He has compared same-sex marriage with incest. He has proposed amending the Constitution to God’s standards — God being a Southern Baptist, no doubt.

You can demonstrate your support for legal discrimination against gay people by joining Huckster at a Chick-fil-A on Aug. 1.

We think we’ll look for a pint of Ben & Jerry’s “Hubby Hubby” instead.

SEEKING JUSTICE: (From left) Tracy Martin and Sabrina Fulton, the parents of Trayvon Matin, with their attorney Benjamin Crump and National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executive President Jiles Ship. Martin and Fulton were in Little Rock on Tuesday.

Health care: We’re pro and con

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new Talk Business/Hendrix College poll sharply illustrates how messaging influences the health care debate.

In Arkansas, a solid 58 percent say opponents should continue to fight implementation of health care reform, despite its validation by the U.S. Supreme Court after its earlier passage by Congress.

The clear message: Obamacare is bad!

At the same time, in the same poll, the opinion among more than 500 Arkansans was about evenly split — 42 for to 46 against — on expanding the Medicaid program in Arkansas, probably the most expensive part of Obamacare.

That message: Obamacare may not be so bad after all!

These contradictory results are not hard to analyze.

For a couple of years now, Republicans have been painting the move toward universal health coverage of Americans as socialism at best, sheer evil and the end of our wonderful health care system at worst. (Wonderful if you don’t count those who can’t access it, our poor results and our high costs.)

It doesn’t hurt in Arkansas that the symbol for the message is a black man (suspected by many to be foreign-born and a Muslim). He’s reviled in these precincts.

The counter-message from Democrats has been almost non-existent. Well, there is poor ol’ Jay Bradford, the Arkansas insurance commissioner, who is valiantly trying to put in place a system by which previously uninsured Arkies will be able to get health insurance.

But in Arkansas, the real problem is Obama. And I’ll leave it to you to decide why he’s such a problem.

Jay Barth notes in analysis of the poll: “Arkansans’ views are in significant contrast to national polling on the issue. Our poll question replicated a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation showing that by a 56 percent to 38 percent margin,

Americans were ready for opponents to move on now that the Court had ruled. By a 58 percent to 34 percent margin, Arkansans continue ongoing opposition.”

Noted: Arkansas whites MAX polled disproportionately BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com favored continued obstruction.

Arkansas’s seeming opposition to better health care is reminiscent of nothing so much as Arkansas’s dogged defense of a system of education that was a national disgrace as late as the mid-1970s. There, too, we were poor in service to our people, but somehow perversely proud of it.

The poll results thrill Republican campaign operatives. They plan to make 2012 a rerun of 2010. Every race, from dog catcher on up, will be pitched as a referendum on the black president. If the pitch is successful, a Republican tsunami will ensue.

Then come the consequences. When sick people lose the insurance rights they’ve just won; when kids are tossed off parents’ insurance; when the new health insurance exchanges crumble; when the added cost for seniors’ drugs returns; when Medicaid becomes but a shadow program for a tiny slice of the population and kids start losing primary coverage in droves — maybe then Arkansas voters might reconsider just who’s wearing the black hat. Is it the black man working for broader health coverage or is it the Arkansas legislators who’d sacrifice the health of hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens to finance tax cuts for millionaires?

A version of this column appeared earlier on the Arkansas Blog.

DAVID KOON

OPINION

History proves tax cuts hurt jobs

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epublican politicians everywhere, or at least in Washington and Arkansas, are approaching a rare harmonic convergence. They are selling their elections on a single idea, lowering taxes on people with reasonably high incomes — well, that idea and stopping the expansion of health insurance to the sick and poor in 2013.

The tax cut is Mitt Romney’s plan for unshackling the economy and creating jobs, and Republicans in both houses of Congress put it at the top of their agenda.

The tax cut along with repealing healthinsurance and deep cuts in programs for the aged, poor and disabled was the heart of the big budget blueprint that all Republican congressmen embraced in April and vow to enact into law if they and Romney carry the day in November.

It is the Republican plan for Arkansas if the party captures both houses of the legislature. GOP leaders say it will end years of stagnation in Arkansas and create good jobs for everyone.

It is the one conservative political principle that in Washington and Little Rock has proved to be simple, tested, and wrong.

The actual numbers for the seven and a half years after the Clinton tax increase and a similar span after the Bush tax cuts?

Clinton, 23 million net new jobs, Bush 1.1 million net new jobs.

But the evidence already was ample.

The theory that cutting taxes on the wealthy — “the job creators” — began Yes, it is the only economic notion I with Arthur Laffer, and President Reaknow of that has gan tested it in 1981. The big tax cuts were been thoroughly supposed to produce unparalleled growth vetted, over and and new jobs — Laffer’s parabolic curve over, and proven on an envelope proved it would happen.

ERNEST Instead, the country fell into the deepest to be fallacious. It DUMAS recession since the ’30s. Unemployment has never worked.

People who get the tax cuts are happier soared above 10 percent for 10 straight and the government may get by without months, and over 8 percent for 27 months. the money, but it doesn’t create jobs, at But Reagan began raising taxes the next least not in detectable numbers. You can year to stop the hemorrhaging and the hire an economist to craft a study saying massive deficits. Reagan and Bush would that it will produce growth and jobs, but raise taxes eight times, the big one being the truth is in simple numbers. the tax reform act of 1986, which taxed All that you need to do is hail Bill Clin- capital gains fully like wages, repealed ton and George W. Bush. One raised taxes the investment tax credit and generally modestly on high incomes a few months closed tax loopholes for big investors like into his first term and the other drastically Mitt Romney. slashed taxes on high incomes in his first What happened then? The current thefew months in office and again the next ory is that taxing capital gains kills jobs, two years. Remember the hoopla each time. but unemployment fell from 7 to 5 perEvery Republican voted against Clinton’s cent over Reagan’s final two years and the tax increase, which closed the huge budget hefty job growth accounts for the Reagan deficits of the previous 12 years, and they “economic miracle.”

But surely the story is different in our warned of a new depression. The Bush tax cuts were supposed to create a boom the little confined economic laboratory in likes of which the nation had never seen.

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The threadbare gun debate

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very time we have one of these increasingly frequent ritualized killing sprees in the United States, we have essentially the same national conversation. And then nothing happens. Between the First and Second Amendments as currently understood, mass murder may as well be a constitutional right.

Arguments about guns have been worn so threadbare that people may as well be having them in their sleep. Observing friends bickering on Facebook, I wondered what was the point?

To start with, guns will never be banned entirely. Saying they should be only empowers crackpots. So shut up with that, alright?

The Second Amendment, however, consists of one twenty-six word sentence, two of which are “well-regulated.” Furthermore, it was written to protect a citizen’s right to own a single-shot, muzzle-loading musket with an effective range of fewer than 50 yards. I’m all for that. No limits.

However, the notion that it’d be an impediment to liberty to limit ownership of semi-automatic assault rifles with 100shot magazines, or to make it harder to buy 6,000 rounds of ammo online strikes me as not merely foolish, but downright childish.

So when I read about somebody like

Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain gun owners, telling reporters there’s no need to inconveGENE nience “law-abidLYONS ing sportsmen and target shooters [who] ... can easily blow through 400 or 500 rounds in one vigorous day at a shooting range,” I just want to say: How about growing up? Do you think your kid should be able to buy booze online?

To me, target shooting’s kind of a harmless, dorky hobby like bowling. But people should have to buy their ammo the same way I buy Irish whiskey: live and in person from somebody with a responsibility to deny service (and to report) obviously impaired individuals.

As for military assault rifles, I’d put it this way: As much as I like cats, I’ve sometimes thought it’d be cool to have a pet lion.

However, I realize it’d be anti-social and borderline crazy. So’s letting anybody with a driver’s license own an AR-15 or AK-47.

Surveys show most responsible gun-owners agree. Alas, they don’t vote that way.

What’s more, as fond as I am of revenge comedies like “Die Hard” and “Lethal

Weapon,” this fantasy some of you have about fighting it out against totalitarian government agents with a hot young thing by your side ...

Well, that’s all it is, a daydream. And daydreams have a way of growing malignant.

NRA-inspired scenarios of citizen-gun owners taking down the Aurora shooter— outfitted in a gas mask and more protective gear than the Navy Seals who took down Osama bin Laden — have no basis in reality.

Will Saletan got it right in Slate: “Holmes didn’t just kill a dozen people. He killed the NRA’s answer to gun violence.”

So shouldn’t the media quit giving mass murderers the notoriety they crave? My first instinct was to agree with Roger Ebert, in the New York Times. “I’m not sure there is an easy link between movies and gun violence, he wrote. “I think the link is between the violence and the publicity. ... I don’t know if James Holmes cared deeply about Batman. I suspect he cared deeply about seeing himself on the news.”

Grandiosity is a big part of the delusions that drive these spree killers. “Mass shooting cases have the common motive of an attacker seeking immortality,” writes forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner. “Each of the attackers has different degrees of paranoia and resentment of the broader community.”

State income taxes have been raised only one time since 1929 if you don’t count two temporary hikes. The permament one was in 1971, when the top marginal rate was raised from 5 to 7 percent. Arkansas experienced some of its sharpest business and job growth in the three years that followed. Until then, Arkansas had by far the lowest per-capita state and local taxes of the 50 states, yet was last or 49th in percapita income year after dreary year.

We also tested the theory that cutting taxes for the investor class — “the job creators” — will get people off the jobless rolls. In 1999, in his one legitimate claim to be a tax cutter, Gov. Mike Huckabee got the legislature to cut income taxes on capital gains by 30 percent. Things got very bad after that, so bad that Huckabee called the legislature into special session and begged the legislators to raise taxes instantly, including the income tax, so the state would not have to cut people off the health rolls. A 3 percent surtax on personal and corporate incomes for two years put the state back on sound footing. Huckabee came back on the last day and thanked the lawmakers for their courage.

Still, doesn’t it make sense that if you cut the Walton heirs some slack and let them keep a few hundred million more each year they will call up the headquarters and tell them to hire more greeters?

If you keep at it, some day it is going to work, even if by accident.

Wouldn’t we be better off if the news media covered these atrocities the way they cover drunk drivers who run off the highway and die at 3 a.m.? That is, with a brief paragraph on page 3B. Alas, that’s never going to happen.

Anderson Cooper’s refusal to pronounce the killer’s name amidst CNN’s 24/7 coverage of the Colorado tragedy may have been a heartfelt gesture, but a futile one. For better and worse, people do want to know.

This too: It’s a good bet we’ll learn that the Aurora shooter — a Phd candidate in neuroscience — came into contact with many people who knew or should have known that something had gone dreadfully wrong.

Like most states, Colorado law permits any adult to petition a sanity investigation.

Should a police officer or qualified social worker find what amounts to psychological probable cause, an individual can be held in a psychiatric facility for 72 hours pending a court hearing.

If the court finds that person gravely disabled or a threat, hospitalization and treatment can be required. Romantic notions of liberty aside, psychosis has no rights. Alas, too few people in our increasingly lonely, fragmented society feel a duty to intervene.

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DOUG SMITH Max Brantdougsmith@arktimes.com ley spotted a new euphemism: “Gov. Mike Beebe has named the owner of a Little Rock vegetation management company as the newest member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.” I’m sure the governor has thought carefully about this, but just because a person can manage vegetation doesn’t mean he can manage game and fish. And what is vegetation management anyway?

The next sentence of the news release explains, sort of: “Beebe said in a statement that Ford Overton, owner of West Tree Service, will replace George Dunklin of DeWitt. His term expires July 1, 2019.” Could we call what those forest fires are doing out west vegetation management? Is the kid mowing the grass a vegetation management trainee? I can manage a mess of fried okra pretty good my own self. Should I get some kind of certificate?

WEEK THAT WAS

It was a good week for …

MEDICAID PREDICTIONS. The state Department of Human Services put pen to paper and discovered that expanding the Medicaid rolls will, thanks to federal contributions, save the state $372 million by 2021. Still, for political appearances, the Republicans in the legislature will try to keep Arkansas from taking advantage of the expansion.

CHECKING UP ON CORPORATE WELFARE. The state’s Economic Development Commission wants state auditors to have the authority to determine whether taxpayer-paid incentives — tax credits, sales tax refunds, etc. — are creating promised jobs.

It was a bad week for …

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of glove compartments. The chances of finding gloves inside are still slim, I imagine.

THE GAS TAX DRIVE. The Committee for a Fair Severance Tax had to throw in the towel after it was revealed that 70 percent of the signatures turned in to place the initiative on the general election ballot were bad. (Nancy Todd’s casino amendment

came up short as well.) Among other things, the tax would have helped pay to repair roads damaged by shale exploration companies. Voters don’t want to raise sales taxes to pay for road damage either, a Talk Business/Hendrix College poll indicated.

CROPS AND CATTLE. Make that a bad couple of months. Arkansas’s drought continues, with 14 counties now listed as being in exceptional drought — the worst classification — and the rest of the state in either extreme or severe drought. Farmers and cattle ranchers are facing economic disaster; the state’s secretary of agriculture called the situation “catastrophic.”

INTERSTATE TRAFFIC. The $125 million project to build a new exchange at Interstate 630 and 430 means one-lane traffic for the next couple of weeks. The highway department is encouraging motorists to find a detour “if at all possible.”

GAME AND FISH. An employee morale survey released last Wednesday gave poor marks to the administration at the agency, with only 35 percent saying their opinions matter, 24 percent saying they’d recommend working there to a friend and 21 percent being optimistic about the future of the agency. There is a perception, the survey found, that hiring and promotion is not merit-based but politically motivated.

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The man upstairs THE OBSERVER’S CEILING FAN in

the Great Hall of the Observatory went on the blink over the weekend. That’s not a biggie. We’ve replaced ceiling fans before. Only after we’d taken it down, though, did we find that the problem wasn’t the fan, nor was it the wall switch. No, it was Something Else — something in that dark and dusklit netherworld where no homeowner ever wishes to travel if he or she can help it (especially in July): the unfinished attic of a 1930s bungalow house.

The Observer has lived in our little house on Maple Street for close to 10 years now, but we can count the number of times we’ve climbed the rickety, folddown attic stairs — even to poke a box of Christmas decorations up through the hole — on one hand. There could be a chest full of Spanish pirate doubloons or the only uncut sheet of Honus Wagners in existence up there. We don’t know, and we don’t care. They can stay.

You see, The Observer, that intellectual beast among mortals, has a thing about tight spaces. It’s not bad enough to be called a phobia, but it is definitely an issue, and the attic, dusty and dark, always looked bad for business in that regard. Still, we had a reputation to uphold with Spouse, so with her looking on, we warily pulled down the foldaway stairs, hoisted our flashlight, screwdriver, and the $4 non-contact voltage detector we were counting on to help us slay electrical serpents before they could slay us, and ventured up.

In Greek mythology, somebody is always heading off to the Underworld to meet up with some old dead somebody. It was, we heard a lit prof say once, a way for the great old bards to let croaked heroes and villains of stories long past make their cameos and then get the hell out of the way (literally) so the storyteller could look well-rounded while getting on with the tale in short order. Going into the attic felt just like that: a mere mortal venturing into a dark, spottily lit place, bisected by a crazy-quilt of splintery wood, mysterious wires, and odd angles. It’s that way in most any house: you can bet that no matter how squeaky-clean and spiffy-

neat the living areas are, there’s bound to be someplace under any roof that looks like the set of “Saw 9: The One Where Spiders Impregnate A Guy’s Face.”

It was noon by the time we got out gumption enough to head into the attic, and it was hot up there. One-hundredand-five outside, and locked-in-thetrunk-of-a-black-sedan-at-the-airport-hot inside. Nonetheless, we soon found the problem and got to work on it. Pouring sweat, with Spouse shouting up the stairs periodically to check on us, unable to even rise above a stoop under the coffin-lid ceiling, we found ourself thinking of words like “hydration” and “core body temperature.” We saw ourselves going face-down in the ancient mouse turds and insulation, and seriously considered whether or not the fire department would have to chainsaw through the roof to hoist our big ass out.

We might have had sweat lodge visions.

We don’t know. It’s all a little hazy.

Work finished and clothes literally wringing wet, we gathered our tools and skedaddled over to the rectangular hole where Spouse was looking up and waiting anxiously, then back down the stairs from the Underworld, into the cool house so painted and neat and blessedly cool that it’s hard to believe it’s the same place. Goodbye attic. Here’s hoping it’s another nine years before we have to brave your depths again.

NOW THAT CORPORATIONS are people, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, I guess P.A.M. Transport thought it would be a good idea to express its animus toward the president of the United States on its trucks, as their wheels pound down our roads.

“Nobama” was stenciled on the truck The Observer saw in Northwest Arkansas, the company’s home, making for a free and highly mobile political ad. This “person,” meanwhile, is publicly held; those who think that bashing the president on the side of a truck is unseemly can break off their friendship (but not the taxes they pay to keep the nation’s highways in shape so Mr. P.A.M. can make a buck).

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Cool to taxes New polling by Talk Business and Hendrix College indicates coolness to taxes for highway work among Arkansas voters.

On July 19, the robopoll questioned 585 voters on a proposed initiated act to raise the severance tax on natural gas, with proceeds to go to state, city and county road work and also on a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that would raise the state sales tax by a half-cent to support a bond issue to build four-lane roads.

Voters were cool to both ideas, particularly to the severance tax increase, which won’t make the ballot anyway. A petition drive fell far short of gathering sufficient signatures. On the severance tax, the poll said: 33 percent yes; 54.5 percent no, and 12.5 percent don’t know.

On the sales tax, the poll said: 42 percent yes; 49 percent no, and 8.5 percent don’t know.

The results mirrored March polling. Demographic notes: men and Democrats tended to be more favorable to the ideas.

Waltons make money count Statewide petition drives were notoriously unsuccessful this year.

An ethics reform drive was dropped after a canvassing firm failed to deliver. A casino amendment was rejected for lack of signatures. Petition drives for a gas severance tax, another casino amendment and a medical marijuana law all met initial signature targets, but reviews showed huge percentages of signatures – 50 to 70 percent – were not from registered voters.

Perhaps future petitioners should look to the Walton family. In Benton County, a drive to put a retail alcohol sales ordinance on the county ballot was successful. Tom and Steuert Walton, grandsons of Walmart founder Sam Walton, paid for most of the drive, with contributions of $180,000 each.

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Power play Entergy paying customers to let it turn down their A/C.

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ntergy Arkansas is trying to enlist its residential customers in a program that would automatically let temperatures go up to keep the utility’s costs down.

Residential customers taking part in Entergy’s Summer Advantage Program agree to the installation of a device called a Direct Cycling Unit on their central air conditioning units that will shut down compressors during periods of peak electricity use. Those who sign up before July 31 will get rebates either $50 or $80, depending on the reduction in A/C. The utility announced the program to its 700,000 customers last month.

Entergy is upfront about the fact that, while the compressor is off, indoor temperatures will rise. And with a relentless chain of 100-plus highs in our immediate future, some Central Arkansans are wary about signing up. “There’s many things in my life that I don’t have control over … therefore, I like to keep control over what I can control. And I like being in control of my own thermostat,” Peggy Young Seamon wrote on the Arkansas Times Facebook page.

But other customers, especially those who keep their thermostats high anyhow, seemed to welcome the rebate. About 1,895 Entergy Arkansas

customers have volunteered for Summer Advantage so far, and 756 DCUs have been installed.

The compressor in an air conditioning unit turns itself on and off multiple times throughout the day to protect its motor from overheating. The DCU, which is about the size of a child’s shoebox, connects to the appliance and measures how many minutes the compressor cycles on each hour. During the hottest part of the day, generally midmorning to mid-afternoon, compressors’ switch on en masse to keep interior temperatures stable. In times of peak usage, the DCU shuts off the compressor either 50 to 75 percent longer than it did during the previous hour. If a compressor blew cold air for 30 minutes in the previous hour, and the customer is on a 50 percent cycle, the compressor would only blow cold air for 15 minutes of every hour during peak usage.

According to Entergy, “peak usage” can last up to four hours. Summer Advantage will primarily cycle down compressors on weekdays before 7 p.m. The DCUs, which are remotely controlled by the utility, would only be activated on weekends and holidays in the case of an unforeseen crisis. “When commercial businesses aren’t in operation, it offsets demand considerably. We’re

still monitoring that demand level every day, especially during the summer when we’re in triple digit temps, but it’s usually lighter on weekends and holidays,” said Julie Munsell, an Entergy spokesperson. Customers who sign up for the program at 50 percent cycling will receive $50, paid out as $25 upon installation and $25 in December.

Those who select 75 percent cycling will receive a $40 upon installation and $40 in December.

Munsell said most customers won’t notice a change on their bills, but if there is a change, it should be for the better. “When the compressor cycles off, the fan continues to run, which helps mitigate the change in temperature and keep the house as cool as possible. This is so your unit doesn’t have to work harder when it cycles back on to get back to its setting,” she said.

