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was oleaginous then in how he talked to legislators. It was enough to forever disgust me on the legislative process. And, as Mr. Ramsey so well shows, Cranford was just getting started. The year 2011 was laying the groundwork for years of corruption.

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People under 30 are not voting in large numbers. I’ve heard some different reasons for this: They don’t feel it will make a difference. Both sides are the same. It won’t affect them all that much, being as low on the totem pole as they are. They feel insulated from politics and political ramifications.

In response to an Arkansas Blog post When it comes to issues like polluted suggesting people ask Congressman air, global warming and rising sea level, French Hill if President Trump and “junyou can run but you can’t hide. These keting partner” Congressman Dana Rohrissues will affect you no matter what. bacher (R-Calif.) will come to Arkansas However, there is a bigger reason why to campaign for him: you should vote. Trump is funneling bilFrench Hill and his friends like to lions of dollars into the military while invoke Nancy Pelosi in their battle with purging their ranks of tens of thousands [Democratic congressional opponent] of troops he deems undesirable. He has Clarke Tucker, but the question that I a War Cabinet in place and is trying to have is, “Will French Hill support Kevin pick a fight with both North Korea and McCarthy for Speaker if Hill wins and Iran. If he succeeds, the military will the GOP keeps control of the House?” have no recourse but to reinstate the McCarthy was caught on tape saying, draft — both men and women this time. “There’s two people that I think Putin Bottom line, you can lather your- pays: Rohrbacher and Trump” and then self with essential oils, eat Paleo until agreed to cover up the issue for partisan it comes out of your ears and stick a reasons (Washington Post 5/17/17). I am healing crystal in every pocket. If Trump not the biggest fan of Pelosi but what calls your number, your butt will be in has she done that even comes close to the sling. Get motivated. Register and such unpatriotic and corrupt behavior? vote like your life depended on it.

Pierce David Rose Hot Springs In response to an Arkansas Blog post noting that the Family Council is campaigning against Issue 1, the ballot proposal to limit damage awards in lawsuits In response to the Times’ Aug. 16 cover that is being challenged in Circuit Judge story by David Ramsey on Rusty Cran- Mackie Pierce’s courtroom: ford, the lobbyist seen as the linchpin in I’ve been a little distracted lately so the corruption recently uncovered at the I might have missed it, but it seems like state legislature that ended the state con- there’s been a long enjoyable period of tract with Preferred Family Healthcare: time without a mention of Jerry Cox and Great job, Mr. Ramsey! It still irri- the Family Council. I thought maybe tates me [that while] all that money was Cox had choked on a lemon and the flowing at the top and at the bottom, Family Council had gone out of business. those actually doing the work [at PFH] Sorry to hear this isn’t the case. were not getting paid a fair wage for our My daddy has been dead for the last position based on our education and 35 years and I’ve decided I don’t need credentials. We did not get paid for half any other daddies at this point in life. the hours they required us to work, and Our city daddies are about to drive us we had to beg for supplies to be able to out of Arkansas. I don’t need a spiritual do our jobs — things like ink pens and daddy, sure don’t need a Family Council, notebook paper, locking files to keep pri- except the one in my own house, which vate patient information protected, etc. has always been a 50-50 deal. In many I cannot believe that Mis- cases a group of like-minded people can souri, Illinois, Oklahoma and Kan- be dangerous. The Family Council needs sas have not started to investigate to go back to the 1950s and pray over PFH billing practices in their states! Elvis’s swinging hips, silently. We’re justcantbelieve done with you.

We’ll never be rid of the Trump Mafia I saw Cranford in action at the leg- unless our six turds in D.C. quit supportislature during the 2009 and 2011 ses- ing him. Things will never get better in sions in his nascent stage, getting leg- Arkansas unless our population wises islation passed that allowed him to get up. Voting to take your own rights away paid about $25,000 about a year later. is beyond stupid and Issue 1 is a toxic Too complicated to explain here, but he soup of poison for the 99 percent. If you

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hate yourself enough to vote for Issue free people. Without archivists there 1, please find another outlet for your would be no one to protect the docuself-loathing ... young girls cutting in a mentation that affirms the truths about quiet room is popular on our pay chan- who we are as a people — warts and all. nels. Self-flagellation is a big deal in the Take the documentation of the counPhilippines around Easter. try’s struggle to pass the Equal Rights If you want to hurt yourself, get after Amendment. In 1923, the Equal Rights it, but please don’t hurt the rest of us Amendment was introduced. By 1982, 35 by voting for Issue 1! Save us, Judge states had ratified it, needing only three Mackie Pierce! more before the ratification could be Deathbyinches recognized. Last year Nevada ratified it, followed by Illinois on May 31, 2018.

We need to just face the fact Issue Now, after 95 years of well-documented 1 is beyond any doubt the biggest POS struggles, we are one state away from that has EVER been foisted upon us ratification. What then?

Arkansans by the Arkansas legislature!

It’s comforting to know that the We need to show those 135 self-cen- archivist of the United States, as head tered idiots exactly what we think about of the National Archives and Records their POS by voting against it. And I Administration, takes care of the adminknow I am painting with too broad of a istrative responsibilities of the amendbrush here, because there are a few of ment ratification process. those 135 legislators who actually voted Before 1934, the role of national against placing Issue 1 on the ballot and archivist was carried out by the secare actively working against it, thank retaries of state (1789-1934). With the goodness! help of the American Historical AssociaRYD tion in 1884, our political leaders were given a push toward creating a National On the obituary by Ernie Dumas Archives. It took until 1926 before funds posted on the Arkansas Blog for former were allocated for a National Archives Arkansas Gazette editorial page editor Building. In 1933 President Hoover laid Jerry Dhonau, citing Dhonau’s reporting the corner stone and in 1934 FDR signed on the 1957 crisis at Central High School: the national Archives Act. So, it took us I was a brand-new copy editor on 145 years to complete that little bit of the Gazette news desk when Dhonau governmental activity. But no matter and [reporter Ray] Moseley were cov- how long it would have taken, those in ering the story. Dumas’ obit brings back the history field of the United States those days in the newsroom, which would never have stopped pushing. was flooded by out-of-state reporters, We have had 10 national archivists many of whom were famous. They often since 1935 — all men, although we’ve had cribbed the Arkansas Gazette articles two women as acting archivist (1993 and when they filed their reports. Dhonau 2008) for brief periods. Only one archiand Moseley were both consummate vist, Mr. Don Wilson, seventh archivist, newsmen, interested only in getting the has ever certified an amendment; it story right. It was kinda scary when they was in 1992. And don’t you know it had would come in after being at the school something to do with salary increases all day and relate what had transpired for members of Congress?

— a black reporter being beaten by the David Ferriero is our present archimob; the jeering white students; the vist. And I believe like his predecessors dignity of the black students, and later, he will protect the ERA documents. And after the 101st Airborne had been sent will continue to have the authority to do in, a story about a redneck member of so, which is something I took for granted the white mob who made the mistake of until recently. trying to take a rifle away from a memI would like to take for granted that ber of the 101st. You can imagine what every scrap of paper related to the happened. There are very few of us left 95-year-old odyssey of the ERA, as well who were on the Gazette staff at that as all of our other historical documents time. It is a time in my life about which relating to past and present struggles, I have always been proud. Even though would be preserved, now and in the I had little to do with the coverage, I future. But, this is 2018, when all of our witnessed history being made. norms and standards are under attack. I plainjim stand with my fellow historians to keep a watchful eye, to stand guard, and sound the alarm if anyone dares to scrub any part of our history.

In a democracy, it is the archivist who Janis K. Percefull stands on the first line of defense of a Hot Springs

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WEEK THAT WAS

Tweet of the week

“Democrats & my opponent can’t run against my strong record as AG, so they are dragging up old fake news in an attempt to deceive the people of Arkansas. Arkansans didn’t buy these lies in ’14 & they won’t now. #arpx #LR4AG” — Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (@LeslieRutledge), mounting a Trump-like defense at news that a judge had said, yes, the Depart ment of Human Ser vices had improperly withheld public information about her employment history in 2014. A previously disclosed notation from the DHS said she was guilty of “gross misconduct” as an attorney and should not be rehired.

The documents were expected to be released Wednesday or Thursday.

Minimum wage increase makes the ballot

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Little Rock city races set

Filing for Little Rock political office closed Friday. Glen Schwarz, a perennial candidate, filed late to join Baker Kurrus, Warwick Sabin, Frank Scott Jr. and Vincent Tolliver in the race to succeed retiring Mayor Mark Stodola.

Other races: Ward 1: Incumbent Erma Hendrix, 88, has opposition from Ted Adkins, Herbert Broadway, Bryan Frazier, Greg Henderson, Ronnie Jackson, Curtis Johnson, Danny Lewis and Robert Webb.

Wa r d 2 : I n c u m b e n t K e n Richardson has opposition from Rohn Muse, Shalonda R iley and Valerie Tatum.

Ward 3: Incumbent Kathy Webb is unopposed.

Ward 5: Incumbent Lance Hines is unopposed.

Ward 6: Incumbent Doris Wright has opposition from Sandy Becker, Vicki Hatter and Russ Racop.

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Secretary of State Mark Martin has certif ied that the campaig n to increa se t he m inimum wage submit ted suf f icient valid voter sig nat ures to qua lif y for t he November ballot.

The drive used labor-backed and a progressive charity’s money for a hurry-up petition campaign that was cleared only after an Arkansas Supreme Cou r t r u l i ng stopped Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s blockade of popular ballot initiatives.

Needing 67,887 signatures, the campaign for a fair wage gathered 84,526 signatures, Martin said.

The initiated act would increase the $8.50 per hour state minimum to $11 by Jan. 1, 2021. The state Chamber of Commerce and other corporate interests will oppose an increase in pay for lower-income Arkansans. They will also be voting to limit access to courts for injured p e ople , t o pr e s er ve lon g-t er m limits that protect their legislative

servants, help the Republican Party with a vote suppression amendment and likely acquiesce to the expansion of gambling at two major corporate casinos.

CAMPAIGNING: Warwick Sabin greets a police officer at the Democratic Party’s “Heart of the Party Block Party” on Capitol Avenue earlier in August.

Ward 7: Incumbent B.J. Wyrick has opposition from Edmond Davis, Mat thew McFadden a nd Robert Williams.

In the mayoral race, a candidate must receive 40 percent of the votes to win without a runoff. If no one

gets 40 percent in the mayor’s race, the top t wo ca ndidates a re in a runoff. In the city board positions, the candidate with the most votes wins. In the Ward 1 race, a candidate could conceivably win with only 15 percent of the vote.

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n initiated act to raise the state minimum wage qualified for the November ballot last week and instantly became a defining political issue.

A group of do-gooders drew on labor and a progressive hedge funder’s money to pay for a hurry-up paid canvassing campaign to put the initiated act on the ballot. It would raise the current $8.50-per-hour minimum in stages to $11 by 2021.

The campaign was given only a few weeks to gather petitions because Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge had adopted a policy to block all popular initiatives. The Arkansas Supreme Court said she’d taken her duties too far and lifted her blockade.

Her resistance to the minimum wage proposal was political, not legal. The proposal changes only in amount the last minimum wage ballot proposal.

How could it be misinterpreted?

When Rutledge finally sent one of the proposals she’d received forward, she chose one with MAX BRANTLEY an $11 cap rather maxbrantley@arktimes.com than a $12 cap.

She might have done backers of an increase a favor. The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, which represents the corporate and moneyed interests, has indicated it will sue to try to knock the question off the ballot for signature deficiencies. Meanwhile, it has begun the usual (unsupported) sloganeering about how paying a living wage is bad for the economy and complaining that the proposal puts Arkansas out of line with other, cheaper states.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sampled some politicians after the issue

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o greater joy can be experienced in a legislative body at any level than to cut taxes, especially when the beneficiaries are businesses and the well-to-do.

The people who are hurt or at least not advantaged by the tax cuts either never vote or else will never grasp what you did to them. The harm that will befall nearly everyone, in the form of reduced services and economic hardship, won’t come for several years and you will be out of office thanks to term limits, or else your lawmaking role in causing the crisis will be forgotten.

Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma and a few other modern Republican states offered that lesson.

