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On May 12, voters in Eureka Springs will decide whether the city’s LGBT protection ordinance stays or goes.

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In-prison visits important Thank you for writing about the existing and the looming video visitation services for families of the incarcerated in our state’s jails and prisons. I have feared this technology and its potential for harm ever since the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners have no rights to visits, not even by their children (Bazetta v. Overton case). Certainly, in-person visits can be costly, providing security for the visits, but once more, the costs are greatly offset by the value of an in-person visit with the children and most visits serve as motivations for the incarcerated parent to abide by the rules and maintain positive behavior. I have talked with wardens in 42 prisons and jails in 14 states that have created more child-friendly visits.

They often report that the culture of their facilities is enhanced with more cooperation and positive reactions.

Again, the importance of the parentchild visits allows the maintenance of the relationship of the parent and child, as most parents will be home during their child’s minor years. A video visit for 30 minutes in a fee-for-service session does very little to improve the relationship.

There are cases when video visits are valuable: I am sure the families of our deployed soldiers, as well as prisoners and their families, who are separated by hundreds of miles, are grateful for video visits. But that is not the case in Arkansas.

I was hopeful that our state prison board and directors would not pursue video visiting, as the funds could be better used for our families by providing funding to help with travel and overnight stays rather than resorting to this sort of poor contact. The Arkansas Department of Correction has a history of intermittent efforts to become child-friendlier, but the agency and the board have recently been more neglectful of the consideration of the children’s needs. There is not a uniform policy to support parentchild contact. Indeed, there are many ill-informed judges, caseworkers, therapists and caregivers who oppose children visiting with their incarcerated parents.

Their positions violate research and the direct experiences of the children who want to visit. Indeed, it would have been helpful if the board had talked with family members about the implementation of video visits in our prisons, to insure their perspective was considered.

In our recent survey of families of the incarcerated whom we serve now or have served in the past more than 90 percent of 232 caregivers and youth found video visiting as unsatisfactory compared to a direct visit, either through the window 4

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with a phone or a direct contact visit.

Many also felt fearful that such video visits would replace a contact visit, something implied in ADC spokesperson Cathy Frye’s comments to the Times.

We will all benefit from sustaining these families, not destroying them.

Dee Ann Newell Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind

From the web In response to last week’s cover story, “A killing in Pocahontas”: Wow! Great story.

The national media offered this tale as an emblem of SouthA KILLING IN POCAHONTAS ern Grotesque?

That might be an understatement. Even the names are perfect: Bob Sam Castleman. His girlfriend, Becky Spray. B.S.’s son had a girlfriend named “Fanci.”

My grandfather, who often mixed his metaphors, had a saying for a sad and sordid account such as this. He always said that a snake in a box is worth two in the grass.

Again, good job.

Where does the Times get all these talented writers?

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A WITNESS MURDERED, A DRUG RING EXPOSED, A SNAKE IN A BOX.

BY WILL STEPHENSON

The irony of this story is that the son, who the father was trying to protect, eventually “turned” on his father in an effort to get a lighter sentence. I’ve

always heard there is no honor among thieves and drug dealers, and this story proves it!

RYD I grew up in Dalton, just outside of Pocahontas. When I was still young, my family moved to Paragould, two weeks after my best friend, at the time, Felicia Elliot’s family had been murdered and she had gone missing. I still visited there a few times a year until I moved to Idaho. I was too young to know about the Perkins case, but I do remember the building he lived in. But I can say with absolute certainty that Pocahontas is a cancer on society as a whole. Very few decent people still live there. It has become a melting pot for drug dealers, drug abusers, thieves, murderers, and the like.

Cody James Bradford In response to “New anti-choice laws in Arkansas pose danger to women”: The ACLU of Arkansas kept a very low profile this session for one reason: to help those who wanted to do the right thing do it.

So, while we were hardly visible on many bills, we quietly but assiduously fought these measures that endanger women’s health and interfere in their most private, personal decisions. Our efforts, and those of intelligent, reasonable and compassionate legislators on both sides of the aisle who are sick to death of these political score-keeping measures, whose sole purpose is to be used as ammunition in political races, were stymied by the overwhelming ability of certain groups to threaten withdrawal of support from and/or antag-

onism to the reelection campaigns of those who ended up feeling they “had” to vote for the bills — and you see the result. The left, middle and right were overwhelmed by the extremists.

Somebody has to stand up against this truly loud and vindictive minority.

We’re not stupid. We know this is not about protecting women.

When those who would do the right thing by women and their families are given the same support, we’ll see a different outcome. The ACLU and Planned Parenthood and others will do our part to fight these oppressive measures; but the silent majority is going to have to rev up its game and get a lot louder and a lot more involved — around the state more than in good old progressive Little Rock — to put the oppressive, backward-leaning minority back it where it belongs.

C’mon Arkansas! Stand up and fight for your state!

Rita Sklar In response to Gene Lyons’ April 16 column, “The Obama Doctrine”: Fact of the matter is that Obama is worse than Chamberlain, because Iran is weak, the sanctions are hurting, yet Obama wants to removed sanctions before any proof of Iranian complaisance. This is foolish since Iran has not hesitated to break every single nuclear inspection treaty it was obligated to follow.

Every single one. Not once or twice, but every single time. Let that sink in for a bit. Since Obama has decided, unilaterally, to make buddy buddy with the Castro regime, FARC, which is an armed branch of Castro’s terrorist structure, attacked military bases less than a day after Obama’s announcement. Iran has supported other terrorist activities, such as Yemen. More egg on Obama’s face.

Nobody worries about a nuclear Israel because the Israeli nuclear program is entirely for defensive purposes, where as the only reason Iran wants nuclear weapons is to exterminate Israel. Yet Obama touts his plans as if Iran is playing straight.

Iran does not care if it gets nuked by Israel in retaliation. Even the Saudis are shopping around with Pakistan because they sure don’t want Iran to be a nuclear power, and their only viable alternative to trusting Obama is to create a nuclear stockpile of their own.

Obama talks a good game, but his actions are anything but strong.

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

WEEK THAT WAS

“If Superintendents’ [sic] doctoral degree is revoked, rescinded or otherwise nullified, Employer will have no obligation to pay any unpaid amounts which would otherwise be due under this subsection 2.B.” — From the severance agreement releasing Little Rock School District Interim Superintendent Dexter Suggs from employment with the Little Rock School District. The news of Suggs’ abrupt resignation came on Tuesday, about a week after Matt Campbell of the blog Blue Hog Report raised allegations that Suggs had plagiarized portions of his doctoral dissertation from Indiana Wesleyan University. Assuming his degree is not revoked, Suggs will be paid around $250,000 over the course of the next nine months as part of the severance agreement, despite the fact that his former contract with the LRSD was rendered null when the state took over the district in January.

Attack of the flagrantly homosexual coaches Believe it or not, the Bentonville School District became the latest front in the LGBTQ anti-discrimination wars this week. A large crowd showed up to the school board’s meeting on Monday, with the majority of public comment against board member Grant Lightle’s proposal to extend discrimination protection to persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity. That would mirror the employment policy embraced by the University of Arkansas and that hotbed of leftist activism, Walmart.

The American Family Association, though, said the policy would extend “new rights for flagrantly homosexual coaches and teachers in Bentonville.

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Quote of the Week:

EIGHTY-ONE AND DONE UNTIL EUROPE: Fleetwood Mac, led by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and joined by Christine McVie (not shown) after an 18-year absence, finished its 81-stop U.S. tour at Verizon Arena Sunday night, to the delight of a near-sellout crowd.

class she married Mr. Bob over Christmas break and now has a new last name is not the same as Coach Jones announcing to the football team that he went to Massachusetts over Spring Break and married his husband Bruce,” the AFA said in a statement. Alrighty.

An ordinance for Little Rock

The Little Rock City Board’s own anti-discrimination policy continues

to inch forward, with City Attorney Tom Carpenter issuing a legal opinion on Sunday that said a proposed ordinance would not conflict with the new state law forbidding an expansion of civil rights protections on the municipal level. The Little Rock proposal, which is the work of City Director Kathy Webb, would require people who do business with the city to abide by nondiscrimination policies that include LGBTQ people.

State Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Hindsville), one of the architects of the state law, disagreed. “If a city creates new protection, they would run afoul of the act,” he said. Regardless, since the state law doesn’t go into effect until the summer, there’s nothing preventing Little Rock from moving ahead at the moment.

Criminally bad At least three circuit judges in Arkansas have now ruled against the state’s

horribly punitive landlord-tenant law, which makes it a crime to not pay rent and remain on the property. Evictions are sometimes necessary, sure, but criminalizing failure-to-vacate? Even traditionally conservative courts are now conceding that effectively amounts to debtors’ imprisonment.

The Quapaw threat John Berrey, chairman of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, made an unscheduled appearance before the Little Rock City Board last week to talk about the tribe’s recent purchase of 160 acres on the east side of town and its application to make it trust land, which would be exempt from local government taxation and control. City directors said there are “fears” in the community that the Quapaw eventually may want to develop a casino there. No such plans are in the works currently, Berrey said, but he resisted efforts to pin him down on future use of the land.

OPINION

Give the new school report card a D

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he state issued its first school report cards using letter grades, A-F, to rank hundreds of state public schools.

Public school critics hail it as a needed step toward accountability and a help for parents.

I’m skeptical.

The report cards do little to measure the true differences in schools.

There’s an A-rated charter school in Pulaski County where students likely to achieve — white children from middle class backgrounds — don’t seem to advance much under the school’s tutelage. There’s an F-rated school in Little Rock that has made strides in achievement, a small miracle with a population of transient, poor families, many of whom speak English as a second language.

Some points are awarded in the grading formula for poor populations and score advancement, but not nearly enough to overcome economic advan-

tages.

I received a letter about this from someone involved in education. What follows MAX borrows heavily BRANTLEY from his careful maxbrantley@arktimes.com analysis of what’s wrong with the new grading system.

The once-a-year criterion-based tests don’t measure growth in student achievement across grades. Normreferenced tests — comparing scores with like students rather than on knowledge of a subject — are better indicators.

This method of testing doesn’t allow comparisons between Arkansas and other states.

The “best” schools tend to be those that serve “elite” populations. An elementary in Little Rock’s wealthiest neighborhood and a majority white, upper-income charter school whose

No ordinary time for LGBT civil rights

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s the 2015 legislative session was coming to a close, Gov. Asa Hutchinson made a particularly telling comment explaining why the original “religious freedom” bill passed by the Arkansas General Assembly (HB 1228) was in need of withdrawal or revision. His comments were at least partially motivated by growing public perception that the bill would increase discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Arkansans.

Hutchinson stated, “This is a bill that in ordinary times would not be controversial, but these are not ordinary times.”

These are not “ordinary times” as justifications of LGBT discrimination do not persuade as effectively as they have in the past. The defense of LGBT discrimination is expressed in opposition to both same-sex marriage and to the addition of “sexual orien-

tation and gender identity” to civil rights protections.

Those opponents are at increasing loss for language GREG to defend their ADAMS positions without appearing to support discrimination.

As acceptance of LGBT people and same-sex marriage has increased, more ways to explain and justify the discriminatory status quo are needed beyond appeals to tradition (“we’ve always done it that way”) or appeals to conservative interpretations of religious ethics. The problem for defenders of LGBT discrimination is finding alternative justifications that can withstand scrutiny from those who don’t already strongly agree with LGBT discrimination.

motivated parents overcome immense distances to enroll are almost certain to perform well. But the tests don’t measure whether value has been added to these already advantaged kids.

The tests look backward, rather than forward. The grades, released near the end of the 2014-15 school year, are based on scores a year ago. Scores need to be produced sooner to make quicker adjustments. Some schools have, indeed, made changes this year that don’t reflect in last year’s scores.

The scores exclude many schools: alternative schools, schools operated by youth correctional facilities and others.

Yet many low-rated schools grapple with big at-risk populations, too.

The grades tell us nothing about recent changes in leadership, age of a school or the nature of the community where the school is located.

High schools with poor test scores can make up ground with high graduation rates. These graduates sometimes are unprepared. I’m reminded of a famous charter school that touts its graduation rate. Some conventional public schools nearby have shown better college success than the charter school’s students, as measured by graduates making sufficient college

progress to retain state scholarships.

The state uses complex formulas – different ones for elementary and high schools — to produce a simple letter grade. This grade suggests apples-toapples comparisons, when they are anything but.

A difference of a scant few points can separate an F from a D and a D from a C. Does a B equal a B? I’m thinking of a specific inner-city high school with a majority population of impoverished kids. Is it really “worse” than a magnet high school in the same city with its self-selected better-off student body, because of a seven-point difference on a 300-point scale?

I’d normally credit the person who contributed most of this critique. But he had implored me not to bring my old charter school doubts into the discussion. I don’t want to appear to be singling him out by naming him. He heads a charter school development organization. It operates a school that got an F on the report card. It targets so-called underserved kids. It aims to be high performing despite high poverty. It’s not easy. Is it fair to judge his school a failure based on a single grade from a standardized test administered a year ago? I’m not ready to say so.

There is a growing commitment to fairness in the American public, and this deepened resolve toward fairness is a challenge to the perpetuation of all sorts of discrimination. Today’s younger generation is particularly sensitive to the call for fairness to those considered different in varieties of ways, as illustrated in children’s and young adult movies, TV shows and books. For them (as we adults in our culture have taught them), it is wrong to discriminate against those who are different from the majority in ways that are not seen as harmful. Increasingly, sexual orientation and gender identity are seen, especially in the younger generation, as ethically neutral differences — just different ways of being who one is in the world.

For a growing number of Americans and Arkansans, this more expansive view of fairness is understood as an issue of justice supported by their understanding of the promise of America and as having roots in their faith traditions. Although often portrayed in the media as a conflict between religious defenders of tradition and nonreligious defenders of LGBT protections, more and more religious people are among those advocating for LGBT

civil rights.

Feeling the loss of public support for traditional justifications of LGBT discrimination, opponents are desperate to find new arguments to persuade that LGBT discrimination should be preserved. Here are some examples of alternative justifications and language that have been tried along with their weaknesses: • Marriage is not appropriate for same-sex couples as marriage is about procreation — yet heterosexual couples are not required to be able to procreate to be able to marry.

• Same-sex parents are harmful to children — however the preponderance of research does not support this statement.

• LGBT people want “special rights” — the rights wanted by LGBT people are the same rights wanted and enjoyed by others: “equal rights” rather than “special rights.”

• Religious people need civil rights protections to be able to “believe what they believe” (Rep. Bob Ballinger) — but belief is not the issue.

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he state of Arkansas disbanded our school board and took over the Little Rock School District in January. The official reason was because six of 48 of our schools are in academic distress.

The real reason was to end decades of dysfunction between the LRSD and the Little Rock School Board.

The state of Arkansas thought it could do a better job.

Three months into the takeover, it appears the state has no plan and things are getting worse. The amount of rumors are increasing, negatively impacting the morale of everyone in the district as a result.

LRSD is not providing effective communication and is not seeking input from those impacted most.

There does not appear to be a distinct vision currently in place.

Rockefeller Early Childhood Center first received knowledge through the Arkansas Blog that our principal was being reassigned.

Unfortunately, he also learned about it from the same blog. We immediately expressed concerns to the LRSD and requested a public meeting, but were snubbed.

A few weeks later we learned through the Arkansas DemocratGazette that the LRSD wanted to expand early childhood education.

The idea of expanding is great. However, the proposal also included eliminating the award-winning infant and toddler program at Rockefeller. This only gave parents and staff six weeks’ notice that the program would close. The proposal also included closing Rockefeller Elementary School with only a three months’ notice and no outside input for those impacted by this.

We are thankful that LRSD reversed course on some items.

The infant and toddler program will now continue at least through the summer. We are hoping for a more long-term decision for the program soon. An advisory group is forming to assist with keeping families and the community informed with the most current information available.

However, there’s ongoing uncertainty about whether Rockefeller

Elementary families will be included for input.

This is not how you correct a dysfunctional school district. This is not how you treat families and communities who’ve entrusted you with their children. This is not how you treat the parents and staff who are the foundation of success in the district.

Rockefeller parents love our early childhood program. There’s no better childcare option within the city, at any price. Many parents jostled to get on Rockefeller’s waiting list long before their babies were born.

Rockefeller’s remarkable program for newborns through 3-year-olds is one of the most effective ways to improve academic opportunities.

We also agree that expanding the early childhood program is a fantastic proposal, but the voice of Rockefeller early childhood and elementary families should be included in decision-making.

A large percentage of us in Little Rock love and support our schools.

We want to make every school and the entire district function better.

However, someone needs to value and ask for our input.

We need to know and understand how the LRSD and the state Education Department will make decisions that impact everyone. We need a reliable process that is transparent so we can all see how decisions are made. We need a process that is inclusive so faculty, staff, students, parents and the community can provide meaningful input. Different parts of our society have different self-interests and concerns. Those differences make us stronger and can’t be overlooked.

We need a process that recognizes the importance of success in all of the district. We need to value our parents, our students, our staff and our community as incredible assets. We do not want to continue having a negative image that we are obstacles to positive change.

We need to identify what we can build on and get the job done. The LRSD has many success stories. We need to rely on proven strategies to

Hillary Clinton’s well-played gender card

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illary Clinton’s 2008 campaign for president is the most thoroughly critiqued primary candidacy of all time. No single strategic decision explains that campaign’s underperformance, but perhaps the most compelling argument for the campaign’s early challenges was her misplaying of the gender card in the rollout of her campaign.

The early signs from her second race for president indicate that this will be a very different Clinton campaign in terms of gender.

As best recounted in Anne Kornblut’s “Notes from the Cracked Ceiling,” Clinton’s consultants in 2008 were convinced that any woman candidate needed to downplay the more stereotypically feminine aspects of her life story and personality and to emphasize her “readiness” for the “tough job” of being president. Decades of research on the distinct challenges facing women candidates in the United States were in step with that strategic choice. However, those consultants missed three things: Clinton, having proven her toughness for decades, was not a traditional female candidate; the historic nature of their chief opponent’s campaign was fuel for his grassroots candidacy; and gender politics were changing as Americans simultaneously focused on the continued limitations facing their sisters and daughters four decades after Title IX and slowly became accustomed to women holding positions of power across the business and political worlds.

In choosing to run the campaign of an “insider” in the early months of campaign 2008, many felt that Clinton failed to take advantage of the historic nature of her candidacy and to engage grassroots supporters. Sitting at a Des Moines bar just a couple of evenings before the Iowa caucuses in which Clinton would finish third behind Barack Obama and John Edwards, Democratic consultant Joe Trippi (then working for Edwards) said that if he had been coordinating Clinton’s campaign, he would have centered on the historic nature of her candidacy and would have focused on get-

ting a $100 contribution from 1 million women.

(Yes, it is somewhat quaint, but in that pre-CitJAY izens United BARTH world, I remember $100 million sounding like a lot of political money.)

Much has changed since Iowa in 2008. First, the Clinton campaign showed energy in those moments when gender surfaced explicitly and, as a woman, Clinton was a particularly effective voice for all “outsiders” in the closing weeks of the campaign.

Second, in 2012 we saw a successful, thoroughly gendered campaign for president, albeit by a male candidate; the Obama campaign’s emphasis on gender issues such as pay equity and birth control access helped in rolling up a monstrous gender gap in key states; it also showed that those issues resonated with men desiring equal opportunity for the women in their lives.

The 2016 version of the Clinton campaign has already been “feminized” in several ways. First, many have focused on Clinton’s absence from all but the closing seconds of the stylishly produced video “Getting Started” that announced her candidacy a week ago Sunday. In short, in 2008, Clinton “leaned in”; in her 2016 kickoff, she “leaned back” to let others speak first. But, unlike the problematic dynamic where women lean back to let men take the lead, it is primarily female voices that speak in the first two minutes of the web advertisement.

(Moreover, three of the males who do speak are a father talking about his baby’s imminent birth while patting his wife’s belly, a kindergartener singing a cute song, and one half of a same-sex couple; those are anything but traditional male perspectives.)

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The real Hillary

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ne of the funniest conversations I’ve heard took place among a small group of Arkansas women who’d done their best to clue the newlywed Hillary Rodham in on a basic fact of Southern life she’d been reluctant to accept in the 1970s: cute counts. It’s not necessary to be a beauty queen, but a woman who doesn’t look as attractive as she can is often suspected of being too “authentic” for her own good.