The program should, however, save the utility, and ultimately the customers, money. “We estimate how much power we’re going to need, and then we procure that,” said Munsell. “If we find ourselves in a situation where there’s a peak demand and we can’t supply that, then we have to go out and purchase it,” which is expensive on the open market.

“If we can better manage that load for power during peak periods, then it’s ultimately better for the customer in terms of keeping those costs down and also reducing the carbon footprint.”

Through September 2013, implementing Summer Advantage will cost Entergy $5 million — a cost that, as of July 2012, has been passed along to customers as the “Energy Efficiency Cost Rate Rider” detailed on each bill.

(For most customers, it averages $2.11 a month, according to Entergy.) Entergy Arkansas has 16 different efficiency programs, all of which are paid for in part by the consumer, and all of which have been approved by the Arkansas Public Service Commission.

According to David Lewis, another Entergy representative, high demand loads can sometimes cause transformer failures, which may result in rolling outages lasting half an hour at a time and affecting a few thousand customers. “It is very unusual to have to take this step, like maybe once every few years. This has happened once that I know of this summer, in the Stuttgart area June 29,” he said via e-mail.

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ARKANSANS IN THE OLYMPICS There are several Arkansans to keep track of this year in the Olympic Games that kick off with the opening ceremony on Friday, July 25. Here’s a look at some of the athletes and when they can be seen on NBC television (all times listed are in Central Standard Time), online at NBCOlympics.com or through NBC’s “Live Extra” mobile phone app.

WALLACE SPEARMON Spearmon, former Razorbacks and Fayetteville High sprinter, has been given a second chance at the Olympics. Spearmon, who finished third in the 200-meter race in 2008’s Bejing Olympics, was later disqualified for stepping out of his lane. The first round of the men’s 200-meter race is set to begin at 5:50 a.m. Aug. 7, with semifinals at 2:10 p.m. Aug. 8 and the final scheduled for 2:55 p.m. Aug. 9.

MARGEAUX ISAKSEN Isaksen hopes to bring home the gold in the modern pentathlon, an event that combines running, fencing, riding, swimming and shooting. Born in Fayetteville, she grew up on a farm in Northwest Arkansas and has been riding and shooting since she was a young girl, she says. Isaksen competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics at age 16, but did not medal. See her play in this five-part event starting at 2 a.m. Aug. 12.

JANET CHEROBON-BAWCOM Cherobon-Bawcom, a former runner at Harding University, qualified for the 2012 London Olympics in the 10K race last month. A native of Kenya, she started running at age 20 when she was told it could help her get a scholarship. She will be Harding’s first Olympic athlete. After becoming a naturalized citizen in 2011, Cherobon-Bawcom was able to represent Team USA in championships and now will represent the nation at the 2012 Olympics. See her in the 10,000-meter race at 3:25 p.m. Aug. 3.

TYSON GAY Gay is a former Razorback (originally from Kentucky) who will be competing for Team USA in track and field.

He is hoping to bring home the gold for Team USA in the men’s 100-meter race, an event for which he holds the American record.

Gay, known for being one of the two sprinters to have beaten the legendary Jamaican runner Usain Bolt, helped the Razorbacks win a national championship in 2003.

The preliminaries for the 100-meter will be at 4 a.m. Aug. 4, with the first round beginning at 6:30 a.m. on the same day.

See the semifinal at 1:45 p.m. and final at 3:50 p.m. Aug. 5.

MICHAEL TINSLEY Tinsley is a Little Rock native who has made it onto the 2012 Olympic track team running the 400-meter hurdles. He attended Pulaski Robinson High School.

The first round of men’s 400-meter hurdles begins at 5:15 a.m. Aug. 3, with semi-finals the following day at 1 p.m. and the final round on at 2:45 p.m. Aug. 6.

JEREMY SCOTT Scott, who completed his master’s degree at the University of Arkansas, will be competing in the games as a member of the USA’s pole vaulting team. The pole vault qualifying round begins at 4 a.m. Aug. 8 and will be followed by the final at 1 p.m. Aug. 10.

REGINA GEORGE Regina George, a University of Arkansas sprinter, will represent Nigeria during the Olympic Games in London this summer. A rising senior, George broke her school record, set in early June 2012, at the 2012 All Nigeria Athletics Championships. She will be running both the women’s 400-meter (qualifying round: 6 a.m. Aug. 3, at semifinal: 2:05 p.m. Aug. 4, at final: 3:10 p.m. Aug. 5) and the 4x400meter relay (round one: 1:10 p.m. Aug. 10, final: 2:25 p.m. Aug. 11.).

MARY ALICE MITFORD Mary Alice Mitford is a 26 year-old Magnolia native who will be playing for the U.S. Paralympic Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team. Mary Alice graduated from the University of Alabama. See her play for Team USA starting Aug. 30 with a 9:15 a.m. game against France.

ALISTAIR CRAGG Cragg was born in Johannesburg and under Arkansas Razorbacks track and field coach John McDonnell won NCAA titles in 3,000- and 10,000-meter races on the track.

He was 2004 Southeastern Conference athlete of the year.

He’ll compete in the 5,000-meter races for Ireland in his second Olympics appearance. Round 1 is at 4:45 a.m. Aug. 8; the final is 1:30 p.m. Aug. 11.

TINA SUTEJ Sutej, 23, a native of Slovenia, was a pole-vaulter for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was named an NCAA Champion in 2011 and is an a.m.erican collegiate record holder with a best of 4.54 meters. She’ll compete for Slovenia. Qualifying round is 4:20 a.m. Aug. 4, final 1 p.m. Aug. 6.

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INSIDER, CONT. the key thing: County Clerk Tena O’Brien, who certified the proposal for the ballot, said about 76 percent of the signatures were those of duly registered voters, a reverse of the experience of some statewide efforts.

Signers in Benton County report that canvassers there were careful and seemed wellinformed about the initiative.

Fraudulent signatures were a problem on some of the statewide initiatives, along with thousands of invalid signatures.

Volunteers were used heavily in some drives, but all the failed efforts also used paid canvassers, sometimes poorly informed about the petitions they carried.

Canvassers also found organized opposition campaigns attempting to discourage signers on the severance tax and casino petitions, something that apparently didn’t happen in Benton County.

Aurora fallout in LR The mass shooting at a Colorado theater during the showing of a Batman movie left people antsy all over the country. In Little Rock, for example, police distributed this notice for the weekend after the shooting: “Although the Little Rock Police Department has not received any known threats a Directed Patrol has been put in effect for all movie theatres in the City of Little Rock. From now until Monday, July 23, 2012, officers are required to check theatres in their respective districts and document each patrol.

“Should an officer receive a call concerning suspicious activity at a specific location, the officer will complete an incident report documenting the incident. All Directed Patrol documents, along with copies of incident reports pertaining to this directive, will be forwarded to Captain Michael Davis.”

Big Orange targets Midtowne It won’t happen sooner than 2013, but owners of Big Orange, the custom burger and salad restaurant in the Promenade at Chenal, are firming up plans for a location in Midtowne Little Rock, the shopping center at Markham and University. It will be adjacent to Cantina Laredo, according to a spokesman for Big Orange. www.arktimes.com

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You’ll never ask ‘where?’ again Best place to get a milkshake? Check.

To gamble? Check.

From subwoofers to spas, the readers of the Arkansas Times have spoken, and provided, for the 17th year running, a list of Arkansas’s best. Besides the results for the zillions of categories voted on (the list begins below), the Times offers several features, and we might just win a Pulitzer with one of them. That’s because this year, the Times blows the lid off the mysterious Forbidden Hillcrest, scoring an interview with reclusive blogger Paul Carr.

Other stories: Where to drop several large on audio equipment for your car. A defense of the River Rail, which our voters named Best Misuse of Public Funds but which makes our writer David Koon misty-eyed. The place men have gotten their pants for nearly a century and will for a century more. Onion rings and how they crumble.

Of course, there are our own personal picks, where readers will discover the best place to see painted buntings and big cats and the best mobile phone game invented by an Arkansas company and the best place to buy sardines while you’re waiting for a prescription to be filled.

ANTIQUES Fabulous Finds RUNNERS-UP: Blue Suede Shoes, Twin City Antique Mall, Mid-Towne Antique Mall APARTMENT COMPLEX Rivercliff RUNNERS-UP: The Links, The Enclave, The Park at Riverdale ART GALLERY Gallery 26 RUNNERS-UP: M2 Gallery, Cantrell Gallery, Stephano’s Fine Art Gallery AUTO DEALER Landers RUNNERS-UP: Parker Auto Group, Bale, Landers Toyota AUTO SERVICE Jett’s Service Station RUNNERS-UP: Landers Toyota, Austin Brothers Tire Service, Bale Kia AUTO STEREO Best Buy LOCAL WINNER: Auto Audio RUNNERS-UP: Arkansas Car Stereo, Bryant Car Stereo, Audio Express BANK Metropolitan National Bank RUNNERS-UP: NBA, Centennial Bank, 12

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Bank of the Ozarks BARBERSHOP Jerry’s RUNNERS-UP: Sport Clips, Great Clips, Salon Karizma BICYCLE SHOP Chainwheel RUNNERS-UP: Spokes, Community Bicyclist, Arkansas Cycling & Fitness BOOKSTORE Barnes & Noble LOCAL WINNER: WordsWorth Books & Co. RUNNERS-UP: Books-A-Million, Dickson Street Bookshop, River Market Books & Gifts CARWASH Splash RUNNERS-UP: Best, Suds, Boomerang CHILDREN’S CLOTHING The Toggery in the Heights RUNNERS-UP: Gymboree, The Children’s Place, Target CHIROPRACTOR Beverly Foster RUNNERS-UP: Steve Fender, Brady DeClerk, Richard Riley CLEANERS Hangers RUNNERS-UP: Comet, Moose, Schickel’s

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DECORATOR Larry West (Interiors West) RUNNERS-UP: Tobi Fairley Interior Design, Heather Owens (George James Creative), Jason Edwards ELECTRONICS Best Buy LOCAL WINNER: Carnes Audio Visual RUNNERS-UP: Apple Store, Radio Shack, Sam’s Club EYEWEAR Burrow’s & Mr. Frank’s

RUNNERS-UP: LensCrafters, Kavanaugh Eye Care, James Eyecare & Optics Gallery FRESH VEGETABLES The Fresh Market RUNNERS-UP: Argenta Market, Kroger, Little Rock Farmers’ Market FLORIST Tipton Hurst RUNNERS-UP: About Vase, Frances Flower Shop, The Empty Vase

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BEST ART PLAYGROUND: Jose Hernandez and the issue’s cover in progress at Dedicated.

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BEST ART PLAYGROUND

Pump the brakes on your letter writing campaign, you who see graffiti and immediately think “defacement.” You won’t find our cover image on the back of some downtown building. The walls are props courtesy of The Rep, and the painting, done by Jose Hernandez, happened inside Dedicated, the gallery and venue he runs on the corner of Seventh and Spring. When we featured Dedicated in the Times earlier this year, Hernandez explained his motivation for the space: “I just want to paint. And I want to see other people paint. I want to see people do what they love, whether it’s music, art, writing, whatever ... and teaching about it, so that kids can see that there’s alternative ways to getting a job, working all your life for nothing.” That plan seems to be going well.

The night before our photo shoot, interpretive dancers contorted to improvised music from members of the local band

Ginsu Wives, while artists spray-painted eight-foot stretches of Saran wrap in the middle of the warehouse performance space. Other times, Hernandez says, skateboarders might take to the half-pipe at one end of the space, while DJs spin and muralists work. Mixed media always, he says.

Check it out, art-y types. There’s nothing else like it in Little Rock.

BEST TIME-KILLER

If you’re the type who can’t countenance an empty moment without whipping out your smart phone and hurling some furrowed-browed birds at pigs or angling for a triple-word score against your “friends,” consider a new iPhone game from Mobile FWD, a new mobile app development company based in Northwest Arkansas. It’s called Trivi.al, and it’s habit-forming. Particularly when it’s played as it’s intended — against people you know. Think Words with Friends, but

trivia. Or if you’re ignorant of mobile gaming, think a lightning-round of Trivial Pursuit played on your phone against people you know. Trivi.al just launched a couple weeks ago, so to get the fullest experience, you’ll need to recruit some friends to play.

We’ve already got an intra-office grudge match going. One of us, who prides himself in knowing more inane trivia than your average “Jeopardy” contestant and isn’t shy about telling everyone, is getting destroyed by the quiet guy in the office.

But not for long!

BEST HIGH

If you’re not into recreational pharmaceuticals, this award has to go to Mount Magazine State Park, which sits atop the highest point in Arkansas (2,700 feet!) and looms over the tiny hamlet of Havana in Yell County. With truly amazing views, a stunning, multi-million-dollar lodge complex or romantic private cabins, hiking, biking, flora and fauna, it’s a great escape.

BONUS: It’s about 15 degrees cooler at the top of the mountain at any given time, making it the perfect destination in the wilting season of summer.

BEST LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD

For literary types like us, that’s gotta be

Bryan Borland, who started the Alexander, Ark., Sibling Rivalry Press on his kitchen table a few years back and has since grown it into a powerhouse in the niche of gay/ lesbian/transgender literature. In an era when we regularly hear that print is dead, Borland is actually making a profit publishing poetry, and is expanding rapidly into the world of fiction as projects present themselves. As an added bonus, Sibling Rivalry is home to the journal Assaracus, which is — if you can believe it — the only journal dedicated to poetry by gay authors in the U.S. Something tells us that if you informed the literati in NYC or San Fran that the only gay poetry journal in America is headquartered in a guy’s spare bedroom in Alexander, Arkansas, they’d solemnly dump their crantinis into the gutter, cast down their black turtlenecks, and resolve to rethink their life choices.

BEST USED BOOKSTORE IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

Without a doubt, that would be Dickson Street Bookshop up in Fayetteville, a bookworm’s labyrinth of floor-to-ceiling shelves that just goes on and on and on, winding up and down and around until a bibliophile might be convinced he’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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BEST FOODSTUFF SAFARI

In addition to stuff like furniture, jewelry, toys and more, the gigantoKroger out on Chenal Parkway in West Little Rock has a truly amazing array of canned goods and condiments from around the world, with big sections devoted to the prepackaged foodstuffs from various countries and regions.

Looking for Indian curries and sauces, but don’t want to hit the Indian grocery? They’ve got lots of that. Need a can of Heinz Beans (in a blue can which simply says: “BEANS”) to make yourself feel like you’re huddling in a bomb shelter during the London Blitz?

They’ve got that as well, along with that most Brit of Brit desserts: canned Spotted Dick. And yes, you are required to photograph yourself with the Spotted Dick can. African brands, Caribbean brands, Australian brands, real-deal Italian and German brands. For the adventurous sort when it comes to food, going in and browsing can have sweet rewards.

BEST PLACE TO SEE BIG CATS IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

You could tramp through the woods looking for the mountain lions that locals report from time to time, but they’re hard to find. And according to the Game and Fish Commission, they don’t even exist, which makes sightings that much more difficult.

It’s easier to go to the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge outside Eureka Springs. Boy, do they have big cats here — tigers, the biggest; almost-as-big lions; beautiful black leopards; bobcats bobbob-bobbing along. There are non-feline hangers-on as well: bears, birds, monkeys. To all appearances, the animals are well cared for. If you’re there in the afternoon, you can watch feeding time.

The inmates are hearty eaters. You can even stay on the grounds overnight in a cabin, if you’ve nerve enough.

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BEST PLACE TO SEE PAINTED BUNTINGS IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY

If you want to see the closest thing North American has to a parrot (since we killed off all our parakeets in the 19th century), drive over to Terry Lock and Dam, to the farthest parking lot (which affords a view of the dam), park your car and start looking in the scrubby brush and trees along the road. It’s best to do this in spring when they are singing, but they are so colorful — red, blue and yellow — that you might catch a quick sighting in summer. Forget winter; that’s when they abandon Arkansas for Central America, though the way the climate is changing, they might only go no further south than Union County in future.

BEST PLACE TO GET HIGH-QUALITY SARDINES WHILE FILLING A PRESCRIPTION

We’ve all known that sudden, irresistible craving for sardines. Sometimes it comes at night, and sometimes it strikes just as we realize we need to refill a prescription too. Must we make two separate trips? Not if we go to the Walgreens on 12th Street. There’ll be a pharmacist on duty until 10 p.m. and in the grocery section you’ll find the thing that you really wanted. The local supermarkets have sardines in soybean oil, in mustard sauce, in Louisiana hot sauce, even in water. But they don’t have the “lightly smoked” sardines, what Julia Child called “the prince of sardines.”

Walgreens does. They’re Chicken of the Sea, too. No off-brand ’dines here. Enjoy.

BEST NEW BRIDGE

Though its name isn’t as provocative as the Big Dam Bridge’s, Two Rivers

Bridge is a handsome addition to Little Rock’s biking and hiking trails and its new appeal as a city of spectacular river crossings and trails. On the Little Rock side, a landscaped wetland, nicely crafted rock-walled sidewalks and a long steel sculpture cut in the shape of the Arkansas River make a beautiful entrance (accessible by car or the River Trail). The bridge rises gently as it crosses the Big Maumelle River, offering a unique view of the peninsula ahead, a place of tall pines and green undergrowth, where deer nibble and birds flit. There are picnic tables, places to fish and a trail to the rest of the 1,000acre Two Rivers Park, encompassing woods, marsh and meadow. The best way to cross the bridge this particular summer, it seems, would be on a bicycle, to get a breeze; otherwise, you might perish in the heat. Take water.

BEST MUSEUM

OK, this is an easy pick. Walmart heiress Alice Walton has invested nearly $2 billion (an educated guess, not fact) in building Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville and filling it with American masterpieces, in a gorgeous Ozark mountain ravine surrounded by 120 acres of woods. Surely everyone in Arkansas knows the details by now: Seven galleries in a Moshe Safdie-designed structure that spans two pools fed by Crystal Springs, with artworks from the 1600s to the present, along with a library, classrooms, auditorium and Eleven, a restaurant. That’s indoors. The grounds are spectacular, threaded with seven trails for hiking, biking, and art, bird and plant enthusiasts.

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THE TROLLEY: Yes, it’s a tourist trap, but is that all bad?

A defense of the trolley Rethinking this year’s winner for Best Misuse of Taxpayer Funds.

BY DAVID KOON

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ike a lot of you, I have had my doubts over whether the River Rail trolley system — a $20-million-dollar-plus project that links Little Rock and North Little Rock by way of rails and a barn full of yellow, bus-sized streetcars — was a good idea. Just like you, I see the trolley cars rumbling by my office at Markham and Scott with nobody but the driver aboard sometimes.

It’s easy to see why, then, that the River Rail won our Best of Arkansas award for Best Misuse of Taxpayer Funds, narrowly edging out Bobby Petrino (and oh, how much more interesting would this piece have been if that particular unhappy accident had won?).

I see the places the money could have been spent — where it could still be spent every year. Because I worked up the numbers for the Times a few years back, I know how much it costs to run the trolley system: somewhere over $400 an hour every hour it runs, 16

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even after you subtract the amount they make every year on car rentals and rider fares. They’re clearly not getting anywhere close to breaking even.

Only a fool could deny that, and I like to think of myself as at least a click or two above fool.

Up until a few weeks back, I was actually looking forward to wholeheartedly agreeing with the majority of our balloteers. Then something changed for me. I’ll get to that later.

To be sure, there are lots of critics of the trolley, and I’m not saying they’re wrong in the least. A friend of mine from North Little Rock who I deeply respect is one of them. He has worked in violence prevention and youth outreach for over 30 years, and he takes to his Facebook page often to deride the trolley, pointing out areas on his side of the river like Baring Cross and Dark Hollow that could change for the better if the money spent on the trolley was spent there instead. I respect him.

He’s really been there, and has seen the bloody fruit to be reaped from the seeds of neglect. Too, I know he’s got a point. I know he’s right.

In the last few weeks, though — ever since somebody painted over the massive public mural of a hibiscus that graced the side of a building on Main Street — I’ve been thinking.

The mural was created with the help of federal funds way back in the summer of 1980, and for no other reason than somebody though it would make Little Rock a more beautiful place to live.

I’ve thought a lot about that idea since somebody slathered a coat of muddy brown over it a few weeks back — about how, if somebody tried to use $100,000 in public money to take on a similar artfor-art’s-sake project today, the howls of protest from armchair economists would ring off the Capitol dome. It also got me thinking that a great city isn’t great because it does solely what is needed for its people to survive. A

great city is great because it takes pains to beautify itself, to make itself lovely, to make itself a place where people don’t just live, but want to live.

Yes, we could spend the trolley money elsewhere. Yes, it would cost less to park it except on weekends when ridership is high. It would also cost less to build every public building like a concrete pillbox, to buy battleship gray paint in 100,000-gallon lots and paint every school that color, to forego the little, lovely, expensive details in our libraries and courthouses that make them more beautiful but not a smidgen more useful. Plow the soccer fields in Murray Park into soybean turns. Demolish Robinson Auditorium and put up a convenience store. Throw some stripes on the Big Dam Bridge and roll traffic over that sucker. It would all be cheaper. But would it make us better?