So it was for the much ballyhooed Arkansas Tax Reform and Relief Legislative Task Force, which is about to submit its ideas to the legislature and Governor Hutchinson on how they can best go about slashing the taxes of the rich and the moderately well-off next January. It looks like they will recommend tax cuts that will reduce state revenues $300 million a year or so. They reaped great headlines about cutting taxes. Hutchinson praised them and looked forward to gutting revenues with them after his election.

Since Hutchinson took office in 2015 with a solidly Republican legislature,

they have been cutting taxes little by little while also squeezing school and college budgets every year ERNEST and holding down DUMAS state employee wages, except those of the governor’s and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s aides, so the state does not run into an illegal spending situation at year’s end.

It is a great exercise in shadow boxing.

But the governor wanted last year to give better-off people — those netting at least $80,000 a year — a really nice tax cut in 2019, so the Task Force’s job is to recommend how best to do it. Its first choice is to cut the top marginal rate from 6.9 percent to 6.5 percent on incomes above $80,000. It also suggests a few other tax breaks for the class, like a reduction in corporate income tax rates, an income-tax credit for property taxes that businesses pay every year on their inventory, and extending the carry-forward period for claiming net-operating losses on tax returns from five to 20 years.

All of the recommendations will lower state revenues by $300 million a year or more, but that’s just on paper, the legislators and their paid advisers said. By employing a little dynamic scor-

made the ballot. It boiled down simply: Democrats favor the minimum wage increase, Republicans don’t.

Specifically quoted in favor were Jared Henderson, the candidate for governor; Mike Lee, attorney general; and Clarke Tucker, 2nd District Congress.

Republican Governor Hutchinson said he wasn’t ready to declare, though he did say he thought raising the minimum wage by popular initiative was a bad idea in general. He’d rather the work be left to the Republican legislature.

Henderson reminded voters that Asa opposed the last increase before he was for it in his race against Mike Ross. Democrat Ross, as a centerpiece of his campaign, ran hard on a wage proposal that won a smashing ballot box victory, but Ross did not.

Leslie Rutledge dodged the question in serving some word salad about the duties of her office. U.S. 2nd District Rep. French Hill ran and hid when queried by the Democrat-Gazette, offering no comment at all.

Should any Democrat like to oppose the wage increase or should any Republican like to express support, please call me. Otherwise, I’m sticking with my prediction on how this lines up. Democrats will be a loud AYE! Republicans who aren’t noisily opposed to the idea will be praying the corporate lobby will provide cover by killing the measure.

Meanwhile, they’ll dodge the question, a la Asa. The tougher questions are 1) does a wage increase remain as popular as it was in 2014 and 2) does a candidate’s position matter much to voters?

I hope voters will think about how a family of four gets by on less than $18,000 a year — current minimum wage for those lucky enough to have a full-time job and work 52 weeks a year. I hope they’ll think unkindly of those who don’t sympathize with the working poor.

But we often vote against our interests in Arkansas. Sometimes, though, we eventually come around. See Obamacare.

ing, you can eliminate those revenue losses and even project gains.

That is the whole rationale for the tax-cutting movement: Lowering taxes on corporations, pass-through businesses and the better salaried will cause an economic boom. Businesses will expand, hire lots more people, raise employee salaries and people everywhere will want to move to Arkansas to reap the benefits of not being taxed much. Really, that is the argument.

Taxes for the well-to-do have been slashed many times at the national level and at state levels, too, but it has never once produced that wonderful result. The last four national economic recessions, including the two deepest and longest in modern history, have occurred under Republican presidents who had dramatically lowered taxes for the rich. You may recall that the Great Depression, whatever its causes, followed a similar Republican strategy.

If tax cuts for corporations and rich investors produce such salutary results, Arkansas right now would be in the midst of a marvelous economic surge.

The Trump tax cuts of December 2017 were devised to take effect in January so they all would receive immediate profit gains and pass them along in the form of expansions, hiring and pay raises. It hasn’t happened nationally or in Arkansas.

In fact, the Labor Department report last week showed that, in spite of all

the breezy economic reports the state has offered, the labor force in Arkansas and the number of people employed has actually been falling since January.

There were 8,000 fewer people on the job in Arkansas in July than in December and wage gains have been nonexistent to sluggish. The proposed Arkansas tax cuts for the prosperous are trifling compared with the rewards from the federal tax cut.

The economic boom they promise for the Republican tax cuts of 2019 won’t happen. Make a note to remind me in three or four years if I’m wrong and still around.

There are a couple of phony rightwing think tanks in Arkansas that regularly promote the idea that Arkansas is a high-tax state for well-to-do job creators and that its confiscatory taxes are the reason Arkansas has lagged far behind the rest of the country. Their analysis depends upon absolute ignorance of the state’s history and of its tax structure. Arkansas’s taxes already favor the rich over the poor. People who hold low-wage jobs and are in the bottom 40 percent of family incomes pay twice as much in state and local taxes as a percentage of their income as do people with incomes of more than $350,000.

Next spring, the differential between the rich and the poor and middle classes will widen. The people who made it so will be heroes, for a time. It’s just politics.

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ow much power it will retain They refuse to after November remains in stand up to Trump doubt, but the Republican because they like Party as historically understood is van- what Trump is ishing before our eyes. What remains is doing.” the Party of Trump, an authoritarian To m a s k y GENE cult of personality. describes the parLYONS As I write, the president of the United ty’s slow-motion States has been engaged in a barefaced stampede toward authoritarianism at effort at jury tampering in a trial directly greater length in The New York Times affecting his personal interest. While a Review of Books, commencing with jury deliberated 18 counts of tax evasion Newt Gingrich’s Clinton-era memo urgand bank fraud against former cam- ing Republicans to describe Democrats paign manager Paul Manafort, Trump with terms like “radical,” “sick,” and daily assailed the prosecutors as “thugs” “traitors” — basically enemies of God and their case as a politically motivated and America. It was a strategy to delefraud. gitimize the opposition, making comIt’s been a direct attempt to obstruct promise suspect. justice. According to one standard defiTomasky catalogues more recent nition, “A person commits the crime of results: jury tampering if, with intent to influ“The shutting down of the recount ence a juror’s vote, opinion, decision in Florida in 2000. The aggressive geror other action in the case, he attempts rymandering, first engineered by Tom directly or indirectly to communicate DeLay. The Hastert Rule, holding that with a juror other than as part of the bills could pass the House only with a proceedings in the trial of the case.” majority of Republicans, and not with Whether via Twitter or TV, it’s all bipartisan support. The attacks on the same. voting rights — straight-up attempts Most legal observers thought pros- to make it hard or even impossible for ecutors played a lay-down hand against certain citizens to vote.”

Manafort: $15 million stashed in offThen came the blocking of Obama shore bank accounts and no income Supreme Court nominee Merrick Gartaxes paid. Manifestly false applications land. Republicans could simply have for more millions in loans. Accountants voted him down, Tomasky argues, but and bankers admitting chicanery. wanted to prove “that they could exerFor all of that, the jury did its duty. cise public contempt for the democratic Even so, Trump’s brazen interfer- allocation of power. And win.” ence is Third World strongman stuff, a Trump then emerged as the strongdirect attack upon the rule of law. And man the party really wanted. it might easily have succeeded. Only a Did Texas Sen. Ted Cruz once couple of Trumpist true-believers could describe Trump as “utterly amoral,” “a have deadlocked the jury. A hung jury pathological liar” who “doesn’t know would not have been a total surprise. the difference between truth and lies”?

What’s more, can there be any doubt Yes, but running for re-election in Texas, of the president’s intent? One can today he’s all aboard the Trump train. scarcely conceive the uproar that would Did former GOP presidential candihave resulted if Bill Clinton or Barack date Mitt Romney once call Trump “a Obama had engaged in such an effort — phony, a fraud?” Yes, he did, also pointwhich, of course, neither man did. ing to “the bullying, the greed, the showAnd yet not a single Republican ava- ing off, the misogyny, [and] the absurd tar of law and order uttered a discourag- third-grade theatrics.” ing word. After all, who can stop him? To Ever the gentleman, the president some degree, we’ve all become inured later described Romney “begging” for to the never-ending Mel Brooks movie his 2012 endorsement. “I could have that is the Trump administration — in said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees’ — he many ways more farcical than sinister. would have dropped to his knees,” Even so, they’re scared to death of Trump said. him. The general silence is remarkable.

Running for the Senate in Utah, RomAlso totally unsurprising. Writing in ney’s back on his knees, confidently preThe Daily Beast, Mike Tomasky argues dicting Trump’s 2020 re-election. that contrary to conventional wisdom, In short, don’t kid yourself. Trump’s “D.C. Republicans don’t fail to object to offenses against the rule of law mean Trump because they’re afraid of his base. nothing to these jokers.

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t’s back-to-school time, and for many it is back to blaming girls for the bad behavior of boys. Last week, two news stories out of Texas demonstrated the institutional misogyny that girls often deal with in school. The first was a viral photo of a quote that read, “The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman.” This gem, attributed to Sydney Biddle Barrows, also known as the “Mayflower Madam,” was painted, of all places, above the lockers in a Houston middle school. The second was a video shown to the entire student body of a Flower Mound High School that featured teenage girls walking around the school wearing short shorts set to M.I.A’s song “Bad Girls.” The video ended with the girls being punished and forced to chant, “I will not wear short shorts.”

In both cases, the schools backtracked and issued apologies. But why did the administrators at these schools think this was OK to begin with? Turns out, the “act like a lady” quote had been on the wall for five years before being taken down. The short shorts video was played to over 3,000 students and was only seen as a problem after two senior girls posted it to Twitter pointing out that no boys were shown violating the dress code and that the video actually over-sexualized the young women with close ups of their legs while the lyrics “Live fast, die young, Bad girls do it well” played in the background.

I was a pretty modest dresser as a teen. My mom forbade anything she deemed “too skimpy,” which included bikinis, midriff shirts and anything lowcut. I remember being so excited to wear a new outfit to school that consisted of a pair of high-waisted, long floral shorts (hey, it was the early 1990s) with a coordinating shirt. When my teacher asked a question, I raised my hand as I often did when I knew the answer (imagine Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter,” only less charming). Instead of being called on to answer the question, I was sent to the principal’s office because a sliver of forbidden skin showed at my waistband when my hand shot up. I came back to class wearing a T-shirt I kept in my gym locker. My carefully planned outfit was ruined. The shame I felt over the incident and knowing it could have been avoided if I had not been so eager to show off my smarts still sticks with me today. What was confusing was that every Friday during football season, I could wear my cheerleading uniform to school with its short skirt and no one

said anything.

T h a n k f u l l y, dress codes do seem to be, at least on paper, becoming more gender AUTUMN neutral in order TOLBERT to avoid accusations of discrimination. That doesn’t mean there isn’t discrimination in the enforcement. Girls are too often treated as temptresses who must have their clothing choices closely monitored to prevent them from distracting the boys from their schoolwork. They are sirens, existing to wreak havoc on the poor male students. And woe to the girls who are more endowed and are often limited to only wearing high-neck shirts in order to avoid showing the smallest bit of cleavage.

You know what is distracting? Construction noise nearby, being hungry in class, a stray dog wandering into the classroom or another student continuously talking. Those are distractions. A girl’s clothes and her body are not. But we tell boys they are. And with quotes like the one in the Houston school, we tell girls they deserve what they get if they aren’t well behaved. We constantly tell young women that they bear the burden for keeping the boys on their best behavior. If they show too much of their bodies, then boys cannot pay attention. If they are forward or loud or saucy, then it is their fault if they are not treated with respect. These attitudes let boys off the hook and teach them they can treat “bad girls” poorly.

As I’ve aged, I’ve also realized how unsettling it is that some grown men seem all too happy to police teenage girls’ clothing and behavior. Knowing your male teacher is watching to see if any unauthorized skin shows while you participate in classroom activities is something that is likely to be incredibly distracting to a young girl and is just outright creepy. As the school year goes on, I’m sure we will see more and more of these dress-code stories hitting the news until it reaches a crescendo around prom time. I’m not sure how we can top last year’s “modesty ponchos” that a Michigan school planned to hand out to girls at prom deemed to be showing too much skin. Hopefully, someday we will all be so enlightened that we can worry less about what girls are wearing and worry more about whether they are provided the same opportunities to succeed as are boys.