The lady lumberjack look then fashionable on Ivy League campuses confused Arkansas voters, as did Hillary’s decision to keep her maiden name after marriage. (As the husband of a Southern girl often patronized to her face in a New England college town back then, I can testify that cultural incomprehension can run both ways. But that’s another topic.)

The point is that Hillary Rodham Clinton listened. As she later explained, she hadn’t really understood how strongly people in Arkansas felt about the name thing. So she took the name “Clinton” to stop sending a message she’d never intended. About the same time, it became fairly obvious that she’d started taking clothing, makeup and hair styling tips from women friends and quit looking like an outsider, too.

So does that make her more or less “authentic” by current journalistic standards? Does it make her a big faker, the “manipulative, clawing robot” of a Maureen Dowd column? Or a relatively normal human being adjusting to the expectations of the people around her?

Not long afterward, Hillary also started doing something very much like what she’s recently been doing in Iowa and New Hampshire: holding small-scale town meetings with local school boards, parents and teachers in support of the newly re-elected Bill Clinton’s Arkansas education reforms.

Clinton’s 1983 education package — its slogan was “No More Excuses” — brought math, science and arts classes to many rural school districts for the first time. It raised teacher salaries and increased taxes to fund them. Over time, it’s helped close the historic gap between the state’s country and city schools.

And before the campaign was over, Arkansas’s first lady was on a first-name basis with thousands of, yes, “everyday people” in all 75 Arkansas counties. She came, she saw, she talked and she listened. As a secondary matter, Hillary’s image problems among Arkansan voters faded away.

How it works is pretty simple: You accept Arkansas, Arkansas accepts you.

I’m pretty sure this is broadly true of Iowa and New Hampshire voters, too. So is there an element of calculation in Hillary’s latest listening tour? Sure there is.

Is it merely cheap political theater?

Look, she’s a professional politician running for GENE president. Of course LYONS her campaign events are stage-managed. How could they not be? Just as she ran for the U.S. Senate from New York back in 1999, a state where she’d never actually lived.

Although New Yorkers tend to be more flattered than offended when famous carpetbaggers descend upon them, she held small forums all across the state — impressing most observers with her industriousness and knowledge of local issues.

She’s a very smart cookie, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And she always does her homework. No, she’s not a mesmerizing speaker like Bill, and not the most outwardly charismatic politician in the race (whoever that may be). GOP focus groups say her biggest weakness is their perception of her “entitlement” and seeming remoteness from ordinary people’s lives.

So off she goes on another listening tour.

“A sweet, docile granny in a Scooby van,” Dowd sneers. However, contrary to reporters who marvel at Hillary’s “willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power,” she actually appears to enjoy the fool things.

Partly, it’s a woman thing. See, Hillary and my wife worked together back when the governor’s wife served on the board of Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Diane always mentioned two things: how hard she worked on children’s health issues, and how she never pulled rank.

But what really endeared her to my wife was Hillary’s empathy during a prolonged medical crisis involving our son. At times, Diane was under terrible emotional strain.

Hillary never failed to show concern. Was the new treatment helping? Had we thought about seeking another opinion? She acted like a friend when my wife needed all the friends she could get.

And no, there was nothing in it for her.

I wasn’t a political journalist then. It wasn’t about me. It was about two mothers.

In an article unfortunately titled “Manufacturing Authenticity,” Slate’s John Dickerson gets it right. For all her privilege and celebrity, Hillary “has something going for her that other politicians do not when it comes to these kinds of events … she has thought about family issues her entire life.”

Dickerson marveled that in Iowa, “Clinton actually appeared to be listening.”

And that could turn out to be her secret weapon.

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here’s an enemy out there, lurking in the dark. It’s the enemy of every human being and — The Observer has become convinced over the years — the root of all evil, no matter what you’ve heard about the Greenback Dollar. Money, it turns out, is only a servant of the real problem.

The real enemy is conformity. The desire for conformity. The desire to force others to conform, even in matters that don’t, as Thomas Jefferson said, pick your pocket or eat your grass.

We’ve seen quite a bit of that thinking in Arkansas of late: the wish to validate and confirm the rightness of your own choices by trying to force others, sometimes at the point of a gun or the end of a lash, to make those same choices; the need to make everybody else think like me and dress like me, to eat the same foods and read the same books as me, to pray to the same God as me, to desire the same things and the same people as me, to do the same things when the lights are off and you and the person you have chosen to spend your life or night with are in that most private of spaces, the secret bower of smiling whispers.

Dudes in black pajamas cutting off the heads of Christians in the godforsaken desert halfway around the world? That’s the desire for conformity at work. Christians feeding their secretly gay kids the worst parts of scripture until they hate themselves?

Same thing. Legislators passing laws based on religion and their own personal baggage instead of what’s fair, or just, or right? Yep. The racists. The mean girls. The slut shamers. The bullies. The terrorists. The zealots.

The haters, homophobes, Bible beaters, censors and book banners. The folks burning up the FCC’s phone lines to report every audible fart and nipple slip on television. The people working to install a 20-foot monolith bearing the inscribed Ten Commandments in every school, public park, courthouse, capitol and prison cell in this land. Those of narrow mind, narrow spectrum, narrow bookshelf.

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The sneering mockers of those who are too heavy or too thin, too tall or too short, too broad or too narrow, too red-headed or too curly-headed, too gay or too straight, too dumb or too smart — none of them ever wondering, even for a second, who exactly sets the bar on “too.”

Not all of them work for the same purpose, of course, but they all work for the same goal: a future where everybody looks alike and thinks alike and dreams alike, where the most boring songs are sung, and the most boring books are written. They are all working to make you like them, so they don’t have to think about whether their own religion, style, sexual proclivity, gender, belief or fear is right or wrong, all desiring to nudge you into the cozy ideological rabbit hutch they have built for themselves.

In the process, for those who don’t fit, all that pushing and pulling can feel like being torn apart. And from that feeling of being torn apart springs almost all the things — short of toothaches, flat tires and herpes — that make human life harder: shame, fear, violence, war, doubt. Conformity, it turns out, is the worst kind of pyramid scheme. Only those at the top of the pyramid — the ones setting the “toos” — ever win. Everybody else loses something.

Here is the truth, though: Nothing beautiful or noble ever came from blind conformity. True beauty, true nobility, when it happens, is always a small rebellion against the beige, the bland and the unobtrusive. It is always a stand against the shushing finger, the shouted command, the heavy black bar of censorship.

We are all guilty of being behind that shushing finger. Even The Observer is not immune. The key, though, is to know it is in you, and to teach yourself to see it in others.

If you can do that, you can beat it.

Do that, friend, and you can set your own toos.

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Digging for dirt on Hillary Tim Murphy of Mother Jones magazine came to Little Rock a while back to see if any nuggets of opposition research gold remained to be found in Arkansas on Hillary Clinton.

The Times’ Max Brantley told him that the passage of 23 years and the fact that Ken Starr had subpoena power, a Grand Jury and unlimited teams of FBI and IRS agents and still came up with nothing tended to make him think there wasn’t much left to find about the long-gone Clintons.

Murphy’s piece is a good read, some where-are-they-now and not a few amusing items.

You’d have to be a survivor of the Whitewater saga to remember the name, but the real gold dug up by Murphy was an interview with Larry Nichols, a former state employee who was one of the chief Clinton accusers in the media frenzy. Nichols, who’d been fired when Clinton was governor, had all manner of salacious stories to tell back in the day. Today? Murphy quotes Nichols from an interview in Conway: “ ‘There is nothing you’re gonna find here,’ he told me. ‘Pack your shit and go home. Good God, man — that was 20 years ago.’ ” Oh, but wait. It gets far better. The capper is that Larry Nichols endorses Hillary for president. After a fashion.

“After six years of watching Barack Hussein Obama cower in the face of Islamists, Nichols believes the family he spent two decades tarring as coldblooded crooks might just be the only people who can save the country. ‘I’m not saying I like Hillary, you hear me?’ he said, defensively. ‘I am not saying I like Hillary Rodham Clinton. I’m not saying anything I’ve said I take back.

But God help me, I’m going to have to stand up and tell conservative patriots we have no choice but to give Hillary her shot.’ “ ‘I know she won’t flinch,’ he continued. ‘That’s a mean sonofabitch woman that can be laying over four people and say’ — he paraphrased her nowinfamous response to hostile congressional questioning on the deaths of four Americans in Libya — “What the hell difference did it make?” ’ ”He was against Clinton because of Whitewater.

Now he’s voting for her because of Benghazi.”

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IN CUSTODY: Cathy and Mauricio Torres are being held in the death of their 6-year-old son.

A child beaten, slain despite red flags DHS fails to piece together family’s history of abuse.

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2014 Department of Human Services investigation into allegations of child abuse against a Bella Vista couple failed to uncover an extensive record of maltreatment. A year later, their son was dead.

Just before midnight on March 30, medics from the Bella Vista Fire Department arrived at the home of Mauricio and Cathy Torres in response to a 911 call that stated that their 6-year-old son, Isaiah, was not breathing. The parents said they’d just returned from a weekend camping trip in Missouri with the boy and his two young sisters and that they “didn’t know what was wrong with Isaiah,” who was lying on his back on the living room floor when the first responders arrived. Later, Cathy told police that he’d complained of a stomachache earlier that afternoon, but the parents “gave him Pepto-Bismol and thought he was better.”

The medics saw plenty wrong. As they transferred the unresponsive child to an ambulance, they noticed “heavy bruising and … puncture wounds all about his body,” according to a later police affidavit, and immediately con-

tacted the Bella Vista Police Department. A doctor at the local hospital who inspected the child found worse markers of chronic abuse, including chemical burns on Isaiah’s back, “signs of blunt trauma to his head, trunk and extremities” and blood in his rectum. Isaiah Torres was pronounced dead at 12:23 a.m., his death ruled a homicide.

The next day, upon searching the Torres home, police found “what appeared to be blood spatter on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the master bedroom,” more blood on a nearby pair of 15-pound dumbbells, and vomit and a stethoscope on the bed. Cathy, who at first denied any knowledge of the abuse, gradually admitted to police over the course of the next several days that she’d seen Mauricio hurt Isaiah in the past. Both parents now face charges of capital murder, rape and first-degree battery in connection with their son’s death.

Shocking as the details of the Torres case may be, it is perhaps almost as troubling to contemplate another set of facts that emerged in the following weeks: In 2014, someone at the Benton-

ville school attended by Isaiah Torres made multiple calls to the child abuse hotline maintained by the State Police in an attempt to report suspected physical abuse, according to the child fatality record maintained by the Department of Human Services. In January of that year, there was an allegation of “inadequate supervision”; in March, there were allegations of abuse, an entry simply labeled “cuts, bruises, welts” in the DHS system.

Yet DHS found both sets of allegations to be “unsubstantiated” in 2014 and at the conclusion of the school year, the boy was removed from Ambassadors for Christ Academy to be homeschooled by his parents, away from prying eyes.

Cathy and Mauricio Torres in fact had a long record of interactions with the child welfare system, culminating in the termination of custody for multiple children in 2004 or 2005. The question is whether DHS investigators in 2014 were aware of that fact. According to several sources familiar with the family, a Northeast Arkansas judge removed five children from the care of Cathy and Mauricio Torres back in 2004 or 2005, apparently due to evidence of physical and sexual abuse. (A sixth child may have been given up voluntarily for adoption, according to one source.)

A DHS briefing summary shows that the Torres family had a child or children placed in foster care in 2002 and again in 2004 — long before Isaiah or his two sisters in Bella Vista would have been born — and that the latter case was concluded by “court action.” Little other official information is forthcoming from DHS because of the strict privacy requirements surrounding foster care and child maltreatment investigations.

DHS spokesperson Amy Webb said the agency could not provide further details about what court action was taken, for example. However, other sources contacted by the Times have provided a partial picture of events.

‘There’s so much that could have been done, it’s unreal’ Cathy Torres lived in Jonesboro all her life “until she disappeared … about 10 years ago,” said Thurman Thompson, who is married to Cathy’s sister.

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native of Dallas who moved to Little Rock via Florida, LGBTQ rights activist Randi M. Romo co-founded the Center for Artistic Revolution in 2003. CAR, as the organization is known, is the oldest organization of its kind in the state. It uses education, direct organizing, advocacy and cultural work in the pursuit of fairness and equality for LGBTQ Arkansans. The organization, housed in the First Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, also provides a community center, runs a thriving LGBTQ youth program and provides the only drop-in center in the state for LGBTQ youth. Recently, after an 11-year run, Romo stepped down as the organization’s director. She is also an accomplished poet, writer and a mixed-media artist.

How goes the struggle to win Arkansas’s hearts and minds?

I believe that the effort to shift hearts and minds is definitely succeeding, albeit slowly. It’s true, there are some who will never shift, but it’s that greater movable middle that now finds itself increasingly having to seriously consider the real impact of homo/transphobia on their fellow Arkansans. They are now hearing firsthand how bigotry and discrimination affects their LGBTQ family members, neighbors, co-workers and friends. They are hearing about the bullying endured

by LGBTQ students. This shift can be attributed partly to the reality that more and more LGBTQ Arkansans refuse to be consigned to a life of misery hiding in the closet. And the fact that our stories are an important part of creating that shift.

Constant, intentional, community education has also raised the bar in understanding how detrimental the lack of equal access and protections is to the lives of LGBTQ Arkansans.

Is the state better off now for LGBTQ citizens than it was five years ago?

I think that for LGBTQ Arkansans there’s an overall “feeling” of being safer, able to live more openly. However, the state is only marginally better off in regard to its policies and laws. We do get help on some things via federal initiatives, but it is a patchwork. The reality is that attacking LGBTQ Arkansans under the auspices of protecting religious freedom is still beneficial for those pandering to their base and building their political power. It is a sorry state of affairs when a sitting state representative, Justin Harris (R-West Fork), is allowed to retain his seat after literally giving away two girls that he and his wife adopted, putting them into proven harm’s way with no outcry from his peers. Yet, he, along with those same peers rallied around discriminatory legislation whose sole purpose is to further enshrine in the state’s laws the sanctioned discriminatory treatment of hardworking, taxpaying LGBTQ Arkansans.

We did see the Adoption Ban finally struck down in 2011 after over 10 years of this being a fight led by Jerry Cox and company. Next, we saw marriage equality happen, but it is now tied up in the state Supreme Court. We expect that this issue will be decided by SCOTUS this summer before our own state’s court rules. But, the reality is that once the marriage issue is resolved, a legally married same-sex couple in Arkansas will still face the legal risks of being fired, losing their housing or refused service and goods. One of the most important ways that I think Arkansas is better off is that there is a greater willingness of LGBTQ and allies to stand up all across the state for equality.

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We got a blast email recently from Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asking for help to pay off her campaign debt and have been waiting for the first quarter financial reports to see where her winning campaign stood.

Reports now on file with the secretary of state show she’s more than $7,000 in the black on her primary campaign, but the general election campaign remains $116,725 in the hole on about $789,000 in spending, despite somewhere near $70,000 in contributions after the Nov. 4 election, including maximum contributions from a number of corporate PACs and special interests such as lobbyist Bruce Hawkins. (Does money that comes after an election count as much as money before the election? Only a candidate knows for sure.)

Interesting tidbit: The second contribution reported by Rutledge after her victory Nov. 4 was for the maximum $2,000 on Nov. 7 from Dustin McDaniel, the outgoing Democratic attorney general. He was a major supporter of the vanquished Democrat Nate Steel.

The contributions should be personally appreciated by Rutledge because she still has an outstanding loan of about $64,000 of her own money to the campaign.

A stand for equality A new Fayetteville restaurant and bar has gotten national attention for a sign it posted on its front door in the wake of the controversy surrounding the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act recently passed. The sign on the Cork and Keg, at 509 W. Spring St., reads, “We proudly serve everyone … with the possible exception of a majority of Arkansas legislators, because intolerance and discrimination is a choice.”

“Many who discriminate against the LGBT community, including some of the legislators that voted for this bill, say that being gay is a choice, which I personally do not believe,” owner Mike Carron told the online publication Upworthy. But he said the sign is more than just a statement about being friendly to LGBT people.

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‘Bring it on’ Long a liberal anomaly in NWA, Eureka Springs heads to the polls May 12 to decide if the city’s unique LGBTQ protection ordinance stays or goes: Bearing witness as the weirdest little town in Arkansas fights for its inclusive soul.

BY DAVID KOON

STANDING FOR EQUALITY: Business owners (from top) Jayme Brandt, Sandy Martin and Jim Jordan.

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ureka Springs is an improbable place.

Thirty-five miles from bloodred Rogers, on the way to Klansville in Harrison, up mountain roads straight out of Kubrick’s “The Shining,” the hairpins pitching out over leafy chasms that make you imagine the smashed and undiscovered hulks of Hudsons and Packards secreted somewhere far below, gloveboxes full of field mice and grinning skeletons at the wheel; then, at last, from that white-knuckle highway, down into a deep and shady valley that would have surely been given over to deer and the occasional nutty hermit if not for the Victorians’ faith in magic water. The trees open up, and there before you is the original hamlet of Eureka Springs, old hotels and slanting lanes, gingerbread mansions clinging to the rocks like orchids, easily the most liberal small town in the state.

On a ridge above town, a Godzillasized concrete Christ lurks in the trees, arms out, the statue lit at night by enough klieg lights to set fire to a passing plane.

Nearby stands the 6,000-seat amphitheater of The Great Passion Play, built — like the six-story Jesus — at the alleged behest of God by the legendary anti-Semite, preacher and one-time Nazi sympathizer Gerald L.K. Smith, who moved to the sleepy backwater of Eureka in 1964 and eventually built a modest empire there out of milking disposable income from the vacationing faithful (Smith died in 1976 and was laid to rest at the base of Big J.C., thereby becoming part of his own tourist trap). The Passion Play was once one of the top tourist attractions in the whole country (an employer that, no doubt, kept scores of young men who could pull off a serviceable Philistine beard in pot and the occasional Friday night rip down Fayette-

ville’s Dickson Street over the years), but has fallen on hard times, closing briefly in 2012 because of money troubles and attendance way, way down from a high of almost 300,000 people a year in the early 1990s. Your average local’s belief in what caused that attendance dip — whether because of Eureka’s 1992 decision to ban tour buses from the historic loop, competition for the Goober Dollar further north in Branson, or the town’s refusal to torment and ostracize their gays like decent folk — probably depends a lot on that person’s politics and willingness to cherry-pick from the Book of Leviticus.

As nearly any local grayhead on Spring Street will tell you, Eureka Springs has sheltered a sizable and fairly vocal gay and lesbian population since the early 1970s, a few years after hippies fleeing the cities for mountain highs rediscovered the faded resort and moved in. Eureka held its first Gay Pride parade in 1996, and now celebrates three LGBTQ “diversity weekends” every year, the streets filling with same-sex couples and rainbow flags. It’s had a domestic partnership registry since 2007, allowing any unmarried couple, gay or straight, to pay 35 bucks, sign on a dotted line and emerge with a government-printed document that says they are, in fact, two against the world.

That document is worth about as much as the paper it’s printed on in a court of law, but it has helped some LGBTQ folks get company-sponsored health insurance for their partners. The registry also inspired the Mississippi-based American Family Association in 2008 to produce a 28-minute, $14.95 video with the 1950s schlock-horror title of “They’re Coming to Your Town,” alleging that the one-time Christian haven of Eureka Springs had been the subject of a quiet

coup by “homosexual activists.”

In May 2014, the morning after Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, the town’s compact stone courthouse issued the first legal marriage license to an LGBTQ couple in Arkansas history — two nice young women named Kristin Seaton and Jennifer Rambo, who haven’t, to anybody’s knowledge, taken to church burnings and busting up Christian bookstores with pickaxe handles since then. Probably too busy figuring out whose turn it is to take out the trash. Such are the things a marriage is made of.

All this is to say that unless the churches in Berryville and Cave City are able to convince The Almighty to visit whirling sharknadoes and rains of molten salt on Eureka, there’s no sign the town will be turning back on its commitment to the equality and defense of LGBTQ residents and visitors anytime soon.

Which brings us to Eureka’s LGBTQ anti-discrimination law, Ordinance 2223, and the May 12 vote on whether it stays or goes.