I’ve spent several hours on the trolley over the past few weeks, gliding through the streets of Little Rock and North Little Rock, growling through the turns, feeling the car sway in the long straightaways. Sometimes, yes, I was the only paying rider. I saw a few people who were legitimate commuters. More often, though, I was on there with people who were clearly tourists: people in shorts and sunglasses, listening and looking around as the conductor called out the sights we were passing; old people with their grandkids; parents with their children; folks from someplace else. I talked to quite a few of them, people who came here to try our city on for awhile and see what we’re made of, all of them looking at Little Rock and North Little Rock as the trolley rolled over the bridge with our river below, maybe imagining what it would be like to live under one of our rooftops.

In a few years — if we’ve got the stomach and the budget for it (both of which seem to be dwindling by the minute in this country) — more track might get laid up Park Hill or down Markham or out to the airport, and the trolley might become a real, viable option for commuters. Until then, though, I’d make the case that even if nobody but tourists ever rides it, even if the cars are often empty, even if it is technically a “waste,” the trolley is worth more than money — to our pride, to the way we think about this city we call home, and to the way people from elsewhere see us. Maybe there’s a reason beyond simple place that the streetcar in that famous play was named Desire.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Homer, Bellows, Henri, Parrish, Hartley, Gorky, Nevelson, O’Keeffe, Noland, Bearden, Rockwell, Calder, Thiebaud, Lichtenstein, Hofmann, Hopper, Marisol, Warhol, Oldenburg, Holzer, Walker, di Suvero, Turrell, Rothko, Catlett … need we say more? There is more, but you have to stop somewhere.

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Warren Criswell is a painter and sculptor of some renown in Arkansas, but he also creates art that moves, and not by CGI either, but laborious drawing.

They are short — the longest is 4 minutes, and some run only seconds — but they are wondrous, funny, philosophical and set to excellent music, including original compositions by pianist Robert Boury. Stick with “Fading” to see clouds become people then not people then silhouettes and finally, Criswell’s omnipresent crow. There’s a nice bit of soft porn, too, with a terrific animation of one of the artist’s familiar strippers pole-dancing (“William Wilson”).

BEST MUSIC BY ARKANSAS ARTISTS TO SING WITH YOUR CHILDREN

The recordings of Trout Fishing in America — aka Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet — ought to be part of every child’s collection, and we do mean every child in the U.S.A., not just Arkansas. The fine Fayetteville musicians’ lyrics aren’t sappy or preachy and you will find yourself singing …

“Oh, I used to be a dinosaur I thought I was so cool.

Future fossil fuel, that’s all I ever was.

When I was a dinosaur …” … with your kid even when she’s in college.

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The Central Arkansas Astronomical Society doesn’t keep the heavens to itself.

Members share their love for the unfathomable with star parties for folks who don’t know telescopes from telephones.

They turn their scopes to the skies to share what they know about Saturn and Mars, meteor showers, nebulae, special stars, at Pinnacle Mountain and Woolly Hollow

state parks. Yes, there’s some light pollution at Pinnacle from Little Rock’s glare.

But you can still see, and what you’re looking at is the light of things billions and billions of miles away. (And yes, you should say that in your Carl Sagan voice). Ponder the universe and puts things in perspective. See you at the Perseids.

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If you haven’t been to the Pettaway neighborhood, you’re missing out on seeing the latest in affordable housing: Modular homes designed by the fourth and fifth year students in the UA Fay Jones School of Architecture’s Design/Build program.

The first UA Design Build home, a glass and wood one-story partly prefabricated in Fayetteville, was built in 2010 at 1519 Commerce St. That was followed by a cantilevered design at 1805 Commerce in 2011; a new house is going up now at 1901 Cumberland. The Downtown Little Rock Community Development Corp. is partnering with the Design/Build program, as well as its other efforts to revitalize the neighborhood: It’s rehabilitated historic homes, installed Little Rock’s first shipping container homes (on Twenty-first Street) and worked with the University of Arkansas’s Community Design Center, which designed a Pettaway Pocket Neighborhood model that clusters homes around a central common area.

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On the first three Wednesdays of each month, from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m., you can pick through all the stuff the State of Arkansas decided it didn’t need anymore at the Arkansas Marketing and Redistribution warehouse at 6620 Young Road in Little Rock. Among the things you can score: cheap, sturdy furniture and God only knows what else.

For a mere $20, Times editor Lindsey Millar scored a nice desk, one of those pieces of utilitarian, institutional-type furniture designed to withstand the rebirth of the New Madrid Fault. The warehouse is packed with scores of desks, chairs, tables, lamps, shelves and more, all at prices that are dramatically cheaper than similar stuff sold at the big thrift stores. In addition to the no-frills furniture and rows of old calculators and laptops, we’ve seen scuba gear, microscopes, power tools of various sorts, DVDs, speakers and

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FUNERAL HOME Ruebel RUNNERS-UP: Roller-Chenal, Ashby, North Little Rock Funeral Home FURNITURE Hank’s Fine Furniture RUNNERS-UP: Ashley Furniture HomeStore in Bryant, I.O. Metro, Cleo’s West GARDEN STORE/NURSERY The Good Earth in Little Rock RUNNERS-UP: Cantrell Gardens, Hocott’s Garden Center, Lowe’s GIFT SHOP Box Turtle RUNNERS-UP: The Crown Shop, The Green Corner Store, The Full Moon

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HIP CLOTHING Box Turtle RUNNERS-UP: Scarlet, Forever 21, E.Leigh’s, Evolve

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Arkansas Burger Co. tops in onion rings.

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hile we tend to prefer French fries with our big ol’ nasty burgers, every once in awhile we get a hankering for onion rings, those second-fiddle players that are sometimes (though rarely, in our experience) good enough to take a starring role. The problem with onion rings, and the reason they’re probably not as popular as Freedom Fries, is usually one of execution. Most places just slice ’em too dang thick and bread ‘em too heavy. This is clearly the case with our overall onion ring winner found at Sonic. You bite in, draw back, and more often than not the onion slithers right out of the breading, leaving you with a limp noodle of blanched veggie on your lip and a weird tube of fried dough between your fingers. Sorry, dear voters, but nobody wants that, ballots be damned.

Then there are the rings at our local winner, Arkansas Burger Co. on Cantrell. They know how to do rings right.

Though they won’t divulge the recipe for their breading — even under pain of seeing a grown man cry — the real secret appears to be how thin they

slice their onions. We’re talking paper thin, string thin, so thin you could probably read the sports page through those pearly-white Vidalias by the time they’re done. Then they drop ’em in batter, followed by a bath in the hot grease. What comes out the other side of that trial by fat is a real treat, one that would make even the most ardent pommes frites freak think twice: a hot, crispy, fragrant tangle of rings, each so thin that the onion has fried up crispy along with the golden-brown batter.

They’re perfect when dipped in a little ketchup, and like manna when riding alongside one of Arkansas Burger Co.’s big ol’ namesakes.

The only problem with all that crispiness is that once you touch them, the onion rings at Arkansas Burger Co. crumble into something better described as onion arcs, which will have further disintegrated to onion bits by the time you hit the wax paper in the bottom of the basket. Only rarely will you fish out a thin, perfect ring. Doesn’t matter though. One bite, and you and the rest of the folks at your table will likely be scrabbling after those tasty crumbles with your fingertips.

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RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Fox Ridge RUNNERS-UP: Parkway Village, Woodland Heights, Hot Springs Village

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LINGERIE Barbara Graves RUNNERS-UP: Victoria’s Secret, Cupids, Dillard’s MATTRESS Denver Mattress RUNNERS-UP: Mattress Firm, Mattress King, Ashley Furniture Home Store

PROMENADE AT CHENAL: Best shopping center.

MEN’S CLOTHING Baumans Fine Men’s Clothing RUNNERS-UP: Dillard’s, Greenhaw’s Fine Men’s Wear, Evolve

OUTDOOR STORE Ozark Outdoor Supply RUNNERS-UP: Academy Sports, Gander Mtn., Gene Lockwood’s

PLUMBER Ray Lusk RUNNERS-UP: Don M. Houff, Advantage Service Co., Russell and LeMay

MOBILE PHONE AT&T Wireless RUNNERS-UP: Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile

PAWN SHOP Braswell & Son RUNNERS-UP: Pawnderosa, Bob’s, Big Daddy’s

PRIVATE SCHOOL Pulaski Academy RUNNERS-UP: Episcopal Collegiate, Catholic High School, Little Rock Christian Academy

MUSIC EQUIPMENT Guitar Center LOCAL WINNER: Jacksonville Guitar Center RUNNERS-UP: Bryant Music Center, Best Buy, Saied Music Co.

PHARMACY Walgreens LOCAL WINNER: USA Drug RUNNERS-UP: Smith-Caldwell, Tanglewood, The Drug Store

PUBLIC SCHOOL Little Rock Central High School RUNNERS-UP: Forest Park Elementary, Bryant School District, Conway School District

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early a century old, Baumans Fine Men’s Clothing has outlived many competitors, and it bests the ones that are still around, according to Arkansas Times voters.

It’s pricy, but it’s good.

“Baumans has been recognized by almost every Arkansas weekly, daily and monthly publication in readers’ polls as ‘The Best Men’s Store’ in the state,” the Baumans website says.

“Additionally, we have been recognized by Esquire magazine as one of the top 100 Men’s Specialty Stores for 10 consecutive years and recently were honored by MR. magazine, a national trade publication, as one of the 25 most exciting retail stores in America.”

Many of Baumans’ longtime, somewhat mature, customers might be surprised by that “exciting” label. Besides the quality of the clothing, they go to Baumans because it’s familiar and comfortable. They’re not big on surprises.

They want pinstripe suits, silk neckties, Allen Edmonds shoes.

But lots of customers of this sort have retired, and don’t need as many suits, or have died and need only one.

Now there’s a younger group that wants more casual clothing. Baumans meets their needs too, according to its owner, Wayne Ratcliff. “We’ve had to bend with the times,” Ratcliff

said. “There’s a new customer coming.

There always is. But we’re not going to abandon the one that brought us to the dance.” Baumans offers casual, business and formal wear. It has tailoring too, which is rare these days, Ratcliff said.

Ratcliff joined the Baumans’ sales staff in 1973, when the store was 54 years old. The store was founded by Simon Bauman, who had worked for the Blass family. The Blass department store was a fixture on Main Street in Little Rock for many years. Bauman opened his own store downtown after World War I. Since then, there have been several different owners, at several different locations. (And the name has changed as well, from Bauman’s to Baumans.)

Baumans has been at its present location (8201 Cantrell Road, in the Pavilion in the Park shopping center) for nearly 20 years. It has a small branch downtown too, in the Capital Hotel. The Capital branch can provide shirts and other items for travelers, Ratcliff said. “But we can accommodate most anything.”

Part of Baumans’ popularity is that the salesmen and saleswomen seem knowledgeable about men’s clothing.

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PLACE FOR LIVE MUSIC Stickyz RUNNERS-UP: White Water Tavern, Revolution, Juanita’s PLACE TO DANCE Discovery RUNNERS-UP: Electric Cowboy, Cajun’s Wharf, Sway PLACE TO GAMBLE Oaklawn RUNNERS-UP: Southland, Grand Strike, Harrah’s in Tunica

SPORTS BAR West End RUNNERS-UP: Buffalo Wild Wings, The Tavern, Fox and Hound

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RUNNERS-UP: Cliff Lee, Darren McFadden, Derek Fisher

RUNNERS-UP: Mark Martin, Bobby Petrino, Little Rock Technology Park

CHARITY Heifer International RUNNERS-UP: Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Easter Seals, Susan G. Komen

PHOTOGRAPHER Brian Chilson RUNNERS-UP: Nelson Chenault, Nancy Nolan, Lance Johnston

CONSERVATIVE Mike Huckabee RUNNERS-UP: Tim Griffin, Bill Vickery, Mark Darr

POLITICIAN Mike Beebe RUNNERS-UP: Kathy Webb, Joyce Elliott, Warwick Sabin

LIBERAL Kathy Webb RUNNERS-UP: Max Brantley, Mike Beebe, Warwick Sabin

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But face it: They didn’t make it because they just weren’t that good. It’s an unfortunate but common scenario.

Other groups will work their asses off, become really good and still won’t earn much recognition. That’s a drag, and a mystery to boot. Everybody has one of these “why-didn’t-they-evermake-it-bigger?” favorites.

Then there are those precious few bands that are great — and recognized as such — right at the outset. Amasa Hines is just that. The Little Rock band is one of those rare examples of when talent and taste and hard work and focus and good timing meet up with that mystery element and voila: We have a new, awesome band that seemingly everyone can agree is awesome.

Though they been together less than two years, Amasa Hines has built a buzz not only locally (though they’ve gotten plenty of love from Central Arkansas critics), but with bloggers and music fans in far-flung locales. Chicagobased blog Words & Fire noted that the band melds “the rich, sensuous sound of grassroots soul with the grit and aggression of bluesy rock,” and dug the track “Earth and Sky,” calling the

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Forbidden Hillcrest taps into catnappers and other crime.

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Carr: It isn’t intentional. The catnapper was reported by all the papers and TV channels. ... Now, if I make up a story, I make it so ridiculous that you don’t have to ask. Now it’s straight journalism. I do post fiction on the site, but it should be clear to a reasonable person that it’s fiction. The Children’s Vigilante Network is not real.

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aul Carr may live in Hillcrest, but then again, he may not. He grew up in Arkansas, but he won’t say where. What we do know is he earned a B.A. in physics from Hendrix, played in a handful of mid-’90s bands and two years ago started a quirky neighborhood blog called Forbidden Hillcrest. And Arkansas Times readers love Forbidden Hillcrest so much that it came in first runner-up in our Best of Arkansas reader’s poll.

AT: You mean these commenters were actually involved in that situation?

Carr: Well, the one who was being

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AT: Let’s start with something that could be either simple or loaded. Who are you?

Carr: There are a couple of things I want to avoid. One is where I grew up. I have to keep that a mystery for reasons I won’t go into. There are some fairly questionable people out there, now that we get beyond Hillcrest with the stories.

We do a lot of stories that aren’t really in Hillcrest, like some of these strange West Little Rock neighborhoods where the people are kind of, well, do you follow some of these dramas on the Forbidden Hillcrest Facebook page, like where the boyfriend was shooting at the girlfriend from two different vehicles? It was real Jerry Springer stuff. Everybody that wasn’t a fugitive or in jail got on the page and started commenting within a few hours.

AT: What about the Italian UFO Cult?

Carr: Everybody thinks that’s phony.

That’s a 100 percent true story.

MYSTERY MAN: Forbidden Hillcrest’s Paul Carr.

shot at got on there ... she liked 2,700 things on Facebook, and Forbidden Hillcrest wasn’t one of them, but these days you don’t have to like something to comment.

AT: Why did you start Forbidden Hillcrest? And do you actually live in Hillcrest?

Carr: I either live there now, or I have lived there in the past. Originally I wanted to learn about the technicalities of blogging, and I just starting making up these ridiculous stories about Hillcrest, and I had so much fun doing it, I kept cranking them out. I think I did five the first day. There was a lot of buzz right off the bat, because people related to it. There

wasn’t any reporting. It wasn’t a journalism site at all.

AT: When and why did you start incorporating more actual news?

Carr: It’s kind of evolved. First it was fiction, then it was about exploring, then it was about history, then it was about crime. We had this big story back in November of 2010 about the catnapper.

And I was all about that story, but that confused it, because it was very similar to the Pug Strangler [an earlier Forbidden Hillcrest story], which was not true.

The reason I started doing true stories is, I would come across things that were just as interesting as anything I made up, and people like true stories better than made-

AT: Do you remember the first true story you wrote?

Carr: Yeah, I saw this woman fall into a manhole.

AT: I read that. I didn’t believe it.

Carr: No one believes it! I don’t know why I bother writing true stories when no one believes them! It happened just like I said, she was talking on her cell phone. ... I think that was before I told people when it was true. I don’t blame people for being confused. I used to have a truth meter where I would pretty much just say if it’s true. Did you see the one about CALS, the creatures that lived in the downtown library?

AT: Is it the one where you’re describing the homeless people that hang out in the library?

Carr: Yeah.

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AT: Your description seems pretty classist.

Carr: I prefaced that by saying this story is 20 to 60 percent true or something like that. Clearly I took some liberties with that. Was I speaking about the homeless or was I speaking about some fiction that I created? I mean, clearly it was just an over-the-top exaggeration.

AT: You talk about “shambling bearded madmen, degenerated woodland people, badly soiled lunatics.” It could be considered Ginsberg-esque, or it could be considered straight-up offensive.

Carr: Well it was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. That’s about as classist as you can get.

AT: That post or the whole blog?

Carr: Well I was talking about that post, but actually, the whole blog was inspired by a trip to New York in July 2010. I was stalking H.P. Lovecraft’s history. He lived there briefly, in Brooklyn, and wrote about it, and one day I just went off wandering through Red Hook.

It’s not a very good story, even Lovecraft didn’t like it, but it’s called The Horror of Red Hook. But I liked it. He mentioned specific addresses, so I used that in Forbidden Hillcrest. If you tell your little bullshit story and you mention real crossroads or whatever, I think it makes the story juicier.

AT: OK, so what’s your deal with H.P. Lovecraft?

Carr: We share obsessions.

AT: Do you care to elaborate?

Carr: I don’t know how to answer that question. I wish that I could.

(He writes the question on his notebook, in case he wants to take a shot at it later.)

AT: Sometimes you scoop the papers. How do you get your information?

Carr: We basically have a giant amateur news group spread all over the city.

Somebody sees something, they tell me about it immediately. Everyone thinks I’m on the scanner all the time. I’m pretty much never on the scanner. A big resource for me, the thing that has made my site a go-to for many people, I would respond to people’s questions. I would help them get information on things.

AT: You still have a day job, right?

Carr: I work from home. I’m in finance.

I arrange bridge loans.

AT: How much time does Forbidden Hillcrest take on a daily basis?

Carr: Well, I spend way too much time reading the Facebook comments. Otherwise, I can do it in about an hour a day.

Facebook runs the site. I seldom post on the blog.

AT: Do you think you’ll always keep the blog going?

Carr: Yeah, for sure. You can have more in-depth stuff on there.

AT: What kind of traffic does Forbidden Hillcrest get?

Carr: The Facebook site averages 18,000 different people a week. The way it works on the blog, I have to drive traffic there, or it will only get about 100 visitors a day. I can send about 3,000 viewers to it.

AT: Who do you consider your target demographic?

Carr: I’m writing for the north half of Little Rock, basically the band between the river and 630, I guess. People I understand, maybe. Except for West Little Rock.

I don’t really understand the McMansion people. ... Little Rock is, you can point to different cultural realities geographically.

Hillcrest and surrounding areas are basically a bunch of Hendrix graduates, kind of hyper-liberal, hyper-educated professional types.

AT: Do people ever get upset, like the guy you label the “gnome?”

Carr: That’s a good question. Yeah, it’s pissed off a lot of people. I don’t want to be unfair to anybody. I’d rather not show everybody’s warts. If I wouldn’t want it done to me, I try not to do it to anybody else.

AT: Would you be okay with somebody taking your picture and making fun of what you look like in a public forum?

Carr: I’m not sure that I would be (laughs). Maybe I couldn’t help myself.

Actually I was told he wasn’t upset. He knows he looks like that. It’s on purpose.

AT: Was the pug strangler based on somebody?

Carr: No. Everybody thought it was based on [local musician] Alan [Disaster.]

If it was, it was purely unconscious. ... Back when I had a small audience, I would be a little jerkier than I would be now. You

kind of think, well no one’s going to see this, so I’d just do it.

AT: Sometimes the Forbidden Hillcrest Facebook page reads like a bunch of scared white people just egging each other on.

Carr: My comments aren’t like that.

AT: You called the people who live in Valley View “feral beings foraging for food,” and when a reader said we share the blame, we should get off on our cell phones when we drive, you said we should stay on our cell phones and just drive faster. It’s sarcasm, but it could be taken, well ... it’s just disturbing.

Carr: Well, all of those things, I actually believe. ‘Feral beings,’ I think that’s an accurate description. It’s not a race thing.

We’ve got plenty of white feral humans.

AT: Is it a class thing?

Carr: It’s definitely a cultural thing.

I think all these issues people blame on race aren’t really race issues at all, they’re cultural issues.

AT: You know people justified segregation as a cultural thing.

Carr: People post on it [Forbidden Hillcrest Facebook], and they end up making it a race thing. I don’t like that at all. It’s really alienating. It’s just wrong to make people feel like they’re not welcome on a site like this. But I don’t like to delete comments either.

AT: What are your future plans for Forbidden Hillcrest?

Carr: I don’t want to open up another story here, because I won’t be able to answer a lot of questions on it, but I’m really bored with the crime writing. I don’t really know where else to go with Forbidden Hillcrest. I need to write more ridiculous stories. It just keeps evolving. Do you know anything about Nox Signum? I think I hid all those stories about Nox Signum.