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ou haven’t been misreading my had a career night, last three weeks’ worth of possibly and then would find fever-dream-induced projections: himself prematurely This Arkansas football program, suppos- retired from the edly in transition, will take full advantage sport months later of lowered expectations and a somewhat after a second serious soft schedule to get itself well into bowl neck injury, and the BEAU WILCOX position before November comes around. Hogs were sitting at As we see it right now, Pearls has the 7-4 despite a topsy-turvy campaign, and Hogs going 0-for-2 against the state of a win over Mizzou would then cement Alabama but otherwise wiping out seven another improved season for Bielema. other opponents throughout Septem- We all know how it played out afterber and October to get themselves in ward, and we also know that there were an off-chance fight for a New Year’s obvious chinks in the armor when the Day (or similarly high-level) postsea- Hogs last played in Starkville despite son game. The remaining final quarter emerging victorious, namely that Bullof the 12-game slate, however, proves a dog quarterback Nick Fitzgerald put on little bit tough on the team after nine a show. He’ll do it again against a Hog games in a nine-week span (the bye week team feeling defeated and depleted from for the Razorbacks this season falls on the LSU loss, combining for five of his the first weekend of November after the team’s six scores in a surprisingly easy Hogs’ contest with Vanderbilt). win. Mississippi State 42, Arkansas 19.

LSU on Nov. 10: There’s a building At Missouri on Nov. 23: The third belief among college football insiders group of Tigers the Hogs play each year, that the real brains behind whatever Missouri, is everyone’s chic pick to disoperation LSU is conducting these days rupt the balance of power in the SEC in Baton Rouge is the set belonging to East this year after they finished with defensive coordinator Dave Aranda, not a flourish (against a terrible schedule, the ones rattling around in head coach Ed mind you) in 2017. Drew Lock is still Orgeron’s cranium. I firing rockets downfor one believe this We have the Hogs going field, and yet, Arkanis unfair: Orgeron sas finally takes this is a guy who, goofy 0-for-2 against the state game seriously and though he might treats it like the conbe, has long been a of Alabama but otherwise trived rivalry that it savvy recruiter and is with a healthy, short-term program wiping out seven other responsive effort fixer. But this will be after two hard losses his second full sea- opponents in September and in a row. The Razorson in Death Valley, backs’ 300-plus and he’s got to take October. team rushing yards his team to Fayetteestablish ball control, ville for the Hogs’ last home game right keeping Lock frustrated, and the Hog after (as usual) getting Bama the prior defense rises to one last regular-seaweekend. This arrangement has com- son challenge with a vengeance. With monly led to the misguided belief that McTelvin Agim recording three sacks the Tigers will be bruised up and the and a fumble recovery in a game that Razorbacks will be fresh — in 2014-15, may rate as his final magnum opus as a that mythology did play out in favor of collegian — he’s going to experience a the good guys, but then got thoroughly resurgent junior year and make himself discarded in 2016-17, when the Tigers a draft prospect by this juncture — the routed the Razorbacks. This one will Hogs close out 2018 by completely fliprevert back to the close games of old, ping their overall record from the year and the Hogs will start poorly but nearly before and making Chad Morris a favorrecover with a big second-half rally, only ite for SEC Coach of the Year with a nice to fall short thanks to LSU’s last-minute recovery of the Battle Line, uh, trophy field goal. LSU 31, Arkansas 28. thing. Arkansas 37, Missouri 27.

At Mississippi State on Nov. 17: There you have it: We’ve got the Hogs Arkansas went to Starkville in 2016 and having a promising 8-4, 4-4 season under delivered what was, effectively, the last their new boss, and we think the Texas sound game of the Bret Bielema era by A&M game will again be critical for longrolling up tons of yards and points on term momentum. Come late November, the Bulldogs. It was sort of a fateful con- as is custom, we’ll be apologizing here test in retrospect: Rawleigh Williams for ever thinking that hopefully.

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hey wheeled Ol’ Splitfoot right up to the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol the other day. Brought him in on a flatbed truck positioned just so for maximum Instagramability with the stately Capitol dome in the background, the statue wrapped in a tarp that one of the assembled Satanistas whipped off with great flourish like the former theater majors many of them likely are. Around back of the Capitol, meanwhile, Sen. Jason Rapert’s Ten Commandments monument was swaddled in sackcloth and caution tape for the occasion, most likely, we guess, to keep the Satanists from mugging for photos in front of it, crotches athrust.

You just know that kind of thing drives Jason batshit crazy.

We say Ol’ Splitfoot, but that’s just lazy writing. The Observer is too caffeine-starved right now to look up the trifold flow chart showing which of the umpteen jillion religions of yore revered Baphomet, the goat-headed he-beast depicted in the eight-foottall statue The Satanic Temple paid to have trucked in here from way yonder.

Where Baphomet fits in isn’t the point, anyway. The point is, in the imagination of a guy like Rapert and all the swells who hang on his every word like he’s Facebook besties with Big J.C. himself, Baphomet LOOKS like The Devil Incarnate. It’s an object meant to literally put the fear of lower-case god in those who have spent decades poking their dicks into the wall of separation between Church and State, testing for soft spots in hopes of bringing it whole thing down. As Thomas Jefferson would have told them — the real Jefferson — the barrier between Church and State is a load-bearing wall, kids. You knock that sucker down, and the whole house may well go. If that happens, you can be sure that what gets rebuilt in the aftermath will be a place where nobody wants to live but the jackleg carpenters who built it to their liking. Rapert and his incurious ilk are myriad of things, but they are definitely not fit to wash the jocks and socks of the certified polymath geniuses who cooked up the Bill of Rights the first go-round, no matter how much they wanna believe that a real

close reading of the Bible, a landslide victory in Standard Umpstead and a suit from Sears grants them intellectual superpowers. Spend some time in the state legislature and tell us we’re wrong.

The funniest bit about all this business — the 200 black-clad folks who showed up the other day to sweat through their velvet in the August heat and the preachers who came to yell Bible verses at them, the bronze statue, the courtroom dueling soon to come — is that you get the feeling nobody involved really believes this bullshit. Rapert knows that admitting the 10C monument is about shoehorning religion into the public space will hurt him in court, so he will swear and bedamn that it’s all about honoring the history of the law, even though the thing has “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” etched right on it. Meanwhile, having been around some of the Satanic Temple folks a time or three now while reporting and such, The Observer has the distinct impression that the black outfits and guyliner and even having an eightfoot-tall bronze cast to give the Constitutional Vapors to Arkansas crackers are an elaborate kind of goof, by people who understand that the separation between church and state is there for a reason.

Did you ever think you’d live in an age where the Satanists are the good guys?

We actually kinda hope The Satanic Temple prevails and gets to install its statue, notwithstanding Rapert’s flintyeyed public pronouncement the other day that it would be a cold day in hell when that happened. Cold days in hell seem to happen a lot these days for folks like him. Must be global warming. While we’d hate to see the lovely grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol turned into Charles Foster Kane’s estate sale, stacked with monuments representing every religious flimflam from Tony Alamo to Cargo Cults, it would serve the folks who opened the door to all this right and proper. And just imagine what a gothified tourist attraction Ol’ Baphy would be! Come to think of it, maybe Rapert WILL wind up doing something to benefit the State of Arkansas during his time in office after all, albeit in spite of himself.

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Hep A still spreading A All residents of Greene County should be vaccinated, health department says.

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

s of last Thursday, the numHepatitis A is spread through fecal does not have to be intravenous: Shar- demiologist said. The department has ber of Arkansans in North- contamination, most commonly from ing a marijuana cigarette with some- people on the ground interviewing pereast Arkansas infected with restaurant workers who have not one whose hands aren’t clean can be a sons who’ve come in social or sexual the liver-attacking Hepati- washed their hands before serving food. source of transmission. contact with known cases — Haselow tis A virus reached 91, and the state But in Arkansas, Haselow said, only The infection in Arkansas appar- estimated that could be up to a thouDepartment of Health says there is no eight food workers have been identi- ently comes from Butler County, Mo., sand people — and has set up temposign the rate is slacking off. fied as infected. He said that most of where there was an outbreak in a com- rary vaccination clinics in Paragould The virus, this one unusually viru- the cases the department is seeing are munity where the homeless and drug- and Piggott (Greene County), Cornlent, was first reported in February people with compromised immune sys- using population was high, Haselow ing (Clay County), Jonesboro (Craigin Clay County, and has now spread tems and chronic disease, people living said. head County) and Walnut Ridge (Lawsouth to contiguous counrence County). Employees ties. Ninety percent of are also reaching out to the cases have come from homeless shelters, drug Greene County in the past treatment centers, prisons, two months, and persons in restaurants and faith-based Lawrence, Randolph and organizations “to identify Craighead counties have and get inroads into the been diagnosed. All but one vulnerable population who of the 91 are adults. One might otherwise feel stigperson has died. matized,” Haselow said.

The health department Haselow said the vachas so far provided vaccine has been offered to cines to 13,000 people, has all restaurants where an enough in stock for 10,000 employee has contracted more, and can resupply, the virus. Two-thirds of Dr. Dirk Haselow, the them accepted, he said. state epidemiologist, said.

The department sent Because of the high rate out notices to communities there, the health departabout restaurants where an ment is recommending employee had been shown that all people in Greene to be infected, including a County between the ages Subway and a Taco Bell in of 19 and 60 be vaccinated; Corning, a Little Caesar’s 8,000 have so far.

Pizza and the Ironhorse The strain of HepatiBarbeque in Paragould, a tis A virus now infecting gas station in Walnut Ridge, people across the country a Steak ’n’ Shake in Jonesis unusual, coming from boro and a Red Lobster North Africa and the Midin Fort Smith. (The Fort dle East, Haselow said. It Smith case was unrelated is more potent: Hepatitis A to the Northeast Arkaninfections usually require sas cases, the department hospitalization in only says, because the infecSPREADING SOUTH: The first case of Hepatitis A was reported in Clay County; the source was from Missouri. one in 10 cases, but the tion originated out of the The Arkansas Department of Health has been proactive, vaccinating 13,000 residents in Northeast Arkansas and strain in the U.S. is requircountry.) reaching out to more. ing hospitalization in five Because the vaccine is out of 10 cases, and the so effective — with a cure fatality rate is 10 times rate of 94 percent after a higher than normal. Hand sanitizer that in close contact with others in shelters, There has been a “herculean effort” single dose and 99 percent after two is 70 percent alcohol has been shown jail or on the streets, and people who on the part of the health department to — virus-associated restaurants who’ve to be ineffective in killing the virus. use drugs. Haselow said the drug use slow the spread of the virus, the epi- vaccinated their workers are probably

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safer than nonassociated restaurants, Haselow said.

The virus takes from three to six weeks to cause symptoms, which makes it difficult to track to a particular eating establishment, Haselow said. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, jaundice and abdominal pain. Unlike Hepatitis B and C, however, Hep A is not chronic: The vaccine can wipe it out.

People between the ages of 19 and 60 are most vulnerable, Haselow said,

The virus takes from three to six weeks to cause symptoms.

Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, jaundice and abdominal pain.

Hep A is not chronic: The vaccine can wipe it out. because those younger than 19 have been vaccinated as a matter of course and those older than 60 have probably been exposed and are therefore immune. The older population was exposed because the food supply was local when they were children and not as regulated as the huge global food suppliers of today are.

“While generally food safety has improved, he said, because the suppliers are bigger, “when there’s a screwup, there’s a big screwup.” He cited a fast outbreak in Mexico of 700 cases after onions that had been fertilized with human waste were delivered to a restaurant.

Because the number of new cases — five or six a week — is increasing slowly, Haselow said he could not predict when the spread of infection will stop. The outbreak so far is not the worst Arkansas has experienced: In 1990, between 600 and 700 cases were reported. Since then, Haselow said, 10 cases or fewer a year have been reported.

Ten states are reporting Hepatitis A outbreaks. The outbreak has been most serious in Kentucky, where the outbreak is statewide and 1,170 cases and eight deaths were reported as of late July.

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1) Recently in Eureka Springs, there was a rash of newspaper thefts, with dozens of papers reportedly stolen from doorsteps before subscribers could retrieve them in the morning. According to a newspaper delivery person who investigated, who turned out to be the culprit?