In the months since it was hurriedly passed by the Eureka City Council, Ordinance 2223 has become a fight for the soul and image of Eureka Springs, straining relationships in one of the most polite places in the state: A group of Methodists who wanted to carry a banner that said “Jesus Loves Everybody” got booted out of the Easter Parade, and the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce fired its president/ CEO after he issued on behalf of the chamber a statement critical of 2223, expressing concerns about the speed at which the ordinance was passed and questioning whether it would be bad for business.

Though supporters say that most of the opposition to 2223 is coming from outside the city limits and predict landslide support for the ordinance on May 12, with successful LGBTQ protection repeal efforts in Fayetteville and nearby Springfield, Mo., making national news in recent months, everybody in town seems to be holding their breath, waiting to see if Eureka will really be the pebble that breaks the tide.

‘Bring it on’ If you’ve stuck with me this far, you probably know at least some of the story already.

Back in August 2014, after a marathon Fayetteville City Council meeting that burned far into the night, with

LGBTQ people sharing their stories of housing and employment discrimination and others fearfully worrying over hypothetical pervs who might don dresses and wigs to slip into women’s restrooms, the Fayetteville Council passed Ordinance 119, which extended the city’s nondiscrimination protections in employment, housing and public accommodations to LGBTQ citizens, effectively making it a punishable crime for a business to discriminate because someone is gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual. In December 2014, after the ordinance was referred to the ballot — and a well-financed repeal effort that included advertising featuring Northwest Arkansas celebrity Michelle Duggar — Fayetteville voters repealed the ordinance by a margin of about 12 percent of the total votes cast.

Calls to the law office of Travis Story, the Fayetteville attorney who helped head the repeal effort against Ordinance 119, and who is involved in the effort to repeal Eureka’s 2223, went unreturned at press time.

Though the victory in Fayetteville was heralded as a blow for the forces of propriety, the followers of a kind and loving God weren’t through kicking gay folks in the teeth just yet. In late January, Sen. Bart Hester (R-Cave City) introduced Senate Bill 202, the “Intrastate Commerce and Improvement Act.” Ostensibly designed to establish uniformity in the state’s anti-discrimination laws, the bill — which avoids using the words gay or lesbian, and never specifically mentions the Fayetteville ordinance — is designed to prevent any city from following Fayetteville’s lead, specifically forbidding local governments from passing or enforcing any ordinance, rule or law that protects a class not already covered by the state’s anti-discrimination law. Protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity are not included in that state law.

With Hester’s bill loping toward eventual passage in Little Rock, the Eureka Springs City Council acted on Feb. 9, first passing a resolution declaring the city to be in opposition to SB 202, then considering Ordinance 2223, which protects people against discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations in Eureka Springs based on a number of criteria, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Though Eureka Springs City Attorney Tim Weaver reportedly urged the council to move more slowly, telling aldermen that SB 202, if enacted, would probably pre-

Man with a past Eureka preacher seen in latest Repeal 2223 video is a serial rapist.

BY DAVID KOON

You can be a former bricklayer. You can be a former teacher. But you cannot be a former rapist.

That point was driven home for those behind a video pushing for the repeal of Eureka’s Ordinance 2223 on Monday, when Arkansas Times broke the story that a Baptist preacher featured prominently in that video pleaded guilty to a series of violent rapes in Oklahoma in 1977.

Acra Lee Turner, 60, currently serves as a pastor of Penn Memorial First Baptist Church in Eureka Springs. In an interview with the Times, Turner confirmed that he is the same Acra Lee Turner who, as a 22-year-old, was convicted of three counts of rape in Stephens County, Okla.

In April 1977, he was sent to prison for three concurrent sentences of 30 to 60 years for those crimes, including the rape of an 80-year old woman who was reportedly beaten so badly that she was almost unrecognizable.

In the video, posted to www. repeal2223.com and titled “Vote Against 2223 to Defend Jobs, Faith, Freedom & Bathroom Privacy,” Turner appears along with former Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce President Mike Bishop; Turner’s wife, Joann Turner; and State Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Hindsville). In the video, Acra Turner says of the struggle for gay equality: “This is not a human rights issue. It’s a human behavior issue.”

After the story broke, Bishop told the Lovely County Citizen Newspaper that he’d accidentally learned about Turner’s convictions some years before while Turner was working at Bishop’s Pine Mountain Theater. Bishop called Turner an “exemplary member of this community” who has “repaid his debt to society.”

Turner was released from the Oklahoma Department of Correction in August 2000. According to reports in The Oklahoman and Tulsa World newspapers, the victims and their relatives repeatedly petitioned the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to keep him in prison.

According to The Oklahoman, Turner’s first victim delivered 4,861 signatures to the Pardon and Parole Board in 1991. It was the sixth such petition she’d delivered.

“It’s been difficult, but this is the only way I can stay ahead of him,” the victim told The Oklahoman in 1992. “I believe if he gets out, he will commit the crime again, and this time he won’t leave a witness.”

The son of the 80-year-old woman beaten by Turner assisted on the petition

VIDEO STAR: Acra Lee Turner, part of a campaign to repeal 2223, is a convicted rapist.

drives. He told The Oklahoman he blamed Turner for the death of his mother, whose health declined after she was raped.

Turner’s crimes predate the establishment of the Oklahoma State Sex Offender Registry, and parole and probation officials in Oklahoma could find no record that he was currently being supervised by that state as a parolee or probationer.

After being released, Turner said that he worked as a basketball coach at a Pentecostal college in Joplin, Mo. He previously served as a pastor at Rock Springs Baptist Church in Eureka, and started as the pastor at Penn Memorial First Baptist Church on April 15.

In a phone interview, Turner said he has turned his life around since going to prison. “All that does is just show the same thing I show now: How God can change a man’s life,” he said. “That’s 40 years ago.

That’s behind me. It’s nothing I’ve tried to hide. I preach about it on Sundays. I don’t preach about it much because it’s been so many years ago. I go to jails and prisons where guys go, ‘Hey, you don’t understand what it’s like to be locked up.

I’ll say, ‘Yes I do.’ “ Turner likened the questions about his past to news stories that try to take the focus off important issues — in this case, Ordinance 2223. While discussing his past, Turner began to speak about himself as a young man, saying: “Think about this: You’ve got a kid raised in the ghetto.

You’ve got, ‘Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud!’ going on. You’ve got, ‘Every white man is a blue-eyed devil.’ Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael, go out and kill every white man. It’s wrong information, but you give it to a young man just like we were doing in the day, and — you understand? I can relate to people when they go and join up with the ISIS group, because they’ve been told misinformation — brainwashed. I’m a young man who was told, ‘white man this and white man that. Do you know what they did to CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 www.arktimes.com

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vent the city from actually enforcing any LGBTQ protection ordinance, the council went ahead and unanimously passed 2223 after giving the proposed ordinance three consecutive readings, bypassing a process that Mayor Robert “Butch” Berry said normally takes up to 10 weeks. The ordinance included an emergency clause, which meant that by the time Eureka residents woke up the next morning, they were living in a city with the only LGBTQ protection ordinance in the state.

A call to Weaver’s office went unre-

turned at press time.

Though Conway later passed protections for LGBTQ city employees and Little Rock’s City Board was to have voted on an ordinance to do the same thing after our press time this week, Eureka stands alone in the broadness of its ordinance, which makes it a misdemeanor for businesses to discriminate against anyone within the city limits on the basis of LGBTQ status. Alleged violators of the Eureka ordinance face fines of up to $500 per occurrence, with the mayor serving as a “Civil Rights

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Administrator” to investigate allegations of discrimination and dole out sanctions if warranted.

State Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Hindsville) represents District 97, which includes Eureka Springs. He was a cosponsor of SB 202, and tweeted “Glory to God!” when Fayetteville’s 119 was repealed. Ballinger called Ordinance 2223 “a huge overreach” that was unneeded in the inclusive community of Eureka Springs. He said the religious community and the more liberal community had co-existed for years there,

but had been divided by the ordinance.

“It’s a shame that something like this would be brought up and be so divisive,” Ballinger said. “I understand why they did it. They were wanting to protest the legislation that was passed. I get it. However, it doesn’t seem like it’s a good idea to divide a community in order to protest legislation.”

Ballinger says referring the ordinance to the voters is a good idea. He said that even if Ordinance 2223 stands on May 12, the protections in it will become void in July when Act 137, the

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“It doesn’t essentially nullify the whole ordinance,” Ballinger said. “The parts of the ordinance that are inconsistent with state law would be not applicable.”

Ballinger said that while the inclusiveness of Eureka in the past means that a vote in favor of 2223 on May 12 “won’t be too surprising to most people,” he questions the consequences of the ordinance, which he says could lead to lawsuits.

“The reality is that the way the ordinance is written … any preacher who refuses to do a same-sex ceremony would be guilty of a misdemeanor,” Ballinger said. “My guess is if you’re a preacher and it’s not consistent with your belief to perform same-sex ceremonies, you’re probably not going to comply with the law.”

But Justice of the Peace and Eureka Springs resident Lamont Richie, the author of Ordinance 2223, said the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution already protects the clergy from being ordered to do or say anything by government, which is why he did not include an exemption for ministers. He said he’s never heard of a case in which a same-sex couple tried to force a religious figure or minister to perform a marriage, and doesn’t expect to.

“I don’t think there would be a snowball’s chance in hell that any action could be taken or would be taken against a member of the clergy,” Richie said, “whether it’s a member of a mainstream denomination or somebody ordained online. … I don’t believe

that is a plausible argument at all.”

A transplant from Houston, Richie said that he and his now-husband were seeking a place where they could feel safe and comfortable when they moved to Arkansas in 1991. They found that in Eureka. Richie said that the speed at which SB 202 was moving through the legislature forced Eureka Springs to act quickly.

“We deal with the hand that is dealt to us,” Richie said. “The hand that was dealt to us was that the legislature was fast-tracking a bill that would prohibit local government to do what we did.

We wanted to get something on the books as quickly as we could.”

The Repeal 2223 effort has adopted many of the same tactics used in the Fayetteville repeal, including the contention (as seen on the repeal2223.com website) that “bathroom privacy” is on the line because the protection offered transgender people will allow men dressed in women’s clothing to peep on or assault women in Eureka’s public restrooms.

Richie called the bathroom privacy argument “fearmongering at its worst,” pointing out that there is no evidence that incidents of voyeurism or assaults in public restrooms have ticked up in the hundreds of U.S. communities with LGBTQ protection ordinances.

“It doesn’t happen,” he said. “If somebody is comfortable, and believes that they are really a woman and dress accordingly, why would you want that person to go into a men’s bathroom and vice versa? People who are transitioning or contemplating transitioning because they believe they are different than their birth certificate gender should be able to go to the bathroom they are comfortable with.”

Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry said it was also the city’s choice to solicit signatures to put the ordinance to a vote on May 12. Not only will that save the city money by allowing Eureka to combine its election with another measure in nearby Berryville, Berry said, it allowed 2223 supporters to control the language of the referendum.

During the Fayetteville repeal effort, with advocates of repeal in control of writing the ballot title and text, many claimed the language was confusing, perhaps purposely so. A “for” vote in Fayetteville, for instance, meant a vote in favor of repeal. Under the language approved in Eureka, a “for” vote means a voter is for Ordinance 2223 and its retention.

“I thought it was in the best interest

of our city and city council to go ahead and enact our own referendum on this ordinance,” Berry said. “We knew that we’d be able to put in plain language what the people would be voting for, as opposed to the language that was proposed over in Fayetteville. It was confusing, and people weren’t sure they were voting for or against the repeal of the ordinance.”

Mickey Schneider is an alderwoman on the Eureka Springs City Council. A resident of Eureka for over 40 years, Schneider was quoted by local news outlets as saying “I dare them” when the question came up during the council vote in February of whether 2223 might spawn lawsuits from bigots.

Schneider’s attitude about the ordinance is a carryover from the protest marches of her youth.

“I personally have been fighting for fairness and equality for everyone for literally 50 years, and to have anyone — and I don’t care if it’s the state, the federal government, the mayor, I don’t care who it would be — for them to say, ‘We’re taking away your right to demand equality?’ I will fight it tooth and nail to the death,” she said. “If you’re human, you should be treated

the same, period, end of discussion.

And once you’ve been gassed and beaten and arrested, you tend to say, ‘Bring it on, you stupid shits.’ ”

‘I will take anyone’s money’

Eureka Springs is an eclectic town, full of eclectic shops. There’s a store in Eureka that sells nothing but socks.

There’s a store in Eureka that sells tiny slivers of meteorites from all over the world. There is a museum and gift shop in Eureka that displays over 7,000 different frog-related items. And everything, even the corndog stand, seems to have a brass National Register of Historic Places placard on it.

Trudging up Spring Street — where one storefront serves as the headquarters for the “Keep Eureka Fair” effort, the windows plastered with pro-2223 placards and posters — the mood among shopkeepers seems to be decidedly in support of the ordinance, with very few exceptions. At the spare-bedroom-sized magic shop next to the Basin Park Hotel — named,

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named Donna Grunwald.

A born-and-raised Eurekan, Donna said her store has been in town for 27 years. During that time, she said, she has tried to treat everyone who comes into her shop with “great value, worth and respect” even those whose belief systems don’t square with her own.

She believes, however, that Ordinance 2223 doesn’t live up to the standards of morality and integrity established by the word of God. “My belief system is that the word of God is accurate,” she said. “I love people, and I have people of every race and color come into my business and I treat them each with respect. I do not honor sin, I do not honor wickedness, and neither does the Lord God. And so, my stand is a stand of truth.”

A few doors down South Main at the Ladybug Emporium, shop owner Jim Jordan predicts a landslide for 2223 on May 12. He said that if the ordinance stands, it’ll send a strong message to the nation.

“Hopefully what it’ll tell the rest of the country is that we’re not living in the 1960s anymore, and that we recognize that your race, your sexual preference, your gender do not have anything

RICHIE: The author of 2223.

to do with you being a good human being,” he said. “This is not only about today. This is about tomorrow. We’re not living in the past, and those people who are trying to muddy the waters?

They’re living in the past.”

Local business owner Sandy Martin, who resigned from the board of the Chamber of Commerce after it put out the statement criticizing 2223, said SB 202 “snuck up on” Eureka, and reinforced the idea that small communi-

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appropriately enough, The Magic Shop — owner Barry Green said that, as an out-of-towner, he hasn’t kept up with Ordinance 2223 closely enough to know whether it was needed or not. He jokingly says, however, that he does plan to get a sign for his store that says, “I will take anyone’s money.”

Karen Lindblad, who has lived in Eureka since 1970, owns Gazebo Books on Spring Street with her sister, Virginia. Quaint and cozy, heavy on local history and world music, the store has been open since 1976. Lindblad said she is very much in support of Ordinance 2223. The letters to the editor in the city’s two newspapers, she said, show that it’s been a contentious issue.

“In Eureka, we actually follow the intent of the laws of this country,” she said, “which say that no one should be discriminated against. I think that’s what [the ordinance] should say, ‘We stand behind civil rights, period.’ ” One of the few business owners who would speak on the record against Ordinance 2223 was a woman who identified herself only as Donna, the owner of Scarlett’s Lingerie and Curiosities at 23 S. Main St. Online records show the store is owned by a woman

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“You can’t have a tourist-dependent economy and not welcome everyone,” she said. “Too, it’s against what Eureka Springs has always stood for. This has always been an open, eclectic, diverse, welcoming community. We have over 450 working artists here. When you have that kind of culture and diversity, you kind of know what the character of the town is. We’ve always existed

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Martin said that if the city is able to retain 2223 on May 12, it would say to the rest of the country that winning against the forces driving intolerance is possible. Also, she noted that it would give those fighting antiLGBTQ laws crucial legal standing when it comes time to fight those laws in court.

“It all happens at the local level and at the grass roots,” she said. “The other thing we’re fighting with 202 is being stripped of the right to do local ordinances like this. We know our community.”

Love is hard Then there is maybe the most surprising voice involved in the local debate over Ordinance 2223, even though he says it shouldn’t be surprising at all: that of Jayme Brandt, who runs Twice Born, Eureka’s quirky, Christian-themed T-shirt shop. Brandt designs and makes everything. One shirt available from the shop’s website says: “My Creator Is Still Creating Me.” Another says: “Religion Is Easy. Love Is Hard.”

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nance 2223 rallied at KJ’s Caribe Restaurant and Cantina in Eureka on March 18, Brandt was there. He brought the crowd to tears when he spoke of learning at age 11 that his father was gay and being told, “This is the worst kind of sin” — something it took him a long time to reconcile with the meek, kind, loving man he knew.

“This is about freedom,” Brandt reportedly told the crowd. “Your freedom and my freedom. If you are not free, I am not free. I say that as a Christian, and I want to protect what that means. The purity of the Christian faith has been hijacked by cowards who hide behind a thin veil of doctrine that contains so many holes. But they don’t know that we can see them.”

At his shop at 46 Spring St., with his two young daughters playing behind the counter, Brandt said that he has paid a price for his outspokenness. Walking the walk and talking the talk about his belief in equality included going to a Repeal 2223 rally, standing up and telling the people there — all of them devout Christians and some of them close friends — that he would be fighting to keep 2223.

“I haven’t lost any friends yet, but I’ve definitely made some of my comfortable relationships awkward,” he said. “I’ve met with many pastors in town privately, and I’ve been criticized. I’ve had the scriptures thrown at me like I’m wrong, numerous times. That’s only made me more confident that what I’m saying is true.”

At the same time, Brandt said, he has been overwhelmed by the support from what he called “the liberal side” of the issue.

“I’ve made a lot of new friends.

A lot of them are people who’ve avoided our store for over 10 years because they assumed they would be judged or unwelcome, or just see things for sale that offend them.

Since then, I’ve literally had over a hundred people come in here or contact me privately to say, ‘Thank you.’ ” Brandt very much believes that loving all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, is what Christ would want modern Christians to do. He is troubled by how Christianity and intolerance have become synonymous in the minds of many Americans.

“It very much bothers me. When I

took that stand a couple weeks ago, I was not only doing that for the LGBTQ community, I was doing it in defense of scripture, and a defense of me as a Christian. I feel like that sort of hateful reputation that’s following us everywhere we go exists because of the things we’ve been doing and saying. I wanted to defend the gospel, and what it means, and how it’s supposed to change us.”

Brandt said that while he believes 2223 will prevail May 12, he’s glad he had the opportunity to help change peoples’ minds on the issue, including the minds of some of those who had been dead-set against the law and the protections it offered LGBTQ people.

“With these laws, we’re not talking about changing the scripture or making things once called sin into something not called sin anymore.

What we’re focusing on is how we treat people, and that we don’t discriminate against them. It doesn’t matter if they’re gay or if they’re straight. They should be welcome in our stores and they should be welcome in our lives. We should be loving to them. That doesn’t seem like that radical of a message.”

MAN WITH A PAST, CONT. us?’ Then when I look back, there wasn’t nothing done to me, but they make it so strong like, ‘I was in slavery all that time.’ … You’re talking about an angry young man, just like you got them angry terrorists. So, when I look at my past, the thing about that is, I snapped.”

Turner said that in the process of indoctrination, a person first starts hating white men, then starts hating light-complected blacks, then starts hating black people who don’t think the way he does.

“It don’t stop. You understand?” Turner said. “So I felt like what I meant to do was just say, ‘I don’t believe in the law.’ ” Turner said the opinions of anyone other than himself are irrelevant, because there’s nowhere in the scriptures that says a person should be concerned with the opinions of others. He said it is not up to Eureka Springs to forgive him for his crimes.

“Eureka Springs has their own problems,” Turner said. “They might put their eyes on me so they don’t have to worry about their problems, but the ones that need to be helped, they don’t care where I’ve been. The ones living under the bridges? They don’t care. The ones that their husbands have beat the crap out of them? They understand.”

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5:30 p.m. Bryan Collier (Hearne Fine Art). Children’s book illustrator Collier (“Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington” and many others), whose artwork is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will sign his new book, “Trombone Shorty,” at Hearne Fine Art. Hearne is also exhibiting illustrations and prints by Collier, who will also speak 1 p.m.

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7 p.m. Rebecca Wells (Ron Robinson Theater). The author of the “Ya-Ya Sisterhood” series will deliver a mix of “story-telling, acting and interpretive reading” based on her New York Times best-selling books.