That’s the new thing, the new direction.

Nox Signum is my cult.

AT: Are you the leader of this cult?

Carr: It’s the fun thing I’m working on.

I can talk to you off the record on it, but it’s something I have to do a lot of media management on. But that’s the future of Forbidden Hillcrest.

AT: Is it going to be open to everybody? What will happen to fans of Forbidden Hillcrest, when it’s Nox Signum?

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“Ours is like watching HD. You get a fuller, richer sound, with less distortion. It’s a cleaner signal. That’s across the board.”

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“Anything that’s high end, we’re going to be the ones working on it,” Meek said, and by high end, he means high: The shop installed a half-million dollar custom stereo system in one car in recent years. Meek walked me back to the garage area and showed off a new Honda Civic coupe, a $25,000 car, that’s getting $22,000 worth of stereo equipment, exhaust, wheels and trim items poured into it by a customer. I am definitely too old for that to make any sense.

Still, you can get a full entry-level system with a quality head unit, four aftermarket speakers and a subwoofer for somewhere between $1,600 and $2,000, Meek said. The cost isn’t small potatoes, but compared to what you might pay for an optional Bose system or the like, it’s definitely reasonable, and the shop can turn a simple job around in a few hours.

“What you buy today is installed today,” Meek said. “That’s our motto.”

Josh Montgomery, one of the lead installers, has been at the shop for almost 10 years. During his time there, he said the shop’s installed stereos in boats, golf carts, off-road go carts, you name it. The shop does everything but engine work.

Customizing a car, Montgomery said, is a way of making it just a little different from everybody else’s.

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Carr: Well, Forbidden Hillcrest will keep doing what it’s doing. You can forget about the Nox Signum thing. I used to write Forbidden Hillcrest stories on it, but everyone thought it was totally made up. Which it is, but it’s a made up thing that’s real.

AT: What’s happening with your other site, Station X-ray?

Carr: It became a very technologyburdened project. I’m still working on it, but I’m procrastinating severely. [Ultimately, Carr plans for Station X-ray to be an interactive map tracking police and fire calls.]

AT: How would you describe Forbidden Hillcrest?

Carr: Underworld news.

AT: What about the other Facebook pages you’ve created, like the Valley Heights Apartments Facebook group?

Carr: The reason I made it secret is because I didn’t want people reading our comments, because it’s just a fumbling effort. I’m not a civic leader, I’m just a facilitator of communications for those who would like to be civilly active.

I started it so people would have a place to talk about the subject. Problem is, when I got in there, nobody was doing any kind of leadership in there. We had a city leader in there, we had a couple of reporters who were scaring everybody to death.

Max [Brantley] was in there, everybody’s afraid to say anything in front of him, and so it clammed up. Not a lot really went on there, except as a way to disseminate information to people who were interested in the subject. The goal was to come up with a solution to the crime that was coming out of that apartment. There’s a lot of readers in Kingwood, which is the neighborhood by there.

AT: You created it as a platform because your readers were interested?

Carr: Yeah. It was a big deal, a crime wave that reached Hillcrest. Their last crime was at Rosalia’s. It was a group of four residents, I think only two of them were from Valley Heights. Valley Heights averages one police call a day. People in Kingwood are at the end of their rope. A lot of them are just one step from moving to Conway. And the high profile crime wave of commercial burglary those guys did, it made a big stir, actually I think,

because of Forbidden Hillcrest. I was the

only one covering it for a few days, and then everybody else picked it up. By the way, Valley Heights is something I never even think about anymore. I did my part by starting that and walked away from it.

When the catnapper thing happened a while back, I created a Facebook page for those who were upset about their cats getting stolen. I created a forum for everybody to meet and exchange information, and it became a big deal. I accidentally deleted the original one, but that was where all the lunatics got together. Basically it was a mob, and they all met on my page. There was a huge amount of hysteria in those days. Every cat that went missing was blamed on the catnapper.

He was caught red-handed taking two cats. He was a real life boogey-man and in our imaginations, we built it up into something a lot bigger than we should.

Anyhow, there was a mob that escaped from my Facebook page. They were the craziest people in Hillcrest. They banded together and roved through the neighborhood, terrorizing homeless camps.

The TV news guys were following them around, trying to get pictures of the catnapper posse. I ended up having a great deal of conflict with them myself.

AT: You never went out with them?

Carr: No. But they met in this forum I created. Initially I tried to help with their work, but their work quickly became madness. So I banned them from the forum, and they can’t access Forbidden Hillcrest anymore.

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AT: Do you consider yourself a journalist?

Carr: I think I’m becoming a journalist. I didn’t start off one. I’ve never had any training or background in it. Never really wanted to be a journalist. Never really wanted to be a blogger, either. Blogger’s like the worst thing you can be, right?

AT: Do you think your content is objective?

Carr: It’s reported objectively. I write lyrically. Sometimes that makes it look not objective ...

AT: That post on the hobo camp full of “stolen” goods was objective?

Carr: Keep in mind, that was one of the first non-totally made up stories I ever did. I haven’t gone back and re-read that.

Maybe it’s cringe-worthy now. I can’t remember. If I rewrote that hobo bridge story it’d be different now. You’d probably like it better now. www.arktimes.com

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Camp David I-30 & 6th St 501.975.CAMP(2267) Inside Holiday Inn Presidential Conference Center $1 Off Dinner Entrée Capers 14502 Cantrell Road 501.868.7600 www.capersrestaurant.com $30 Prix Fixe 3 Course Dinner Menu Casa Mañana 6820 Cantrell Road 501.280.9888 www.casamananamexicanfood.com Get a free small Cheese Dip when you spend $15 or more at Casa Mañana Chip’s 9801 West Markham Street 501.225.4346 www.chips-barbecue.com Free piece of Pie with purchase of dinner or platter from 4:30-8 M-Sat Ciao Baci 605 Beechwood Street 501.603.0238 www.ciaobaci.org 20% off all bottles of wine Community Bakery 1200 Main Street 501.375.6418 www.communitybakery.com Iced Coffee, Iced Latte, Espresso Frappe, Espresso Milkshake, Fruit Smoothie. Present ad for $1 OFF. Copper Grill 300 E 3rd St., Suite 101 501.375.3333 www.coppergrilllr.com $12 Prix Fixe 3 Course Lunch Menu $30 Prix Fixe 3 Course Dinner Menu

Your favorite Little Rock chefs have put together a variety of specials for the month of August that are great values on the city’s most delicious dining.

Curry in a Hurry 11121 North Rodney Parham Road 501.224.4567 www.curryinahurryar.com $5 Off when you spend $25 or more Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro 200 River Market Avenue # 150 501.375.3500 www.dizzysgypsybistro.net Half Price Cheese Dip and All Other Appetizers $1 Off Adult Beverages, Tea and Soda Doe’s Eat Place 1023 West Markham Street 501.376.1195 www.doeseatplace.com Prime 8oz Filet Served With Salad, Potatoes, And Toast Dugan’s Pub 401 East 3rd Street 501.244.0542 www.duganspublr.com $8.95 Fish And Chips Fantastic China 1900 North Grant Street 501.663.8999 Located In The Heights Free Drink With Dinner Far East Asian Cuisine & Bar Pleasant Ridge West Shopping Center 11610 Pleasant Ridge Road, Suite 100 501.219.9399 www.fareastasiancuisine.com Free Eggroll With Dinner Entrée Forbidden Garden 14810 Cantrell Road 501.868.8149 www.facebook.com/ForbiddenGardenAR $1 Off glass of wine Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant 7811 Cantrell Road #6 501.224.9079 www.littlerockgraffitis.net Summer salad special with feta and spiced pecans featuring citrus vinaigrette and choice of shrimp, salmon, chicken or beef.

Hillcrest Artisan Meats 2807 Kavanaugh Blvd.

501.671.6328 (MEAT) www.facebook.com/HillcrestArtisanMeats “Olli-Day” Every Friday. Olli Salami Out Of Virginia, 20% Off. Also Featuring Daily Sandwich And Soup Specials.

The Hop 201 E. Markham 501.224.0975 $1 Off Cheeseburger Combo Meal Iriana’s Pizza 201 E. Markham 501.374.3656 www.irianaspizza.com 15% Off Any Whole Pizza Layla’s Gyros And Pizzeria 9501 N. Rodney Parham • 501.227.7272 8201 Ranch Blvd. • 501.868.8226 www.laylasgyro.com Gyro Sandwich, Fries & Drink $6.65 Lilly’s Dim Sum And Then Some 11121 N. Rodney Parham 501.716.2700 www.lillysdimsum.com All You Can Eat Dim Sum Made To Order And $3 Microbrew Specials On Saturdays From 12-4. Sunday 50% Off Every Bottle Of Wine All Day. $5 Glass Of Wine On Tuesdays And Wednesdays.

Loblolly Creamery 1423 Main Street (Inside Green Corner Store) 501.396.9609 www.loblollycreamery.com Beat The August Heat With $1 Off Anything At The Soda Fountain Loca Luna 3519 Old Cantrell Rd. 501.663.4666 www.localuna.com Monday: Surf or Turf 7 oz. Angus Filet or Sea Bass Filet with Sides $16.95 Tuesday: Large Pizza $9 & $2 Draft Beer Wednesday: Lady’s Night Happy Hour $2 Domestic Bottle Beer, $4 House Wine, Margaritas & Cozmos

Be sure to ask your server about Little Rock Restaurant Month Specials!

Thursday: Guy’s Happy Hour $2 Domestic Bottle Beer, $4 House Wine, Margaritas & Cozmos Sundays: Kid’s 12 and under Eat Free From Kids menu with adult entrée order.

Loganberry Frozen Yogurt 6015 Chenonceau Blvd.

501.868.8194 www.facebook.com/ LoganberryFrozenYogurt 10% Off All Yogurt Sales Markham Street Grill & Pub 11321 W Markham St # 6 501.224.2010 www.markhamst.com Serving Brunch Saturday And Sunday 11-3.

Featuring A Bloody Mary Bar And $1.50 Mimosas.

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The Pantry 11401 Rodney Parham 501.353.1875 www.littlerockpantry.com Dinner Only - Spend $25 before tax and gratuity per person and receive a $10 gift certificate valid on the next visit.

Pizza Café 1517 Rebsamen Park 501.664.6133 www.pizzacafe.wetpaint.com $1 Off Pizzas Anytime Red Door 3701 Old Cantrell Rd. 501.666.8482 www.reddoorrestaurant.net Monday: All Bottles of Wine under $28 are Half OFF Tuesday: All appetizers are Half price Wednesday: Steak Night 7 oz. Angus Filet with Sides $16.95 Thursday: Ladies Happy Hour $2 Domestic Bottle Beer, $4 House Wine, Margaritas & Cozmos Redbones Downtown 300 President Clinton Ave. 501.372.2211 www.facebook.com/RedbonesDowntown $1 Off Hurricanes. $1 Off Po Boys The Root Café 1500 S. Main 501.414.0423 www.therootcafe.com Free Chocolate Chip Cookie With Lunch Purchase Salut Bistro 1501 N. University Ave., Suite 160 501.660.4200 www.salut-bistro.com $39 Prix Fixe 3 Course Meal for 2 people from The Classic Italian Menu.

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Star Of India 301 N. Shackleford Rd. 501.716.2700 www.lrstarofindia.com 15% Off Dinner Entree Sushi Café 5823 Kavanaugh Blvd.

501.663.9888 www.sushicaferocks.com Sunday-Thursday: Chef’s Special, 2 For $50 Terry’s Restaurant 5018 Kavanaugh Blvd.

501.663.4154 www.facebook.com/ Terrysfinerfoodstherestaurant Half Priced Lunch Tartines (Open Faced Sandwiches On Imported Poilane Bread With Small Green Salad) Trio’s 8201 Cantrell Rd. 501.221.3330 www.triosrestaurant.com Dog Days Of Summer - Bring your doggie to dine with you on our patio after 5:30 and receive a goody bag filled with canine

treats from Hollywood Feeds.* Lunch Deal - Peck’s Special Salad or Trio’s Chicken Salad, beverage, dessert $15 plus tax.* Dinner Deal - Old School Favorites: your choice of appetizer, soup or salad, Chicken Enchiladas, Shrimp Enchiladas, Voodoo Pasta or Thai Shrimp Curry, beverage and dessert $26 plus tax ...celebrating our 26th anniversary this month!* *Specials good thru August 31. Dinein only, no carry out and the customer must ask for the Restaurant Month special.

Union Bistro 3421 Old Cantrell Rd. 501.353.0360 www.unionbistrolittlerock.com $35 Dinner For Two – includes choice of one small plate, two Entrees and a dessert.

Vesuvio Bistro 1501 Merrill Drive 501.225.0500 www.vesuviobistro.com Contact restaurant directly for special West End Smokehouse & Tavern 215 North Shackleford Road 501.224.7665 www.westendsmokehouse.net Free Hour Of Pool WT Bubba’s 500 President Clinton Ave. 501.224.2277 www.wtbubbas.com Free Appetizer With Minimum $10 Purchase YaYas EuroBistro 17711 Chenal Parkway 501.821.1144 www.yayasar.com Select Appetizers: 2 For 1 From 3-5:30 PM

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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Institute for Economic Advancement (IEA) is seeking a Director for its Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory.

Responsibilities include developing web and desktop mapping applications; maintaining Arkansas’s municipal and legislative boundaries; direct/coordinate research projects and provide GIS analysis/mapping support; grant/contract writing; direct GIS projects; meet with clients; supervise staff; create/maintain spatial databases in ArcSDE environment; direct administration of Arkansas’ ESRI Higher Education Site License; provide technical support in use/extraction of census data; creating/ maintaining GIS databases; produce maps.

Education requirements: Bachelor’s in GIS, MIS or related field plus four years of GIS Analyst experience or a Master’s degree in GIS, MIS or related field plus two years of GIS Analyst experience, or any suitable combination of education, training, or experience is acceptable.

Please send a letter of application (referencing Position R99053), a resume, and the name and contact information for three professional references to: Ms. Phyllis Poché, Data and Research, Institute for Economic Advancement, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave, Little Rock, AR 72204.

This position is subject to a pre-employment criminal background check. A criminal conviction or arrest pending adjudication shall not disqualify an applicant in the absence of a relationship to the requirements of the position. Background check information will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and actively seeks the candidacy of minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. Under Arkansas law, all applications are subject to disclosure. Persons hired must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States.

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electronics of mysterious function. You never know what you’ll find, but one thing is nearly guaranteed: At 7:30 a.m. on the first Wednesday of the month, the place will be swarming with savvy pickers looking for bargains.

Kraftco Hardware & Building Supply. Every single square inch of this place is filled with all manner of hardware, tools, cooking utensils, camping equipment, doo-dads, whatchamacallits and more. The selection of cast-iron cookware is formidable, and the staff is incredibly knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. But don’t let Kraftco’s oldschool charm fool you: This place is a serious hardware store and in many respects, its selection puts Lowe’s and the like to shame.

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BEST CITY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TO DRINK FANTASTIC HOUSE-BREWED CRAFT BEER

That’d be Fayetteville, no question.

The brewpub scene up there has really taken off in the last year or so, what with West Mountain Brewery (Tiny Tim’s Pizza’s Siamese twin) finally, after more than a decade, living up to its name by actually brewing some beer. And it is very, very good beer.

Brewmaster Andy Coates is a vet of Chicago’s Goose Island and Colorado’s Great Divide Brewing Co. Get at least one round of the sampler so you can try all the varieties. They’re all great, but the saison and the blonde are especially delicious and incredibly fresh-tasting.

There’s also Tanglewood Branch Beer Co. at the corner of South School Avenue and Fifteenth Street. We haven’t ventured to Tanglewood yet, but by all accounts the former convenience store has been transformed into a haven for suds lovers. We also hear the nosh — mostly sandwiches and salads — is exceptional. Then there’s the brand spanking new Fossil Cove Brewing Co., which opened in June. Fossil Cove is a microbrewery that produces beer for local restaurants and bars and expects to begin bottling soon. It offers brewery tours and has a bar that’s open Wednesday through Sunday.

BEST PLACE DOWNTOWN TO GET SOME THAI GREEN CURRY

Bangkok Thai Cuisine. This little booth in the River Market’s Ottenheimer Hall serves up some very reliable Thai standards, such as Pad Thai, spring rolls and a variety of curries. But the green curry is the standout. It’s rich, delicious, with plenty of chicken and vegetables and just the right touch of heat. Getting there early won’t hurt; there’s often a line by about 11:45 or so.

BEST FORGOTTEN MURAL

Keep going south on Broadway, a few blocks past Little Rock’s Mount Holly Cemetery. On your left, you’ll come to a shuttered Dairy Queen that obviously has a storied history, most recently housing a nail salon. There, on a concrete wall in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen, you’ll find it. It curls in homage to the elements, nearly smothered by vines and small trees, with huge chunks missing altogether. But it’s still there, and it’s still beautiful. That wall CONTINUED ON PAGE 48

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For the 14th consecutive year, Arkansas Times readers have chosen Metropolitan as the “Best Bank.” We hold this honor in the highest regard, because it is confirmation that our customers are getting the exceptional service they deserve. We value the opportunity to serve our communities, and we look forward to many more years of providing nothing but the best!

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eaders raised their paws for Hillcrest Animal Hospital as best veterinary clinic, and Arkansas Times intern Kim Lane decided to make some Instagram photos of the clinic’s patients. The busy clinic’s seven doctors see cats and dogs, of course, but they have also bathed bunnies and treated birds, reptiles, guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets and even sugar gliders for various ailments.

Here, Dr. Larry Nafe and assistant Alex Fortner (opposite, middle) greet a lab and Fortner cuddles Mr. Waggles (opposite, lower right), a Siamese cat and a hound dog (opposite, left and right) while collies Jack and Lady and fluffy rabbit Roxy (on this page) wait their turn.

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hosts a fantastic mural, a swirl of history and myth depicted in time-faded colors and glittering tile. There’s the Titanic sinking between a Chinamen and an African village, an octopus dancing alongside a matador. An ocean, teaming with aquatic life, threatening to overtake a pink and yellow pagoda. A green cat plays jazz sax, his overall-clad feline friend plucks a banjo, and all of this is juxtaposed with a mermaid, a Chinese dragon and a grinning Howard Finsteresque moon. This thing is layered and amazing, employing a mix of primitive and sophisticated design techniques and inviting a gaggle of questions. Who created it and why and when? Why this particular array of whimsical subject matter? We’d love to know more, but for now, we’re just grateful that, even in its current state of disrepair, it’s still accessible to visitors.

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Let’s be clear — we are not gym people. Most of us choose to get our exercise (or lack thereof) under more natural, less repetitive conditions. But an evening (usually Wednesdays, since that’s when the ladies get a reduced rate) at the Little Rock

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 Judson and Josh Spillyards and Ryan Hitt — who’d played together with Chris Denny and in The Romany Rye — began a weekly gig with saxophonist Norman Williamson, playing improvised music and some funk covers at what was then Ferneau restaurant.

Joshua came onboard as a vocalist a few months later.

“We didn’t really have any set things to play, we were just kind of going improv, making it up as we went along,” Williamson said. “Over time, we started to develop some set songs and Joshua started to write stuff and eventually we gelled into Amasa Hines.”

In terms of inspiration, Williamson cited Afro-beat giant Fela Kuti and Ethio-jazz innovator Mulatu Astatke as influences. But “all of our music tastes are pretty eclectic,” he said. “It’s not limited to that, it just happens to be what we’ve been into lately.”

Climbing Center has never let us down.

If we were to purchase a gym membership, this would undoubtedly be the place.

You don’t need any experience going in, because the staff will quickly school you in “belaying” your partner, and if you don’t have a partner, there are automatic belay stations. If you’re timid, there’s a climbing treadmill where you can find your bearings before heading up a 30-foot wall. And you’re hooked into a harness the whole time which, you know, greatly minimizes the potential for death and serious injury.

Not only is playing like Spiderman loads of fun and a little surreal, it’s also an amazing workout. Our first experience left us with such jelly arms that even yanking open the refrigerator door seemed like more effort than it was worth. If you’re trying to slim down, just think of that as a free bonus.

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Set in the heart of downtown Conway, Michelangelo’s gourmet Italian dinners are sure to please any restaurateur, but Michelangelo’s best kept secret is the patio on the top level. On weekends guests are led by an escort to the rooftop where they are greeted by strands of cafe lights, a live band, a dance floor, and the Arkansas sunset in the background. Pair this with the decadent menu and drink specials and you’ve got the best patio seat in Arkansas.

In addition to the Nina Simone and Kraftwerk tunes (the latter inspired

by Brazilian troubadour Seu Jorge’s version) the band also does a version of the Clash classic “Straight to Hell,” and makes it their own.