A) Stoners in need of, like, HUUUUUGE rolling papers, man.

B) Trump supporters incensed by FAKE NEWS! C) The local chapter of Americans for the Continued and Perpetual Furtherance of Funny Paper Hats.

D) Foxes.

2) (Question 1 spoiler alert!) How did the aforementioned newspaper carrier reportedly foil the foxes from continuing their predawn paper-stealing spree?

A) She asked them to subscribe to the paper, but the furry little bastards were too cheap.

B) She started including a transcript of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ latest press conference with every newspaper, knowing there’s some things even a roadkill-eating scavenger finds disgusting.

C) She released 14 Bengal tigers into the city, and the tigers soon ate all the delicious foxes. Problem solved!

D) She smeared a little Vicks VapoRub on the newspaper bags, and the foxes found the goop so smelly and distasteful they dropped the purloined papers a few steps after picking them up.

3) Corey “C.J.” Hunter Jr., a 12-year-old boy from Magnolia, was hailed as a hero earlier this month after performing the Heimlich maneuver on his sister, Caleigh, after she choked on a piece of candy, saving her life. Where did C.J. say he learned how to do the Heimlich maneuver?

A) The similar local dance craze known as “The Smackover Clutch.”

B) He watched a few YouTube videos about it last year, figuring it was only a matter of time before somebody choked on their own vomit while watching Donald Trump speak.

C) From watching the Disney Channel.

D) Cardi B’s latest smash hit: “Grasp the Midsection From Behind Just Below The Ribcage and Pull Firmly Back and Upward.”

4) The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith recently began testing a robot called the Husquavarna 450X. What is the Husquavarna 450X?

A) A poorly tested automated machine gun turret mandated by the state legislature to make the campus “safer.”

B) A #MeToo-fighting female cyborg designed to patrol frat parties and nut punt any would-be sexual assaulter into the next county.

C) A robotic lawn mower that will roam the campus, cutting grass.

D) A prototype of a graft-accepting robot being built by the UAFS engineering department so Republican state legislators can accept bribes in two places at once.

5) Jerry Dhonau, a longtime newspaperman whose career included reporting on the 1957 Central High crisis for the Arkansas Gazette, died recently at the age of 83. Which of the following were real events in his career?

A) During his senior year at Central High in 1952, he quit as editor of the school newspaper in protest after his journalism teacher nixed an editorial Dhonau wrote that proposed a new field house should be named after a well-liked black maintenance man, Riley Johns.

B) While in his early 20s, Dhonau — then the youngest reporter on the Gazette staff — and also young reporter Ray Moseley contributed most of the reporting on the Central High crisis that would go on to earn the Arkansas Gazette a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for exceptional community service.

C) As captured in an iconic photo of the time, Dhonau courageously stood with other reporters to shield Little Rock Nine member Elizabeth Eckford after she was confronted by a jeering, racist mob when she arrived for what she hoped would be her first day at Central High.

D) All of the above. Good job, Jerry.

Answers: D, D, C, C, D

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FILMLAND, THE SEQUEL The Arkansas Cinema Society broadens its offerings in year two.

BY LINDSEY MILLAR A SNEAK PREVIEW: On Sunday, Filmland goers will get to see an advance screening of “Operation Finale,” starring Oscar Isaac (standing), Melanie Laurent and Nick Kroll (to Isaac’s right).

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ike its inaugural year, the Arkansas Cinema Society’s annual Filmland event has just about everything an Arkansas film lover could want: drama, comedy, overlooked gems, a preview screening of a likely future Oscar contender and a large slice of the best of homegrown cinema. The event runs from Thursday, Aug. 23, to Sunday, Aug. 26, at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater. Find tickets at arkansascinemasociety.org.

To kick things off Thursday night, acclaimed director Richard Linklater will show one of his more overlooked films: 1998’s “The Newton Boys,” starring Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio as bank-

robbing brothers. After the screening, Last year, when Nichols and coACS co-founder Jeff Nichols will discuss founder Kathryn Tucker announced the film with Linklater. the creation of the ACS, Nichols said he It’s a fitting way to start the event. wanted to model the new venture on the As a filmmaker, Linklater is who fellow Austin Film Society, founded by Linklater filmmaker Nichols points to as his defini- in 1985. The AFS hosts regular screention of success. “Success isn’t necessarily ings, provides grants to filmmakers and box office or critical reviews — obviously teaches people how to make movies. those things are important — success When Nichols moved to Austin in 2002 is the impact that you have on culture with no money and no movies under and the conversation at large,” Nichols his belt, the AFS was where he found said, noting the varied number of times his community. Nichols said he plans Linklater has made that sort of impact to let Linklater “talk about Austin Film with films like “Slacker,” “Dazed and Society’s creation and where it’s Confused,” “Before Sunrise,” “Bernie” gone, so people can look into the and “Boyhood.” “To have someone who future of what [the ACS] could multiple times has entered the stream be with the right kind of comof that conversation — the zeitgeist — is munity and support.” what I call ultimate success.”

Nichols and

Tucker have grand visions for the ACS, but already in year two it’s broadening its focus. “This is only our second August event, and I see it as a progression from the first in terms of starting to reflect the bigger, broader goals of the Arkansas Cinema Society,” Nichols said. “Part of that is seeking out the work of Arkansans and providing a platform for it. It’s about kicking off the idea of this Homegrown series.”

That’s what ACS is calling its plan to host screenings of local films throughout the year. At Filmland, four of the highest profile features will screen along with a handful of top Arkansas short films (in full disclosure, I was on a committee that selected the Arkansas films). The features screening Aug. 24 are “The Revival,”

‘NEWTON BOYS’: Richard Linklater will screen and discuss his 1998 Western “Newton Boys.”

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the debut feature from Jennifer Gerber, caust, plays a few days before its limthe Hot Springs Documentary Film Fes- ited release. Producers Fred Berger tival’s executive director, about an illicit and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones will parlove affair between a Southern Baptist ticipate in a post-screening discussion preacher and a drifter; “Dayveon,” the with Nichols. Berger was a producer debut feature by Amman Abbasi (see for “La La Land” and the one onstage Q&A page 17), about a 13-year-old boy at the Oscars who told the audience, who falls into a rural gang; and “Antiq- “We lost, by the way.” He’s got a numuities,” the feature adaption of Daniel ber of high-profile projects in the pipeCampbell’s award-winning short (see line. Kavanaugh-Jones, along with Sarah page 18), featuring Mary Steenburgen. Green, is one of Nichols’ producing partOn Sunday, there’ll be an encore screen- ners. “He’s the reason ‘Shotgun Stories’ ing of “Antiquities,” an Arkansas shorts got finished and the reason ‘Take Shelprogram and a showing of “All the Birds ter’ got off the ground,” Nichols said of Have Flown South,” the debut feature Kavanaugh-Jones. “To be able to hear from Josh and Miles Miller, starring these two guys talk, I just want people Joey Lauren Adams. to understand, you’re not talking to the The Saturday slate is another change producer who did amazing things in the of pace for Filmland. It’s all comedy dur- ’80s, you’re talking about two guys who ing the day and documentary at night. are going to change things now.”

Nichols credits Steenburgen, an ACS Nichols, who hosted a special semiboard member whom he describes as nar on writing for film last year for ACS “a colossal figure” in the industry (see and plans to host one on directing someQ&A on page 16), for securing the lineup, time in December, wants to schedule an which includes actors and writers she event geared toward producers down worked with on the acclaimed Fox com- the line. edy “The Last Man on Earth”: Will Forte, As a bonus to eventgoers who stick Kristen Schaal, Rich Blomquist and John around on Sunday, before “Operation Solomon. Forte and his writing part- Finale” Nichols will show his new short ner Solomon will also screen their SNL film, inspired by Lucero’s “Long Way action-comedy “MacGruber,” which Back Home,” from the band’s recently they co-wrote with director Jorma released ninth album, “Among the Taccone (of “The Lonely Island” fame), Ghosts.” Nichols’ brother Ben Nichols is who’ll also be in attendance.

Lucero’s lead singer. Like all of Nichols’ Nichols will get a postmovies, this one stars Michael Shannon, screening interview who here plays a shady, slick-haired man assist from Steenburgen who returns to Memphis looking for and her husband, Ted his two ne’er-do-well brothers (played Danson, after the “Macby Scoot McNairy and Garrett HedGruber” showing. Saturlund). The Nichols brothers day night, Matthew will discuss the film, too.

Cooke’s documentary, For an event that’s all “Survivor’s Guide to about getting people Prison” explores the together to talk about U.S. prison system film, the after-parties through the eyes are a key element. of two wrongly They’re all downconvicted men. town and all feature Cooke and promusic. Ticketholders ducers David and get in free; each party Christina Arquette has a $15 cover otherwill talk about the wise. Of special note, Ben film afterward (ChrisNichols plays a rare solo tina Arquette’s maiden show at Stickyz on Sunname is McClarty; she’s day and Phoenix, which a Hope native; see Q&A headlines the Saturday on page 19). after-party at Revolution, Filmland closes Sunis an in-demand classic day with its first prerock cover band from Las miere screening. “OperaVegas, not the French tion Finale,” about Israel’s indie pop band led by pursuit of Adolf Eichmann the guy who’s married (Ben Kingsley), the Nazi to Sofia Coppola. mastermind of the HoloNICHOLS: The ACS co-founder sees the programming in year two reflecting the organization’s “bigger, broader goals.”

SCHEDULE THURSDAY 8/23 “The Newton Boys.” A screening of Richard Linklater’s 1998 film (122 min.). Followed by a Q&A with Linklater, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 6:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $35.

After-party at Cache Restaurant.

9 p.m., $10 (free admission with screening ticket).

FRIDAY 8/24 “The Revival.” A screening of Jennifer Gerber’s 2017 film (85 min.).

Followed by a Q&A with Gerber, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 12:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $20.

“Dayveon.” A screening of Amman Abbasi’s 2017 film (75 min.).

Followed by a Q&A with Abbasi, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 4 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $20.

“Antiquities.” A screening of Daniel Campbell’s 2018 film (93 min.). Followed by a Q&A with Campbell, Graham Gordy, Gary Newton and Mary Steenburgen, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 7:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $25.

After-party at Lost Forty Brewing. 9:30 p.m., $15 (free admission with screening ticket). Live music from Michael Prysock and DJ GForce.

SATURDAY 8/25 The Comedy Panel. A panel discussion with Will Forte, Mel Rodriguez, Mary Steenburgen, Kristen Schaal, Rich Blomquist and John Solomon, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 11 a.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $20.

“The Last Man on Earth.” A screening of selections from Will Forte’s TV series (2015-2018). Followed by a Q&A with Forte, Mary Steenburgen, Kristen Schaal, Rich Blomquist and John Solomon, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 1 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $35.

“MacGruber.” A screening of Jorma Taccone’s 2010 film (99 min.).

Followed by a Q&A with Taccone, Will Forte and John Solomon, moderated by Jeff Nichols, Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson. 4 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $35.

“Survivor’s Guide to Prison.” A screening of Matthew Cooke’s 2018 documentary film (102 min.). Followed by a Q&A with Cooke, David Arquette and Christina Arquette, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 7:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $35.

After-party at Rev Room/Live Life Chill. 9:30 p.m., $15 (free admission with screening ticket). Live music from Phoenix.

SUNDAY 8/26 “Antiquities.” An encore screening of Daniel Campbell’s 2018 film (93 min.). Followed by a Q&A with Campbell, Graham Gordy, Gary Newton and Roger Scott. 11 a.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $25.

“Arkansas Shorts.” A screening of selected Arkansas-connected shorts: Madeline Snapp’s “Gwen,” Trenton Mynatt’s “Splitting Maul,” Matthew Magdefrau’s “Green,” Jen Gerber’s “Expecting,” Nathan Willis’ “Arkansas Wild Man,” Jason Morphew’s “Does James Brown Have A Penis?” and Jacob Allinson’s “Americana.” Followed by a Q&A with Allinson, Gerber, Magdefrau, Morphew, Mynatt, Snapp and Willis, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 2 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $20.

“All the Birds Have Flown South.”

A screening of Miles Miller and Joshua Miller’s 2016 film (98 min.).