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10 a.m. FOCAL Book Sale (Main Library basement). Sponsored by Friends of the Central Arkansas Libraries (FOCAL), the book sale features $1 hardbacks and 50-cent paperbacks to benefit the Summer Reading Club, Reading Is Fundamental and many other CALS programs. The sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday (FOCAL members can get in at 9 a.m.) and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

7 p.m. “Author! Author!” (Main Library, 5th floor). A party to celebrate the festival’s presenting authors, with drinks and hors d’oeuvres ($25 advance, $40 day of).

fields, waters, and working in factories.”

She is the American Book Award-winning author of numerous books, including “Blood Run” and, most recently, “Streaming.” She will join with emerging Chicana, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Tongva writer Lopez. Lopez is the author of “When Bullets Break,” which won the Native Writers Chapbook Award.

11:30 a.m. “Thrill Me”: Megan Abbott, Benjamin Percy (Main Library’s Darragh Center). Abbott and Percy, both highly acclaimed writers of fiction that challenges the perceived boundary between genre and literary work, discuss their new novels.

1 p.m. “Fringe”: Amanda Petrusich, Kent Russell (Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center). Petrusich, a frequent contributor to Pitchfork and Oxford American and the author of “Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 rpm Records,” and Russell, author of the essay collection “I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son,” discuss literary nonfiction and their adventures in eccentric contemporary subcultures with Oxford American assistant editor Caitlin Love.

1 p.m. Issa Rae (Ron Robinson Theater). Writer, actress and creator of the hit YouTube comedy series “Awkward Black Girl” will discuss her New York Times best-seller “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.” See our interview with Rae on page 26.

2:30 p.m. Maxine Payne (Arkansas Studies Room 110). Perhaps it is because Payne is a photographer herself that she was moved to document the Massengill family, an Independence County family that survived the Depression with their traveling photography studios, selling photos for pennies (extra if hand-tinted).

She’ll talk about her book, “Making Pictures: Three for a Dime,” which returns to print many of the old photographs taken by the Massengills, drawn from photo albums of the Massengills themselves and others collected by Payne.

2:30 p.m. “Short Stories”: Thomas Pierce, Richard Lange, Antonio RuizCamacho (Main Library Lee Room). A panel of acclaimed contemporary short-fiction writers, moderated by Oxford American associate editor Maxwell George.

2:30 p.m. Jamaica Kincaid (Mosaic Templars Cultural Center). The beloved and award-winning novelist and longtime New Yorker staff writer will talk about her career and her most recent novel “See Now Then.”

2:30 p.m. Rick Bragg (Ron Robinson Theater). The always-entertaining Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction writer will discuss his new biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, which the Chicago Tribune called “epic Southern storytelling at its most gripping.”

4 p.m. “A Half Dozen Poets”: Mark L. Beggs, Nickole Brown, Hope Coulter, Jessica Jacobs, Sandy Longhorn, Jo McDougall (Ron Robinson Theater).

Six of the best and brightest Arkansas poets discuss their craft. An excerpt from a poem on time by Coulter: “And when you fall behind a car that pokes along,/ you say, “It must be someone old,” and when you pass,/ confirm it — some old woman/who surely knows/her days are drawing short/ proceeds like a queen on a flowery float/ dispensing time like petals left and right,/ as if she’s got a million/hours to squander.”

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ast week I called John Waters and found him at home in the tastefully decorated study of his house in Baltimore, complete with thick red curtains, stacks of books and a fake cat (I’ve seen photos). A legendary filmmaker and writer — an iconic American personality, really — Waters divides his time between New York, San Francisco and Baltimore, his hometown, where he shot most of his early films, including “Pink Flamingos,” one of the most famous low-budget movies ever made.

Since his last film, 2004’s “A Dirty Shame,” Waters has largely turned to writing books, including the 2010 essay collection “Role Models,” and last year’s “Carsick,” a fiction-nonfiction hybrid about his adventures — real and imagined — hitchhiking across the country. He’s a headlining speaker at this year’s Arkansas Literary Festival, and will present his one-man show, “This Filthy World” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Ron Robinson Theater.

Have you ever been to Arkansas?

Are you at all worried about it?

I’m almost sure I have, because at one point in my life I went through the map and drove all five interstates across the country. But I don’t think I’ve been to Little Rock. I don’t ever have bad associations with any state, because I know from traveling so much that today my audience is always smart, always

cool, and they always dress up for me.

So I know my audience in Arkansas will look very similar to my audience in Paris or Fargo, North Dakota. Everybody’s cool now.

I’m hoping I do see some local color actually — that’s what’s missing when I go to all these cities. I live in Baltimore, which is the South, too, no matter what they say. I have no prejudices, especially after hitchhiking across the country, against what people call Middle America. To me, the people were all incredibly open-minded and wonderful. I’m never around assholes. I’m sure there are assholes in Arkansas, but I won’t meet them. That’s success. Success is, you can buy any book without looking at the price, and also you’re never around assholes. Those are the key things you have to work for, and I have succeeded.

Speaking of which, it seems like it’s become common for celebrities to complain about their fame, but you’ve always made being famous seem very fun.

I don’t have the kind of fame that Justin Bieber has, where you can’t leave your house. I’ve seen that with Johnny Depp, where he basically can’t go out.

I don’t have that, thank God. But to be honest, I used to say to Johnny, “That’s the point. Work harder and then you can never leave your house.”

I’ve always romanticized the

“midnight movies” era of films like “El Topo,” “Night of the Living Dead” and your own “Pink Flamingos” — the whole social-communal aspect of that ’70s film culture. Am I wrong to do so?

Well, you know, you mention the term “film culture,” which was also the name of Jonas Mekas’ wonderful, amazing, brilliant magazine about “underground movies,” which are what came before “midnight movies.” I romanticize underground movies, back when [Jack Smith’s 1963] “Flaming Creatures” was playing and the police would raid and take the audience away in paddy wagons. That’s going to the movies. Later, they just busted the projectionist, which, what did he do?

But romanticizing midnight movies is valid. There was no video then, so you couldn’t watch a movie at home, or even watch it again. So if it played every week at midnight, like “Pink Flamingos” did, you could go see it — it was the first time you could watch something over and over. And 100 percent of the audience was smoking marijuana. But it was a communal thing. It was like Mass, it was religious. People came in costumes and would yell out the dialogue and all that. It was a social event.

So it was romantic. But the problem was, everybody thought you could get rich from this, but it was only one show a week, and tickets were $2. Nobody was getting rich. And when you say “cult movie” — that’s the one thing you pray they don’t call you when you’re pitching to get a Hollywood job. In Hollywood, “cult” means nobody came to see it except for three smart people.

Do you still love film? What’s the last Hollywood movie you enjoyed?

Oh yes. I thought the best Hollywood film last year was “Gone Girl.”

What are you reading these days?

Let’s see here, I’ll go deep. The two best books I’ve read recently are coming out this summer. One is by my editor, Jonathan Galassi, called “Muse.”

It’s a smart cliffhanger about publishing — who could ever imagine it? And the other is by Bill Clegg, who is my agent. He has a new book called “Did You Ever Have a Family.” It’s really, really good. That sounds ridiculous that my two favorite recent books are by my editor and my agent, but whoever heard of editors and agents writing books?

I’m really anxious to read [Karl Ove Knausgaard’s] “My Struggle, Vol. 4,” which I just got. I, of course, like Anne Tyler’s [“A Spool of Blue Thread]. I had dinner with her the other night and I’m so happy her book is doing really, really

well. What else? “The Corvo Cult” [by Robert Scoble] is a book I’m enjoying.

I’m reading everything by Rachel Cusk, since I read an article about her called “The Most Hated Woman in Literature.”

I loved her book about how much she hated having children. She really doesn’t suffer fools.

Then I’ll tell you what’s coming up, since we’re pushing a literary festival here: “Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground” [by Bryan Burrough], “Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos” and “Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano” [by Dana Thomas].

Why did you decide to include both fictional and nonfictional episodes in “Carsick”?

Before I went, everybody was so afraid for me and telling me not to do it, but I thought, what’s the worst that could happen? And then I thought, that might actually be good to imagine.

I realized once I did the trip that I never could have written those [fictional] chapters after doing it for real. I just thought it was a good idea to imagine the best and imagine the worst and then do it for real, to see the difference between fantasy and reality. And what really happened was, of course, not as extreme as the best and the worst, but the people could not have been sweeter and more encouraging, and were not a disappointment. So it was interesting to see what I had in my head and what happened in real life, but I ultimately liked both.

Although standing there at 66 years old in the middle of Kansas, hitchhiking by myself, was pretty extreme. I look back and can’t even believe I did that.

Would you pick up yourself hitchhiking?

It depends. If I was alone, yes. If I was with somebody, no. No one really knew it was me, and even if they thought it was, they’d drive by and think, “Why would he be standing there?” When I see pictures of what I looked like, I’m amazed anybody picked me up.

How could someone become the next John Waters today?

Today, studios are looking for people like me when I was 18. They’re looking for the next kid who’s made a cellphone movie. Now, they want films that cost under $1 million or $100 million. But also, I’ve always said that if you could just think of a way to make people nervous with no sex or violence, you would have such a hit. You have to surprise people in a new way.

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FROM YOUTUBE TO AUTHOR: The “awkward” Issa Rae appears Saturday at the Ron Robinson Theater.

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first came across Issa Rae in early 2012 after hearing the buzz about her web series, “Awkward Black Girl.” She both wrote and acted, as the main character, J, who must maintain a sliver of sanity despite her difficulties in social situations. After Rae’s much-lauded YouTube series, she penned a New York Times bestseller, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.” I chatted with Issa Rae, who is making her Arkansas Literary Festival debut this year, about her new book, awkwardness, media representation and the future of the entertainment industry.

Rae will appear at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Ron Robinson Theater.

What influenced you to write a book about your experiences?

I’ve always wanted to write a book, that’s always been a dream of mine since I was a child. I was approached by various publishing companies

about doing one for “Awkward Black Girl,” the series. I met my editor, Dawn Davis, went out to lunch with her and she was like, “What are some of the experiences that make you awkward?” And that line of questioning really just inspired me to tell my own story and tell the origin story of my awkwardness.

What is your writing process like?

I’m one of those people that my whole day has to be clear for me to write. If I have to go somewhere or if I know I have some sort of obligation, then I’ll be distracted because I’ll find any excuse to not write. And so I would typically isolate myself, go outside of the house (because I can’t write inside the house) and go to a coffee shop or restaurant. I write best when I eat or drink, not alcohol, but drink something like coffee with caffeine. I just spend the day writing.

Sometimes I would have a target goal, but after a while I became frustrated and just wrote. Wrote when it was bad, wrote when it was good, but wrote.

How long did it take you to complete the book?

A year in total, with I would say three months of writing daily. I’m one of those people who come up with ideas but let them marinate for a time before I put pen to paper.

Can you describe what it means to be an “awkward black girl”?

I think I’m awkward in the traditional sense in that I’m socially uncomfortable. I over-analyze social situations. I’m introverted, and my blackness doesn’t really fit mainstream media’s definition in that we’re always portrayed as — women, especially — loud, brash, sassy, sometimes cool, trendy … and that’s just never been me.

What do you think being an introvert has allowed you to do, in terms of the work you do now?

I sit back and observe. I think feeling uncomfortable and insecure lends to the best comedy and so that’s definitely influenced my work. But yeah, introverts tend to be the quiet observers and that really helps in my material.

As a comedy writer, who have been some of your influences?

Definitely Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey and even Donald Glover.

That’s kind of the canon for me.

What’s the common thread with those writers?

They have an uncomfortable humor, not as wry as British humor, but just enough to where you laugh out loud.

You mentioned in your book that you grew up watching programs with multidimensional characters played by people of color throughout the ’90s on network television shows like “Living Single” and “A Different World.” However, that kind of representation has changed since the millennium. What do you think caused the shift?

I just think the advent of cable and the spread of audiences. Network television was worried about ad dollars and, you know, in terms of competition, initially there were like five network channels.

They only had to compete with one another, but as cable grew and started to become more popular, ad dollars were competing. So networks had to make sure they were going to get money, and I think to have the broadest appeal and broad-

est set of eyeballs you go with white, because everyone watches white people as opposed to people of color — because then it’s more niche. I think that had a huge part in why so many faces started to disappear on networks.

As someone who’s gained notoriety through a YouTube series, what are your thoughts on YouTube’s usefulness to aspiring artists?

I just think it’s an opportunity outside of the traditional, outside of the norm. It’s a way to go around the gate.

It’s really allowed for access to a direct audience that appreciates your work as is and is hungry for what they’re not seeing on television. And for some, it serves as a resume to help them transition into television and film, if that’s their ultimate goal. It’s just a really powerful tool.

What do you see as the future of entertainment outside of the major networks?

Television has tons of money and a lot of the money now is shifting into digital space. So I see an a la carte model approaching in that audiences will have television show apps as opposed to channels. And, you know, the channels can still be the umbrellas, but I think that people will just pick and choose like a shopping cart the content they want to see and make their own sort of entertainment system and model based off the shows that they want to see. You have so many channels that people don’t care about. Having a cable subscription forces you to have [content] and now what the Internet is showing people is that you don’t need all of that. You can have all the shows you want to see, binge-watch those or save them and that can be it at the end of the day.

What advice would you give someone trying to make it in the entertainment industry today?

I’m really big on collaborating. Find other people who are interested in doing what you’re doing — people who are serious about it and not just talking — and find ways that you can work and build together. It’s easier to do when you’re on the same page and combining resources with someone else. That’s definitely what I did in everything that I’ve done.

Could you talk a little about your current project with HBO? We’re in pre-production right now.

It’s called “Insecure” and it follows me and my best friend navigating life while pushing 30.

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BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSON

FRIDAY 4/24

JIMBO MATHUS

10 p.m. White Water Tavern. $10.

Unkempt visionary, Squirrel Nut Zippers founder, former sideman for Jim Dickinson and Buddy Guy, self-proclaimed “Arkansas Son-in-Law”— Jimbo Mathus has lived many lifetimes, more than most of us could stomach. This month, by means of a work ethic that can only be described as punishing, Mathus is back with a new album, “Blue Healer,” recorded in Water Valley, Miss., with Fat Possum and Big Legal Mess producer Bruce Watson. “It’s the story of a man in a Southern landscape who is swept insanely apart by internal and external winds,” Mathus says of the new record. “He digs deeper and deeper into the very fabric of his reality, experiencing love and lust, despair, hope and sheer animal exhilaration on levels few ever do. He is tested in every way imaginable and achieves a sort of enlightenment — gains power and understanding of life’s mysteries.

Yet questions remain. He wonders if the struggle was worth it, or even real. Is he madman or sage?

Con man or honest counsel? Is this autobiographical or fictional?

Only the Blue Healer knows the answer to the great cosmic heebie-jeebie.” He celebrates the record’s release at White Water Friday night. WS

QUEENS AND COWBOYS: Wade Earp and other stars of the gay rodeo circuit will appear at the 2015 Rodeo in the Rock Friday and Saturday at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds, $15-$25.

FRIDAY 4/24-SATURDAY 4/25

RODEO IN THE ROCK

Arkansas State Fairgrounds. $15$25.

The Diamond State Rodeo Association is the Arkansas branch of the International Gay Rodeo Association, an umbrella group founded in

Clinton School of Public Service, Sturgis Hall David Rosenfelt at noon, competition at 1 p.m. Free.

Crossword puzzle and Sudoku mavens will once again get the pencil lead out to see who can be first to solve progressively harder word/ logic puzzles. Quick, what is a threeletter word containing no vowels for valley? The late, great Arkansas puzzlemaster Judge George Rose Smith taught me this one: Cwm. This year’s puzzle day is part of the Arkansas Literary Festival and before its puzzlers begin puzzling, author and dog 28

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and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo,” which focused on Wade Earp, a descendent of Wyatt and one of the emerging stars of the circuit. “As progressive as we think the world’s gotten,” he says in the trailer, “there’s so much we have to conquer.” WS

SUNDAY 4/26

SUNDAY 4/26

ARKANSAS PUZZLE DAY

1985 and dedicated to “promoting, in a positive way, the LGBTQ country Western lifestyle.” The two-day event will include bull riding, steer wrestling, calf roping, barrel racing, pole bending, goat dressing and dancing.

Last year the organization was the subject of a documentary, “Queens

lover David Rosenfelt will speak. He says on his Facebook page, “I have heard myself speak many times, and I’m stunned each time by the incredible power of my words. I have been compared to Winston Churchill, but with hair.” He also urges the David Rosenfelt Little Rock Fan Club to arrive in shifts, “maybe 500 at a time.

Otherwise it will be chaos.” The fastest three puzzlers in both the crossword and Sudoku categories will be awarded prizes in a finals competition. Reserve a seat by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys. edu or calling 683-5239. LNP

10TH ANNUAL MOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY PICNIC

5 p.m.-7 p.m., Mount Holly Cemetery. $100 ($25 for 12 and under).

Little Rock’s oldest extant cemetery — continuously occupied! — celebrates the 100th anniversary of the city’s incorporation of the Mount Holly Cemetery Association this year. The city’s 1915 ordinance allowed its supporters — all ladies — to restore the deteriorating cemetery by shooing the animals out, rebuilding the fences, straightening the headstones. Thus began a century of caregiving. (Coincidentally, the cemetery, donated to the city in 1843, had

been run by men but began its decline under their leadership. Women, recognizing the importance of the cemetery to the city, stepped up. Shades of the Women’s Emergency Committee.) The Cemetery Association’s annual picnic is its largest fundraiser and crucial to keeping the 172-year-old resting place mowed and beautiful for the many visitors who stroll under its shade trees and along its grassy streets to see the statuary, pay regards to lost friends or who just enjoy the tranquility of the grounds.

There will be tours of Mount Holly, a box dinner, sales of the “Recipes in Perpetuity” cookbook — which combines history and recipes — and a silent auction. LNP

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 4/23

SATURDAY 4/25

ETSY INDIE ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Hillcrest.

Around 100 local artists and designers who exhibit on the website Etsy will appear in person this Saturday at the fifth annual Indie Arts and Music Festival in Hillcrest,

offering custom jewelry, clothing, paintings, soap — probably just about everything. There will also be food trucks, like Loblolly Creamery, Southern Gourmasian, Southern Salt Food Co. and Katmandu MoMo, among others, and live music on two stages. This year’s lineup includes Amy Garland, Open Fields,

Sea Nanners, Collin Vs. Adam, Isaac Alexander, Mandy McBryde, The Rolling Blackouts and more. Also involved: circus entertainment from ReCreation Studios, pets you can adopt (!), tattoos, drinks from Rock Town Distillery, Moody Brews and Diamond Bear, a photo booth, live painting and more. WS

FRIDAY 4/24 Sculpture at the River Market preview party is at 6:30 p.m. at the River Market pavilions ($100) and Bronze and Brewskis follows at 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ($30); public exhibition Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26. Blues on the River 2015, featuring Shirley Jones, Sir Charles, Lenny Williams, Ms. Jody, Denise LaSalle, Mel Waters and more, is at the North Shore Riverwalk 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $30-$40. Classical organist Graham Schultz performs works by Bach and Mendelssohn at the Cathedral of St. Andrew, 8 p.m., free. Full of Hell and The Body play at Revolution with Child Bite, Seahag and Terminal Nation, 8:30 p.m., $10-$12. The Arkansas Jazz Festival, with performances by various Arkansas high school groups, as well as the UALR Jazz Ensemble, is at the Clinton Presidential Center Friday and Saturday, free. Britney Spears impersonator Derrick Barry performs at Sway, 9 p.m. Rodney Block and The Real Music Lovers present Bijoux and Brad Williams (of The Salty Dogs) at the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $10.

SATURDAY 4/26

JEWISH FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL

Breakfast 8:30 a.m., festival 10 a.m.-4 p.m., War Memorial Stadium.

As someone who adores lox and bagels in the morning, corned beef at lunch and blintzes after dinner, I could just knish the person who thought up the annual Jewish Food Festival. It’s an opportunity to stock up on homemade Jewish penicillin and buy a mezuzah to bless your house. There will be a replica of the Wailing Wall, where visitors can place their prayers and which will be transported to Israel for incorporation into the real thing.