The debut album will most likely have nine or 10 songs and be selfreleased on vinyl and online, Judson Spillyards said. But Spillyards said they’ll probably shop it around to some labels as well. “I’m not opposed to signing with a label, as long as it’s right,” he said.

Along with the album, Amasa Hines also has some touring on the horizon.

Though the details haven’t yet been finalized, the group is in the process of buying a van and taking advantage of some of the contacts they’ve have made through their other bands, Spillyards said.

Because even with the ubiquity and endless reach of the Internet, touring is “kind of what you have to do this day and age if you want people to know about you at all,” he said.

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It includes a 95,000-square-foot renovation and expansion with eight obstetrics rooms, a new surgery department with eight operating rooms and pre- and post-op areas. These new, larger operating rooms have the most up-to-date Stryker equipment including highly integrated booms that extend from the ceiling and keep surgical equipment, monitors, cameras and lighting at eye level for surgeons during procedures.

We’re excited about our continued growth and are committed to meeting the demands of our ever-growing community and the healthcare needs of those we serve.

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THE CAST: Back row, from left: Brittany Rorie, Brandon Higdem, Sydney Ippolito, RaeLeigh Narisi Front row, from left: Bailey Lamb, Rachel Powell, Emily Karne

‘Cabaret’ ACT’s first production.

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he Argenta Community Theater, one of the region’s newest performing arts venues, will soon host its first ever in-house show, a production of “Cabaret” that has already sold out its four-night run July 25 through 28.

Theater founder Vincent Insalaco wanted to bring back the idea of a summer musical, a tradition he cherishes from his past, he said. The musical, set in pre-WWII Berlin, is a show with a strong message that “almost seems to be relevant again,” Insalaco said. The musical is about German naivete about the rise of Nazi intolerance; as the violence grows, the caberet performers blissfully proclaim that “Life is a cabaret, old chum.”

The production has already drawn numerous community members to help with the performance, from acting to preparing the set. The program is 36 pages, to accommodate the almost 100 names on the thank-you list, Insalaco said. “Every day there’s a new face that shows up,” he said.

One of the community members involved with the production is Bob Hupp, producing artistic director of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, who was asked to direct. “I wanted to be a part of the project because I believe in the mission of the Agenta Community Theater and because I believe very strongly in what Vincent Insalaco and Judy Tenenbaum are doing there at Argenta Community Theater,” Hupp said. Tenenbaum co-founded the theater with Insalaco.

The ACT is not North Little Rock’s version of The Rep, Insalaco stressed.

ACT is a community theater. “I mean everyone here is volunteering. That’s what community theater is,” Insalaco said.

Despite the production’s being a volunteer-only project, there has been no lack of talent in the theater. “The Little Rock-North Little Rock metropolitan area is very culturally rich, and we have a remarkable resource in how many talented performers there are in our area,” Hupp said, acknowledging that many of the actors have other jobs and this is something people are doing in their free time.

“Nobody, not a single person — myself, the actors — nobody’s getting paid. And that’s what the community theater is all about, is doing it for the love of the process and the love of the art form,” he said.

Hupp compared the experience of directing at the ACT to that of The Rep: “In terms of how we approach the work, and my expectations, and the work of the people involved, I wouldn’t say that there’s a huge difference,” he said.

Even the casting process, which took place in January, never ceased to amaze the crew with the wealth of raw talent that

came forward, Insalaco said. He noted a particular character that he feared would have to be cut from the script because it is such a pivotal, precise role. “And all of a sudden this kid walked in and nailed it,” said Insalaco, recalling the firm reassurance he had in that moment that the play was meant to happen.

Auditions drew a diverse array of actors, from experienced actors to those who had only been in school performances, an element of community theater that adds to the “collaborative effort,” Insalaco said. “We are the Argenta Community Theater, which means we are going to do community theater, but we are also a theater that belongs to the community,” he said.

“For the arts to thrive, the arts have to be strong at every level, at the community level, at the semi-professional level and the professional level,” Hupp said. “The arts thrive because they’re strong from the ground up, and we really see that in Central Arkansas. There is an interest for the arts, there is support for the arts and there are people who love being a part of the arts, and those are all the ingredients you need to have a thriving arts scene.”

The mission of the Argenta Community Theater is to educate the community of the importance of the arts. “It comes from the belief that a microphone, a script, a paintbrush, is just as important as a baseball or a football,” Insalaco said, “it’s about getting the community to understand that the arts can be an integral part of a child’s learning process.” It’s no coincidence that the theater is right next to the THEA Foundation, whose mission is to promote the arts in education, he said. Profits from “Cabaret” will be used for grants and scholarships in the community, Insalaco said.

The Theater is just one drop in the bucket, Insalaco said, “but it’s our drop in the bucket.”

Next summer, the Argenta Community Theater will produce “Jesus Christ Superstar.” In addition to being a show with a powerful message, it is an homage to Insalaco’s late wife, Sally Riggs, who was in the original production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” in London when she worked for Andrew Lloyd Webber. “It’s a great show that needs to be done here locally, and I think it will capture a lot of people’s attention,” Insalaco said.

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“Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me” blends archival footage with unreleased music and photos, and interviews with drummer Jody Stephens, legendary Little Rock-born producer Jim Dickinson (who produced Big Star’s “Third/Sister Lovers,” one of the most devastatingly beautiful and timeless works in all of rock ‘n’ roll) and others involved with the band.

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THE TO-DO

LIST

BY ROBERT BELL

THURSDAY 7/26

DRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL

7 p.m. War Memorial Stadium. $25.

In terms of staggering live productions, Drum Corps International will be hard to top. DCI bills itself as “marching music’s major league,” and after more than three decades of showcasing insanely complicated performances and ridiculously talented dancers and musicians, that seems like an indisputable claim. If you need evidence of the awesomeness of these upper echelon band geeks, I suggest a quick YouTube search for “DCI highlights.” This show includes performances from The Cadets of Allentown, Pa.; The Cavaliers of Rosemont, Ill.; Bluecoats of Canton, Ohio; Blue Knights of Denver, Colo.; Glassmen of Toledo, Ohio; Academy of Tempe, Ariz.; Pacific Crest of Diamond Bar, Calif.; Crossmen of San Antonio; Cascades of Seattle; and Pioneer of Milwaukee, Wis.

FRIDAY 7/27

COOL SHOES

9 p.m. Downtown Music Hall. $5.

Damn. This qualifies as a bona fide “End of an Era” To-Do: Cool Shoes will no longer be a thing in Little Rock (Cool Shoes Fayetteville will continue to host monthly shows, though). From the Cool Shoes Facebook: “When we started this party over 4 years ago, we didn’t know what would come of it. A dance party at a metal venue in Arkansas? It could’ve been a disaster but it worked. We’ve packed the place out with 500+ sweaty kids with lines wrapping around the block, brought in national headliners, and even had our own stage at RiverFest.” This farewell show includes DJs Wolf-e-Wolf, Kichen and Raphe.

HOOBASTANK: The modern rock group called Hoobastank plays Juanita’s Friday night.

FRIDAY 7/27

HOOBASTANK

For the last several years, I’d seen the band name. It popped up in the usual places: magazines, newspapers, the margins of web pages. But what could it mean? I found myself repeating it over and over in my head: “Hoobastank. Hoobastank. Hooooooooobastank” — sometimes drawing it out like that until it lost all meaning (or, well, you know). Based solely on the name, I though perhaps Hoobastank was some kind of Insane Clown Posse or

Limp Bizkit type thing with Nu metal chuggery and rapping about weed and boobs and so forth. You know, music for guys who wear gigantic pants and have those skull jester tattoos. It was to remain a mystery for me until very recently when I actually listened to some Hoobastank and discovered that the band trafficked not in goofy clown rap, but in crunchy, lower middle-brow modern rock with actual singing. They wrote songs about feelings and breaking up with your girlfriend and stuff like that. As for the name, it’s kind of genius. It’s highly Googleable and it

sticks in your head way better than the names of other bubblegrunge acts like Sister Mary Seven, Point of Solitude, Jars of the Day, Trading Templeton and a bunch of other ones that I made up because I couldn’t remember any real ones. Hoobastank reminded me of an important lesson that I learned several years ago, when I bought a Lamb of God CD for my Aunt Sally, a devout Missionary Baptist: Never, ever judge a band by its name alone, because it can get you in trouble. The opening acts at this show are Stellar Revival and Stars in Stereo.

That would be one big stack of CDs. But then what would we do with them?

Jeremy Brasher — one of the state’s best musicians and most trenchant cultural observers — once said that all Christmas albums should be melted down and somehow converted into low-income housing. So that’s an idea.

I don’t know if CDs melt all that good, so maybe we just make a big CD castle out of them and it could be like a play-

land type thing for underprivileged kids.

Well, anyways, that’s one idea. Shifting gears somewhat, here’s another bit of Creed news: this very fall, in October, to be precise, we will finally get a look inside the brain of Creed singer Scott Stapp, when he releases his memoir, “Sinner’s Creed.” We’ll just have bide our time until then. I know, I know. But check this: he recently offered some sneak-peek quotes on the book’s Face-

book page (yes, these days, even books can have Facebook pages). Here’s a good one: “When it comes to music, rapport can’t be explained. It just is.

Why a guitarist and a singer are able to strike a common chord and produce something magical is something I don’t understand.” That right there is some truth, courtesy of Scott Stapp. No one can explain what musical rapport is, not even him. And he sold 26 million CDs.

9 p.m. Juanita’s. 15 adv., $17 day of.

SATURDAY 7/28

CREED

7:30 p.m. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater. $30-$65.

People, there are 26 million Creed CDs out there in the United States.

Twenty. Six. Million. Creed CDs. That’s a lot of CDs for a band once described by music producer and funny guy Jack Endino as “Whitesnake without the snake.” Could we get all 26 million CDs back together in one place? Probably.

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IN BRIEF

WEDNESDAY 7/25

SATURDAY 7/28

DAVID OLNEY, SERGIO WEBB

8 p.m. Maxine’s. $5 adv., $7 door.

David Olney might not be a household name like John Prine or Guy Clark or Townes Van Zandt. Or he might be, depending on the hipness of your particular household. But over the last three decades or so, this veteran singer/songwriter has created a huge body of songs that hit many of

the same folk/country/blues sweet spots as those aforementioned greats.

Olney’s voice has an unadorned appeal to it. There aren’t a lot of flourishes or fanciful flitting arounds or affected gravelliness. It’s more like a simple but well-made tool that does its job without getting in the way. The job in this case is the telling of stark tales of lean times, of the monsters of his-

tory, of losers’ lamentations, of criminals’ plots and of the bad old fashioned blues, all delivered with a great storyteller’s knack for detail and the occasional touch of bone-dry humor.

Olney is playing with Sergio Webb, an excellent guitarist and singer out of Nashville. Webb and Olney have collaborated before, so expect a great onstage rapport.

Movies in the Park screens the stone-cold classic American comedy “Caddyshack,” free, Riverfest Amphitheatre, sundown. Countrified Southern rockers The Cadillac Black are back in town, with Nashville singer/songwriter Logan Mize, Stickyz, 9 p.m., $6.

THURSDAY 7/26 For a big-ass heaping plate of chugga-chugga scream-y emo what-have-you, Downtown Music Hall hosts The Scarlet Letter, Crashing Broadway, Mysuicide and As Tall As Giants, 6 p.m., $7.

Little Rock crew The LabRatz bring their eclectic take on Southern hip-hop to White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. The Joint in North Little Rock has two of the best young rock bands in the state, The Tricks and Whale Fire, 9 p.m., $5.

FRIDAY 7/27 Holly Cole & The Memphis Dawls are back in Hot Springs for a show with indie troubadour Brandon Cunningham, Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 day of. If you’re jonesin’ for some Red Dirt, Stickyz has your fix, with the roots-y folk rock of Micky & The Motorcars with fellow travelers Big Casino, of Fort Worth, 18-and-older, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. The Weekend Theater’s production of the musical version of “The Full Monty” continues, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, $16-$20. Cornerstone Pub hosts The OD-15, the latest jampacked lineup of the hip-hop showcase, with Bully Gang, Southwest Boaz, Nick Broadway, J-Fuego, Mista Mayhemm, Gadah, Aye Tell Em JT, Kamikaze, DJ Silky Slim and host Epiphany, 9 p.m., $10, $5 for ladies before 11 p.m.

SATURDAY 7/28

SHARP STORYTELLER: David Olney plays Maxine’s Saturday night.

SATURDAY 7/28

TERROR, BANE

6 p.m. Downtown Music Hall. $13 adv., $15 day of.

All you floor-punchin’ windmill maniacs better dust off your moshin’ britches, because one of — if not the — biggest hardcore tours of the year is stopping off in Little Rock. The coasts are united, at least on this tour. From Los Angeles comes Terror, which has been among the lead practitioners of Integrity-esque metalcore, releasing a raft of albums and EPs full of brutal, fist-pumping, circle-pit initiating insanity. From Bawston comes Bane (no, not that one), with mosh-friendly, posi-core anthems engineered to make you feel good while running around in a frenzy and pointing and shouting along whatnot. Also on the tour are the thrash-leaning L.A. five-piece Rotting Out and the breakdown-happy throat-shredders Naysayer, of Richmond, Va. Little Rock is by far the smallest market on this tour, so good on Downtown Music Hall for booking it.

TUESDAY 7/31

CONTINENTAL

9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern.

White Water Tavern regulars are likely familiar with Continental, the four-piece fronted by former Dropkick Murphys guitarist Rick Barton. Barton formed Continental in 2009, and the group includes his son Stephen Barton on bass, Dave DePrest on guitar and Tommy Mazalewski on drums. Continental has played the WWT a couple of times in the year and a half or so. The band just released “All a Man Can Do,” a full-length follow-up to its debut EP, “Death of a Garage Band.” In the band’s online bio, the elder Barton described their sound as “a blend of folk, punk and country with a heartfelt message of love, loss, pleasure and pain.”

That’s a pretty spot-on description. The album will probably resonate with fans of such blue-collar punk ’n’ rollers as Social Distortion, The Swingin’ Utters and the Dropkick Murphys.

White Water Tavern hosts the state’s leading two-dude electrorock band, Collin Vs. Adam, with the soaring guitar heroics of Grand Serenade, 10 p.m., $5. Stickyz has roots-y rock of Texas troubadours The Band of Heathens, 9 p.m., $10. If you’re in the mood to stay up late and get your mind blown by swaggering blues rock played at top volume, check out Iron Tongue at Midtown, 12:30 a.m., $5.

SUNDAY 7/29 The Arkansas Repertory Theater hosts The Four Reps, the accappella/rock/doo-wop/barbershop group that’s made up of members of The Rep’s Young Artists program. The quartet will give their farewell performance, as two of the members recently graduated high school. After the musical performance, there will be a screening of the Arkansas-made short film “Cain & Abel,” 7 p.m., $10.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25

MUSIC

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

The Cadillac Black, Logan Mize. 18-and-older.

Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $6. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www. stickyz.com.

Grim Muzik presents Way Back Wednesdays.

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

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

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

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

Onward to Olympas, Letters to Exiles, Something to Stand For, Derivative.

Downtown Music Hall, 7 p.m., $8. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall. com.

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

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

Rockusaurus. Senor Tequila (Maumelle Blvd.), 6 p.m. 9847 Maumelle Blvd., NLR. 501-758-4432.

Smokey. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free.

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

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

James Johann. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $7. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

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

EVENTS

Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites.

Two meals a day served at the Billy Mitchell Boys and Girls Club, Thrasher Boys and Girls Club, Penick Boys and Girls Club, and Dalton Whetstone Boys and Girls Club in Central Arkansas, and the Boys and Girls Club in Benton in Saline County. Arkansas Foodbank, through Aug. 20: 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m., free.

4301 W. 65th St. 501-565-8121. www.arkansasfoodbank.org.

Science After Dark: “Science Fiction”. Learn about science fiction, cash bar available, 21-and-

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POP SONGSTRESS: Georgia native Meiko brings her quirky, bright and sunshine-y pop to Juanita’s Sunday night, 7:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. older. Museum of Discovery, 6 p.m., $5, free for members. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800880-6475. www.amod.org.

FILM

Movies in the Park: “Caddyshack.” Film begins at sundown. Riverfest Amphitheatre, 8 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave.

CAMPS

Museum of Discovery Summer Camps. Rocket Science, Your Evil Genius, Amazing Bugs, Tinkering Academy, all 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for ages 4 to 13. Prices vary; register at 501-5373073. Museum of Discovery. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-880-6475. www.amod.org.

CLASSES

Children’s Pottery Class. Ages 6-12. Claytime Pottery Studio, through July 27, 10 a.m., $150.

417 Main St. 501-374-3515.

THURSDAY, JULY 26

MUSIC

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

The Bootheel, Insomniac Folklore. 21-andolder. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

Dogtown Thursday Open Mic Night.

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

Drum Corps International Arkansas. War Memorial Stadium, 7 p.m., $25, discounted group rates available. 1 Stadium Drive. 501663-0775.

ElectroniQ. 18-and-older. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $5.

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

Fire & Brimstone Duo. Browning’s Mexican Food, 6-9 p.m. 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-6639956. www.browningsmexicangrill.com.

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

Jason Greenlaw & The Groove, Randy Harsey, Project 7, Silly Puddles. Revolution, 9 p.m., free over 21, $5 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

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

Karaoke Thursday. Twelve Modern Lounge.

1900 W. Third St. 501-301-1200.

Karaoke with Doc Bryce. Flying DD, 9 p.m.

4601 S. University. 501-773-9990. flyingdd.com.

Karaoke with Larry the Table Guy. The Afterthought, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar.com.

LabRatz. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern. com.

Ol’ Puddin’haid. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl. com.

PG-13, Chris Henry. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-3755351. www.cajunswharf.com.

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

9611 MacArthur Drive, NLR. 771-2994.

Rockusaurus. Senor Tequila, 7 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505.

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

The Scarlet Letter, Crashing Broadway, Mysuicide, As Tall As Giants. Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m., $7. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 5 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. The Tricks, Whale Fire. 21-and-older. The Joint, 9 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-3720205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

COMEDY

James Johann. The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $7. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites.

See July 25.

Remington College Blood Drive. Remington College and the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America team up to increase the number of minority blood donors. For more information, call 800-448-6405 or visit 3lives.com.

Remington College-Little Rock, 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. 19 Remington Drive. 501-312-0007. www. remingtoncollege.edu.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents Barnum Bash. Verizon Arena, July 26, 7 p.m.; July 27, 7 p.m.; July 28, 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m.; July 29, 1 and 5 p.m., $11-$51. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 800-745-3000. verizonarena.com.

CAMPS

Museum of Discovery Summer Camps. See July 25.

CLASSES

Children’s Pottery Class. Ages 6-12. Claytime Pottery Studio, 10 a.m., $150. 417 Main St. 501374-3515.

KIDS

Kids Cook -- Pizza Party. Eggshells Kitchen Co., $40. 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-664-6900. eggshellskitchencompany.com.

Mission: Possible! Next Level Events, $50. 1400 W. Markham St. 501-376-9746. www.nextleveleventsinc.com.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. Verizon Arena. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. www.Ringling.com.

FRIDAY, JULY 27

MUSIC

After Eden. West End Smokehouse and Tavern,

COMEDY

James Johann. The Loony Bin, 8 and 10:30 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

The Main Thing. Sketch comedy show. The Joint, 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-3720205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

EVENTS

Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites.

See July 25.

Basic acrylic painting for adults. Walton Arts Center, 10 a.m. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-443-5600.

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

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. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents Barnum Bash. Verizon Arena, July 27, 7 p.m.; July 28, 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m.; July 29, 1 and 5 p.m., $11-$51. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 800-745-3000. verizonarena.com.

Zoo Story Time. Little Rock Zoo, through Aug. 31: 10 a.m. 1 Jonesboro Dr. 501-666-2406. www. littlerockzoo.com.

CAMPS

Museum of Discovery Summer Camps. See July 25.

CLASSES

Children’s Pottery Class. Ages 6-12. Claytime Pottery Studio, 10 a.m., $150. 417 Main St. 501374-3515.

KIDS

Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. Verizon Arena. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. www.Ringling.com.

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SATURDAY, JULY 28

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Band of Heathens. 18-and-older. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Chris DeClerk. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

Chris Henry. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free.

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

Collin Vs. Adam. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. soundcloud.com/ collinvsadam.

Creed. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 7:30 p.m., $30-$65. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

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

David Olney, Sergio Webb. 21-and-older.

Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

Drew Henderson, Wolf Creek. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501-315-1717.

Exit Strategy. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 8:30 p.m.

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

Iron Tongue. Midtown Billiards, 12:30 a.m., $5.

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

Jam Rock. Twelve Modern Lounge. 1900 W. Third St. 501-301-1200.

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

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Barrett Baber. The Tavern Sports Grill, 8 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Bluesboy Jag and His Cigar Box Guitars.

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

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

Cool Shoes. Downtown Music Hall, 9 p.m. 211 W. Capitol. 501-376-1819. downtownmusichall.com.