Followed by a Q&A with the Miller brothers, moderated by Jeff Nichols. 4:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $20.

“Operation Finale.” A screening of Chris Weitz’s forthcoming 2018 film.

Followed by a Q&A with producers Fred Berger and Brian KavanaughJones, moderated by Jeff Nichols.

7:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, $35.

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and lightness that sci-fi-ish plots often don’t get right.

No kidding.

KNIVES OUT: Mary Steenburgen starred on the late FOX series “The Last Man on Earth” alongside Melvin Rodriguez.

Funeral for a FOX series A Q&A with Mary Steenburgen.

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hen Newport native and Hendrix College graduate Mary Steenburgen left Arkansas and built a formidable and decades-long acting career, she didn’t just return home often — she spread the gospel, dragging her colleagues back to Arkansas with her for birthday parties and fundraisers. Now, as part of the board of directors for the Arkansas Cinema Society, she’s lending her celebrity to the ACS endeavor, appearing in Filmland’s panel discussions on the beloved absurdist postapocalypse comedy of which she was a part, “The Last Man on Earth” (RIP), and joining her “Last Man on Earth” colleagues on a comedy panel and for a discussion after a screening of Will Forte’s “MacGruber.”

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lullaby – Which we made good on!

That night, you sang and played accordion with guitarist Greg Spradlin on this fantastically sultry number inspired by a moment when you and your husband, Ted Danson, found yourself sitting behind Helen Hunt at a concert.

I forgot I did that! I think that’s the one and only time that song’s been performed. I think I called it “Helen Hunt,” but the hook of it was “Everyone should dance like Helen Hunt,” because she was so free at this concert and it was so impressive to me.

Maybe I’m conflating you with a little bit of your character on “Bored to Death,” but I think a lot of people might think of you as being like that: free.

I’d have to make myself do that. I’d wanna do that and it would require

me strong-arming my own psyche to do it. And I do that a lot! In fact, getting up there and singing that song is a perfect example of it. I have fought a true and sometime debilitating shyness my whole life, since I was really young, before I ever made a movie or did any of those things. And I remember my mom saying, “You know, I thought it would get better when you became famous.”

And it did not get better. I think I do things sometimes just to scare myself a little bit. Certainly singing that song that night would fall into that category, but for the fact that I was with somebody as talented as Greg, with whom I am not even in the same class of musicianship. But yeah, I believe in scaring myself.

You’re coming to Filmland, in part, to talk about “The Last Man on Earth,” which fans perhaps hoped would go the way of “Brooklyn NineNine” and get picked up elsewhere after it was canceled on Fox. I know! We’re heartsick about it. So we’re sort of having a series of funerals for it.

It’s no wonder; there are viruses and astronauts, but it’s approached with this absurdism

What drew you to this project in particular?

Well, to be honest with you, I got a call from my manager who said, “You’re being offered a show for FOX,” and I thought [laughs], “Well, there’s probably no way I’m gonna do it.” And she said, “There’s no part, but they’ll create a part for you,” and that really made me think I wouldn’t do it. I learned a long time ago that I don’t actually like it when people create parts for me. My job is to take the words and hopefully make them live and breathe, and not me, Mary. The one time this did work was “Justified,” when I did the villain on the last season of “Justified;” Graham [Yost] and I had long conversations about her before it was really written, and then it was lovely.

Anyway, so I said, “Well, there’s no part there; am I supposed to read something?” And my manager said, “There’s a pilot, and there’s a first episode, and they’ll screen it for you.” They told me it was Will Forte, and that really interested me because I’ve always been a huge fan of his, and “Nebraska” was so extraordinary. So they put on the pilot episode for us, and about three minutes in, I leaned over and said, “I definitely wanna do this.” It was kind of love at first sight.

The four-year journey was just a journey of creativity. When [characters] Carol and Tandy were gonna get a divorce and they announced it to all of us, during rehearsal they said, “Gah, I wish there were someone playing, like, the Death March or something.” And I said, “Wait, you mean ‘dah, duht, dah-dah” [sings a snippet of Chopin’s “Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor,” the so-called “Funeral March”]. But [in the show’s post-apocalyptic environment] we didn’t have any stereos or any electricity, and I said, “Well, I have my accordion in my car. I could probably figure it out.” And they went, “Wait, you play the accordion?!” And I said, “Well, yeah, I mean, I’m trying, and it’s really rudimentary, but I could definitely play that.” And then it became, ‘Well, every time there’s a funeral, Todd has to sing, and you have to play the accordion.’

So there was an incredible life to the show that had to do with John Solomon and Will Forte who collaborated so beautifully together, and then they had amazing writers like Rich Blomquist, who’s also coming to [Filmland.] There developed a true love among all of us, a

FOOD AND FAMILY: That’s what Mary Steenburgen misses most about Arkansas.

Friendship is not weakness A Q&A with Amman Abbasi.

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rkansas filmmaker Amman Abbasi believes film should tell the truth, to “tap into something honest.” That was his goal with “Dayveon,” his debut film, which he not only wrote, directed, edited and produced, but for which he also composed the music.

Based on oral histories and workshops with at-risk youth in Wrightsville, the 75-minute drama tells the story of a wounded 13-year old boy — the titular Dayveon — whose mettle is tested after being initiated into a local gang.

A Pakistani immigrant whose family moved to Little Rock a few years after the 1994 HBO documentary “Gang War: Bangin’ in Little Rock” was released, Abbasi envisioned making ON SET: Abbasi (left) with actor Kordell “a more nuanced gang story,” the film’s Johnson. press kit reads, one focused on “affiliation, friendship and the many layers of the humans within gangs.” “Dayveon” culture in urban vs. rural communities. will be screened at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. Gangs in Chicago were more tied to 24, at CALS Ron Robinson Theater as organized crime and drug cartels — in part of the Arkansas Cinema Society’s Arkansas, it was more about being part Filmland festival celebrating Arkansas of a community. filmmakers. We talked with Abbasi, who lives in Los Angeles but still conWho is Dayveon? siders Little Rock his home, ahead of Dayveon is a teenage boy who is the screening. struggling with the death of his older brother. He has no parents and finds Where did you grow up in a sense of community in a street gang Arkansas? in rural Arkansas.

I grew up in the Paragould and Jonesboro area. We had relatives in You cap-tured the camaraderie the area and that’s where my parents between the black men and boys in initially moved. At age 9, we moved the film. Why was this significant? to Little Rock. We lived in the central Often, there is a sensationalized part of town. I first attended Hall High point where men can’t be seen as weak School and completed my senior year and finding common bonds; friendship at Central High School. is seen as weakness. I wanted to dispel the notion of that in this film.

What prompted your interest in filmmaking, and who inspires Are the actors from Arkansas? or influences you?

Yes, the actors are based in ArkanAs a child, we often made home sas. I wanted to cast those who were movies with a VHS recorder. My ini- familiar with the environment and tial interest was in music and film- culture. making was a hobby. The Dardenne brothers [Jean-Pierre Dardenne and “Dayveon” was shot in Wrightsville.

Luc Dardenne] and Martin Scorsese What did you appreciate most about are my biggest influencers — and lots the experience of filmmaking in your of others inspire me. home state?

What prompted your interest in making “Dayveon?”

I was working in Chicago with Brent and Craig Renaud, who were doing a documentary on gang violence in Chicago. I noticed the differences in gang

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true family thing. We just always had wouldn’t be coming to Little Rock with each other’s backs, and cared about me! But it is a faster world. It’s bigger, each other’s families, and it’s really and it’s more anonymous. You have been hard for us to let go of each other, to work harder at nurturing relationwhich is probably one of the reasons ships, just by the mere fact of the size they’re literally taking two planes to of it. For me to go see Kristen [Schaal] come to Little Rock, Arkansas, for an — she lives near my son — it’s an hour event they don’t know very much about. drive, even though we both live in L.A. Some of it, I’m sure, is that they’re being sweet to me, but part of it is that We’re, of course, thrilled that there was an unusually intense bond you’re coming back to Arkansas. that formed. We went through stuff And thanks for dragging everyone together. You go through a lot in your back with you. life in four years.

Yes! And can I just say this? I really admire Kathryn Tucker and Jeff NichLast question: What are your ols and all the people that are workfavorite things to do or eat or drink ing to nurture filmmaking in Arkanor see when you’re home in Arkan- sas. When I was young, actors felt like sas? Like, what, if anything, do you mythological creatures that had nothget homesick for? ing to do with my experience of living Oh, my gosh, I think you can tell by in Arkansas. They just didn’t feel quite how often I come home that there’s real to me. There was never a thought a lot I love and miss. Some of them that I could stay in Arkansas and be an are very simple things, like lightning actor. I love the idea that filmmakers bugs and storms and thunder and light- like Jeff Nichols and others can make ning. Believe it or not, even warm sul- these really wonderful films and use try nights. I miss the food. I miss my actors and crew from Arkansas. HopeAunt Frieda. fully, for a whole generation of young In terms of Oxford American, I do people, it will feel like a viable option miss that literary tradition. I feel like for them to be a director or a writer there’s just a sense in the South of or an actor or to be on poetry that doesn’t exist anywhere a crew. I just admire else. The things people say, the lanthat these guys did guage of it all. I miss the sound of more than just talk the accents. about creating this.

And then I miss very speThey really have cific things, I suppose, in created it.

North Little Rock especially, where I’m from. I’m very close with my sister, Nancy, who I really adore, and she has a place in Heber Springs, so we’re all gonna go fishin,’ which is something I’d never be doing in L.A. I miss the caring and kindness of people.

You know, the fact that people have time for each other there, and to ask about your family.

I’m not saying nobody in L.A. does that — if that were true, all these people

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MEETING CUTE: Andrew J. West and Ashley Greene star in Daniel Campbell’s debut feature.

The feature film version of ‘Antiquities’ makes its Arkansas debut.

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ntiquities,” a feature film set to ask a co-worker out on a date. With largely in North Little Rock “John Hughes by-way-of Wes Anderson and starring Mary Steen- charm,” as John Tarpley described it in burgen and Ashley Greene, the Arkansas Times, the film won the has been almost a decade in the making. inaugural Charles B. Pierce Award for That timeline has built up some antici- the best film made in Arkansas at the pation: Its Arkansas debut on Aug. 24 as Little Rock Film Festival in 2010. part of the Arkansas Cinema Society’s Gordy and Campbell met at the film Filmland sold out in one hour (a second festival that year and became fast friends. screening was added for 11 a.m. Aug. 26). When a father of a friend offered to bankBut the lengthy process didn’t exactly roll Campbell to adapt the short into a work out so well financially for its cre- feature, Campbell, with encouragement ators. Graham Gordy, who co-wrote the from his wife, Becky, quit his job and screenplay with writer/director Daniel brought Gordy into the process. The Campbell, joked recently that he and pair then “spent the next year and a Campbell had made about 3 cents per half having push-up contests,” Camphour for all the time they’d put into bell said with a smile recently. Actuthe project. “For this, it’s romance, not ally, “We started talking about what we finance,” Gordy said. had in common,” Campbell said of his The story starts back in 2009, when and Gordy’s early sessions. “Both of our Campbell made a 14-minute short film, dads had passed away, and we talked also called “Antiquities.” It was his first about how you start to hang on to things foray behind the camera. He’d caught that were your dad’s that maybe had no the filmmaking bug a year earlier, when meaning to anyone but you. Things that he worked in Memphis in the casting have a connection.” department for the indie film “Nothing Gordy, the father of children 8 and But the Truth” (Matt Dillon, Kate Beck- 10 years old, said they talked about the insale), but he still had a day job in Little idea that one day “your children will Rock as gang prevention coordinator for deal with all your things.” the Boys and Girls Club.

“You’re going to have questions about The “Antiquities” short followed Ter- all the things you didn’t ask your parent rence (Little Rock actor and comedian as a selfish child,” Gordy said, and you’ll Jason Thompson in a hilarious wig) try to “piece together who they were and his shit-talking antique mall boss, through these things.” Where do a lot Blundale (local radio host Roger Scott), of these things end up? An antique mall. as they bounced around town, with Despite the continuity of the setting, stops at a strip club and an urban bar- the plot of the film is so significantly difbershop, in an attempt to prep Terrence ferent from the short, Campbell said, “we 18

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Awards at the Little Rock Film Festival, and worked on the crew for “Mud” and “Paradise Lost 3.” But they didn’t really have a plan for getting the movie made.