Want advice? Go “Ask the Rabbi”! But what is my absolute favorite part of the food festival? The Meshugga Klezmer Band, that’s what. The sevenpiece band will play its often keening, sometimes frolicking songs at 1 p.m.

The band will make you act meshugganah in front of complete strangers.

The event is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Arkansas. Feeling like chopped liver? Head over.

And take some canned foods and other nonperishables for donation to the Arkansas Foodbank, which will have collection centers there. LNP

Kevin Kerby plays at the Dunbar Community Garden Project, 5:30 p.m., $5. Writer and humorist David Sedaris appears at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, 7 p.m., $38-$58. Christian music star Chris Tomlin performs at Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $24.50-$63.50. Comedian Skip Clark is at the Loony Bin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, $7 (and at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $10). Shoog Radio presents Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase winner Ghost Bones and Little Rock’s The Hacking, 9 p.m., $5.

SATURDAY 4/25 COUNTRY METAMODERNIST: Sturgill Simpson performs at Hendrix College’s Staples Auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday, free.

WEDNESDAY 4/29

STURGILL SIMPSON

8 p.m. Staples Auditorium, Hendrix College.

Free.

How was Sturgill Simpson — who sounds uncannily like the fifth Highwayman and whose most recent album, “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” you could easily throw on at a party after, say, “Phases and Stages” with no noticeable tonal shift or loss of momentum — more or less ignored for so long by the Nashville cultural establishment in whose margins he labored? I have several theories, and the most convincing involves his subject matter: psilocybin mushrooms, the death of the ego, “breakthroughs in modern physics,” reptilian aliens. As he admitted in an interview with The Fader, “I read weird shit.” And it shows! “I’ve always been fasci-

nated with guys like Carl Sagan and Terence McKenna, linguistics, and the evolution of man and why we evolved,” he told the Oxford American last year, as though this were an entirely unremarkable admission from a guy who sounds like a young Waylon Jennings.

Simpson is carrying the torch these days for a certain strand of eccentric, progressive country music that nevertheless adheres respectfully to the honky-tonk tradition — reviving the fruitful overlap between the counterculture and redneck culture that thrived in the ’60s and ’70s. The Oxford American brings him to Conway Wednesday night for a free concert at Hendrix College’s Staples Auditorium. Reserve your tickets in advance by calling 501-450-1291 or emailing activities@ hendrix.edu. WS

The Cardiac Classic Bike Ride, featuring Lance Armstrong, begins at Burns Park at 7 a.m., $35. Local poetry collective Foreign Tongues presents “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece” at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 7 p.m.

Indie folk favorites Iron and Wine perform at Juanita’s, 8 p.m. (sold out). House of Avalon’s 3rd Annual #BritneyBxtch party is at Sway, 9 p.m. Nashville garage punk band Pujol plays at Stickyz with Little Rock’s The Uh Huhs, 10 p.m., $8.

WEDNESDAY 4/29 The John Burnette Band plays a free concert at the History Pavilion in Riverfront Park as part of Jazz in the Park, 6 p.m. At Revolution, local rap collective Young Gods of America presents a night of local underground rap, featuring Goon Des Garcons, Fresco Grey, Taylor Moon, Vile Pack, Yung Kiri and more, 9 p.m., $7 adv., $10 day of. Bonnie Montgomery plays at White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. www.arktimes.com

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THURSDAY, APRIL 23

MUSIC

Ace’s Wild (headliner), Byron (happy hour).

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

Chris Tomlin. Verizon Arena, 7 p.m., $24.50-$63.50.

1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com.

Cornmeal, Big Still River. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $7. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $7. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

“Inferno.” DJs play pop, electro, house and more, plus drink specials and $1 cover before 11 p.m.

Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

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

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

Little Rock Wind Symphony, “Symphonic Dances.” Second Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., $10. 600 Pleasant Valley Drive.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Marc Cohen. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, 7 p.m., $35-$75. 20919 Denny Road.

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

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

RockUsaurus. Senor Tequila, 7-9 p.m. 10300 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-224-5505.

Shoog Radio Presents: Ghost Bones, The Hacking. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $5.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com/.

Sounds of Satellites, Red Sweater Lullaby.

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

Spring Music in the Garden with Kevin Kerby.

Dunbar Garden Project, 5:30 p.m., $5. 1800 S. Chester. 501-529-8520. dunbargarden.org.

Steve Moakler, Adam Hambrick. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $12. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com.

Tawanna Campbell, Paul Campbell, Lucas Murray, Dre Franklin, Lucious Spiller.

Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10-$50. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new/.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com/.

COMEDY

Skip Clark. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $7. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

Blue Tie Blue Jean Ball. Noah’s Event Venue, 6:30 p.m., $45. 21 Rahling Circle.

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BOOKS

Arkansas Literary Festival. Featuring appearances by John Waters, Jamaica Kincaid, Rebecca Wells, Issa Rae, Rick Bragg and several other authors. Also includes childrens events, the FOCAL Used Book Sale and more. Downtown Little Rock. Downtown.

An Evening with David Sedaris. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $38-$58. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.

Frank Thurmond. A reading by the author of “Ring of Five: A Novella and Four Stories.” Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro, 8 p.m. 200 River Market Ave. 501375-3500. www.dizzysgypsybistro.net/.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

MUSIC

All In Fridays. Club Elevations. 7200 Colonel Glenn Road. 501-562-3317.

Arkansas Choral Society, Cherubini’s “Requiem.” Christ the King Catholic Church, 7:30 p.m., $15. 4000 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-225-6774. www.ctklr.com.

Arkansas Jazz Festival. With performances by various Arkansas high school groups, as well as the UALR Jazz Ensemble. With food trucks on site. Clinton Presidential Center, April 24-25, free. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www. clintonpresidentialcenter.org.

Bijoux, Brad Williams, Rodney Block and The Real Music Lovers. Afterthought Bistro and Bar, 9 p.m., $10. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Blues on the River 2015. Featuring Shirley Jones, Sir Charles, Lenny Williams, Ms. Jody, Denise LaSalle, Mel Waiters and more. North Shore Riverwalk, April 24-25, 6 p.m., $30-$40. Riverwalk Drive, NLR. www.northlittlerock.org.

Britney Spears impersonator Derrick Barry.

Sway. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Canvas (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. Dance night, with DJs, drink specials and bar menu, until 2 a.m.

1620 Savoy, 10 p.m. 1620 Market St. 501-2211620. www.1620savoy.com.

Collin Vs. Adam. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100.

Full of Hell, The Body, Child Bite, Seahag, Terminal Nation. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10$12. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new/.

Graham Schultz. The classical organist will perform works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Bairstow, Buxehude, Duruflé and Langais. Cathedral of St. Andrew, 8 p.m., free. 617 Louisiana St. 501 374-2794. cathedralsaintandrew.org.

Jimbo Mathus and The Tri State Coalition.

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

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Marc Cohn. Walton Arts Center, 8 p.m., $27-$47.

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

Route 66. Agora Conference and Special Event Center, 6:30 p.m., $5. 705 E. Siebenmorgan, Conway.

Stephen Neeper and The Wild Hearts. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz. com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com/.

White Collar Sideshow, Silversyde. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

COMEDY

“I Love You But You’re Sitting On My Cat.” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Skip Clark. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

DANCE

Ballroom Dancing. Free lessons begin at 7 p.m.

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th & Cleveland streets. 501-2217568. www.blsdance.org.

Contra Dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, first and third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.; Fourth Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m., $5.

3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org.

“Salsa Night.” Begins with a one-hour salsa lesson. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

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2015 Rodeo in the Rock. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, April 24-26, $15-$25. 2600 Howard St. 501-372-8341 ext. 8206. www.arkansasstatefair.com.

LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Sculpture at the River Market. River Market Pavilions, April 24-26. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

BOOKS

Arkansas Literary Festival. See April 23.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

MUSIC

Antartichrist, Chemical Discipline. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479444-6100.

Arkansas Jazz Festival. See April 24.

Blues on the River 2015. See April 24.

Boom Kinetic. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new/.

Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See April 24.

Crisis (headliner), R&R (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501375-5351. www.cajunswharf.com.

House of Avalon’s 3rd Annual #BritneyBxtch.

Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Iron and Wine. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., SOLD OUT. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

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

Karaoke. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free.

1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444.

Karaoke with Kevin & Cara. All-ages, on the restaurant side. Revolution, 9 p.m.-12:45 a.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new/.

K.I.S.S. Saturdays. Featuring DJ Silky Slim. Dress code enforced. Sway, 10 p.m. 412 Louisiana.

501-492-9802.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Pickin’ Porch. Bring your instrument. All ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

Pujol, The Uh Huhs. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 10 p.m., $8. 107 River Market Ave. 501372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Sumokem, Satan’s Satyres, Apothecary. ZaZa. 1050 Ellis Ave., Conway. 501-336-9292. www. zazapizzaandsalad.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com/.

COMEDY

“I Love You But You’re Sitting On My Cat.” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Skip Clark. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

2015 Rodeo in the Rock. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, through April 26, $15-$25. 2600 Howard St. 501-372-8341 ext. 8206. www.arkansasstatefair.com.

5th Annual Indie Arts & Music Festival.

Featuring vendors, food trucks and live music

by Isaac Alexander, The Coasts, Mandy McBryde, Collin Vs. Adam and more. Hillcrest Neighborhood, 11 a.m. Kavanaugh Blvd. and Hillcrest.

Cardiac Classic Bike Ride. Featuring Lance Armstrong. Burns Park, 7 a.m., $35. 2700 Willow St., NLR. 501-791-8537.

Central Arkansas Heart Walk. Burns Park, 9 a.m.

2700 Willow St., NLR. 501-791-8537.

Dinosaurs Around the World. Clinton Presidential Center, April 25-26. 1200 President

Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org.

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

Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Historic Neighborhoods Tour. Bike tour of historic neighborhoods includes bike, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 9 a.m., $8-$28. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.

Pork & Bourbon Tour. Bike tour includes bicycle, guide, helmets and maps. Bobby’s Bike Hike, 11:30 a.m., $35-$45. 400 President Clinton Ave. 501-613-7001.

Sculpture at the River Market. River Market Pavilions, through April 26. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

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LECTURES

Joshua Shenk. “Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

POETRY

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece.

Hosted by poetry collective Foreign Tongues.

Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 7 p.m. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com.

BOOKS

Arkansas Literary Festival. See April 23.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26

MUSIC

Doug Pinnick. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $14.50. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

Eric Gales Band, Steve Hester and Deja Voodoo. Revolution, 8 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new/.

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

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

501-982-1939 ‎.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

EVENTS

10th Annual Mt. Holly Cemetery Picnic. Food, wine, a silent auction and a tour. Mount Holly Cemetery, 5 p.m., $100. 1200 Broadway.

2015 Jewish Food and Cultural Festival. War Memorial Stadium, 10 a.m., free. 1 Stadium Drive. 501-663-0775.

2015 Rodeo in the Rock. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, through, $15-$25. 2600 Howard St. 501-372-8341 ext. 8206. www.arkansasstatefair.com.

“Arkansas Puzzle Day,” with David Rosenfelt.

Sturgis Hall, 1 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

Dinosaurs Around the World. Clinton Presidential Center, through. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org.

Sculpture at the River Market. River Market Pavilions, through. 400 President Clinton Ave.

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BOOKS

Arkansas Literary Festival. See April 23.

MONDAY, APRIL 27

MUSIC

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Monday Night Jazz. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com/.

Open Mic. The Lobby Bar. Studio Theatre, 8 p.m. 320 W. 7th St. Richie Johnson. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf. com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

MUSIC

Dirty Heads featuring !Mayday!. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $17. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com.

Flyleaf, The Agonist, Fit For Rivals. Revolution, 5:30 p.m., $20 adv., $25 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new/.

Irish Traditional Music Sessions. Hibernia Irish Tavern, second and Fourth Tuesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

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

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

www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

JJ Grey and Mofro. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $22. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-442-4226.

Karaoke Tuesday. Prost, 8 p.m., free. 322 President Clinton Blvd. 501-244-9550. willydspianobar.com/prost-2/.

Karaoke Tuesdays. On the patio. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 7:30 p.m., free. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Music Jam. Hosted by Elliott Griffen and Joseph Fuller. The Joint, 8-11 p.m., free. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com/.

UALR Percussion Ensemble. UALR University Theatre, 7:30 p.m., free. 2801 South Unversity Ave. Woody Pines, Reed Balentine. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

COMEDY

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Adam Hogg. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Juanita’s, 7:30 p.m., $7. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

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Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 7 p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com/.

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

BENEFITS

Seersucker Social. Proceeds go to the School Bus Fund. Old State House Museum, 6 p.m., $40. 300 West Markham Street. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

BOOKS

Suzi Parker. A book-signing from the author of “Echo Ellis: Adventures of a Girl Reporter By Suzi Parker.” Hibernia Irish Tavern, 5 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www. hiberniairishtavern.com.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

MUSIC

Acoustic Open Mic. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., free. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com/.

Avatar, Cosmivore, Undercover Devil, Minerva.

Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $5. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Bonnie Montgomery. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

Corey Glover of Living Colour. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www. stickyz.com.

Drageoke with Chi Chi Valdez. Sway. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Immortal Bird, Crankbait, Ozark Shaman, Wayland. Vino’s, 7 p.m., $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Jazz in the Park: John Burnette Band. Riverfront Park, 6 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Avenue.

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

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

Karaoke. MUSE Ultra Lounge, 8:30 p.m., free.

2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-3724782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Open Mic Nite with Deuce. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

Sturgill Simpson. Live at the Staples Auditorium, presented by the Oxford American magazine.

Hendrix College, 8 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. www.hendrix.edu.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-370-7013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com/.

Tonya Leeks Band. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free.

1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Young Gods of America, Vile Pack, Taylor Moon, Yung Kiri. YGOA Presents. Revolution, 9 p.m., $7 adv., $10 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/ new/.

COMEDY

Andy Woodhull. The Loony Bin, April 29-May 2, 7:30 p.m.; May 1-2, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www.

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The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

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

LECTURES

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Bikes. Old State House Museum, 12 p.m., free. 300 West Markham Street. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

Maxine’s, 7 p.m., free. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive.com/shows. html.

ARTS

THEATER

“Karski’s Message.” The Weekend Theater, through April 25: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., $16. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org.

“The Legend of Robin Hood.” Arkansas Arts Center, through May 10: Fri., 7 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., $12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www. arkarts.com.

“Million Dollar Quartet.” Maumelle High School, April 24-25, 8 p.m.; April 25-26, 2 p.m., $42$73.50. 100 Victory Drive. 501-851-5350.

“Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery.”

Pulaski Technical College, April 23-24, 2 and 6 p.m.; Sat., April 25, 10 a.m., $5. 3000 W. Scenic Drive, NLR. “Once.” Walton Arts Center, April 29-May 3, $36$70. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS

New shows in bold-face

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Page Turners: Original Illustrations and Prints by Bryan Collier,” through June 13, book signing and reception 5:30 p.m. April 23.

NEXT LEVEL EVENTS, Union Station: “Empty Bowls 2015,” art auction of work in all media to benefit Arkansas Foodbank, 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 23, “Full Glasses” event to follow at 7:30 p.m. with music by Rodney Block, tickets $35. 569-4329.

RIVER MARKET PAVILIONS: “Sculpture at the River Market,” preview party 6:30 p.m. ($100) and Bronze and Brewskis Party ($30) 8:30-10:30 p.m. April 24; show and sale 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 25 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 26. Docent tours at 2 p.m. April 25-26.

JONESBORO ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Bradbury Gallery: “Spring 2015 Senior Exhibition,” work

by Sylvia M. Clemmons, Noel Miller, Penny Jo Pausch and Shawn Wright, reception 5-6:30 p.m. April 23. Noon to 5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 2-5 p.m.

Sun. 870-972-2567.

RUSSELLVILLE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY ARTS CENTER, 1001 E. B St.: “pARTy in the Park Art Festival,” Russellville City Park, music, art, crafts, vendors, 10 a.m. April 25.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

AFTER DARK, CONT. The South Arkansas Arts Center is accepting entries to its 2015 Annual Juried Art Competition to be held July 1-30. Two- and 3-D works in all media may be entered; deadline is May 20. Juror will be Dr. Stanton Thomas of the Brooks Museum in Memphis. More than $2,000 in prize money will be awarded. Entries may be online or by CD. For more information and an entry form, go to www.saac-arts.org.

The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum is accepting entries for a show themed “Man versus Machine: The Art of Expression and the Wired World” to run July 31 to Nov. 1. Deadline is July 1. Submissions should be sent to FS RAM, 1601 Rogers Ave., Fort Smith 72901. Call 479-784-2787.

CONTINUING GALLERY EXHIBITS

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Nancy Dunaway, Katherine Strause, recent works, through May 9. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Flora and Fauna,” work by Rachel Trusty and Beth Whitlow, through May. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Mon.-Fri, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 663-222.

GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 2nd and Center: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander.

801-0211.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Southern Landscapes,” featuring work

by Walter Anderson, John Alexander, Carroll Cloar, Sheila Cotton, William Dunlap, Charles Harrington, Dolores Justus, Edward Rice, Kendall Stallings and Rebecca Thompson. 664-2787.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Faces in Certain Places: An Exhibition of Fine Art Quilts,”

quilts by Bisa Butler, through May 2. 372-6822.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Suggin Territory: The Marvelous World of Folklorist Josephine Graham,” through Nov. 29; “Suyao Tian: Entangled Beauty,” through June 7; “Recent Acquisitions,” objects acquired between 2012 and 2014; “John Harlan Norris: Public Face,” through May 3; “The Great Arkansas Quilt Show 3,” juried exhibit of contemporary quilts, through May 3; “Arkansas Made,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Spring Flowers,” April exhibition.

LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Dennis McCann: A History.”

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 758-1720.

LOCAL COLOUR, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.:

Rotating work by 27 artists in collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422.

M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road (Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center): “M2 8YRS,” gallery’s 8th anniversary show includes work by new gallery artist Sabine Danze, V.L. Cox, Dan Holland and others. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 944-7155.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “The Original Selfie: Artists’ Self Portraits.” 442-7778.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Paula Jones, new paintings; Jim Goshorn, new sculpture; also sculpture by Joe Martin, paintings

by Amy Hill-Imler, Theresa Cates and Patrick Cunningham, ornaments by D. Wharton, landscapes by James Ellis, raku by Kelly Edwards and other works. 753-5227. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

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

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “30 Americans,” works by African American artists from the Rubell Collection, through June 21; “Humble Hum: Rhythm of the Potter’s Wheel,” recent work by resident artist Ashley Morrison, Museum School Gallery, through June 21. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP. GROUP, 200 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “Inside the Valley,” paintings by Arkansas River Valley artists Tammy Harrington, Neal Harrington and David Mudrinich. 374-9247.

ARGENTA GALLERY, 413 Main St., NLR: “Eluvium and Formation: Abstracted Landscapes,” sculpture by Ed Pennebaker and paintings

by LaDawna Whiteside, through May 18. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. argentagallery.com.

BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Three Architects,” drawings and paintings by John Allison, Hans Feyerabend and Eric Maurus, through April 25. 664-0030.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “White River Memoirs,” artwork collected by canoist and photographer Chris Engholm along the White, through July 25; “A Different State of Mind,” exhibition by the Arkansas Society of Printmakers, loft gallery, through June 27; “Captured Images,” photographs from the permanent collection; “Reflections on Line and Mass,” paintings and sculpture by Robyn Horn, through April 24. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Plein Air Painters of Arkansas,” work by Victoria Harvey, Clarence Cash, Tom Herrin, Greg Lahti, Sean LeCrone, John Wooldridge and Diana Shearon.

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

Sat. 664-0880.

COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: Arkansas Society of Printmakers exhibition. 918-3090.

THE EDGE, 301B President Clinton Ave.: Paintings by Avila (Fernando Gomez), Eric Freeman, James Hayes, Jerry Colburn, St. Joseph Thomason and Stephen Drive. 992-1099.

ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “What’s Inside: A History of Women and Handbags, 1900-1999,” vintage purses and other women’s accessories. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.Sat., $8-$10. 916-9022.