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

Down for Decades. Holiday Inn Presidential, 7 p.m., $10. 600 I-30. 501-375-2100.

“The Flow Fridays.” Twelve Modern Lounge, 8 p.m. 1900 W. Third St. 501-301-1200.

Holly Cole & The Memphis Dawls, Brandon Cunningham. 21-and-older. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 d.o.s. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

Hoobastank, Stellar Revival, Stars in Stereo.

Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $15 adv., $17 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

Insomniac Folklore. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Katmandu. Thirst n’ Howl. 14710 Cantrell Road.

501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

Kayla Reeves & Wes Jeans. Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m., $10. 2150 Congo Road, Benton. 501315-1717.

Micky & The Motorcars, Big Casino. 18-andolder. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 d.o.s. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com.

The OD. Cornerstone Pub & Grill, 9 p.m., $5-$10.

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

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

RJ Mischo. George’s Majestic Lounge, 6 p.m.

519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.

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

Scott Holt Band, Ashley McBryde. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

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

Steve Pryor. George’s Majestic Lounge, 7 p.m.

519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Velvet Kente Soul Dance Party. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

The Wicked Good. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbar.com.

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

501-773-9990. flyingdd.com.

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here is likely a substantial pocket transfer or attend of people who, after the NCAA school elsewhere, wrought its judgment on Penn is this really that State this week, felt like the organizagiant of a leap for tion had stepped far afield and gone the NCAA? This down some kind of uneasy road of moral organization has BEAU authority. I can understand that. crippled or shut WILCOX down programs For years, the governing body of collegiate athletics has been — right or before for much less. It has imposed wrong — the arbiter of what constitutes its judgments on those programs for fair play and what represents impropriunseemly tactics. Penn State students and fans recoiled at the horror of havety within the walls of the stadiums and athletic departments. ing its program effectively and forceBut in moments of heightened fully dismantled, but realistically could awareness and concern, the focus shifts. offer no rebuttal.

Arkansas fans watched a beloved footThe message Long sent to Petrino ball coach implode in a matter of days, in April is that your 21 wins over two and an athletic director make an unpopyears, your exceptional performance ular but fitting choice to end that man’s in rebuilding a program in tatters in tenure. In State College, Pennsylvania, a matter of four seasons, and your extraordinary abilan even more revered patriarch was ousted, ity to cultivate a new, then died, and now upbeat culture in The outcome was has a legacy flecked the fan base are not with humanity’s worth anything if predictable, painful general reproach for you are unprincipled. and almost beyond his inaction, largely It wasn’t sent out of criticism even as it because an athletic fear of the NCAA’s tested our notion occasionally arbidirector (and a bevy of what the NCAA trary hand, but was of other administracould and could not do. delivered with the tors) made disastrous choices over a period underlying idea that of years. no man should ever hold serve over the institution as a We all like to pretend that the NCAA is nothing more than a regulatory body, whole. Penn State abjectly and repeatone that makes certain that each game edly failed when opportunities to check is played within certain acceptable conPaterno’s power and influence were fines and that no one player, coach, presented. The outcome was predictsport or institution is tainted by the able, painful and almost beyond critizealousness of competition. What hapcism, even as it tested our notion of pened in Northwest Arkansas this fall what the NCAA could and could not do. was anything but a sweeping tragedy, Long was obviously not willing to risk a future fraught with questions about even if personal lives of many were the football coach’s propriety, feeling unduly affected by one man’s acts and that a fleeting moment of weakness by omissions. So the comparison of the hubris of Petrino and Paterno really Petrino might well augur something begins and ends with them both being worse down the line. large fish in a medium-sized bowl, and The lack of temerity or forethought having remarkably similar surnames. demonstrated at Penn State was in such That said, don’t be so myopic to think sharp and sad contrast that it made all of that Jeff Long’s decision to discharge us uneasy about the state of college athBobby Petrino was made in a vacuum. letics. Now we have a conclusive, hard The NCAA lords over college athletics example of just how costly a laissezand has had a well-documented history faire, money-first approach to football can be. While we all mourn the awful, of being intertwined in the most subtle machinations within an athletic departsurreal nature of Penn State’s undoing, ment. For those that suggested that the those of who admittedly embrace Hog organization did not have the power to sports a bit too tightly can at least draw impose $60 million in fines upon Penn some comfort from the fact that the State, or impact the educational tracks man in charge is mindful of the place they hold in our culture. of young men by compelling them to

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

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

412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

The Compositions of Dr. James Greeson.

KUAF Summer Jazz Series Composer’s Showcase. Walton Arts Center, 8 p.m. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.

Lagniappe with Genine Perez. The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbar. com.

Land of Mines. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501-3758466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Pickin’ Porch at the Library. Faulkner County Library, through Aug. 4: 9:30 a.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

Rip Van Shizzle. Thirst n’ Howl. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

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

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

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. Terror, Bane, Naysayer, Rotting Out, Snakedriver. Downtown Music Hall, 6 p.m., $13 adv., $15 d.o.s. 211 W. Capitol. 501-3761819. downtownmusichall.com.

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

COMEDY

James Johann. The Loony Bin, 7, 9 and 11

p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

The Main Thing. Sketch comedy show. The Joint, 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock. com.

DANCE

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

Soul Spirit Zumba with Ashan. Soul Spirit Zumba fuses Latin rhythms with soulful inspirational music. Canvas Community Art Gallery, 9:30-10:30 a.m., $5. 1111 W. 7th St. 501-414-0368.

EVENTS

Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta, 7 a.m.12 p.m. Main Street, NLR. Falun Gong meditation. Allsopp Park, 9 a.m., free. Cantrell & Cedar Hill Roads.

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

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 27: 7 a.m.-3 p.m.

400 President Clinton Ave. 501-375-2552. rivermarket.info.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents Barnum Bash. Verizon Arena, July 28, 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m.; July 29, 1 and 5 p.m., $11-$51. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 800-745-3000. verizonarena.com.

Super Summer Saturdays. Free family event celebrating baseball. Clinton Presidential Center, through Aug. 11: 10 a.m., free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org.

BOOKS

Booksigning with Dr. Fitzgerald Hill. Hill will sign his book “Crackback! How College Football Blindsides the Hopes of Black Coaches,” which he wrote with Mark Purdy. Hastings, 1 p.m. 1360 Old Morrilton Hwy., Conway. 501-329-1108.

KIDS

Breakfast with Siamangs. Little Rock Zoo, 8 a.m. 1 Jonesboro Drive. 501-666-2406. www. littlerockzoo.com.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. Verizon Arena, through July 29, 6 p.m. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. www.Ringling.com.

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

“Live from the Back Room.” Vino’s, 7 p.m.

923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents Barnum Bash. Verizon Arena, 1 and 5 p.m., $11-$51. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 800-745-3000. verizonarena.com.

KIDS

Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. Verizon Arena, 6 p.m. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-9759001. www.Ringling.com.

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MONDAY, JULY 30

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Gorilla Music — Battle of the Bands. Downtown Music Hall, 3:30 p.m. 211 W. Capitol. 501-3761819. downtownmusichall.com.

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

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

501-982-1939 .

Meiko. Juanita’s, 7:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s.

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

Summer Concert Series: The Boomers.

Faulkner County Library, 2 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

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

EVENTS

Bernice Garden Farmers’ Market. The Bernice

7th Street Peep Show. Featuring three or four bands per night. Bands sign up at 6:30 p.m. and play 35-minute sets (including setup) on a first come, first served basis. House band is The Sinners. Solo artists, DJs and all other performers welcome. Vino’s, 7 p.m., $1. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Ashley McBryde. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. www. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Eve to Adam, The Sesh, Apocalypse. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $5. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com.

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

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

Reggae Nites. Featuring DJ Hy-C playing roots, reggae and dancehall. Pleazures Martini and CONTINUED ON PAGE 60

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Some Guy Named Robb. Cajun’s Wharf, 5 and 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road.

501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

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

Ugly Lion. 18-and-older. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $5. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

A Work of Art — Minors in Music. Little Rock City Hall, 12 p.m., free. 500 W. Markham St.

EVENTS

Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites.

See July 25.

CAMPS

Kids Cook! and Create!. Camps promoting learning through the arts for students ages 6-12.

Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, July 30-Aug. 3, 9 a.m. 20919 Denny Road.

Museum of Discovery Summer Camps. See July 25.

TUESDAY, JULY 31

MUSIC

Attaloss. Pizza D’Action. 2919 W. Markham St. 501-666-5403.

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

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

Cheyenne Marie Mize. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com.

Continental. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m.

2500 W. 7th. 501-375-8400. www.facebook. com/ContinentalBand.

Jeff Long. Khalil’s Pub, 6 p.m. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. www.khalilspub.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. 322 President Clinton Blvd. 501-244-9550.

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

Lucious Spiller Band. Copeland’s, 6-9 p.m. 2602 S. Shackleford Road. 501-312-1616. www.copelandsofneworleans.com. mychildren mybride, Tear Out My Heart.

Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $12 adv., $15 d.o.s. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

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

Top of the Rock Chorus rehearsal. Cornerstone Bible Fellowship Church, 7-10 p.m. 7351 Warden Road, Sherwood. 501-231-1119. www. topoftherockchorus.org.

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

Tuesday Night Jazz/Blues Jam. The Joint, 8 p.m. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Vino’s Picture Show: “Midnight Cowboy.”

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

A Work of Art — Jazz Concert. Metropolitan Tower, 12 p.m., free. 452 W Capitol Ave.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-82360

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EVENTS

Arkansas Foodbank Summer Feeding Sites.

See July 25.

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

Share Our Strength’s “No Kid Hungry Dinner.”

Oxford American, 6 p.m., $150. 1300 Main St. Tales from the South. Authors tell true stories; schedule available on website. Dinner served 5-6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Call for reservations.

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

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

Wiggle Worms: “Local Foods Local Foods with Argenta Market.” Weekly program designed specifically for pre-K children. Museum of Discovery, 10:30 a.m., $8-$10, free for members. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-8806475. www.amod.org.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals.

Dickey-Stephens Park, July 31, 7:10 p.m.; Aug. 1, 7:10 p.m. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-6641555. www.travs.com.

CAMPS

Kids Cook! and Create!. Camps promoting learning through the arts for students ages 6-12. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, through Aug. 3, 9 a.m. 20919 Denny Road.

Museum of Discovery Summer Camps. See July 25.

Watercolor like Stained Glass. Ages 16 and up.

Walton Arts Center, July 31-Aug. 2, 6:30 p.m.

495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.

KIDS

Wiggle Worms. Weekly program designed specifically for pre-K children. Museum of Discovery, 10 a.m. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-8806475. www.amod.org.

THIS WEEK IN THEATER

Auditions for Lily and the Apple Seed.

Seeking 2 female actors, 1 male actor and 1 stage manager. Company members need to be over 18 years of age, have local housing and be available for rehearsal at Wildwood Park from Aug. 20-Sept. 9. Auditioners will read from the script and have a short interview. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, Thu., July 26, 5:30 p.m. 20919 Denny Road.

501-821-7275 ext. 253.

“Cabaret.” Argenta Community Theater, July 25-28, 7 p.m., $15-$35. 405 Main St., NLR. 501-353-1443. argentacommunitytheater.org.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Pocket Community Theater, through July 28, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 29, 2:30 p.m., $5-$10. 170 Ravine St., Hot Springs.

The Four Reps final farewell concert. The concert will feature a special showing of the short film, “Cain and Abel.” Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Sun., July 29, 7 p.m., $10. 601 Main St. 501-378-0405. www.therep.org.

“The Full Monty.” A group of unemployed steelworkers find an unconventional way to make some money, revitalizing their selfesteem in the process. This musical is based on the hit British film of the same name. The Weekend Theater, through July 28, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 29, 2:30 p.m.; through Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., $16-$20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org.

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AFTER DARK, CONT. “Hairspray.” Campy, fun musical about an unlikely teen dance idol, based on the John Waters film. The Public Theatre, through July 28, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 29, 2 p.m., $14-$16.

616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.

“Little Rock and a Hard Place.” The Main Thing theater presents its play about a man who dies in a car accident and is sent to Little Rock by St. Peter to earn his wings through helping the city. The Joint, through Aug. 31: Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

“The Sound of Music.” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most beloved musical is the story of the Von Trapp family and how their governess, Maria, brings music, hope and prayer into their lives in pre-World War II Austria.

Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through Aug. 26: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m.; Wed., 11 a.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., $15-$33. 6323 Col. Glenn Road.

501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS

NEW EXHIBITS, ART EVENTS

J.W. WIGGINS NATIVE AMERICAN ART GALLERY, University Plaza, Suite 500: “Medicine and Magic,” work by Robert Taylor, paintings, July 27-Aug. 17, Sequoyah National Research Center. 569-8336.

LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St.: “Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones,” artifacts from the Old State House Museum and Special Collections at the University of Arkansas, July 27-Aug. 25. 758-1720 MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Vietnam: America’s Conflict,” opens with reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 26 with decorated pilot Hugh L. Mills Jr., talk by Mills 11 a.m. July 27; exhibits on Arkansas’s military history. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, Ninth and Broadway: “A Voice through the Viewfinder: Images of Arkansas’ Black Community by Ralph Armstrong,” opens with reception 4:30-6:30 p.m. July 26, show through Jan. 5, 2013; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurial history in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683–3593.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: Kerry Hartman, senior exhibition, July 25-Aug. 3, Gallery II. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 569-3182.

EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: “2012 Annual Juried Art Competition,” 62 works by national and Arkansas artists, through July 30. 870-862-5474.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Arkansas Arts Center is accepting entries for its 38th annual “Toys Designed by Artists” exhibition, which runs Nov. 21 through Jan. 6. Deadline to enter is Sept. 14. Artists may submit up to three entries; all must have been completed since 2010. Entry fees are $15 for first and $10 for each additional. For more information, go to www.arkarts.com or call 372-4000.

The Hot Springs Fine Arts Center is accepting entries to its 9th annual “Diamond National Art Competition” that will be on exhibit in September. Deadline to enter is Aug. 13. Twoand three-dimensional work in all media will be considered. Jurors are Thad Flenniken, Jim Larkin and Gary Simmons. There will be cash awards. For more information, call 501-624-0489 or go to www.hsfac.org.

The Jim Elder Good Sport Fund, which benefits several area non-profits, is seeking artists to participate in its annual Home Plate Heroes exhibition and auction. Artists are provided wood panels in the shape of home plate to paint or otherwise decorate for the event, to be held at the Thea Center Sept. 17-28. Blank plates are available at Thea; deadline is Aug. 15. For information, e-mail Susan Elder at selder52@ gmail.com.

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ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott,” 25 large-scale black and white photographs of tattoed men and women, documenting tattoos over 25 years, with murals painted by Arkansas tattoo artists Robert Berry, Richard Moore, Caleb Pritchett, Chris Thomas, Brooke and Ryan Cook, Nancy Miller and Scott Diffee, through Sept. 9; “The Rockefeller Influence,” 57 works donated or loaned by the Rockefeller family, through Aug. 19; “11th National Drawing Invitational: New York, Singular Drawings,” through Sept. 9, curated by Charlotta Kotik; “The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft,” through Aug. 5; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

THE ART LOFT, 1525 Merrill Drive: Work by Dan Thornhill, Catherine Rodgers, Rosemary Parker, Kelly Furr, Melody Lile and others, with music by Rico Novales. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat. 251-1131.

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BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute: “Invasion or Liberation? The Civil War in Arkansas,” letters, diaries, photographs, and artifacts, Concordia Hall; “Pattern in Perspective: Recent Work by Carly Dahl and Dustyn Bork,” through Sept. 29; “Arkansas Art Educators State Youth Art Show 2012,” through July 28; “Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America,” through Aug. 25. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Still Crazy …,” paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture

by Warren Criswell, through Aug. 18. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: Arkansas Pastel Society members show, through through Aug. 30. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thu. 375-2342.

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

Sat. 664-0880.

GALLERY 221, 221 W. 2nd St.: “Colors Abound,” impressionist landscapes, florals by Jennifer Cox Coleman. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Fri. 801-0211.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Robert Bean, drawings; Jill Storthz, woodcuts, through Sept. 8. 664-8996.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St.: “Southern Women Artists,” work by Linda Burgess, Sheila Cantrell, Sheila Cotton, Claudia DeMonte, Robyn Horn, Valerie Jaudon, Ida Kohlmeyer, Laura Raborn, Denise Rose and Rebecca Thompson. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 664-2787.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Montage 24,” 24 artists with the gallery for 24 years. 372-6822.

L&L BECK GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The Wild Ones,” animal paintings and giclees

by Louis Beck. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

LOCAL COLOUR, 5811a Kavanaugh Blvd.: Robin Parker, featured artist for June. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422.

M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell: New work by William Goodman, Dan Thornhill, Robin Tucker and Peter Razatos. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 225-6257.

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. THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: Seis

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

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

BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 600 Museum Way: “Declaration: Birth of America,” 1776 broadside announcing the Declaration of Independence and other Revolutionary War documents, through Sept.

17; “Focus: The Portrait, Picturing Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” paintings by James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent and George Bellows, on loan from the National Gallery of Art, through June 2, 2013; “American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Narrative Landscape,” six paintings, including two from the Louvre Museum, through Aug. 13; “The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision,” 45 paintings from the New-York Historical Society, through Sept. 3, permanent collection of American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu., Sat.-Sun.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri. Tickets free but timed; reserve at 479-418-5700.

CALICO ROCK CALICO ROCK ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, Hwy. 5 at White River Bridge: Paintings, photographs, jewelry, fiber art, wood, ceramics and other crafts.

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun. calicorocket.org/artists.

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

HEBER SPRINGS BOTTLE TREE GALLERY, 514 W. Main St.: Work

by Maeve Croghan, Jonathan Harris, George Wittenberg. 501-590-8840.

HELENA DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry St.: “John Ruskey: The Downstream Painter,” watercolors of the Mississippi River, landscapes, handcolored maps, hand-carved canoes, through Aug. 25, reception recognizing KIPP students who worked with Ruskey on carving the canoe 4-5:30 p.m. Aug. 2.

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NEW MOVIES Darling Companion (PG-13) – Diane Keaton is unhappily married to Kevin Kline, so she adopts a stray dog. But then it runs away and she has to go find it. Market Street: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00.

The Intouchables (R) – An improbable friendship blossoms between a rich disabled man and his ex-con caretaker. Market Street: 2:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15.

Step Up Revolution (PG-13) – That’ll do, “Step Up” franchise, that’ll do. Breckenridge: 11:50 a.m., 4:45, 10:15 (2D), 2:15, 7:40. Chenal 9: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55. Rave: 9:25 a.m., noon, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 (2D), 11:00 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30, midnight (3D). Riverdale: 9:20 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:05, 6:25, 8:50.

The Watch (R) – Bunch of dudes form a neighborhood watch group on account of they think there’s going to be an alien invasion, which, fortunately for the movie, there is. Breckenridge: 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05. Chenal 9: 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15. Rave: 9:10 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:15, 3:15, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:15, midnight. Riverdale: 9:25 a.m., 11:40 a.m., 1:55, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00.

RETURNING THIS WEEK Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (R) – Pretty much what it sounds like, from producer Tim Burton and director Timur Bekmambetov.

Movies 10: 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00.

The Amazing Spider Man (PG-13) – Already?

It’s like, jeez, Tobey MaGuire’s Spider Man body ain’t even cold yet. Starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Breckenridge: 4:15, 10:15 (2D), 12:30, 7:20 (3D). Chenal 9: 10:10 a.m., 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30. Rave: 9:50 a.m., 1:05, 4:10, 7:25, 10:35 (2D), 8:25, 11:35 (3D). Riverdale: 9:25 a.m., 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45.

Battleship (PG-13) – Action adventure film starring Rihanna. Movies 10: 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50.

Bernie (PG-13) – Based on a murder in smalltown Texas, starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Richard Linklater. Market Street: 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG-13) – British senior citizens go to India and learn that it’s OK to eat weird stuff and it’s all very heartwarming. Market Street: 4:00, 9:00. Riverdale: 9:30 a.m., 12:15.

Brave (PG) – Animated fantasy tale of a Celtictype girl who must save her kingdom from something or other. Breckenridge: 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35. Chenal 9: 12:25 a.m., 1:25, 4:25, 7:25. Rave: 1:10, 3:45, 6:35, 9:05, 11:40 (2D), 10:35 a.m. (3D). Riverdale: 9:05 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 8:00, 10:05.

The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) – Third gloomy Batman flick from director Christopher Nolan.

Breckenridge: 11:10 a.m., 11:40 (open-captioned), 12:10, 2:50, 3:20, 3:50, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:10, 10:40. Chenal 9: noon, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 (IMAX), 10:00 a.m., 12:30, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:10. Rave: 9:00 a.m., 12:45, 4:30, 8:15 (X-treme), 9:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12:15, 1:15, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 8:45, 9:15, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30. Riverdale: 9:30 a.m., 1:20, 5:35, 9:15.