“We’re both really bad businessmen,” Gordy said. “We actually gave money away after a lot of meetings,” Campbell joked. “ ‘This is for you. We want you to make a movie.’ ” Both credit Gary Newton for getting “Antiquities” shot. Gordy said he’d been especially impressed by how much effort Newton, the CEO of Arkansas Learns, a former vice president of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and a former Little Rock film commissioner, had put into trying to get “Quarry” to shoot in Arkansas. He’d “contacted all these people to essentially say, ‘This could be a soundstage. These people are willing to donate gas. These people are willing to donate lumber.’ ” Together with Newton, Gordy and Campbell formed Mortuus Pater Pictures and were able to raise the money — around $650,000 — to make the film. “Gary got us in the doors of folks we’d never have gotten into without him,” Campbell said.

The film shoot took place over a month in fall 2016. Galaxy Furniture in North Little Rock stood in for the antique mall. “Antiquities” had its world premiere at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles at the Dances With Films festival in June. It’s slated for several other festivals later this year, and Gordy and Campbell say they have several distribution offers they’re considering.

Gordy said the goal is to make their investors “at least $1, learn our lessons and get to make some more.

“If Arkansas can’t necessarily match [tax] incentives that Georgia or some other state does, our best chance of doing this is to raise a little bit of money and show people around here that [making movies] can be profitable and then hope to make another one, and hope to make another one.”

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Labor of love

probably should’ve named it something else.” In the film, Walt (Andrew J. West, perhaps known best for his stint on “The Walking Dead”) returns to his hometown after his father’s death hoping to find out more about him. That means working his dad’s old job in an antique mall aside a host of characters, who, in various ways, are also living in the past. Most of those roles are played by actors you’ll recognize from TV and movies, such as Greene (“Twilight”), Michaela Watkins (“Casual,” “Saturday Night Live”) and Michael Gladis (Paul Kinsey on “Mad Men”). But locals Gordy and Scott nearly steal the show.

Gordy, with a substantial mustache and a Southern-dandy accent, plays Jimmy Lee, whose booth in the antique mall recreates various Christmas scenes from his childhood. Scott, known locally as a longtime host of “The Show With No Name” on KABZ-FM, 103.7, “The Buzz,” reprises his role as the hilariously acerbic Blundale, who is obsessed with the Civil War and resentful that his mother, who owns the mall, has put her much younger second husband, Dewey Ray, in charge.

Campbell said he got some pushback during the casting of the movie about sticking with Scott, but he said, “I was very adamant about going with Roger. I knew it needed to be someone that no one knew.” One could imagine, based on his role in “Antiquities,” Scott landing the sort of “hilarious asshole” roles Danny McBride (“Pineapple Express”) has made a career of.

The most famous cast member, Mary Steenburgen, plays Walt’s therapist. She shares her scenes with a mouthy “therapy” parrot.

After they finished writing “Antiquities,” Gordy and Campbell stayed busy.

Gordy co-created “Quarry” for Cinemax. Campbell wrote and directed two more shorts, “The Orderly” and “The Discontentment of Ed Telfair,” both of which also took home Charles B. Pierce

Movie movement ‘Survivors Guide to Prison’ tackles a broken criminal justice system.

BY MOLLY MITCHELL

Can you give a quick summary of what “Survivors Guide to Prison” is about?

David: “Survivors Guide to Prison” is a look at our failed prison system. We follow the experience of three people who are wrongly accused. We tell their story and, through the process, give you HOPING TO GET THE CONVERSATION GOING: Producer David Arquette and director tips on what to do if you get arrested, Matthew Cooke. since you have more of a chance of going to jail in America than anywhere else in the world. treated and how inhumane the condi- survivors, as opposed to inmates or Christina: Some of the people in the tions are. By the end of the film, we prisoners. Could you tell me about film — like Bruce Lisker, for example, hope to offer up solutions and hope. the choice to frame it that way?

Reggie Cole, Susan Mellen, all of them — That’s why, at the end, we close the film David: Yeah, exactly. When you say spent decades behind bars for murders by saying, “This is not just a film, it’s a prisoner or inmate, it typically dehuthey did not commit. But what’s inter- movement,” because we hope to get a manizes them. It takes away the fact that esting about the film is that it doesn’t conversation going. they’re people who have made mistakes. just talk about the wrongly accused, but But who among us hasn’t? So, the idea about those who did commit crimes It’s unusual to hear people who behind that is, you know, you are a surand did go to prison, and how they’re have gone to prison referred to as vivor if you make it through these terVICTOR CHALFANT

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iving in America means that your chances of going to jail are higher than they’d be anywhere else in the world. “Survivors Guide to Prison,” the 2018 documentary film from producers David and Christina Arquette and director Matthew Cooke, provides those statistics and details the necessary steps to take if you find yourself looking at a prison sentence. It also explores the deep dysfunction in the United States criminal justice system through the tragic stories of real people who experienced it firsthand, including two men who spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at CALS Ron Robinson Theater, and a discussion with Cooke and the Arquettes follows.

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rible conditions. Matthew [Cooke] specifically wanted to identify it that way so that it would bring some empathy.

And saying things like this, we’re not in any way trying to minimize the crimes that people have done, or the pain that the victims have gone through.

But the fact of the matter is that the system is broken. It’s not working.

Christina: Also, statistics-wise, there are over 5,000 jails and prisons in the United States. That’s more than we have colleges and universities. The reason we decided to call people like Reggie Cole a survivor is because he actually had to kill another man while in prison to have his first case even looked at. And when they looked at his first case, they discovered he never should have been in prison in the first place. So we decided, you know, Reggie really is a real survivor.

It wasn’t like a joyous occasion when he was released from prison. He was scared. He didn’t have resources necessarily to get himself back where he wanted. He has a daughter, and he’s trying to be a great role model to her and keep himself positive.

You know, it’s just horrific, some of these stories. While I know people that have gone to prison — and David taught an acting class at San Quentin, so that was his personal experience — as a mother or human being not to stand up and say something about a broken, corrupt system like this just doesn’t feel right. So, that’s why we got involved.

I mean, it’s insane. I think that it could happen to you. It could happen to anybody.

Can David talk about his experience teaching the acting class?

David: I went to San Quentin with Sundance Channel, and the people that I was working with were making films about their experience. Short films.

It was eye-opening. How hungry for knowledge they were, how excited they were to create. They really got joy out of it.

really get upset with each other. So it was tricky. But it was a great experience.

never returned. So that alone just shows you.

If punishment doesn’t work, what does?

David: Rehabilitation, therapy, the arts. When victims of crimes present their experience.

Christina: Restorative justice programs.

David: Yeah.

Christina: They’re very hard to execute. But you see them in the film; you’ll see a mother who lost her son to

What are you most proud of about the experience of making the film?

Christina: We did have the chance to take it to Capitol Hill and screen it there. That was pretty unbelievable. We were all just sort of taken aback by that experience.

David: For me, it’s been seeing Christina become a producer on her first film, and she just knocks it out of the park.

She was so unbelievable. That was my proudest moment.

Christina: Awww! And now being able to bring it home to Arkansas, that’s really fun, because I’m from Arkansas. It means the world to me. We got to participate in the Bentonville Film Festival — which was an unbelievably well run film festival — and now, to be part of the Arkansas Cinema Society is just really special.

Since the mission of Filmland is to inspire Arkansas filmmakers, do you have any advice for local filmmakers?

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David: This whole business ultimately comes down to selfdrive. You propel your own career and experience, and it’s full of rejection, but you can’t take it personally. You just have to keep going. What’s great about something like the Arkansas Cinema Society is that it’s communitybased, so if you involve people within the community that have been there before, find mentors that you can ask questions, and Toward the beginning, use the resources within your the film mentions that the community — write a script speaverage American commits cifically for a location that you ‘NEVER BE SCARED TO ASK’: That’s producer and Hope native Christina Arquette’s advice to fledgling filmmakers looking for collaborators. She’s here with director Matthew Cooke (left) and her three felonies a day. know, or cast people that you husband, David Arquette. work with or that are in the film Christina: Without even or theater community — it just knowing it! Because there are all comes together when you use so many laws on the books. Yeah, it’s I mean, that’s part of the process. a violent crime, and she’s speaking to a those resources. kind of shocking.

You have to give people a direction and group of men and women who commitChristina: When I was a college stusome self-worth, and we’re such a soci- ted crimes very similar. There’s a heal- dent, I had a mentor named Dennis It is shocking. What would you say ety of punishment. And the punishment ing process that happens between the Swanson who was really a legend in the to someone who might contend that model has been proven not to work. In victim and the offender, and that heal- television news business, and the greatif you don’t commit any crimes, you the way we raise our kids, and just in ing process has proven to be incredibly est piece of advice he ever gave to me don’t have anything to worry about? society in general. effective and is one of the many pro- was: Never be scared to ask. The worst Christina: That it could happen to It was great working with them. grams that we discuss. There’s all sorts thing you’re going to hear is ‘no.’ Even you. Same as Reggie says very clearly There were also moments where I had of things — meditation and, like David to this day, when I email people and I’m in the film. There’s also another case them doing an improvisational exer- said, arts and therapy and education. kind of like “Oh, I don’t know if I want that’s laid out where a grandfather and cise, and it got a little tough, you know David: If you get a master’s degree in to ask,” the worst case you’re going to his daughter enrolled her child in the … they’re tough dudes. You don’t want prison, you have a zero percent chance get is “no.” And that’s not that big of a wrong school district and the grandfa- someone to make fun of someone during of returning to prison. Everyone who’s deal. Even if you get a no, there’s always ther went away and never came home. an acting class and then they get out and done the master’s degree in prison has going to be a yes somewhere else.

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A&E NEWS GALACTIC SCOUNDRELS, a spaceWestern storytelling card game created by a group of UA Little Rock employees, students and alumni, is set for an initial production run of around 800 units that will finish in January 2019. The game’s creators, who call themselves Little Rock Game Designers, started an affiliated company, Little Rock Games, which raised $27,430 for game development through a crowd-funding campaign, far exceeding their goal of $17,000. Meanwhile, a press release reads, the game’s developers — UA Little Rock Department of Rhetoric and Writing Professor Joseph Williams, graduate students Tanner Marshall and Olivia Dunlap, alumnus Robbie Hunt and faculty members Brad Sims and Kevin Cate — are already working on the next project, “To the Rescue.” In it, players learn how to run an animal shelter and help real-world shelters by supporting the game. “People can make it a charity experience for themselves,” Williams said.

“We believe that games can be more than entertainment, that they can be used to do something meaningful in the world.

This is a game that definitely fits that category.”

A NEW BOOK of photography from University of Arkansas Press, “It’s All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1943,” contains over 200 images of Depression-era Arkansas from Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Russell Lee and other photographers. Author Patsy G. Watkins, who chose the images from around a quarter-million photos in the FSA collection, “joined these photographs with discussions on the topics most relevant to Depression-era Arkansans, including cotton; tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and rehabilitation clients; resettlement farms; and the Flood of 1937,” a press release reads. Watkins, who recently retired as professor and former chairwoman of the university’s journalism department, will sign copies of the book at the Fayetteville Public Library at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

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ROHWER HISTORIANS, TAKE NOTE: Several references to the Arkansas interment camp pop up in “Isako Isako,” a debut book of poetry by Mia Ayumi Malhotra, out Sept. 4 from publisher Alice James.

The book “follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans,” a press release reads, “to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma — internment, mass displacement and rampant racism — in the United States, and how it weaves together with current events.” See alicejamesbooks.org for details.

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THURSDAY 8/23

FRIDAY 8/24

JONAH MATRANGA, THE PAUSES, I WAS AFRAID, HEADCOLD

JAMIE LOU AND THE HULLABALOO

8 p.m. White Water Tavern. $12-$15.

10 p.m. Four Quarter Bar. $7.