GALLERY 221, Pyramid Place, Second and Center streets: “Internationally Artified,” works from private collections; “Sean Lecrone,” paintings. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. gallery221@gmail.com. www.arktimes.com

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF RENOVATION and anticipation, Heights Taco and Tamale Co., the newest Yellow Rocket Concepts restaurant, was set to open Wednesday, April 22, for regular lunch and dinner hours in the former Browning’s location at 5805 Kavanaugh in the Heights. Chef Scott McGehee says of the Ark-Mex restaurant that it is the “most personal” for him of all the restaurants he’s opened. The menu includes Delta-style steamed tamales (with chili and cheese, served with saltines), cheese and beef enchiladas and a wide selection of tacos. Cocktail fans should be on the lookout for a slushy mojito, served with its own signature sleeve to keep the cold stuff nice and frosty in anticipation for the upcoming Arkansas summer. The phone number is 313-4848.

AS PART OF THE ARKANSAS LITERARY Festival, Food Network cook and author Simon Majumdar will help judge entries in the 2015 Traditional Pie Bake-Off at the Root Cafe, 1500 S. Main, at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 26. Preregistration is appreciated, the Root says, but not required. Judges — who along with Mazumdar include Michael Roberts of the Arkansas Times, Kat Robinson of Tie Dye Travels and Daniel Walker of Rock City Eats — will award five blue ribbons and a best-of-show award. Majumdar will also talk about his book “Fed, White and Blue: Finding America with My Fork” for the Little Rock Foodcast.

ON SATURDAY, APRIL 25, THE FOLKS at The Pantry West are going to rock out from noon to midnight in celebration of the sixth anniversary of their Rodney Parham location. The menu?

Suckling pig, paella, brats and all sorts of beer and wine specials. Manager Joe Holland tells us that the event is going to be an “all-you-can-eat European food celebration.” Should be one heck of a 12-hour shindig — because if there’s one thing the Pantry does even better than food, it’s hospitality.

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Unbelievable fixed-price, three-course dinners on Mondays and Tuesday, but food is certainly worth full price. 3000 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-603-9630. D Mon.-Sat. BEST IMPRESSIONS The menu combines Asian, Italian and French sensibilities in soups, salads and meaty fare. A departure from the 34

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Vino’s: Good for 25 years Staying successful with pizza, calzones, brews and music, too.

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ino’s, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary in September, looks, tastes, feels, sounds and smells just like it did in 1990. Well, the smell of malt barley and hops cooking on their way to becoming beer is a smell that’s only been around 22 of those 25 years, but you get the point. Never wavering from its original mission has been key to Vino’s enduring success.

Vino’s does pizza, calzones, sandwiches and salads — always has and probably always will. Owner Henry Lee has resisted the urge to diversify — to add a plate of spaghetti and meatballs or open a Vino’s on Chenal Parkway, for example — dedicating his team to doing a few things well.

Live music is a backbone of the Vino’s formula. (We assume everybody knows by now that Green Day played there a couple of times and made friends with two Little Rock rockers — Jason White and Jeff Matika — who play guitar in Green Day’s touring band.) Lee told us once that being an all-ages music venue means he’s seen lots of teen customers who buy one soft drink and camp out at a table all night.

But those same teens stay fiercely loyal to Vino’s after they turn 21. Thousands have taken that rite of Vino’s passage over the decades.

Lee must get a kick out of the recent, rapidly ratcheting up of the local beer scene. He put up the money to launch Little Rock’s first brewpub brewery in 1993.

And for years Vino’s was it for breweries.

Then River Rock Brewery (later Bosco’s and now Damgoode Pies) opened in 1997.

Next came Diamond Bear in 2000 — and

CONSISTENCY: Vino’s doesn’t change, which is good.

today those trailblazers have been joined by a handful more with others on the way.

Local beer aficionados may not tout Vino’s beers as the city’s best, but we’ve always found them tasty and consistent.

In the name of research and continuing education, we started a recent lunch with a Vino’s beer sampler (seven pours for $6).

We regularly enjoy the Firehouse Pale and the Pinnacle IPA when at Vino’s, but it had been a while since we’d tried the Lazy Boy Stout, which we found smooth-smokyroasted, or the Six Bridges Cream Ale, a light-yet-rich brew. The three guest beers in our flight were oatmeal stout, oatmeal brown and marzen. Thumbs up to the first two, thumbs down to the last, just because that’s a malty beer style we’ve never enjoyed.

By the time we had made our way through the beer samples, out came our table-straining array of food choices: muffaletta bread ($5.15), sausage and mush-

room calzone ($7.95), whole meatball and cheese sub ($5.70 with a bag of Lay’s Potato Chips) and a large Vino’s Special pizza ($19.25). As we surveyed the spread we realized the only thing green on our table were the bell peppers and olives, though a foursome that starts with a beer sampler clearly isn’t focused on healthy eating.

As dedicated restaurant reviewers, we had attempted to get a wide variety of menu items — starter, sandwich, calzone and pizza — but we soon realized all were more similar than different, inextricably linked by the themes of meat, cheese, bread and marinara. But that’s not a bad thing, at least not at Vino’s.

One of our companions, a longtime New Orleans resident, literally couldn’t keep her hands off the muffaletta bread.

Vino’s takes the cheese, meat and olive salad that are hallmarks of the classic sandwich, cuts them into smaller pieces

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923 W. Seventh St. 375-8466 vinosbrewer@gmail.com www.vinosbrewpub.com QUICK BITE With spring having sprung, don’t forget that Vino’s has a cool, tucked-away patio.

Head out the back of the room where the brewing is done, past the huge sacks of beer ingredients, and grab a table.

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and serves the blended assortment on really crispy bread, and our companion thought it was wonderful.

We realized that over decades of trips to Vino’s we’d never had a sandwich. But we adored the meatball sub — large, dense, flavorful, firm meatballs with plenty of rich, dark, tangy marinara and a thick layer of cheese, served on the same toasted bread that was cut up for our starter.

Pizza is a very subjective food — “best in town” status is based on the style a person favors. Our true-blue thin crust companion raved about the Vino’s Special, which features a crispy (though not that thin) bottom crust with still a bit of chewiness and a mozzarella blanket holding plenty of top-quality toppings: Italian sausage, pepperoni, meatballs, mushrooms, onions, black and green olives, green peppers and extra cheese.

What we don’t get often enough, we were reminded, is a Vino’s calzone. We’ve never heard anyone disparage this football-sized gooey delight, and many proclaim it equal to or better than the best they’ve had in New York — or anywhere else. The combination of mozzarella and ricotta — packed into the light, tender crust in great quantity — works well. Have it straight up, or pick any ingredients that please you, and you can’t go wrong.

Though a couple of our items included marinara, an armada of marinara-filled sauce boats accompanied our order for any and all manner of dipping.

Rarely have we finished writing a review more ready to return to scarf down the food about which we just opined — but in less than an hour we’ll be back at Vino’s, just two of us this time, for muffaletta bread, a calzone and a couple of Firehouse Pales.

Viva Vino’s!

tearoom of yore. 501 E. Ninth St. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-907-5946. L Tue.-Sun., BR Sat.-Sun. BIG ORANGE: BURGERS SALADS SHAKES Gourmet burgers manufactured according to exacting specs (humanely raised beef!) and properly fried Kennebec potatoes are the big draws, but you can get a veggie burger as well as fried chicken, curried falafel and blackened tilapia sandwiches, plus creative meal-sized salads. Shakes and floats are indulgences for all ages. 17809 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-821-1515. LD daily. 207 N. University Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-379-8715. LD daily.

BIG ROCK BISTRO Students of the Arkansas Culinary School run this restaurant at Pulaski Tech under the direction of Chef Jason Knapp.

Pizza, pasta, asian-inspired dishes and diner food, all in one stop. 3000 W. Scenic Drive. NLR. No alcohol, all CC. $. 501-812-2200. BL Mon.-Fri. BJ’S RESTAURANT AND BREWHOUSE Chain restaurant’s huge menu includes deep dish pizzas, steak, ribs, sandwiches, pasta and award-winning handcrafted beer. In Shackleford Crossing Shopping Center. 2624 S. Shackleford Road. Beer, all CC. 501-404-2000.

BLACK ANGUS CAFE Charcoal-grilled burgers, hamburger steaks and steaks proper are the big draws at this local institution. Now with lunch specials like fried shrimp. 10907 N. Rodney Parham. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-228-7800.

LD Mon.-Sat. BOBBY’S CAFE Delicious, humungo burgers and tasty homemade desserts at this Levy diner.

12230 MacArthur Drive. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-851-7888. BL Tue.-Fri., D Thu.-Fri. BOSTON’S Ribs and gourmet pizza star at this restaurant/sports bar located at the Holiday Inn by the airport. TVs in separate sports bar area. 3201 Bankhead Drive. Full bar, all CC. $$.

501-235-2000. LD daily.

BOUDREAUX’S GRILL & BAR A homey, seatyourself Cajun joint in Maumelle that serves up all sorts of variations of shrimp and catfish. With particularly tasty red beans and rice, jambalaya and bread pudding. 9811 Maumelle Blvd. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-753-6860. LD daily.

BOULEVARD BREAD CO. Fresh bread, fresh pastries, wide selection of cheeses, meats, side dishes; all superb. Good coffee, too. 1920 N. Grant St. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-6635951. BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. 400 President Clinton Ave. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$.

501-374-1232. BLD Mon.-Sat. (close 5 p.m.), BL Sun. 4301 W. Markham St. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-526-6661. BL Mon.-Fri. 1417 Main St. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-5100.

BL Mon.-Sat. BREWSTERS 2 CAFE & LOUNGE Down-home done right. Check out the yams, mac-andcheese, greens, purple-hull peas, cornbread, wings, catfish and all the rest. 2725 S. Arch St. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-301-7728. LD Mon.-Sat. BROWN SUGAR BAKESHOP Fabulous cupcakes, brownies and cakes offered five days a week until they’re sold out. 419 E. 3rd St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-372-4009. LD Tue.-Fri. (close at 5:30 p.m.), L Sat. BUTCHER SHOP The cook-your-own-steak option has been downplayed, and several menu additions complement the calling card:

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. large, fabulous cuts of prime beef, cooked to perfection. 10825 Hermitage Road. Full bar, all CC. $$$. 501-312-2748. D daily.

CACHE RESTAURANT A stunning experience on the well-presented plates and in terms of atmosphere, glitz and general feel. It doesn’t feel like anyplace else in Little Rock, and it’s not priced like much of anywhere else in Little Rock, either. But there are options to keep the tab in the reasonable range. 425 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$$. 501-850-0265.

LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CAJUN’S WHARF The venerable seafood restaurant serves up great gumbo and oysters Bienville, and options such as fine steaks for the non-seafood eater. In the citified bar, you’ll find nightly entertainment, too. 2400 Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-5351.

LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CAMP DAVID Inside the Holiday Inn Presidential Conference Center, Camp David particularly pleases with its breakfast and themed buffets each day of the week.

Wonderful Sunday brunch. 600 Interstate 30.

Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-975-2267. BLD daily, BR Sat.-Sun. CAPERS It’s never been better, with as good a wine list as any in the area, and a menu that covers a lot of ground — seafood, steaks, pasta — and does it all well. 14502 Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-868-7600.

LD Mon.-Sat. CHEDDAR’S Large selection of somewhat standard American casual cafe choices, many of which are made from scratch. Portions are large and prices are very reasonable. 400 South University. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-6147578. LD daily.

CHICKEN KING Arguably Central Arkansas’s best wings. 2704 MacArthur Drive. NLR. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-771-5571. LD Mon.-Sat. 5213 W 65th St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-562-5573. LD Mon.-Sat. COMMUNITY BAKERY This sunny downtown bakery is the place to linger over a latte, bagels and the New York Times. But a lunchtime dash for sandwiches is OK, too, though it’s often packed. 1200 S. Main St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$.

501-375-7105. BLD daily. 270 S. Shackleford.

No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-224-1656. BLD Mon.-Sat. BL Sun. COPELAND’S RESTAURANT The full service restaurant chain started by the founder of Popeye’s delivers the same good biscuits, the same dependable frying and a New Orleans vibe in piped music and decor. You can eat red beans and rice for a price in the single digits or pay near $40 for a choice slab of ribeye, with crab, shrimp and fish in between. 2602 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-312-1616. LD daily.

COPPER GRILL Comfort food, burgers and more sophisticated fare at this River Marketarea hotspot. 300 E. Third St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3333. LD Mon.-Sat. CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE Home-cooking with plenty of variety and big portions. Old-fashioned breakfast served all day long. 2618 S. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, all CC. 501-225-7100. BLD daily. 3101 Springhill Drive. NLR. No alcohol, all CC. 501-945-9373. BLD daily.

CRUSH WINE BAR An unpretentious downtown bar/lounge with an appealing and erudite wine list. With tasty tapas, but no menu for full meals. 318 Main St. NLR. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-374-9463. D Tue.-Sat. DAVE’S PLACE A popular downtown soupand-sandwich stop at lunch draws a large and 36

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diverse crowd for the Friday night dinner, which varies in theme, home cooking being the most popular. Owner Dave Williams does all the cooking and his son, Dave also, plays saxophone and fronts the band that plays most Friday nights. 201 Center St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-372-3283. L Mon.-Fri., D Fri. DAVID FAMILY KITCHEN Call it soul food or call it down-home country cooking. Just be sure to call us for breakfast or lunch when you go. Neckbones, ribs, sturdy cornbread, salmon croquettes, mustard greens and the like. Desserts are exceptionally good. 2301 Broadway. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-3710141. BL Tue.-Fri., L Sun. DELICIOUS TEMPTATIONS Decadent breakfast and light lunch items that can be ordered in full or half orders to please any appetite or palate, with a great variety of salads and soups as well. Don’t miss the bourbon pecan pie — it’s a winner. 11220 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-225-6893.

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DIZZY’S GYPSY BISTRO Interesting bistro fare, served in massive portions at this River Market favorite. 200 River Market Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3500. LD Tue.-Sat. THE FADED ROSE The Cajun-inspired menu seldom disappoints. Steaks and soaked salads are legendary. 1619 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9734.

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FLYING SAUCER A popular River Market hangout thanks to its almost 200 beers (including 75 on tap) and more than decent bar food. It’s nonsmoking, so families are welcome. 323 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-372-8032. LD daily.

FOX AND HOUND Sports bar that serves pub food. 2800 Lakewood Village. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-753-8300. LD daily.

FRANKE’S CAFETERIA Plate lunch spot strong on salads and vegetables, and perfect fried chicken on Sundays. Arkansas’ oldest continually operating restaurant. 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-225-4487. LD daily. 400 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-372-1919. L Mon.-Fri. FRONTIER DINER The traditional all-American roadside diner, complete with a nice selection of man-friendly breakfasts and lunch specials. The half pound burger is a two-hander for the average working Joe. 10424 Interstate 30. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-565-6414. BL Mon.-Sat. GADWALL’S GRILL There are mouth-watering burgers and specialty sandwiches here, plus zesty pizzas with cracker-thin crust and plenty of toppings. 7311 N. Hills Boulevard No.12.

NLR. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-8341840. LD daily.

GARDEN SQUARE CAFE & GROCERY Vegetarian soups, sandwiches and wraps just like those to be had across the street at 4Square Cafe and Gifts, plus a small grocery store. 4Square does unique and delicious wraps with such ingredients as shiitake mushrooms and the servings are ample. A small grocery accompanies the River Market cafe.

River Market. No alcohol, all CC. 501-244-9964.

GIGI’S CUPCAKES This Nashville-based chain’s entries into the artisan-cupcake sweetstakes are as luxurious in presentation as they are in sugar quantity. 416 S. University Ave., Suite 120. No alcohol, all CC. $. 501-614-7012.

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GRAMPA’S CATFISH HOUSE A longtime local favorite for fried fish, hush puppies and good

ADAMS, CONT. sides. 9219 Stagecoach Road. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-407-0000. LD Tue.-Sat, L Sun. GUILLERMO’S GOURMET GROUNDS Serves gourmet coffee, lunch, loose-leaf tea, and tapas. Beans are roasted in house, and the espresso is probably the best in town. 10700 Rodney Parham Road. CC. 501-228-4448. BL daily.

HONEYBAKED HAM CO. The trademark ham is available by the sandwich, as is great smoked turkey and lots of inexpensive side items and desserts. 9112 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, all CC. 501-227-5555. LD Mon.-Sun. (4 p.m. close on Sat.).

IZZY’S It’s bright, clean and casual, with snappy team service of all his standbys — sandwiches and fries, lots of fresh salads, pasta about a dozen ways, hand-rolled tamales and brick oven pizzas. 5601 Ranch Drive. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-868-4311. LD Mon.-Sat. LITTLEFIELD’S CAFE The owners of the Starlite Diner have moved their cafe to the Kroger Shopping Center on JFK, where they are still serving breakfast all day, as well as plate lunches, burgers and sandwiches. 6929 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol. 501-771-2036.

BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. MAGGIE MOO’S ICE CREAM AND TREATERY Ice cream, frozen yogurt and ice cream pizza. 17821 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, all CC. $. 501-821-7609. LD daily.

MARKHAM STREET GRILL AND PUB The menu has something for everyone, including mahi-mahi and wings. Try the burgers, which are juicy, big and fine. 11321 W. Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-224-2010. LD daily.

MCBRIDE’S CAFE AND BAKERY Owners Chet and Vicki McBride have been serving up delicious breakfast and lunch specials based on their family recipes for two decades in this popular eatery at Baptist Health’s Little Rock campus. The desserts and barbecue sandwiches are not to be missed. 9501 Baptist Health Drive,No.105. No alcohol, all CC. $.

501-340-3833. BL Mon.-Fri. MOOYAH BURGERS Kid-friendly, fast-casual restaurant with beef, veggie and turkey burgers, a burger bar and shakes. 14810 Cantrell Road, Suite 190. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-868-1091 10825 Kanis Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-313-4905. LD daily.

OLD MILL BREAD AND FLOUR CO. CAFE The popular take-out bakery has an eat-in restaurant and friendly operators. It’s selfservice, simple and good with sandwiches built with a changing lineup of the bakery’s 40 different breads, along with soups, salads and cookies. 12111 W. Markham St. No.366.

No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-228-4677. BL Mon.-Sat. BR Sun. RED DOOR Fresh seafood, steaks, chops and sandwiches from restaurateur Mark Abernathy.

Smart wine list. 3701 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-8482. BL Tue.-Sat. D daily.

RENO’S ARGENTA CAFE Sandwiches, gyros and gourmet pizzas by day and music and drinks by night in downtown Argenta. 312 N. Main St. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-3762900. LD Mon.-Sat. RIVERFRONT STEAKHOUSE Steaks are the draw here — nice cuts heavily salted and peppered, cooked quickly and accurately to your specifications, finished with butter and served sizzling hot. Also has incorporated some of the menu of Rocket Twenty-One. 2 Riverfront Place. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-375-7825. D Mon.-Sat.

not work outside the home, but if that one discriminates against a woman seeking a job, we have decided that this kind of behavior is unjust and will not be permitted under the law.

Sometimes, the defenses against LGBT civil rights protections cross over into the absurd. State Sen. Bart Hester (on National Public Radio’s “The Takeaway,” April 1) defended the need for increased protections for religiously motivated behavior by making the point that a Jewish baker should not be forced to bake a cake with a swastika on it. This illustration only makes sense if the baker sold cakes with swastikas on them to some customers but refused to do so to other customers. The example also puts a symbol of the murder of 11 million people on the same moral plane as two people who love each other and want to get married.

Another absurd example was U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s comments regarding concerns for LGBT discrimination: “I think it’s important we have a sense of perspective about our priorities. In Iran, they hang you for the crime of being gay.” Pointing out that other societies are even more unjust is poor justification for local injustice.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in this generation, it is bending with growing speed toward LGBT civil rights protections. The justifications to oppose or delay justice for LGBT citizens are appropriately falling apart. Individual personal beliefs should not restrict legal fairness for others, for to do so is unjust discrimination. In the end, it’s that simple.

Greg Adams is a licensed social worker involved in palliative care at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and was a member of the Little Rock School Board that was dismantled by the state Department of Education.

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A CHILD BEATEN, SLAIN DESPITE RED FLAGS, CONT. along with their 16-year-old son and two grown daughters.

Cathy met Mauricio a few years before leaving the Jonesboro area, Thompson said, around 2002. By that point, she already had four young children — three boys from a previous marriage and a girl fathered by another man. She and Mauricio then had two more kids, he said, before a judge intervened.