Dark Shadows (PG-13) – Kinda like Dracula goes to “Austin Powers,” starring Johnny Depp

HEY ‘WATCH’ THIS: In “The Watch,” Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Richard Ayoade and Vince Vaughn fight aliens with a bowling ball that shoots lightning. and Helena Bonham Carter, directed by Tim Burton. Nah, baby. Movies 10: 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20.

For Greater Glory (R) – Andy Garcia is a retired general who leads a ragtag bunch of Catholic soldiers in a fight against the totalitarian Mexican government of the late 1920s. Movies 10: 3:15, 9:45.

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

Movies 10: noon, 1:15, 3:00, 4:15, 6:00, 7:15, 9:30.

Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) – Latest iteration in the series about a crew of wacky animated animals. Breckenridge: noon, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 (2D), 11:30 a.m., 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 (3D). Chenal 9: 10:05 a.m., 1:05, 7:05 (2D) 4:05, 9:30 (3D). Rave: 10:25 a.m., 1:00, 3:25, 5:55 (2D), 9:05 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 (3D). Riverdale: 9:10 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 3:45, 5:55, 8:10.

Katy Perry: Part of Me (PG) – Yeah, but which one? Rave: 9:40 a.m.

The Lorax (PG) – A 3D CGI adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic tale. Movies 10: 12:15, 2:50, 4:55.

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) – The Dreamworks franchise rolls on, with Chris Rock, Ben Stiller and other people who make stupid amounts of money as talking animals.

Riverdale: 4:00, 6:20, 8:55.

Magic Mike (R) – Former male stripper Channing Tatum stars as a male stripper in a story inspired

by Tatum’s former life as a male stripper. Rave: 1:25, 7:40.

Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13) – With Ed Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Bruce Willis, from director Wes Anderson.

Breckenridge: 12:05, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40. Rave: 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50.

People Like Us (PG-13) – Family drama/comedy about a twenty-something salesman who must confront a family secret after the sudden death of his father. Riverdale: 9:20 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55.

Prometheus (R) – Shiny sci-fi from Ridley Scott.

Supposed to be an “Alien” prequel. Movies 10: 12:40, 3:30, 6:15, 9:05 (2D), 10:15 p.m. (3D).

Rock of Ages (PG-13) – Two hours of Ol’ Middletooth doing butt-rock karaoke sounds just slightly less appealing than a gunshot wound to the crotch. Also starring Alec Baldwin.

Movies 10: 7:10, 9:55.

Safety Not Guaranteed (R) – A trio of reporters

follow a strange lead on a lark, but unexpectedly uncovers a fascinating character. Market Street: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15, 9:00.

Savages (R) – A hippie and a former Navy SEAL take on Mexican drug lords, from director Oliver Stone. Breckenridge: Chenal 9: 10:00 a.m., 4:30.

Rave: 10:15 a.m., 4:25, 10:25.

Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) – Dark and foreboding Snow White reboot No. 2 for the year, this time with Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron. Movies 10: 12:30, 3:45, 7:20, 10:05.

Ted (R) – From the mind of the inescapable Seth MacFarlane, the story of a talking teddy bear named Ted. Breckenridge: 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15. Chenal 9: 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20.

Rave: 9:45 a.m., 12:25, 3:10, 5:50, 8:35, 11:45.

Riverdale: 9:40 a.m., 12:05, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40.

To Rome with Love (R) – Latest charmingly aimless Eurocentric comedy from Woody Allen, with Jesse Eisenberg, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page and Roberto Benigni. Market Street: 1:45, 6:45.

Think Like a Man (PG-13) – Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book. Movies 10: 12:35, 7:05.

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection (PG13) – Latest product churned out by the Tyler Perry machine. Breckenridge: 12:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50. Rave: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20.

Riverdale: 9:15 a.m., noon, 2:45, 5:30, 8:45.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (PG13) – Film mines bestselling pregnancy book for attempt at comedy. If that’s what you were expecting, you were right. Movies 10: 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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MOVIE REVIEW

Dark night The Batman movie is no longer about Batman.

BY SAM EIFLING

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bout a third of the way into “The Dark Knight Rises,” the villain Bane and his henchmen storm a stock exchange. To breach security, Bane, a human with the physique of a gorilla, clobbers and shoots some guards. Upon entering the trading floor itself, he and his goons train assault rifles and handguns on traders and blast them indiscriminately.

If you see this film in a theater, this is the point where your eyes will dart to the lit exit signs that flank the screen. And you’ll imagine what it was like for the folks in a theater in Aurora, Colo. when a maniac armed with an assault rifle and handguns stalked in and began blasting them indiscriminately.

For all the mass shootings in the bloody recent history of America, the greatest country in the world where a 3-monthold baby can get shot to death during a superhero movie, this massacre in Aurora may be the first to ride mass media in quite this fashion. The shooter did not conscript news media in the way that the 9/11 hijackers did. They implicitly goaded cable news networks to re-run images of murder so that instead of a few thousand people seeing a terrorist act in Manhattan, we all became witnesses. That’s how terror works, of course. Killing 3,000 people is not the point; the explosive anger, fear and grief of 300 million is. When in those dark weeks after 9/11 people in flyover America repeated earnestly that “We are all New Yorkers,” it was more than symbolic. We all had experienced, vicariously, the horror bearing witness to slaughter.

Who knows if this James Holmes fellow turns out to be so coldly rational as al Qaeda, which succeeded in igniting multiple wars and steering the freedom-loving United States toward becoming a cowering surveillance state. Barring some revelation of design, we’ll merely evoke Brad Pitt’s lines from “Se7en” when addressing this fellow Holmes: “When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane? Maybe you’re just sitting around, reading ‘Guns and Ammo,’ masturbating in your own feces — do you just stop and go, ‘Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!’?” He’s no messiah. He’s a movie of the week, at best.

But what Holmes has done, whether he meant to or not, is to baptize this particular Batman movie in anger and fear and grief.

Whenever we watch television or attend a concert or a play or — especially — watch a movie in a theater, we pay for the pleasure of sharing a hallucination with people

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around us and many others around the world. The most beloved films are those which lull us into a hallucination so vivid and real that our rational senses do not pull us out until it finishes. Filmmakers who accomplish this are revered as geniuses and visionaries. Audience members who whisper or open their glowing phones during this experience are scorned. And the result is one that is unique to each film.

Where you see “The Dark Knight Rises” is no more consequential than where you drink a can of Coke. The hallucination, like the soda, is fungible.

As we share the hallucination on a mass scale, so too do we share such a massive disruption to it as occurred in Aurora.

Nightclub fires make us more aware of emergency exits in dark, crowded rooms.

Cruise ship disasters prompt us to make mental note of lifeboats. Seventy-one people got plugged in a public theater as they watched “The Dark Knight Rises” and so now anyone who goes to see “The Dark Knight Rises” in a public theater is condemned to feel that twinge of awareness.

We hold our breath when driving past graveyards to acknowledge exactly this mortal sensation — there but for the grace of God. At nearly three hours, “The Dark Knight Rises” requires that you breathe.

To attend is to visit a crime scene and to attend a hallucination already punctured.

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HOT SPRINGS ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Large-scale oil sketches and installation, “Left,”

by Gabrielle Ray, through August. Summer hours 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 501-625-3001.

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

ARTISTS’ WORKSHOP GALLERY, Joanne Kunath and Terry Odell, paintings, through July.

BLUE MOON, 718 Central Ave.: “sUZI mADE,” mixed media pieces by Suzi Dennis, through August. 501-318-2787.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Work by new gallery artists Sandy Newberg and Amy Hill-Imler and others, “Spirittiles” by Houston Llew. 501-318-4278.

JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central A: Rene Hein, Dolores Justus, Donnie Copeland, Steve Griffith, Mike Elsass, Robyn Horn and others.

501-321-2335.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 425 Central Ave.: “The Lost Highway: Constructions in Miniature by David Rose,” through Oct. 13.

501-609-9966.

HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE THE WOODLANDS: L. Allan Schaefer, nature photography, through July.

JACKSONVILLE RB MCGRATH STUDIO AND GALLERY, 118 S. First St.: Paintings by RB McGrath. Appointment only. 985-2165.

PERRYVILLE SUDS GALLERY, Courthouse Square: Paintings

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

Sat. 501-766-7584.

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

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

VAN BUREN CENTER FOR ART & EDUCATION, 104 N. 13th St.: “Disciplined Imaginations,” paintings by Patricia Lappin and John Lasater IV; “The Arc of the River Valley,” art by disabled persons, through July 27.

ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITS

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

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

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

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Play Ball! The St. Louis Cardinals,” memorabilia, including World Series trophies, rings and Stan Musial’s uniform, through Sept. 16; “Dorothy Howell Rodham and Virginia Clinton Kelley,” through Nov. 25; permanent exhibits about policies and White House life during the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17.

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HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. Third St.: “Barbie Doll: The 11 ½-inch American Icon,” from the Strojek Family collection; “A Collective Vision,” recent acquisitions, through March 2013; “Creating the Elements of Discovery: Tim Imhauser, Jason Powers and Emily Wood,” sculpture, drawings and paintings, through Aug. 5. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

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

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: “Battle Colors of Arkansas,” 18 Civil War flags; “Things You Need to Hear: Memories of Growing up in Arkansas from

1890 to 1980,” oral histories about community, family, work, school and leisure. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

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

CALICO ROCK CALICO ROCK MUSEUM, Main Street: Displays on Native American cultures, steamboats, the railroad, and local history. www.calicorockmuseum.com.

ENGLAND TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK, State Hwy. 165: Major prehistoric Indian site with visitors’ center and museum. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., closed Mon. $3 for adults, $2 for ages 6-12. 961-9442.

HOT SPRINGS MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM, 500 MidAmerica Blvd.: “Odyssey’s Shipwreck! Pirates and Treasure,” artifacts recovered from several wrecks, through Sept. 4. 501-767-3461.

MORRILTON MUSEUM OF AUTOMOBILES, Petit Jean Mountain: Permanent exhibit of more than 50 cars from 1904-1967 depicting the evolution of the automobile. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days.

501-727-5427.

POWER PLAY, CONT. From page 10 There’s a Summer Advantage hotline to address customer questions. According to a hotline representative, customers who choose to enroll in Summer Advantage can opt out at any time and receive a prorated rebate. “We put the serial number on a list so that when we send out a radio signal, there’s a group of houses that aren’t affected. We just add that one to the group that isn’t affected. … If we need to remove it [the DCU] we can, but it doesn’t end up being necessary,” the representative said.

Entergy’s plan is to leave the DCU in place, so that next summer it can be used again if the resident chooses.

One heat and air company said the DCUs should have no negative effects on the life of an A/C unit. According to

a Middleton Heat and Air customer service agent, more frequent cycling does not harm the unit, nor will the DCUs invalidate the warranty on a unit purchased from Middleton.

Entergy addresses the comfort question on its website: “During this time [a conservation event], the temperature may rise a few degrees but, if you’re like most customers in similar programs, it’s unlikely you’ll notice the change.”

(But in July 2011, just after the start of the Pennsylvania-based PECO utility’s similar program, the “Upper Southampton Patch” noted that the temperature inside at least one home rose 7 degrees.)

Entergy studied similar compressor cycling programs, including those of the Public Service Company of New

Mexico, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Rocky Mountain Power, before designing its Summer Advantage. According to Entergy, 30 U.S. utilities with more than four million residential customers use a similar program.

Since 2003, Rocky Mountain Power, which supplies most of Utah’s power, has been using a voluntary compressor cycling program open to both residential and business customers. One hundred thousand customers are currently enrolled, with 115,000 control devices in place. The extra 15,000 are attributed both to dropouts and businesses with multiple units and devices. According to Jeff Hymas, a spokesperson for the company, “Participation has increased every year since its inception in 2003. Currently, the number

of participating customers remains steady, and we’re not seeing the same growth as in past years.” In March 2010, the Utah legislature passed a bill that, among other things, would have made enrollment in this compressor cycling program mandatory. Two weeks after it passed, the governor vetoed the bill.

When Entergy has 3,000 DCUs installed in Arkansas, it will began to remotely cycle the registered compressors. By the end of 2012, Entergy expects to have 10,000 participating customers.

“This program’s cost effectiveness analysis demonstrates net benefits, on a per kWh basis, are about two times better than the cost of building generation facilities to provide summer peak energy in Arkansas,” Munsell said.

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BETTER THAN MOST: Aladdin Kabab’s gyros sandwich.

Aladdin’s opening A meat-eaters treat.

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t seems like everywhere we look these days, folks are talking about “fusion cuisine.” When we first came across Aladdin Kabab, a restaurant that boasts a menu featuring both Persian and Mexican dishes, we feared we’d stumbled onto another attempt at taking two wildly different styles of food and jumbling them up into something that just makes a mess of everything.

After dining at the small establishment tucked away in the Ashley Square shopping center, we’re pleased to report that Aladdin Kabab isn’t some sort of strange fusion restaurant, it’s a place where two partners — one from Iran and one from Central America — decided to combine their techniques into a restaurant that boasts classic (but separate) dishes from each tradition. And while it may sound strange to have chips and salsa sharing the table with hummus and pita, we left our meal deciding that as strange as the bedfellows might be, they’re doing something right.

We ordered the aforementioned hummus ($5) to start our meal and were pleasantly surprised when a complimentary basket of corn tortilla chips and a bowl of salsa arrived first. The chips were warm and crisp, and the salsa had a fresh tomato and herb flavor and a pleasant heat that crept up on the back of the tongue. When the hummus arrived,

Aladdin Kabab

9108 N. Rodney Parham Road 219-8787

Quick bite Aside from the Persian and Mexican menu, there are a few American influences as well such as a Philly Cheese Steak, hamburgers, and a cheese fries appetizer. Diners with dietary restrictions will also be happy to know that Aladdin is a certified Halal/ Kosher eatery.

Hours 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.

Other info No alcohol. All major credit cards accepted

we thought at first that we had been given an order of cheese dip because the chickpea puree was smoother than any we’ve ever been served. Accompanying the hummus was something else that scored points with us — a piece of warm, soft pita bread instead of the hard pita “chips” that so often come with restaurant hummus. The creamy hummus had a just the right amount of lemon tartness balanced by the nutty flavor of tahini. For a simple dish, the flavors in hummus can be difficult to get into balance, and Aladdin’s version succeeded admirably.

We also started with the Tabouli Salad ($4.95), and were served a version that’s unique to the Little Rock area — a Lebanese-style salad that is far heavier on the fresh parsley than on the bulgur wheat. This was a nice change from many of the grain-heavy salads we’re used to, and coupled with the ample amount of diced tomatoes, chopped onions, and a dressing of lemon juice redolent with garlic made for a very refreshing dish. While most restaurants view parsley as something useful only in adding color, this salad used a very fresh and fragrant strain of the herb which provided a good herbal compliment to the wheat and tart tomatoes.

We decided to order our entrees from both sides of the menu, with our Middle Eastern choice being the Gyros ($8.70), a mixture of ground lamb and beef roasted, sliced thin, and served with a choice of rice or fries. The sandwich was a hearty portion of well-seasoned meat, topped with grilled onions, grilled tomatoes, and a sauce that was somewhere between a yogurt-based tzatziki and a vaguely cucumber-flavored sour cream. While we were more than pleased with the meat and vegetables, with the grilled tomatoes being an extra-nice touch, the sauce was a touch too bland and really needed the stronger cucumber flavor we’ve come to expect from quality tzatziki. It’s still one of the best gyros we’ve had around, thankfully avoiding the dryness from which so many of the shaved meat sandwiches suffer. We picked the Persian rice as a side, and while it wasn’t anything amazing, the extra-long grain rice was flavored nicely with saffron and made a light pairing to the heavier sandwich.

From the Mexican side of the menu, we chose the California Burrito ($8.29), and what we got was a massive amount of steak, refried beans, lettuce, and tomato wrapped in a flour tortilla and covered in a thin cheese sauce — and when we say massive, we mean that this thing was the size of a kindergartener’s forearm. While the lettuce was simply chopped iceberg and the beans were nothing out of the ordinary, the wellseasoned steak was tender and had a nice flavor from the grill. The quality of the steak used helps separate the burrito from the crowded Mexican dining scene in Little Rock, but we felt that it lacked the flair present in the gyros.

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cook in the summertime. Luckily, those looking for an excuse not to turn on the oven in August can look forward to the second annual “Savor the City,” a month-long event featuring discounts, tastings and special events at some of Little Rock’s best restaurants.

Sponsored by the Little Rock Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, the event runs Aug. 1-31. Those interested in getting their fancy grub on can begin visiting www. dineLR.com on Wednesday, July 25, for details about participating restaurants, schedules and pricing. The list will be updated every Wednesday in August, so go back often for new details. You can also get info on daily Savor specials by signing up for the LRCVB’s Twitter feed at twitter.com/LittleRockCVB.

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AMERICAN

ADAMS CATFISH CATERING Catering company with carry-out restaurant in Little Rock and carry-out trailers in Russellville and Perryville. 215 N. Cross St. All CC. $-$$. 501-374-4265. LD Tue.-Sat. ALL AMERICAN WINGS Wings, catfish and soul food sides. 215 W. Capitol Ave. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-376-4000. LD Mon.-Fri (LD on Sat. beginning after Jan 2012).

ALLEY OOPS The restaurant at Creekwood Plaza (near the KanisBowman intersection) is a neighborhood feedbag for major medical institutions with the likes of plate lunches, burgers and homemade desserts. Remarkable Chess Pie. 11900 Kanis Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9400. LD Mon.-Sat. B-SIDE The little breakfast place in the former party room of Lilly’s DimSum Then Some turns tradition on its ear, offering French toast wrapped in bacon on a stick, a must-have dish called “biscuit mountain” and beignets with lemon curd. Top notch cheese grits, too. 11121 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-716-2700. BL Wed.-Sun. BIG WHISKEY’S AMERICAN BAR AND GRILL A modern grill pub in the River Market with all the bells and whistles: 30 flat screen TVs, boneless wings, whiskey on tap. Plus, the usual burgers, steaks, soups and salads. 225 E. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-324-2449. LD daily.

BOBBY’S COUNTRY COOKIN’ One of the better plate lunch spots in the area, with some of the best fried chicken and pot roast around, a changing daily casserole and wonderful homemade pies. 301 N. Shackleford Road, Suite E1.

No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-224-9500.

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Of course we couldn’t leave a place called “Aladdin Kabab” without trying its take on a skewer of charred meat, and we were pleased to see that they offer their kababs as a side dish. We chose the Chicken Kabab ($4), and when the huge plate of marinated grilled chicken arrived we knew we had found the dish that should make Aladdin a must-eat place for anyone in the city. Large, tender pieces of white meat chicken came out sizzling hot from the grill with the edges crisp with a smoky char that had our mouths watering. The chicken itself was juicy and tasted of lemon juice and spices, all melded together by the heat of the grill. Served with fresh onion and a tomato-cucumber salad, this side dish was the only time in the meal where we wished we’d ordered extra, and it

will be the full kabab menu we’ll turn to on our next visit.

In each of the main dishes we ordered, one theme emerged: the cooks at Aladdin Kabab know how to season and cook meat. The gyros meat was juicy, tender, shaved at just the right thickness and seared perfectly before being served, and the steak in the burrito carried a nice grilled flavor while still being tender. The chicken kabab was seasoned and grilled so well that it’s something we’ll be craving for days after. The restaurant itself is nothing particularly distinctive, but carnivores in search of well-charred flesh can’t do much better than the way they’re doing it at Aladdin, and with the quick, friendly service we received on our visit, we can’t think of a more pleasant way to do so.

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GIGANTE: The California burrito at Aladdin Kabab.

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BOGIE’S BAR AND GRILL The former Bennigan’s retains a similar theme: a menu filled with burgers, salads and giant desserts, plus a few steak, fish and chicken main courses.

There are big screen TVs for sports fans and lots to drink, more reason to return than the food.

120 W. Pershing Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-812-0019. D daily.

BUFFALO GRILL A great crispy-off-the-griddle cheeseburger and hand-cut fries star at this family-friendly stop. 1611 Rebsamen Park Road.

Full bar, CC. $$. 501-296-9535. LD daily. 400 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, Beer, All CC. $$.

501-224-0012. LD daily.

CAFE 201 The hotel restaurant in the Crowne Plaza serves up a nice lunch buffet. 201 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-2233000. LD daily.

CATFISH CITY AND BBQ GRILL Basic fried fish and sides, including green tomato pickles, and now with tasty ribs and sandwiches in beef, pork and sausage. 1817 S. University

LITTLE ROCK’S MOST AWARD-WINNING RESTAURANT 1619 REBSAMEN RD. 501.663.9734 • thefadedrose.com

UPDATE THE VILLA ITALIAN RESTAURANT One of the oldest restaurants in town and still serving up the old-fashioned Italian comfort food – spaghetti, lasagna, veal parmigiano, etc. – that old-timers remember. Ken’s Pasta, one of our favorites from way back is still on the menu too, and still good. (“A dieter’s delight! Fresh mushrooms, onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic and diced tomatoes in a tomato sauce, served over cavatapi.”) The minestrone here is thick and hearty, perfect for a cool day. There’s pizza too, some of the selections out of the ordinary.