Here to prove — as he did two decades ago with a 1998 record called “Water & Solutions” — that one need not abandon melody or backbeat to make confessional music is Jonah Matranga. And, instead of getting surly about playing a set full of songs from the era of Barenaked Ladies and Marcy Playground, Matranga — an author, artist, poet and father best known for his work with Far and under the name onelinedrawing — rings in the anniversary by playing “Water & Solutions” in its entirety on a U.S. tour. To that end, Matranga’s been joining forces with The Pauses, an enchanting, muscular outfit helmed by the brilliant Tierny Tough; if tour precedent holds, The Pauses will both open the show and act as Matranga’s backing band. The traditional gift for a 20th anniversary is china, but with sets from I Was Afraid and Headcold on the bill, you may want to opt for something a little more shatterproof. SS

Maybe children, tinnitis or a general proclivity for early bedtimes have kept you away from seeing a lot of live music in the last calendar year. Nevertheless, you’re likely to have come across Jamie Lou Connolly’s voice — alternately sweet and soaring — on a commercial for the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. Sunny as the ad spot is, it doesn’t hold a candle to hearing Connolly and her outfit — a runner-up who rounded a corner and took home the championship at this year’s Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase — in the flesh. The tight-knit ensemble (with two newlyweds at the helm) takes the stage Friday night at Four Quarter Bar, a historic Argenta spot as beloved for its late-night menu as it is for its consistently stellar musical lineup. SS

‘GIRL, FRIEND’: T-Rextasy gets Jurassic at Stickyz Thursday night, with Sabine Valley.

THURSDAY 8/23

T-REXTASY 8:30 p.m. Stickyz. $8.

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First things first: T-Rextasy is not to be confused with T.Rextasy, a tribute band dedicated to the sweet glam of Marc Bolan and company. Little Rock is about to be graced by TRextasy with the hyphen — not the dot — and it makes all the difference. T-Rextasy is an all-female New York pop-punk band with more than a little touch of cutesy and twee vocals over speedy, driven instrumentation. If we pulled their DNA, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a heritage mishmash of maybe 22 percent Shonen Knife layered with respectable doses of L7, La Luz and the actual Powerpuff Girls. The fun surprise, though, is in the clever and sometimes cutting lyrics about feminist issues, privilege and queer politics, delivered with a healthy dose of the funny. The band’s 2016 debut, “Jurassic Punk,” garnered positive reviews from many corners, including National Public Radio, which listed the bitingly comic “Gap Yr Boiz” on its list of “Songs We Love.” The summer of 2018 has seen a release of their fun single, “Girl, Friend,” exploring the various combinations and possibilities contained within the title, over a sugar-sweet catchy beat. This one’s gonna be fun. You have our written permission to break your “no weekday shows” rule.

Get on out. Sabine Valley, finalist and crowd fave in the 2018 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase, opens the show. GH

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IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 8/23 The next Potluck & Poison Ivy storytelling series features live music from Sizik Westbrook (Josh Stoffer) and stories from Rhonda Owen, Gay Lee and brave audience members, the Joint Theater and Coffeehouse, 7 p.m., $35. The Progressive Arkansas Women’s PAC hosts “Dames, Dems & Drinks” at the Albert Pike Masonic Center, 6 p.m., $75. Arkansas Symphony Orchestra musicians team up with University of Central Arkansas faculty members for “An Evening with Spanish Music,” a fundraiser for the group’s performance in Granada, Spain, later this month, 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church of Jacksonville, donations. Johnny Beehner, one of the last comedians to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman, takes his act to The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. The MacArthur Museum of Military History hosts Arkie Pub Trivia at Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m., free. The Gold Show Drag Show kicks off at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $5. Chuck Pack entertains at Cajun’s Wharf for happy hour, 5:30 p.m., free; Darrell Claypool & Illusion Allstars follow, 9 p.m., $5. Arkansas State University in Jonesboro opens the exhibition “Body Parts” in the Bradbury Museum with a reception, 5 p.m.

LYRICS IN STRATA: Colour Design shares a bill with Modeling and Tyler Tradewell at Capitol View Studio Friday night.

FRIDAY 8/24

FRIDAY 8/24

COLOUR DESIGN, MODELING, TYLER TRADEWELL 9 p.m. Capitol View Studio. $10.

If the Cocteau Twins’ “Four-Calendar Cafe” has taught me anything, it’s that you don’t necessarily need to know the words to a song to have it committed to memory. For me, Colour Design’s “They Don’t Exist” lives on this same layers-before-lyrics terrain. With the exception of the wrenching “Twenty Seasons,” Shawn Hood’s voice is shrouded in guitar strata, self-aware enough to melt into its place within the sprawling ensemble sound, urgent and shrewd enough to soar above it. If you haven’t seen them live, you couldn’t have happened upon a more fitting setting: Capitol View Studio shows are intimate and communal by design. For a peek at the rest of the bill, dig the single-take spell cast in the video for “Apex” by Modeling (formerly Move Orchestra), a Fayetteville-based trio of brothers as skilled in mesmerizing the eye as they are the ear; and fellow Fayetteville musician Tyler Tradewell’s austere, plaintive “Stayed Too Long.” SS

FRIDAY 8/24-SUNDAY 8/26

QUANTUM FLUX 6 Noon Fri.-Sat. Cadron Creek Outfitters. $56-$120.

If the words “space force” have registered in your retinas with enough frequency to leave you considering the potential benefits of an off-the-grid lifestyle, here’s some water in which to dip the toe. A few times a year, a bunch of people loosely identified as the “Flux Family” gather around the banks of Cadron Creek’s North Fork and camp out, occupying the hours with funk and pulsating psychedelic dance music, late-night light shows, juggling workshops, organic food, fire circles, fractal paintings, swimming and general spiritual communion. Think:

Burning Man, Faulkner County-style. This late-summer edition features workshops on hula “knee hooping,” laughter yoga, essential oils and music theory, plus an all-day lineup of sets from Spoonfed Tribe, The Rios, Open Fields, Charlie Askew, Vintage Pistol and too many EDM sets to count. These festivals are wildly popular; grab RV passes and camping reservations at fluxfamily.com beforehand and, especially if you hope to camp down the abominably steep hill next to the creek, pack light and wear comfortable shoes. SS

Early aughts country radio royalty Rascal Flatts holds court at the Murphy Arts District Amphitheater in El Dorado, 7 p.m., $52-$63. Quapaw Native American Graves Protection Repatriation Act Program Director Carrie Wilson will speak at Curran Hall for the Quapaw Quarter Association’s “Preservation Conversations” series, 6 p.m., free. Revered local vocalist and educator I.J. Routen sits in with the Clyde Pound Trio at the Ohio Club in Hot Springs, 7 p.m. Elsewhere in Hot Springs, Aaron Owens performs at Oaklawn Racing & Gaming’s Silks Bar & Grill, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., free. Believe it or … well, believe it! Tragikly White is a quarter-century old, and the dance cover band plays a free show at the Rev Room in celebration/fan appreciation, 10 p.m. Over at Stickyz, Modern Measure blends pulsating visuals and throbbing synth instrumentation in its hybrid live-electronic show, 9 p.m., $10-$13. No Convictions, Two-Piece and Eyes Up share a heavy music bill at Vino’s, 8 p.m., $12.

Howard & Skye duet at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 7:30 p.m. Voodoo Fix plays the late night set at West End Smokehouse, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $7. Adam Tilly plays a free set for happy hour at Cajun’s, 5:30 p.m., Mister Lucky follows on the main stage, 9 p.m., $5.

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LAST CALL FOR BASEBALL: The Arkansas Travelers enter the home stretch of this year’s baseball season.

SATURDAY 8/25-MONDAY 8/27

ARKANSAS TRAVELERS VS. NORTHWEST ARKANSAS NATURALS 6:10 p.m. Sat., 2:10 p.m. Sun., 7:10 p.m. Mon. Dickey-Stephens Park. $7-$13.

Lawd, this summer has been almost too hot for baseball, right?

We’ve been in the “let’s wait until it’s cooler” mode for too long and — whoops! — the Travs are suddenly right up on their final homestand of the regular season.

Time to suck it up and head to the park! To play catch-up a bit: The Travelers have been hav-

ing a decent year, winning the ond-half title on the line? Nab first-half division title outright some tickets and find out. If you and sitting just outside of first need some additional incentives, place as the second half nears the final homestand is heavy on an end. Standing in the way? the promos: On Saturday, the The Northwest Arkansas Natu- first 1,000 fans get a mobile rals, who have been pretty much phone holder/stand. Sunday is owning the Travs this year. Can “Photo With A Trav” day, kids get the Travs come through when it to run the bases after the game, counts the most, with the sec- plus it’s First Responders Appre-

SUNDAY 8/26

TUESDAY 8/28

THREE ON A STRING

VINCAS, OR

5 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Free.

9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

Folks, this is good, clean fun. To end a series of alternatives masses — including a Taize service, a Gregorian chant service and a bluegrass mass (with a deviled egg cookoff!) — Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is bringing in Birmingham, Ala., based Three on a String. They’re a band, but they’re also a vibe. And that vibe is khaki shorts. Where do khaki shorts be-

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long? Alternative liturgies. This is a match made in heaven — and generally God-approved. Three on a String perform a vaudeville throwback show of bluegrass music, (grand)dad comedy and PG hijinks, and the group’s been performing for 45 years, notably in front of Presidents Bush and Reagan. A trustworthy, family-friendly performance awaits. JR

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ciation Day. The regular season wraps up Monday, with “Bark in the Ballpark” ($1 general admission tickets for those who bring a dog) and free train rides for the kids. Yep, it’ll undoubtedly be a sweaty and sticky old time, but that’s what the Icees and other cold beverages are for. See ya on the berm. GH

Blood is red, periwinkle is blue sit down to write with this band, I’m and Vincas — a heavy-as-hell noise in a more aggressive headspace,” said rock band from Georgia named after Chris McNeal, frontman of the band, (I assume) the botanical genus for the to Athens-based Flagpole. In fact, yes, periwinkle plant — will destroy you. the color for Vincas is not the periwinHow? With songs like “Murder” and kle of their namesake flower or the “Death March” and “Love Noose” and blood red of their first record title — it “Dead and Alone” and “Deadache.” is sludge black, the color of the dark You get the idea, but just in case, here mud in which the vinca plant swarms, are their two albums: “Blood Bleeds” “invad[ing] a piece of land,” according and “Deep in the Well.” Both, re- to its encyclopedia entry. I’m sure the cords, of course, brood. They’re full band’s inky sound will creep around up of tar-black and bass-heavy noise the bar, filling White Water with horrock, sprinkled with psychedelia and rific shadows, especially as primed by post-punk. “Most of the time when I locals Or. JR

IN BRIEF, CONT. Brothers land at Kings Live Music in Conway, with Caleb Patton, 8:30 p.m., $5. The Akeem Kemp Band takes the stage at Markham Street Grill & Pub, 8:30 p.m. The William F. Laman Library hosts a reception for the Arkansas Society of Printmakers show, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY 8/28

PRIDECORPS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

SATURDAY 8/25

5:30 p.m. Boswell Mourot Fine Art. Donations.

The Big Dam Horns shake the rafters at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. Meanwhile, tress-blessed blues rockers Greasy Tree turn it up at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. Jody Seabody and The Whirls share a lively bill at Maxine’s with local dream rockers Landrest and rapper Kyle Hubbard, 9 p.m., $5. Southern rockers DeFrance play for the home state crowd at TC’s Midtown Grill in Conway, 9 p.m. Smooth jazz saxophonist Grady Nichols plays at the Hotel Hot Springs & Spa to raise funds for the Lupus Foundation of Arkansas, 7:15 p.m., $35-$40. Acapella Rising (formerly the Diamond State Men’s Chorus) joins the Crossroads Quartet for two shows at UA Pulaski Technical College’s Center for the Humanities and Arts, 2 p.m., $20, and 7 p.m., $25, see acapellarising.com for tickets.

Songwriter Jeff Bates takes the stage at Jimmy Doyle’s Country Club, with the Luke Williams Band, 8 p.m., $20$30. The Hollow Jets, The Streakers and Good Monday get loud at Vino’s, 8 p.m., $8. Trey Johnson & The Droppers keep the dance floor full at Cajun’s, 9 p.m., $5. Suave frontman Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces take the stage at Kings Live Music in Conway, with Joey Fanstar, 8:30 p.m., $5. In Fayetteville, the Couch Jackets send their hallucinogenic rock into the rafters at Smoke & Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. Jet 420 fires up a set at Thirst N’ Howl Bar and Grill, 8:30 p.m.