“Basically, they had their parental rights taken away,” Thompson said. He said he was unclear about what exactly landed the Torreses in court in the first place, and DHS records related to the case are closed to the public. However, two incident reports from the Jonesboro Police Department show that Mauricio (who then went by the name “Maurice”) was investigated in 2004 on allegations of rape of a 4-year-old girl, allegations that arose during a custody dispute. The girl was Mauricio’s stepdaughter — that is, one of Cathy’s children by another man.

The prosecuting attorney in Jonesboro declined to file criminal charges at the time, citing a lack of evidence.

Mike Walden, who is the chief prosecutor in the Jonesboro office today, says he doesn’t recall the case from a decade ago. He did review the file, though, and said he wasn’t surprised charges weren’t filed. “It’s one of those difficult cases — 4-year-old child, no forensics, in the midst of a custody battle. It’s kind of all the red flags that a prosecutor thinks is an ‘easy to file, difficult to win’ situation,” Walden said.

The children — all six of them — were adopted by other families in the Jonesboro area following the termination of the couple’s parental rights, said Thompson.

Afterward, Cathy and Mauricio disappeared. “We knew where the children [in Jonesboro] were, so we knew that they were cared for, but we had no idea where Cathy and [Mauricio] went. And we had not been contacted by them, nor had we tried to contact them, for over 10 years.”

Then, a few weeks ago, came news of Isaiah’s death. The authorities called Cathy’s mother and she in turn contacted the Thompsons, who took responsibility for collecting Isaiah’s remains. Before that, Thompson stated, “We didn’t know any [other] kids existed.” He and his wife are now trying to gain custody of Isaiah’s two young sisters, who were presumably placed in foster care in Northwest Arkansas after their parents’ arrest.

Much of Thompson’s account was corroborated by Maurice Torres, a son of Mauricio Torres from a prior marriage. Now 19, he also lives in Jonesboro.

Maurice said that he and his father moved to Arkansas from California when

‘If they actually did their job and followed up like they should, this could have been prevented. I mean, they had their parental rights taken away before Isaiah was even born, you know?

Why was he able to get him?’

—Maurice Torres, son of Mauricio Torres he was “maybe 6” — around 2002 — along with his sister and their mother (Mauricio’s first wife). They soon split up, and Mauricio then married Cathy. Maurice and his sister were left with their mother, but before their father’s departure from the household, he said that they also suffered physical abuse at the hands of Mauricio Torres.

“They never looked into it while we were living in the house,” Maurice said.

“But when he first showed up in court about Cathy’s little girl, things started coming to light about me and my sister. ... Yeah. There’s so much that could have been done, it’s unreal. ... But as far as I can tell, he was able to talk his way out of everything.”

Maurice said he thought authorities were more inclined to believe his father’s denials because he was an occupational therapist who worked with children.

“They see a man who went to school to help kids — why would he try to hurt kids?” Maurice said. As of this week, Mauricio Torres’ occupational therapist license was still listed as “active” at his home address in Bella Vista.

Maurice blames DHS for not doing more to prevent Isaiah’s death. “If they actually did their job and followed up like they should, this could have been prevented. I mean, they had their parental rights taken away before Isaiah was even born, you know? Why was he able to get him?”

An incomplete picture Webb, the DHS spokesperson, said a past termination of parental rights “is definitely something that raises flags” but added that “just because there’s a prior history doesn’t always mean we should take those kids into care.”

“There’s no automatics,” said Cecile Blucker, director of DHS’ Division of Children and Family Services. She gave the example of a hypothetical 19-yearold girl who has her parental rights terminated. “She’s young, she’s at a difficult stage in her life ... then, 10 years later, she has another baby, but her lifestyle is totally different. ... We wouldn’t want to automatically go in and remove [the baby]. People do change, and that’s why our goal with all children is reunifica-

tion. It is only very rarely that we do fast-track, automatic termination of parental rights, and those are the most egregious of cases.

“And there needs to be a court record that shows what all you’ve done to try to help this family get it together before a judge is going to terminate rights,” Blucker continued, “because every parent has a right to have that decision appealed. So, you want the record to be strong enough that if they do appeal that the finding of the judge is upheld and not overturned.”

A child death triggers an internal review within DHS, Blucker said, if the agency was involved with the family in the last 12 months. (That period will soon expand to 24 months later this year when new legislation kicks in.)

The internal review entails “bringing in everybody … to discuss the entire thing,” Blucker said. DHS will look at the training and the experience of the caseworkers in question, as well as their caseloads, which are always far too large. “We have about 98 full-time [caseworkers] that do investigations, and another 37 that have a combination of investigations and other duties … to do 3,000 investigations each month.”

The DCFS director said there’s also a newly revived external review process in place to examine child fatalities.

DHS officials wouldn’t comment on the specifics of their internal review findings from the Torres case. However, they at least seemed to acknowledge that something was missing from the 2014 maltreatment investigation.

“In this particular case, we did not have a complete picture of pertinent previous investigations at the time of the allegation in 2014,” Webb said.

Blucker added that “over a span of time, people could have divorced, remarried, so you’ve got different names, you’ve got different spellings of names ... there’s all kinds of different things that could complicate putting all the big picture together.”

Bill Sadler, a spokesperson for the Arkansas State Police, elaborated somewhat. “In the Torres case, the initial call to the hotline to report allegations in Benton County was from an anonymous caller. There was an incomplete

name with one of the parents who was the subject of the caller.” Evidently, the hotline operator checked a box indicating there was previous history with the parent, but the incomplete name meant the system did not link the new record with the old.

However, Sadler said, “it is incumbent upon ... [any] investigator ... to always look for additional history in CHRIS [DHS’ Children’s Reporting and Information System] once they can identify who the guardian is.” CHRIS users can also query the system using a date of birth or Social Security number.

Webb said DHS is looking at several policy changes as a result of its review of the Torres case, including additional staff training on performing searches within CHRIS, changes to the system itself and requiring local offices to keep unsubstantiated reports for a longer period of time. Currently, Blucker said, hard copies of documents pertaining to unsubstantiated reports of maltreatment are kept for only 30 days, after which they are shredded.

But others in the Arkansas child welfare system see the Torres case as highlighting problems within the agency that are bigger and more systemic than a simple communication breakdown.

“It’s apathy. It’s resources. It’s pressure from superiors to unsubstantiate cases, to keep the workload down,” said a source familiar with DHS, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “This whole rehoming thing with [Rep.] Justin Harris — everyone was outraged, but it’s nothing new.”

The source said the impenetrable confidentiality requirements of DHS are often used to shield the agency from accountability: “Basically, what you’ve got here is that DHS has over the years put up so many walls, they’re almost untouchable.”

Outside of DHS, “there needs to be some rules and statutes in place that prohibits people with true findings of abuse from homeschooling their kids, because they’re basically making them prisoners and isolating them. ... I know from many cases that homeschooling can be both good and bad … but it’s not monitored that closely.”

Thompson, the brother-in-law of Cathy Torres, said DHS “should have known. If they’d done their job, in the least little bit, they would have known,” he said.

“We thought that DHS, if they did have any more children, would take them. We want people in Northwest Arkansas to know that Cathy was not representing our family. ... We were not just sitting back and letting this take place. We had no idea.” www.arktimes.com

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hearsay ➥ Make plans to attend the North Little Rock Mini Maker Faire, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 2 at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, located at 201 E. Broadway in North Little Rock. A scaled down version of Maker Faire Bay Area and World Maker Faire New York – two major yearly exhibitions hosted

by Maker Magazine – the NLR Mini Maker Faire is a one-day exhibition of creative thinking.

There will be exhibitors, vendors, workshops, panels and performers, as well as competitions, food and music. Admission is $10, and children 6 and under are admitted free. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www. makerfairenlr.com. ➥ Gallery 221 will host a selftitled exhibit for artist Greg Lahti starting May 1. An artist reception is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. May 8 at the gallery. In addition to featured artist Lahti, the gallery will also show works from its stable of local artists. ➥ Moxy Modern Mercantile has recently acquired a beautiful stock of art glass vases and bowls, which are perfect Mother’s Day gifts. ➥ If you’re looking for the perfect lighting for your outdoor space this spring and summer, then check out Firefly Lights, which are new items at Box Turtle. The lights are small glass bottles with LED bulbs strung on copper wire to give a rustic meets modern vibe.

They’re also battery powered, so you don’t have to fool with wires or extension cords. ➥ If you’re in the Fort Smith area on May 8 and need to some awesome live entertainment, head across the border to the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Okla., and see the Turnpike Troubadours.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. For more information or ticket prices, visit www.choctawcasinos.com. ➥ The Greater Little Rock Council of Garden Clubs’ 2015 Garden Tour is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 2 and 1-5 p.m. May 3 and will feature six gardens in Pleasant Valley. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased from a garden club member or from most area nurseries or garden centers.

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BARELY A SCREAM: Cheapo “Ghost” won’t wear well.

Ghost in the machine ‘Unfriended’ a loud, gory PSA against cyberbullying.

BY SAM EIFLING

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he central conceit of “Unfriended,” the latest cheapo horror flick to sate you till summer blockbusters arrive, is also its motivating gimmick. Six teenagers gather online (mostly via Skype, iMessage and Facebook) and notice a strange anonymous character in the video chat room with them. Coincidentally, they’re all making plans together on the anniversary of a former friend’s suicide.

This girl, Laura Barns, seemed very close to our central teen character, Blair, and to a lesser extent Blair’s boyfriend, Mitch.

Blair and Mitch are the first to suspect that, in fact, this ghost in the machine may be exactly that, once they start receiving weird messages from Laura’s old Facebook account. In a let-me-Google-thatfor-you moment, Mitch sends her a link to a helpful reference page that advises readers never to respond to messages from the dead, lest bad things ensue. Of course no one follows this advice, and you can guess what happens next.

Well, maybe you can’t, so we’ll pretend there is such a thing as spoilers in this 83-minute twist on the old trope of the malicious phone caller. All of the action of “Unfriended,” such as it is, takes place in the video chat and browser windows on Blair’s desktop (she’s a Mac). Clever though it may be as a storytelling technique — on down to watching her think as she types, backspaces and rewrites notes to her boyfriend or to her Facebook-user-beyond-the-grave antagonist — it’s also the epitome of claustrophobia. Escapist entertainment it isn’t, not for anyone who spends too much of his or her day looking at a computer screen.

It also has the drawback of feeling like a movie made on someone’s laptop.

Director Levan Gabriadze debuted this $1 million feature at South by Southwest

in March; it quickly has recouped that and $15 million more, even as “Furious 7” threatens to suck up every last bit of money in box offices around the world before the “Avengers” sequel lands.

The word-of-mouth for “Unfriended” simply cannot be all that great. A few jumps and squeals aside, the main adjective I heard from the teenagers in the screening I attended was “loud,” followed by “short.”

Dependent as it is on the tech tools we use right now — Skype, iOS messaging, Google, Facebook, YouTube — there’s an excellent chance that “Unfriended” will not age well; anthropologists finding it in the distant future of, say, two or three years from now will guess with confidence that it came out in the spring of 2015. The movie does, though, justify its existence to a degree with passable acting (at least by the standards of no-name horror casts) and in addressing the sure-toendure bullying that comes from mixing teenagers and technology. Turns out this haunting suicide has a fairly legit set of reasons for wanting to pick on her old friends: They started it. Before she killed herself, Laura got wasted at a party and turned up on video in some compromised situations. The YouTube feedback was full of explicit overtures for her to kill herself. Another reason never, ever to read the comments.

“Unfriended” does deal straightforwardly (if supernaturally) with the fallout from cyberbullying, almost as a vulgar, gory PSA against picking on people. Teenagers still somehow miss this point, so it’s not the worst thing for them to be reminded, in brief and overloud fashion, not to be spiteful little trashmonsters to one another, when given the option.

WALKER, CONT. improve and maintain the success of our schools. We cannot let ideology dictate our future. We need a process that avoids arbitrary decisions announced via media leak.

We will continue to descend into dysfunction until the LRSD and ADE jointly create a fair and transparent process that we can all believe in.

Kiffanie Walker is vice-president of Little Rock School District’s Rockefeller Early Childhood Center PTA.

BARTH, CONT. lies of 2008. This has allowed Iowans (and television cameras, of course) to see a more relaxed Clinton, and early reviews were good. Earlier this week, Politico published an interview with the woman who “made Clinton cry” by asking her a question (“How do you do it?”) at a New Hampshire coffee shop the day before the 2008 primary.

Marianne Pernold Young said about the newest incarnation of Clinton: “She seems softer. She seems more approachable. … I’d like her to be my friend, whereas before I couldn’t have cared less.” (Interestingly, in the same interview, Young — who clearly has a love/hate relationship with Clinton — also described her as a “true megalomaniac” who stayed in her marriage because of her hunger for power.)

Her website and her public statements also emphasize Clinton’s history of fighting for women and children. In this regard, Arkansas is central as many of the most tangible accomplishments are in these arenas: from founding Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, to her work on the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital, to education reform.

With time, it’s clear that the Clinton campaign will also emphasize the historic nature of her candidacy as an impetus for grassroots enthusiasm and as a way to emphasize her being an expression of “change,” despite her age and longevity on the political scene.

Yes, it’s a sign of how far we have to go as a society that a female candidate for any office has to think so much about the role that gender should play in her campaign. A campaign in which a female candidate for president is successful because of — rather than despite — her sex may be the best hope for moving us beyond that reality.

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WADE BROCK

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute 501 Jack Stephens Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8757

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Neurology 501 Jackson Stephens Dr, 8th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-1735

Radiology Consultants of Little Rock Baptist Medical Towers 1, Ste 1100 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-5240

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Women’s Oncology Clinic 4301 W Markham St, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8522

Arkansas Oculoplastic Surgery 9800 Baptist Health Dr, Ste 500 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-223-2244

STACY A. RUDNICKI

JAMES E. MCDONALD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Nuclear Medicine 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5740

Neurology JOHN L. KAREUS Cooper Clinic Department of Neurology 6801 Rogers Ave, 2nd Fl Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-274-3300

Obstetrics and Gynecology STEPHEN RAY MARKS

BASHIR S. SHIHABUDDIN

BRADLEY S. BOOP

ROBERT LEROY (LEE) ARCHER

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute The Neurology Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute The Neurology Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838

Washington Regional Medical Center Senior Health Clinic 12 E Appleby St Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-463-4444

Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

M. BETUL GUNDOGDU University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute The Neurology Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838

MARGARET F. TREMWEL

3343 Springhill Dr, Ste 1005 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-758-9251

KAREN JEAN KOZLOWSKI Arkansas Children’s Hospital Young Women’s Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-6601

EVERETT F. MAGANN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine Freeway Medical Tower, 7th Fl 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-296-1800

Retina Associates 9800 Baptist Health Dr, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-219-0900

McFarland Eye Centers 17200 Chenal Pkwy, Ste 440 Little Rock, AR 72223 501-830-2020

Cornerstone Clinic for Women 1 Lile Ct, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-224-5500

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Ophthalmology MIKE S. MCFARLAND

KAY H. CHANDLER

LAURIE D. G. BARBER Pleasant Valley Ophthalmology 11825 Hinson Rd, Ste 103 Little Rock, AR 72212 501-223-3937

PAUL J. WENDEL

STEPHEN M. CHATELAIN

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University Women’s Health Center Freeway Medical Tower, Ste 7-400 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-296-1800

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University Women’s Health Center Freeway Medical Tower, Ste 7-400 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-296-1800

Arkansas Perinatal Services Medical Towers Bldg 2, Ste 810 9501 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-217-8467

Nuclear Medicine KATHY LYNN THOMAS

CURTIS L. LOWERY, JR.

CAROL W. CHAPPELL Arkansas Ophthalmology Associates 5 Saint Vincent Cir, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-661-1123

Retina Specialists of Arkansas 5 Saint Vincent Cir, Ste 201 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-978-5500

RICHARD A. HARPER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jones Eye Institute 4301 W Markham St, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5822

CHRISTOPHER T. WESTFALL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jones Eye Institute 4301 W Markham St, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5822

Orthopaedic Surgery WAYNE L. BRUFFETT Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics 600 S McKinley St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-663-3647

D. GORDON NEWBERN Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics 600 S McKinley St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-663-3647

RICHARD D. PEEK Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics 600 S McKinley St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-663-3647

KENNETH A. MARTIN Martin Knee and Sports Medicine Center 8907 Kanis Rd, Ste 330 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-975-5633

JAMES D. ALLEN Medical Park Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine 501 Virginia Dr, Ste C Batesville, AR 72501 870-793-2371

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DAVID W. SUDBRINK Mercy Clinic River Valley Musculoskeletal Center 3501 W E Knight Dr Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-709-6750

RICHARD A. NIX OrthoArkansas 10301 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-604-6900

C. LOWRY BARNES University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 4301 W Markham St, Ste 531 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000

Otolaryngology GRESHAM RICHTER

BRENDAN C. STACK, JR.

AUBREY HOUGH, JR.

ANNA-MARIA ONISEI

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1225

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8224

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-6990

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

JEFFREY L. BARBER

JAMES Y. SUEN

JENNIFER HUNT

Arkansas Otolaryngology Center 10201 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-5050

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

JOE B. COLCLASURE Arkansas Otolaryngology Center 10201 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-5050

RICHARD W. NICHOLAS, JR.

JOHN RODDEY EDWARDS DICKINS

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 4301 W Markham St, Ste 531 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

Arkansas Otolaryngology Center 10201 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-5050

RUTH L. THOMAS

CARTI Surgical Oncology 9500 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-219-8777

SCOTT J. STERN

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6067

JOHN L. VANDER SCHILDEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-7823

JOHN L. DORNHOFFER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 3rd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5878

EMRE VURAL

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5170

LAURA W. LAMPS

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Head and Neck Oncology Clinic 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8224

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services Shorey Bldg, 4th Fl, Rm 4S-09 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-7966

Pathology FRED G. SILVA II

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology D. MELISSA GRAHAM

NephroPath 10810 Executive Center Dr, Ste 100 Little Rock, AR 72211 501-604-2695

MURAT GOKDEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Neuropathology Shorey Bldg, 4th Fl, Rm 4S-09 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1508

Advanced Allergy and Asthma Clinic Doctors Bldg, Ste 215 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-420-1085

STACIE M. JONES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Allergy and Immunology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1060

TAMARA T. PERRY Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Allergy and Immunology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

AMY M. SCURLOCK

Congratulations to

Dr. Steven Cathey for your selection as Arkansas Times Best Doctor in Arkansas for Neurosurgery!

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Allergy and Immunology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology KAREN JEAN KOZLOWSKI Arkansas Children’s Hospital Young Women’s Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-6601

Pediatric Anesthesiology JESUS (JOJO) APUYA Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

JAMES GRADY CROSLAND

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JAYANT K. DESHPANDE

MICHAEL L. SCHMITZ

M. SAIF SIDDIQUI Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

ABID UL GHAFOOR Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

J. MICHAEL VOLLERS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery MICHIAKI IMAMURA Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-5858

Pediatric Cardiology THOMAS H. BEST Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

RENEE ADAMS BORNEMEIER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

BRIAN K. EBLE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

EUDICE E. FONTENOT Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

ELIZABETH A. FRAZIER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

M. MICHELE MOSS

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-8005

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

TIMOTHY W. MARTIN

PAUL MICHAEL SEIB

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

Pediatric Clinical Genetics STEPHEN G. KAHLER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Critical Care RICHARD THOMAS FISER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845

XIOMARA GARCIA-CASAL Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

MARK J. HEULITT Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845

M. MICHELE MOSS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

PARTHAK PRODHAN Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

RONALD C. SANDERS, JR. Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845

STEPHEN M. SCHEXNAYDER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845

Pediatric Dermatology JAY M. KINCANNON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Dermatology Clinic 1 Children’s Way, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Developmental and Behavioral Problems JILL FUSSELL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences James L. Dennis Developmental Center Department of Pediatrics 1301 Wolfe St Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1830

ELDON GERALD SCHULZ University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences James L. Dennis Developmental Center Department of Pediatrics 1301 Wolfe St Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1830

Pediatric Emergency Medicine RHONDA M. DICK Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

MARY HUCKABEE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

LAURA P. JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1418

REBECCA LATCH Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

REBECCA A. SCHEXNAYDER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

STEVEN W. SHIRM Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

KENDALL LANE STANFORD Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

ELIZABETH ANNE STORM Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

TONYA MARIE THOMPSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050

Pediatric Endocrinology STEPHEN FRANK KEMP Circle of Friends Clinic Section of Endocrinology 1617 W 13th St Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1430

Pediatric Gastroenterology JULIANA C. FREM Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Gastroenterology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1004

GEORGE J. FUCHS III Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4400

TROY E. GIBBONS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology DAVID L. BECTON

Pediatric Nephrology RICHARD T. BLASZAK

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

AMIR R. MIAN

EILEEN N. ELLIS

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1494

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

CAROLYN SUZANNE SACCENTE

KAREN M. REDWINE

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1847

ROBERT L. SAYLORS III

THOMAS G. WELLS

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

KIMO C. STINE

Pediatric Neurological Surgery GEORGE T. (TIM) BURSON

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Infectious Disease NADA S. HARIK Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

RICHARD F. JACOBS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

JOSE R. ROMERO Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

Pediatric Interventional Radiology CHARLES ALBERT JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175

Pediatric Medical Genetics STEPHEN G. KAHLER

Neurosurgery Arkansas Baptist Medical Towers 1, Ste 310 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-224-0200

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery JAMES ARONSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Orthopaedics 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Michael Chappell, M.D., is board-certified in reconstructive and cosmetic oculofacial plastic surgery. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of a variety of periocular, orbital, facial, and lacrimal diseases and disorders.