Monday through Thursday, every night is a “special” night of one kind or another. Tuesday night, when kids eat free, is especially popular with families. The servings are generous. 12111 W. Markham St. (Rock Creek Square). Full bar.

CC. $$-$$$ 501-219-2244. LD Mon.-Sat.

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LD Tue.-Sat. CHEERS Good burgers and sandwiches, vegetarian offerings and salads at lunch and fish specials, and good steaks in the evening. 2010 N. Van Buren. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-6635937. LD Mon.-Sat. 1901 Club Manor Drive.

Maumelle. Full bar, All CC. 501-851-6200. LD daily, BR Sun. CORNERSTONE PUB & GRILL A sandwich, pizza and beer joint in the heart of North Little Rock’s Argenta district. 314 Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1782. LD Mon.-Sat. DAVE AND RAY’S DOWNTOWN DINER Breakfast buffet daily featuring biscuits and gravy, home fries, sausage and made-toorder omelets. Lunch buffet with four choices of meats and eight veggies. 824 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. $. 501-372-8816. BL Mon.-Fri. DAVID’S BUTCHER BOY BURGERS Serious hamburgers, steak salads, homemade custard.

101 S. Bowman Road.

DOGTOWN COFFEE AND COOKERY Although the down-home name might suggest to some a down-home, meat-andthree kind of place, this is actually an up-todate sandwich, salad and fancy coffee kind of place, well worth a visit. 6725 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-8333850. BL Mon.-Sun., BLD Fri.-Sat.,.

E’S BISTRO Despite the name, think tearoom rather than bistro -- there’s no wine, for one thing, and there is tea. But there’s nothing tearoomy about the portions here. Try the heaping grilled salmon BLT on a buttery croissant. 3812 JFK Boulevard. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-771-6900.

FLIGHT DECK A not-your-typical daily lunch special highlights this spot, which also features inventive sandwiches, salads and a popular burger. Central Flying Service at Adams Field.

Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-375-3245. BL Mon.-Sat. GREEN CUISINE Daily specials and a small, solid menu of vegetarian fare. Try the crunchy quinoa salad. 985 West Sixth St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. Serving.

HILLCREST ARITSAN MEATS A fancy charcuterie and butcher shop with excellent daily soup and sandwich specials. Limited seating is available. 2807 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-671-6328. L Mon.-Sat. THE HOP DINER The downtown incarnation of

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. the old dairy bar, with excellent burgers, onion rings, shakes and breakfast.

Plus, daily specials and desserts. 201 E. Markham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-244-0975.

KITCHEN EXPRESS Delicious “meat and three” restaurant offering big servings of homemade soul food. Maybe Little Rock’s best fried chicken.

4600 Asher Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-666-3500. BLD Mon.-Sat., LD Sun. LETTI’S CAKES Soups, sandwiches and salads available at this cake, pie and cupcake bakery. 3700 JFK Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-708-7203. LD (closes at 6 p.m.) Mon.-Fri. L Sat. LYNN’S CHICAGO FOODS Outpost for Chicago specialties like Vienna hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches. Plus, other familiar fare -- burgers and fried catfish, chicken nuggets and wings. 6501 Geyer Springs. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-568-2646. LD Mon.-Sat. MADDIE’S If you like your catfish breaded Cajun-style, your grits rich with garlic and cream and your oysters fried up in perfect puffs, this Cajun eatery on Rebsamen Park Road is the place for you. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4040. LD Tue.-Sat. PHIL’S HAM AND TURKEY PLACE Fine hams, turkeys and other specialty meats served whole, by the pound or in sandwich form. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-225-2136. LD Mon.-Fri. L Sat. RED MANGO National yogurt and smoothie chain whose appeal lies in adjectives like “all-natural,” “non-fat,” “gluten-free” and “probiotic.”

5621 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-2500. LD daily.

RESTAURANT 1620 Steaks, chops, a broad choice of fresh seafood and meal-sized salads are just a few of the choices on a broad menu at this popular and upscale West Little Rock bistro. It’s a romantic, candlelit room, elegant without being fussy or overly formal. 1620 Market St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-1620. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. SAY MCINTOSH RESTAURANT Longtime political activist and restaurateur Robert “Say” McIntosh serves up big plates of soul food, plus burgers, barbecue and his famous sweet potato pie. 2801 W. 7th Street.

No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-664-6656. LD Mon.-Sat. L Sun. SLICK’S SANDWICH SHOP & DELI Meat-and-two plate lunches in state office building. 101 E. Capitol Ave. 501-375-3420. L Mon.-Fri. SPECTATORS GRILL AND PUB Burgers, soups, salads and other beer food, plus live music on weekends. 1012 W. 34th St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-0990. LD Mon.-Sat. SPORTS PAGE Perhaps the largest, juiciest, most flavorful burger in town.

Grilled turkey and hot cheese on sourdough gets praise, too. Now with lunch specials. 414 Louisiana St. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-9316. L Mon.-Fri. STARVING ARTIST CAFE All kinds of crepes, served as entrees or as dessert, in this cozy multidimensional eatery with art-packed walls and live demonstrations by artists during meals. The Black Forest ham sandwich is a perennial favorite with the lunch crowd. Dinner menu changes daily, good wine list. “Tales from the South” dinner and readings at on Tuesdays; live music precedes the show. 411 N. Main St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-372-7976. L Tue.-Sat., D Tue., Fri.-Sat. THE TAVERN SPORTS GRILL Burgers, barbecue and more. 17815 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-830-2100. LD daily.

UNIVERSITY MARKET @ 4CORNERS A food truck court where local vendors park daily. Check facebook.com/4cornersmarket to see what carts are scheduled to be parked. 6221 Colonel Glenn Road. CC. $-$$.

501-515-1661. LD daily. 6221 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-413-3672. LD. VICTORIAN GARDEN We’ve found the fare quite tasty and somewhat daring and different with its healthy, balanced entrees and crepes. 4801 North Hills Blvd. NLR. $-$$. 501-758-4299. L Tue.-Sat.

CROSSWORD EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ ACROSS 1 “Deliverance” instrument 6 Return of a lob, maybe 11 Corp. money manager 14 Reason for a February thank-you speech 15 Chaplain, to a G.I. 16 PC hookup 17 Actor’s order to sock an N.B.A. legend?

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CHI’S DIMSUM & BISTRO A huge menu spans the Chinese provinces and offers a few twists on the usual local offerings, plus there’s authentic Hong Kong dim sum available. 6 Shackleford Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-7737. LD daily. 17200 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-8000.

FAR EAST ASIAN CUISINE Old favorites such as orange beef or chicken and Hunan green beans are still prepared with care at what used to be Hunan out west. 11600 Pleasant Ridge Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-219-9399. LD daily.

FORBIDDEN GARDEN Classic, American-ized Chinese food in a modern setting. Try the Basil Chicken. 14810 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$.

501-868-8149. LD daily.

FU LIN Quality in the made-to-order entrees is high, as is the quantity. 200 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-225-8989. LD daily.

IGIBON JAPANESE FOOD HOUSE It’s a complex place, where the food is almost always good and the ambiance and service never fail to please. The Bento box with tempura shrimp and California rolls and other delights stand out. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-217-8888. LD Mon.-Sat. CONTINUED ON PAGE 78

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AUGUST FUN!

Arkansas Travelers Home Games Root Root Root for the Home Team

All home games are played at Dickey Stephens Park in North Little Rock.

August 1-2 vs. Springfield Cardinals 7:10 p.m.

August 3-4 vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals, 7:10 p.m.

August 5 vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals, 6 p.m.

August 6 vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals, 7:10 p.m.

August 15-17 vs. Corpus Christi Hooks, 7:10 p.m.

August 18 vs. San Antonio Missions, 7:10 p.m.

August 19 vs. San Antonio Missions, 6 p.m.

August 20 vs. San Antonio Missions, 7:10 p.m.

August 28-31 vs. Northwest Arkansas Naturals, 7:10 p.m.

Food, Music, Entertainment and everything else that’s

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THROUGH JULY 28

Argenta Community Theater presents Cabaret directed by Bob Hupp and produced by Vincent Insalaco with choreography

by Christen Pitts and Marisa Kirby and musical direction

by Kurt Kennedy. For tickets and show times, visit www. argentacommunitytheatre.org or call 501-353-1571.

THROUGH JULY 29

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey bring their big-top Barnum Bash to Verizon Arena. Children of all ages will delight in the hippest circus spectacular that the Greatest Show on Earth has ever produced. The fun begins as soon as the audience enters the arena with a pre-party featuring music, clowns, juggling demonstrations, a meet-and-greet with circus performers and an up-close glimpse at exotic animals. The action begins an hour before show time and is FREE to all ticket holders. Tickets are $20.75-$50.75 and are available at the Verizon box office and through Ticketmaster online at www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-745-3000. Visit www. verizonarena.com for a list of show times.

AUGUST 2

For Hillcrest’s Shop & Sip, local shops, restaurants, galleries and other venues are open after hours until 9 p.m. with special discounts as live music, nibbles and drinks. The event takes place every first Thursday of the month.

AUGUST 4

Don’t miss the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s Young Artists’ Production, an annual performance by The Rep’s Summer Musical Theatre Intensive theatre training program. This summer’s production, Singin’ on a Star, is all about the actor’s journey from stardust to stardom. With song selections from the pop charts and the Great White Way, The Rep’s young artists sing about big dreams in the Big Apple. Performance times are 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. For tickets, visit www.therep.org or call 501-378-0405.

AUGUST 16

Don’t miss Heights

Happy Hour

from 5-8 p.m. Local restaurants, shops and galleries offer discounts and free samples of food and drinks. This event takes place every third Thursday of the month.

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AUGUST 17

Argenta Art Walk takes place

from 5-8 p.m. as dozens of local artists display and sell their work along Main Street in North Little Rock. For more information, visit www. argentaartwalk.com.

The Old State House Museum continues its Brown Bag Lunch Series with “Jacksonport in the Civil War.” In this program, Mark Ballard, superintendent of Jacksonport State Park, will discuss the town’s role as a strategic objective for both sides.

The town was occupied several times throughout the war. The lecture will take place from 12-1 p.m.

Admission is free. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch. Drinks are provided.

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All home games are played at Dickey Stephens Park in North Little Rock.

AUGUST 10

2nd Friday Art Night

is a once-a-month event in the heart of downtown Little Rock.

River Market shops, restaurants, museums and galleries stay open until 8 p.m. Take the free trolley from place-to-place or enjoy free parking at 3rd and Cumberland and behind the River Market Pavilions.

AUGUST 3

AUGUST 1

Everybody loves a summer sale.

All month long, Fabulous Finds on Cantrell Road in Little Rock is hosting an anniversary sale for the entire month of August. Score rare vintage pieces at deeply discounted prices. Like Fabulous Finds Antique & Decorative Mall on Facebook for more details.

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The Joint in North Little Rock’s Argenta district hosts comedy and live music almost every night. On Friday and Saturday nights, The Joint’s professional comedy team, The Main Thing, performs original two-act comedies unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. This three-member act stars veteran performers whose work has been featured on “Saturday Night Live,” NPR’s All Things Considered, two off-Broadway runs, and in literally thousands of live stage performances all around the country. Now they are The Joint’s permanent resident company. Check the online calendar for additional events at www.thejointinlittlerock.com.

AUGUST 11

Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Anthony Hamilton performs at Robinson Auditorium on Saturday, August 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $60.50 and $70.50 and available through Ticketmaster online at www. ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-745-3000.

AUGUST 25

Does your band rock? Vino’s “Backroom” is calling for submissions for a Battle of the Bands competition. The winning band will receive $1000 in cash and a 90-minute set on the 2012 Arkansas State Fair Main Stage on “College Night,” October 17. There is no band entry fee for the contest. Simply mail a sample CD to Arkansas State Fair Office, ATTN: Backroom to Main Stage Contest, 2600 Howard Street, Little Rock, AR, 72206. Submissions will be accepted through Saturday, August 25. The three-week series of performances will take place on August 30, September 6 and September 13 with the finals on September 20. Three bands will perform a 45-minute set each. A panel of three judges will carry a 25% decision weight each with the final 25% based on audience participation on a voting ballot. For more information, email vinosbooking@gmail.com. Visit VinosBrewPub.com and ArkansasStateFair.com to keep up with the latest news.

AUGUST 31

Make new friends this month at the Little Rock Zoo. The

Laura P. Nichols Cheetah Outpost is now open. For more information, visit www. littlerockzoo.com for details.

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Dinner Playhouse. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most beloved musical is the story of the Von Trapp family and how their governess, Maria, brings music, hope and prayer into their lives in pre-World War II Austria. Songs include “Do Re Mi,” “Climb Every Mountain” and “My Favorite Things.” Bring the family and relive the magic that is The Sound of Music.

For show times and prices, visit www.murrysdinnerplayhouse. com. Call 501-562-3131 for reservations.

Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott,” featuring large-scale black-and-

The Sound of Music is currently running at Murry’s

The Arkansas Art Center presents “Tattoo white photographs documenting 25 years of tattoo culture. In these stark potraits of both the tattoos and their owners, photographer Mark Perrott investigates the very personal and public nature of tattoos. For more information, visit www.arkarts.com.

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. KOBE JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI Though answering the need for more hibachis in Little Rock, Kobe stands taller in its sushi offerings than at the grill. 11401 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-225-5999. L Mon.-Sat. D daily.

VAN LANG CUISINE Terrific Vietnamese cuisine, particularly the way the pork dishes and the assortment of rolls are presented. Great prices, too. Massive menu, but it’s user-friendly for locals with full English descriptions and numbers for easy ordering. 3600 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-570-7700. LD daily.

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CAPITOL SMOKEHOUSE AND GRILL Beef, pork and chicken, all smoked to melting tenderness and doused with a choice of sauces. The crusty but tender backribs star. Side dishes are top quality. A plate lunch special is now available. 915 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-4227. BL Mon.-Fri. CROSS EYED PIG BBQ COMPANY Traditional barbecue favorites smoked well such as pork ribs, beef brisket and smoked chicken. Miss Mary’s famous potato salad is full of bacon and other goodness. Smoked items such as ham and turkeys available seasonally. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$.

501-265-0000. L Mon.-Sat., D Tue.-Fri. 1701 Rebsamen Park Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$.

501-227-7427. LD daily.

FATBOY’S KILLER BAR-B-Q This Landmark neighborhood strip center restaurant in the far southern reaches of Pulaski County features tender ribs and pork by a contest pitmaster.

Skip the regular sauce and risk the hot variety, it’s far better. 14611 Arch Street. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-888-4998. LD Mon.-Fri. HB’S BAR B.Q. Great slabs of meat with fiery

barbecue sauce, but ribs are served on Tuesday only. Other days, try the tasty pork sandwich on an onion roll. 6010 Lancaster. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-565-1930. L Mon.-Fri. MICK’S BBQ, CATFISH AND GRILL Good burgers, picnic-worth deviled eggs and heaping barbecue sandwiches topped with sweet sauce.

3609 MacArthur Dr. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-2773. LD Mon.-Sun. SIMS BAR-B-QUE Great spare ribs, sandwiches, beef, half and whole chicken and an addictive vinegar-mustard-brown sugar sauce unique for this part of the country. 2415 Broadway. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-372-6868. LD Mon.-Sat. 1307 John Barrow Road. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-2242057. LD Mon.-Sat. 7601 Geyer Springs Road.

Beer, All CC. $$. 501-562-8844. LD Mon.-Sat.

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KHALIL’S PUB Widely varied menu with European, Mexican and American influences.

Go for the Bierocks, rolls filled with onions and beef. 110 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-224-0224. LD daily. BR Sun. THE PANTRY Owner and self-proclaimed “food evangelist” Tomas Bohm does things the right way -- buying local, making almost everything from scratch and focusing on simple preparations of classic dishes. The menu stays relatively true to his Czechoslovakian roots, but there’s plenty of choices to suit all tastes. There’s also a nice happy-hour vibe. 11401 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-353-1875. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. STAR OF INDIA The best Indian restaurant in the region, with a unique buffet at lunch and some fabulous dishes at night (spicy curried dishes, tandoori chicken, lamb and veal, vegetarian). 301 N. Shackleford. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-227-9900. LD daily.

TASTE OF ASIA Delicious Indian food in a pleasant atmosphere. Perhaps the best samosas in town. Buffet at lunch. 2629 Lakewood Village Dr. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-812-4665. LD daily.

TAZIKI’S Offers gyros, grilled meats and veggies, hummus and pimento cheese. 8200 Cantrell Rd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-2278291. LD daily 12800 Chenal Parkway. Beer, Wine, All CC. 501-225-1829. LD daily.

ITALIAN

DAMGOODE PIES A somewhat different Italian/pizza place, largely because of a spicy garlic white sauce that’s offered as an alternative to the traditional red sauce. Good bread, too. 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-664-2239. LD daily. 6706 Cantrell Road. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-6642239. LD daily. 10720 Rodney Parham Road.

Beer, Wine, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-664-2239. LD daily. 37 East Center St. Fayetteville. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 479-444-7437. LD daily.

GUSANO’S They make the tomatoey Chicagostyle deep-dish pizza the way it’s done in the Windy City. It takes a little longer to come out of the oven, but it’s worth the wait. 313 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-374-1441.

LD daily. 2915 Dave Ward Drive. Conway. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-329-1100. LD daily.

NYPD PIZZA Plenty of tasty choices in the obvious New York police-like setting, but it’s fun. Only the pizza is cheesy. Even the personal pizzas come in impressive combinations, and baked ziti, salads are more also are available. Cheap slice specials at lunch. 6015 Chenonceau Boulevard, Suite 1. Beer, Wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-868-3911. LD daily.

PALIO’S Not quite artisan-grade, but far better than the monster chains and at a similar price

point. With an appealingly thin, crunchy crust. 3 Rahling Circle. Beer, Wine, All CC. $$. 501-8210055. LD daily.

VESUVIO Arguably Little Rock’s best Italian restaurant is in one of the most unlikely places – tucked inside the Best Western Governor’s Inn within a nondescript section of west Little Rock. 1501 Merrill Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$$.

501-225-0500. D daily.

VILLA ITALIAN RESTAURANT Hearty, inexpensive, classic southern Italian dishes. 12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-219-2244. LD Mon.-Sat.

LATINO

CASA MANANA Great guacamole and garlic beans, superlative chips and salsa (red and green) and a broad selection of fresh seafood, plus a deck out back. 6820 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-280-9888. BLD daily 18321 Cantrell Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-8688822. BLD daily 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. L Mon.-Sat. CASA MEXICANA Familiar Tex-Mex style items all shine, in ample portions, and the steakcentered dishes are uniformly excellent. 6929 JFK Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-8357876. LD daily.

EL PORTON (LR) Good Mex for the price and a wide-ranging menu of dinner plates, some tasty cheese dip, and great service as well.

12111 W. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$.

501-223-8588. LD daily. 5201 Warden Road.

NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-753-4630. LD daily.

5507 Ranch Drive. Full bar, All CC. $$. LD daily.

TAQUERIA Y CARNICERIA GUADALAJARA Cheap, delicious tacos, tamales and more.

Always bustling. 3811 Camp Robinson Road.

NLR. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-9991. BLD daily.

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by Lane Blanchard LLC located in New Iberia, LA. Worksite located in Jeanerette, LA. Qualified applicants may call employer for interview (337)519-5683 or may apply for this position at their nearest State Workforce Agency located at 5401 S. University, Little Rock, AK, 72209.

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In The Matter of the Estate of , Deceased NO. 60PR011-1571 Last known address of decendent: 6 Lakeside Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas.

The date of death: July 1,2011 An instrument was on the 19th day of July, 2012, admitted to probate as the Last Will of the above-named decendent and the undersigned has been appointed executor thereunder.

Contest of the probate of the Will can be effected only by filing a petition within the time provided by law.

All persons having claims against the estate must exhibit them, duly verified, to the undersigned within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of this Notice, or they shall be forever barred and precluded from any benefit in the estate. However, claims for injury or death caused by the negligence of the decedent shall be filed within six (6) months from the date of this publication of this Notice, or they shall be forever barred and precluded from any benefit in the estate.

This Notice first published the 25 day of July, 2012.

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This is Patty Cakes. She was found along with her two sisters, Dottie and Magic, on a country road. She is in a great foster home but needs a home to call her own. Her coat has changed over the months and she looks like a very dark chocolate with white socks on her back legs. She loves to play with other dogs, but is not hyper. She is housetrained, crate trained and well behaved in the house. She walks well on a leash and is always ready for a walk. She loves to snuggle on the couch. If you like puppy kisses and snuggles, this one is for you! She has had all vetting needed including a spay, microchip and shots. We think she will be a medium-sized dog, she is about 48# at 7 months old.

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Find out how! Call Nidia now at 375-2985 www.arktimes.com July 25, 2012 79

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