We write a lot about the mission of Central Arkansas nonprofit Lucie’s Place in the Arkansas Times, but supporting LGBTQ young adults in meaningful ways takes a village. Enter Pridecorps, an outreach group founded in 2014 for LGBTQ youth ages 13-20.

The group meets biweekly at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church for panel discussions on mental health, wellness and nutrition, substance

abuse, suicide prevention, safe sex, bullying and self-esteem. It also offers community-building activities: yoga, bowling, geocaching, cooking classes.

To celebrate the mission’s fourth anniversary, Pridecorps is throwing a party at Boswell Mourot Fine Art, where you can find out more about the work being done to make life a little safer and more fulfilling for young people in the LGBTQ community. SS

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‘THAT SANTA FE CHANNEL’: Cordovas storms into Stickyz Wednesday evening.

SUNDAY 8/26

WEDNESDAY 8/29

YouTube sensation turned pop darling/producer Charlie Puth gives a concert at the Walmart AMP in Rogers, with Hailee Steinfeld, 7:30 p.m., $32-$80.

CORDOVAS 8:30 p.m. Stickyz. $10.

If the Grateful Dead or The Band’s “Big Pink” are in your regular rotation, do yourself a solid and get to Stickyz on Wednesday night. The Cordovas, were they not born a generation too late, could’ve warmed up the crowd for the taping of “The Last Waltz,” and, like Levon Helm, frontman and North Carolina native Joe Firstman left home only to discover that the rest of the country was head over heels for the music of the American South. Cue up “Louisiana Hurricane” on the band’s website, where multiple movements therein emulate a storm with an unspoken implication that natural disaster wreaks its havoc most cruelly on those clinging to the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, just above the highwater mark. It’s the kind of outfit where everyone sings, everyone’s a virtuoso, everyone shares the same inner eighth note pulse and arrangements feel like they’ve been set in stone for decades. The quintet brought in Milk Carton Kids’ Kenneth Pattengale to produce their latest, “That Santa Fe Channel,” in which guitars glitter and airtight harmonies hold sway. SS

MONDAY 8/27 Comedian Steven Farmer lands at Stone’s Throw Brewing on his tour of breweries across America, 7 p.m., $15.

Dig out your best beret and sonnets: Dive Bar Poets kicks off with poems from RJ Looney, Zachary Crow and others at White Water, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 8/29 Songwriter Will Stewart stares down his native Birmingham with tunes from “County Seat,” aided by an expatriate perspective and pedal steel, 8 p.m., Four Quarter Bar. $5.

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IT’S A LONG WAY OFF, but folks are pretty excited about the news that Ian Beard and Co. will open a second Stone’s Throw Brewing, this time at 3015 W. Markham St., straddling the Stifft StationHillcrest divide. The bar will open in the Allen Building, most recently the home of incense and Indian cotton supply-store Sandalwood Forest, which abuts the parking lot at the Johnson and Markham streets intersection. That is just across the street from Stone Throw’s pop-up in July in the Meteor building.

Landlord Brian Teeter is applying for historic tax credits to restore the 1,650-square-foot Allen Building and the adjoining Coley Building (Buice Drug Store) to their early 20th century look, uncovering the tin ceilings and replastering the walls. That means the bar probably won’t be open before the end of the year.

The new spot will have twice the seating as the mother bar at 402 E. Ninth St. and will also have 20 beers on tap, Stone’s Throws brews and other local craft suds.

It will also serve its cider brew and have wine for the swells. It won’t have a kitchen; fans will have three places within walking distance for food, Beard noted.

Beard had been thinking about opening a second bar in midtown; the feedback to the popup confirmed his belief that the neighborhood would support the bar. He may create a beer for the area, as he did for the Riverdale neighborhood.

But what about parking? We car-reliant residents of Little Rock always ask. The parking lot west of the Allen Building will be resurfaced and striped for 10 parking spots, and Beard expects a lot of walk-in traffic from the neighborhoods.

ITS GRAND OPENING is a month away, on Sept. 27, but you can already get local craft beer, hamburgers and more at Live Life Chill in the former restaurant space at Revolution, 300 President Clinton Ave. “Make America Chill Again” is the motto for the bar/restaurant, which includes outdoor seating on a patio behind the bar.

The bar/restaurant and the Rev Room are also hosting the Saturday after-party for the Arkansas Cinema Society’s Filmland festival. Check the website for hours. The grand opening’s ribbon-cutting ceremony is at 11 a.m.

THE ANNUAL Frisco Festival brings lots of food, music, craft vendors, ballet, trampolines, train rides, a climbing wall and who knows what else to Rogers on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. The beer garden will include Ozark Beer Co., New Province and Anheuser-Busch suds; the CattyWampus Co-op is bringing the crafts (First and Elm streets); The Boss Tweeds, Ben Del Shreve, the Sweet Spots, Will Brand, Honey Shuffle, Dr. NOLA & the Soul Shakers and others will bring the music; Ballet Folklorico and Ballet Westside will bring the moves.

The festival opens at 5 p.m. Friday and closes at 10 p.m. Saturday.

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OUTSTANDING DELI IN A GROCERY STORE: Edwards’ cafeteria serves up food to satisfy soul and stomach.

Lunch counter love letter Get to Edwards Cash Saver.

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he Edwards Cash Saver on standing hot deli counter on the right- bread and a drink will set you back the corner of 17th and Main hand side of the store. $6.36, a fish plate $7.27. streets in downtown Little We have been a weekday lunch regOn the lunch menu, the only other Rock is probably the most ular at this cafeteria alcove for some category aside from meat is vegetaunderrated grocery store in Central years now, taking great pleasure in a ble. The mac and cheese (it counts as Arkansas. On more than one occasion, midday walk from work to the call of a a vegetable) is top-shelf: big elbows we have chatted with fellow South clamshell piled high with savory clas- smothered in a thick, creamy cheese Main denizens, friends in the Cen- sics. Any establishment that proudly sauce that likely includes some cousin tral High or Wright Avenue neighbor- proffers “snack boxes” is speaking our of Velveeta. hoods who outsource their sundry- language.

The vegetable plate ($5.45 for three, runs to stores completely out of the The offerings on any given day plus bread and drink) is a personal way, despite living just blocks from vary slightly but are reliably of the favorite and can yield any number of a true wellspring of food and com- soul-food persuasion. Notable meats combinations — crisp fried okra, sweet munity. include a cornmeal breaded catfish fil- chunky yams, pinto beans, green Let us be the first to shout it from let or catfish steak (bone-in), pork ribs beans, onion rings, potato wedges, the rooftops: Edwards is depend- doused in a sticky-sweet BBQ sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, hush able, welcoming and hands-down the fried chicken, chicken tenders, baked puppies, collard greens that melt in cheapest place to buy beer in town. chicken, chicken and dumplings, and your mouth and a wicked concoction Best of all: Edwards is home to an out- meat loaf. A meat-and-two plate with called Dorito casserole (think pulled

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chicken, cream of mushroom soup, Doritos and cheese — yes!). Though the variety of vegetable sides is plentiful, the offerings are not exactly vegetarian friendly, as most everything is slow-cooked with turkey meat.

This week, we visited the deli counter for breakfast for the first time.

Bright and early at 7 a.m., we found a glass case stocked with fluffy biscuits and gravy, sausage patties, sausage links, hash browns, rice and grits, eggs and buttered toast. We were especially pleased by the generous helping of silky, peppered gravy bathing our biscuits.

The food selection at the “Main Street Cafe,” as the menu board would have it, is not trying to reinvent anything at all — in fact, quite the opposite. The dishes are simple and universally appealing. They are reasonably priced, and you can make it through the line and check out in under five minutes.

Next to the counter is a small seating area with old-school laminate contour booths — not particularly comfortable, but perfect vantage posts to people-watch and dig into your lunch box. The color scheme is fluorescent white and fire-engine red.

The lunch counter is a great equalizer at Edwards, where folks get in line together to list off the sides they’d like, ask for Texas Pete hot sauce, sweet or

Edwards Cash Saver 1701 Main St. 376-3473 Quick bite

A handful of prepacked salads, spreads and desserts are available at the deli.

The banana pudding is delicious; pimento cheese is offered in classic and jalapeño varieties; look for the pistachio salad and Hawaiian salad.

Hours

Breakfast: 7 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.

Monday through Saturday.

Lunch: 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

unsweet tea. We have stood next to police officers and firefighters, teenagers on a summer date, families coming straight from church, homeless people, skilled trades people and business people in suits. It is a place where you can be anonymous or talk to a stranger for an hour.

And may we suggest, for those who prefer to take their box to go: Carry that meal to a nearby spot — to Pettaway Park or Bernice Garden or MacArthur Park. Because Edwards is smack-dab in the middle of our urban landscape, and it’s surrounded by great places to take a break, sit for a while and eat a healthy portion of comfort food.

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Representation and the rom-com ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ feels crazy familiar.

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hen people describe and that her family will be heading to “Crazy Rich Asians” their room. These are your old white and its “all-Asian” cast, men in this story: prim suits, esteemed they’re clearly forgetting accents, totally useless. the movie’s first scene. There, in the The demographics of the cast were ’90s, a family from Singapore arrives the big story with the film’s debut. In at a luxury London hotel on a stormy the United States, people of Asian backnight, only to have the smug white desk grounds make up 11 percent of frequent clerks disavow the reservation — maybe moviegoers; they were 38 percent of the lady would like to check hotels in the audience in that first weekend. But Chinatown? Back into the rain goes aside from its setting — mostly in Sinthe mother (Michelle Yeoh, of like, gapore, a stunning fever dream of a city 90 things, but none more iconic than — the contours will feel comfortably “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) for familiar to anyone who enjoys a smart one call in a phone booth. She then fish-out-of-water rom-com with a swirl returns to inform the Englishmen that of Cinderella. It’s a comfortable time at her husband has just bought the hotel, the movies, in other words, that lands a

few bust-out laughs and some genuine the smart, affable, humble Rachel quite pathos, and looks fabulous throughout. charming: the flamboyant cousin (Nico Your couple? Hip New Yorkers Santos), her old college buddy (AwkwaRachel (Constance Wu of “Fresh Off the fina, always bringin’ it like a bat out of Boat”) and Nick (Henry Golding). He’s hell), and a few others you’ll recognize Disney-prince handsome, if a bit bland, (Jimmy O. Yang of “Silicon Valley” as with a posh accent and a big invite: After a lavishly trashy rich kid, Ken Jeong of a year of dating, he’d like her to come “Hangover” fame). Decidedly undermeet his family at a wedding in Singa- whelmed is Nick’s mom. Her slow-burn pore where he’s the best man. She’s showdown with Rachel shapes the conan NYU game theory prof whose sin- tours of the film, and drives closer to gle Chinese immigrant mother advises the heart of the immigrant experience Rachel early on that she’ll have an uphill in the States than the crazy/rich/craslog convincing Nick’s mom that they zyrichness of the rest of the production belong together. And this is before — — the helicopter rides, the sprawling surprise, Rach — they even know the mansions, the models-for-hire. first thing about Nick’s family.

Director John M. Chu, working with Oh, and that first thing happens to the screenplay from Kevin Kwan’s 2013 be: The Youngs are old-money Sin- hit novel of the same name, manages to gapore quasi-royal gazillionaires (the balance the ostentatious wealth against sort who can buy London hotels with the lives new immigrants to the States a phone call) and Nick, as the oldest, experience. That is: Work your ass off, most-put-together son, stands to inherit don’t complain, fight past some kind the real estate empire. How Rachel, of marginalization by your peers, keep an economics professor with Google working your ass off. Pretty much every access, never managed to put a single bit immigrant or first-generation American of this together before they’re getting has a tale that sounds like this, if you into a double-bedded first-class pod on slow down and listen. Or, as it turns out, their flight to Singapore is a plot hole if you make a big-budget Hollywood left for the presumed prequel, “Rachel’s blowout that feels thoroughly Asian Year of Going Amish.” in its style and yet fully American in It turns out that a lot of people find its storytelling. arktimes.com AUGUST 23, 2018

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