Arkansas Ophthalmology Associates, P.A. #5 St.Vincent Circle, Suite 200, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 501.661.1123 • www.areyemd.com

ROBERT DALE BLASIER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Orthopaedics 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

RICHARD E. MCCARTHY Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Orthopaedics 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Otolaryngology CHARLES MICHAEL BOWER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Otolaryngology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

GRESHAM RICHTER

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1225

Pediatric Medical Genetics G. BRADLEY SCHAEFER

Pediatric Pain Management MICHAEL L. SCHMITZ

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

Pediatric Medical Toxicology LAURA P. JAMES

Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehab VIKKI A. STEFANS

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1418

Carol Chappell, M.D., maintains a comprehensive ophthalmology practice specializing in routine and complex eye care including cataract surgery, glaucoma treatment, refraction services and contact lens fitting, dry eye management, as well as treatment of many other eye conditions.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Developmental, Behavioral and Rehabilitation Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-3728

Congratulations, Dr. Melissa Graham, for being voted one of the Best Doctors in Arkansas!

Helping Arkansans live allergy and asthma free for 15 years!

Doctors Building 500 South University Avenue Suite 215 Little Rock, AR 72205 501.420.1085 advancedallergyclinic.com PEDIATRIC & ADULT BOARD CERTIFIED

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Pediatric Pulmonology ARIEL BERLINSKI

Pediatric Sleep Medicine JOHN LEE CARROLL

BONNIE J. TAYLOR Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1006

JOHN LEE CARROLL

Pediatric Specialist/Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine ELTON R. CLEVELAND

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1006

GULNUR COM Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

SUPRIYA K. JAMBHEKAR Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

LOUAY K. NASSRI Sparks Pediatrics 1501 S Waldron Rd, Ste 100 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-709-7337

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Adolescent Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

BRIAN H. HARDIN

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175

Pediatric Rheumatology JASON A. DARE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Rheumatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

TERRY O. HARVILLE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-7511

R. WHIT HALL

Pediatric Specialist/Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine J. DARRELL NESMITH

Pediatric Specialist/NeonatalPerinatal Medicine ROBERT W. ARRINGTON

Pediatric Radiology CHARLES ALBERT JAMES

BRYAN L. BURKE, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-1548

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Adolescent Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Adolescent Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1028

ROBERT E. LYLE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1028

ASHLEY S. ROSS III Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

JOANNE S. SZABO Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1028

DONNAL C. WALTER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1255

BILLY RAY THOMAS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1397

Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, General BERNADETTE M. LANGE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neurology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

GREGORY B. SHARP Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neurology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Specialist/Pediatric Metabolic Diseases STEPHEN G. KAHLER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Surgery M. SIDNEY DASSINGER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1446

RICHARD J. JACKSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

R. TODD MAXSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

SAMUEL D. SMITH Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1446

Pediatric Urology STEPHEN J. CANON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Urology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatrics/General CARL WESLEY KLUCK, JR. Arkadelphia Clinic for Children 2850 Twin Rivers Dr Arkadelphia, AR 71923 870-245-5244

Pediatrics/General CHARLOTTE A. HOBBS Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention 13 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-5001

MARY E. AITKEN Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

RONALD L. BALDWIN

CHARLES ROBERT FEILD

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

SHELLY L. BALDWIN

JAMES S. MAGEE

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

LANESSA D. BASS

LAURA R. MCLEANE

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatric Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

DEBRA D. BECTON

EDUARDO R. OCHOA, JR.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

CARRIE M. BROWN

A. LARRY SIMMONS

Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Arkansas Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1202

DALE W. DILDY, JR.

DIANE FREEMAN

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Arkansas Pediatric Clinic Doctors Bldg, Ste 200 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-4117

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R. ALAN LUCAS

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Arkansas Pediatrics of Conway 2710 College Ave Conway, AR 72034 501-329-1800

WILLIAM C. PATTON East Arkansas Children’s Clinic 901 Holiday Dr Forrest City, AR 72335 870-633-0880

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DBT – DIALECTICAL BEHAVIORAL THERAPY Designed to help deal with life’s stressors in the moment, as well as learn new skills to help you cope. Held three times a week.

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RELATIONSHIPS This group will assist you with exploring relationships in your life. How have they helped you? How have they hurt you? Held twice a week.

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LIFE SKILLS Daily session covering various topics for discussion that address real-life issues you face once treatment is completed. Held daily.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Groups designed to help you develop healthy lifestyles by looking at nutrition, exercise, dress, sleep patterns, and more. Held four times a week.

FOCUS GROUP Designed to assist you with setting a daily goal/focus for the day. Held daily.

DISCHARGE PLANNING Provides both individual and group assistance in identifying resources for your aftercare. Held three times a week.

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CHARLES S. BALL Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

LAUREEN BENAFIELD Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

ORRIN J. DAVIS Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

MEREDITH A. DENTON Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

CHARLES DAVID JACKSON Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

SEAN M. LIVINGSTON Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

TERRY S. PAYTON Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

JOE T. ROBINSON

WARREN A. SKAUG

THOMAS R. MOFFETT, JR.

PEDRO L. DELGADO

LEO F. DROLSHAGEN III

The Children’s Clinic 800 S Church St, Ste 400 Jonesboro, AR 72401 870-935-6012

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Associates 11300 N Rodney Parham Rd, Ste 210 Little Rock, AR 72212 501-663-4100

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Psychiatric Research Institute 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8140

Mercy Medical Center Department of Radiology 7301 Rogers Ave Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-314-6200

BRENT (BRENTLY) SILVEY

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences AHEC Family Medical Center 612 S 12th St Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-785-2431

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8711

HANNAH BEENE-LOWDER

Psychiatry TIM A. KIMBRELL

Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

JOHN SIMMONS

Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

JAMES S. SWINDLE

Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322

FEDERICO C. de MIRANDA

Mercy Pediatrics Fort Smith 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 200 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-314-4810

MERLE E. MCCLAIN

Mercy Pediatrics Fort Smith 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 200 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-314-4810

JON R. HENDRICKSON

Pediatric Partners 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 201 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-478-7200

VINCENT CALDERON, JR.

St. Vincent Family Clinic 4202 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72204 501-562-4838

HORACE L. GREEN

The Children’s Clinic 1420 W 43rd Ave Pine Bluff, AR 71603 870-534-6210

RICHARD R. ACLIN

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Children’s Hospital Centers for Children 519 Latham Dr Lowell, AR 72745 479-756-4157

BRYAN L. BURKE, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-1548

CHRISTOPHER E. SMITH University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Children’s Hospital Centers for Children 519 Latham Dr Lowell, AR 72745 479-756-4157

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation KEVIN J. COLLINS Rehabilitation Medicine Consultants of Arkansas Springhill Medical Plaza 3401 Springhill Dr, Ste 460 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-945-1888

KEVIN M. MEANS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-221-1311

Plastic Surgery KRIS B. SHEWMAKE 10801 Executive Center Dr, Ste 101 Little Rock, AR 72211 501-492-8970

JAMES C. YUEN

Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Department of Psychiatry 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3468

IRVING KUO Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center Mental Health Clinic 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3131

LAWRENCE A. LABBATE Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center Mental Health Clinic 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3131

JOHN SPOLLEN Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center Mental Health Clinic 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3131

JAMES A. CLARDY University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Psychiatric Research Institute 3916 W Capitol Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8286

JEFFREY L. CLOTHIER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8100

Radiation Oncology MICHAEL L. TALBERT CARTI Radiation Oncology 9500 Kanis Rd, Ste 150 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-312-1733

Radiology CHARLES ALBERT JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175

JENNIFER TURNER MANA Imaging 3344 Futrall Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-582-7386

DANNA F. GREAR Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266

STEVEN E. HARMS Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266

KEVIN L. POPE Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266

STACY SMITH-FOLEY Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266

LAURA G. MOORE-FARRELL Mercy Medical Center Department of Radiology 7301 Rogers Ave Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-314-6200

EREN ERDEM Neurosurgery Arkansas 9601 Baptist Health Dr, Ste 310 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-224-0200

ALBERT S. ALEXANDER Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

JODI M. BARBOZA Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARTNICKE Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

F. KEITH BELL Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

C. WILLIAM DEATON Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

STEVE A. DUNNAGAN Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

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JONATHAN F. FRAVEL

GEORGE A. NORTON

AARON M. SPANN

KEDAR JAMBHEKAR

THOMAS M. KOVALESKI

DAVID GEORGE DAVILA

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Radiology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1595

Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

Baptist Health Sleep Clinic Hickingbotham Outpatient Bldg, 1st Fl 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-202-1902

JEROME J. GEHL

ROGERICH T. PAYLOR

DAVID E. TAMAS

HEMENDRA R. SHAH

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-2614

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Radiology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6655

Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

AARON L. JANOS

CHRISTIE B. PHELAN

SHANNON R. TURNER

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

DON L. KUSENBERGER

JOHN P. SCURLOCK

NEIL E. CROW, JR.

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Sparks Regional Medical Center Department of Radiology 1001 Towson Ave Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-441-4181

W. JEAN MATCHETT

RAJESH SETHI

EDGARDO J. CHUA ANGTUACO

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Neuroradiology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6932

JOHN N. MEADORS

KATHLEEN M. SITARIK

TERESITA L. ANGTUACO

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Ultrasound 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5762

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Rheumatology JAMES S. DENEKE Cooper Clinic Department of Rheumatology 6801 Rogers Ave Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-274-3650

THOMAS R. DYKMAN Fayetteville Diagnostic Clinic 3344 N Futrall Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-521-8200

JAMES HOWARD ABRAHAM III Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

RICHARD W. HOUK Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

S. MICHAEL JONES

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LAURA B. TRIGG Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

SETH MARK BERNEY University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Rheumatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5586

ELEANOR A. LIPSMEYER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Rheumatology Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1919

Sleep Medicine JOHN LEE CARROLL Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1006

Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

Surgery EMILIO TIRADO, MD 500 S University Ave, Ste 808 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-2174

DARRYL W. ECKES Cooper Clinic Surgery Center of Excellence 7001 Rogers Ave, Ste 501 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-274-5100

STEPHEN J. SEFFENSE Cooper Clinic Surgery Center of Excellence 7001 Rogers Ave, Ste 501 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-274-5100

DAVID W. HUNTON Mercy Clinic General Surgery 2717 S 74th St Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-573-3103

WAYNE A. HUDEC Ozark Surgical Associates 3017 Bob Younkin Dr, Ste 101 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-521-1484

JOHN W. WEBB St. Vincent Surgery Clinic Medical Office Bldg, Ste 201 1 Mercy Ln Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-609-2229

the best and brightest, educating the future of health care UAMS doctors make up more than half of the 2015 Best Doctors list in Arkansas. That means you’ll find our best and brightest doctors not only at UAMS and centers statewide, but also at Arkansas Children’s

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T. MICHAEL STANTON Surgical Associates of Conway 525 Western Ave, Ste 203 Conway, AR 72034 501-327-4828

HUGH F. BURNETT The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

Thoracic Surgery JAMES S. COUNCE

HUGH F. BURNETT

D. KEITH MOONEY

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The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

Arkansas Urology 1300 Centerview Dr Little Rock, AR 72211 501-664-4364

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Vascular Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-257-6917

ROBERT C. JAGGERS

H. GARETH TOBLER

Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic 3276 N North Hills Blvd Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-587-1114

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-7884

Urology Associates of Northwest Arkansas 2100 S 54th St Rogers, AR 72758 479-271-7077

CHRIS M. CATE

FRANK MICHAEL BAUER III

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St. Vincent Cardiovascular Surgeons 5 Saint Vincent’s Cir, Ste 501 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-666-2894

JOHN C. JONES The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

Urology GAIL REEDE JONES Arkansas Urology 1300 Centerview Dr Little Rock, AR 72211 501-219-8900

MARK A. HEWETT

Vascular Surgery GARY W. BARONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Renal Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6086

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WILLIAM EVERETT TUCKER The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

JOHN B. CONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000

RONALD ROBERTSON University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-6262

Surgical Oncology JOHN C. JONES The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

J. RALPH BROADWATER, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Department of Surgical Oncology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8211

RONDA S. HENRY-TILLMAN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Oncology Clinics, 2nd Fl 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

V. SUZANNE KLIMBERG University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Women’s Oncology Clinic 4301 W Markham St, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

KENT C. WESTBROOK University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Surgical Oncology Clinic 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

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ORGAN DONATION. IT CAN SAVE A LIFE. I

n February of 2002, 16-year-old Charles “Robbie” Sisemore of Farmington

was a passenger in a car that was part of a caravan. He and his friends were leaving a school event and were heading to a second location. Robbie never reached his destination. Instead, his parents, Rob and Tammie, received a phone call informing them that their son had been critically injured in a car accident.

Robbie had suffered a severe head injury and had lapsed into a coma. After being treated for several weeks in the hospital, Rob and Tammie made the decision to bring their son home. For four months, Tammie cared for Robbie day and night, always having faith that he would recover. Sadly, this would not happen. After returning to the hospital for a final surgery to attempt to improve his condition, Robbie succumbed to his

injuries on May 15, 2002.

It was during this painful time that Robbie’s younger sister, Shae, reminded Rob and Tammie that it had been Robbie’s wish to become an organ and tissue donor at the time of his death. The Sisemores honored Robbie’s decision. His kidneys were donated to two recipients—one in Arkansas and one in Mississippi.

His heart valves were also donated.

It’s Arkansans like Robbie and his family who will be celebrated on Thursday, April 30th, the last day of National Donate Life Month. The Arkansas Regional Organ Recovery Agency (ARORA) will host the Function at the Clinton Junction Bridge Party and Fun Walk from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Junction Bridge, 1200 President Clinton Avenue, in downtown Little Rock.

“The month of April is about celebrating life- those who became organ and tissue donors, and as well as those

individuals who have received transplanted organs and tissue,” Audrey Coleman, Director of Public Education said.

Alyson Courtney, a n c h o r o f K AT V ’s “Daybreak,” will serve as grand marshal of the walk. She’ll lead participants across the Junction Bridge to North Little Rock, where North Little Rock city officials, families of organ and tissue donors and ARORA staff and volunteers will hold a brief ceremony in honor of those who have given the gift of The Arkansas life. The walk back across the bridge Regional Organ to the Little Rock side will be capped Recovery off with a fireworks show, which also Agency (ARORA) will mark the conclusion of National will host the Donate Life Month.

Function at The Bridge Party and Funk Walk, the Clinton which is free and open to the public, will Junction Bridge also feature live music by the popular Party and Fun band White Chocolate, refreshments Walk. and giveaways. Everyone is encouraged to wear blue and green in recognition of the national organ, tissue and eye donation colors.

Therewillbeon-sitedonorregistration, and people will be able to ask ARORA staff questions about donation. Despite widespread support for organ donation, a severe shortage in the number of organs donated still exists: More than 124,000 Americans are on a waiting list for a kidney, heart, liver or other vital organs; another person is added to the waiting egistering as an organ list every 16 minutes; and tissue donor is and an average of 18 individuals will die easy. Arkansas’ online each day while waiting donor registry is available for an available organ.

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Tammie Farmington

at Donatelifearkansas.org.

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of the session and the worst moment?

I think one of the best moments was when it became clear that the governor recognized that his administration could not afford to allow HB 1228 to stand as it was sent to his desk. Worst moment was when SB 202 sailed through and took away the rights of towns and cities in Arkansas to make their own laws in regard to antidiscrimination ordinances. I’d add my personal moment was my disappointment in the governor who made nice noises about not being a state that discriminates, that he was open to an executive order and then when the furor dies down, so did his appearance of being any sort of an ally.

It’s a damn shame that the only reason the state could find for not implementing HB 1228 was the economic harm and looking bad to the rest of the world. Wouldn’t it have been great if the reason to not pass HB 1228 had been because it was mean-spirited and meant to discriminate against other Arkansans — hard-working families and taxpayers who also happen to be LGBTQ? You’re in a war of words with a homophobic preacher with his ribbon bookmark pegged to the Book of Leviticus.

What’s your best rebuttal scripture?

I’d have to say Romans 13:10: “Love does no harm to its neighbor, therefore it is the fulfillment of the law.”

You’re a very proud Mexican-Amer-

ican. How does that inform your work?

I love my cultures, that of my MexicanAmerican community and that of being a Southerner. I am many things in this intersection of identities. I can’t leave any part of myself at the door when I walk into any space. I am a working-class Latina, a lesbian, a woman, a parent, a daughter, an artist, older, etc. All of these things together inform my daily walk. We get caught up in what I call the “ladder of oppression”: Who is highest up on the rung? Who is the most worthy of having their issues cared about, worked on? For example, there could be some who are sympathetic to my needs as a woman, but as a lesbian woman there could be homophobia that comes into play preventing me from being seen as far enough up on the ladder to have my struggle be considered. Yet, as a woman I experience disparity in pay and access, while as a lesbian I am at risk of being denied a job or fired. The reality is that discrimination overlaps, but it’s divisive and prevents those most harmfully impacted by discriminatory policies and laws from coming together in a consistently meaningful way to achieve the things that we all want and need: living wage jobs, affordable housing, good schools, enough to eat, medical care, etc.

We’re starting a betting pool: openly gay, lesbian or transgender governor of Arkansas. Where’s your money on the year that’ll happen?

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BRAIN IMAGING RESEARCH BRAIN IMAGING RESEARCH STUDY FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS STUDY FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS The UAMS Brain Imaging Research Center is looking for participants who meet the following criteria: UAMS Brain Imaging Research Center is looking for The UAMS The Brain Imaging Research Center is looking for participants who meet the following criteria: participants who meet ages the 11-17 following criteria:  Female, No major medical conditions

Female, ages 11-17 . Female, ages 11-17  No internal metal objects (such as braces)  No major medical conditions . No major medical conditions  No internal metal objects (such as braces) . No internal metal objects (suchfor astime braces) Compensation and travel provided. Participants re

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BRAIN IMAGING RESEARCH STUDY FOR NEW MOTHERS • Mothers ages 15-45 years • Full term delivery of baby within the past 8 weeks • Involves a brain imaging scan and questionnaires • All responses are kept confidential • Must be medically healthy • Monetary compensation provided Maternal care behavior is essential to the well-being of a newborn baby. Some mothers may become depressed after having a baby or may use prescription pain medication. This research study is trying to find a better understanding of how postpartum depression or opiate use changes brain activity and provide the knowledge to guide early treatment strategies.

Contact Dr. Lisa Brents at 501-413-6058 psychiatry.uams.edu/research/birc

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Pleasant Valley Community Center 2300 Arkansas Valley Drive Hear speakers on gardening and related topics Saturday 11 AM – 4 PM at the top of each hour Sunday 2 PM – 4 PM at the top of each hour Go to our web site for additional information: http://www.glrcgc.org/spring-tour/ Or call: 501-773-1394

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ADVERTISING SALES The Special Publications division of The Arkansas Times has a position open in Advertising Sales. If you have sales experience and enjoy the exciting and crazy world of advertising then we’d like to talk to you. We publish 4 publications: Savvy, AR Wild, Food & Farm and Shelter as well as corresponding websites and social media.

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