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From the web

Church celebrates its 15th anniversary”:

In response to “School’s out forever,” about the story in the July 28 issue about the last Altheimer school, closed and left to rot:

Mosaic is doing what a church is meant to do and being what Jesus meant the church to be. Congrats on your 15 years of service to our community in 72204 and thank you!

Kate

Sounds like per their own protocol they need to dismantle the State Education Department and remand the districts into federal control. Obama can appoint someone to oversee everything.

Rob Qualls At least when they closed Williford they moved, sold or stored everything.

Then they sold the buildings and land to a church group. The students were split between six surrounding districts because there was no one single district near enough to absorb them — part of the reason Williford was still open, long after the A+ Arkansas movement in the late ’80s/early ’90s tried to shut them down, was its designation as an isolated school that serviced a largely rural, and geographically spread population.

Denise Evans Great reporting. This is tragic and scary.

Laura Cox Witherington In response to the July 21 story, “Mosaic

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It was my privilege to get to know some of these when I tried to represent one of the young mothers being assisted

by Mosaic. The case didn’t work out for any of a number of reasons. But I was greatly impressed by the care and support given my client by the advocates that work there.

They are truly doing the work of the Lord over there! bopbamboom In response to the July 27 Arkansas Blog post, “Governor pushes sea change in higher education funding”: This move is part of the “accountability” in education movement that started several years ago with K-12 and has risen to higher ed. Having sat in on many of these discussions about how to make higher ed prove that it is doing the job it is supposed to be doing, I know that there

is no consensus on what outcome-based performance means. People sign up for college courses for a wide variety of reasons. Many people have no intention of completing a degree, and no need to do so. They want to gain knowledge on a specific subject, or they want the experience that a semester or year of college can offer. Or they take as many night classes as they can while working a full-time job, and they take longer than the proscribed six years to finish. So, the people making the rules chose the easiest, and cheapest, way to measure success: graduation rate.

Using the six-year graduation rate as the standard of an institution’s success does more harm than good to these people who need only some courses. The real outcome here will be that marginal students, those who cannot or choose not to go for a degree, will be pushed out so that universities can focus on the scholarship high school kids. We have already cut the number of hours for a degree to 120 so that students can get finished in four years even if they make some mistakes in course selection along the way.

This new policy is all about running education institutions like businesses: You know, make money for those at the top and screw everyone else.

Another brick in the wall

Charter college! Isn’t that the next step? Privatize the public colleges and universities?

They wouldn’t have “all these problems” with recalcitrant faculty — do away with tenure! — or staff. Fire ’em if they don’t like their starvation wages and lack of benefits.

UA football would, of course, come out unscathed because it was effectively privatized years ago.

Meanwhile, there is no talk of charging full freight to the wealthy, out-ofstate students whose parents pay zero taxes to the state. In essence, struggling state residents are subsidizing the education of the children of wealthy Texas families, through the sales tax and state income taxes. These free riders are being used by the UA admin to increase their enrollment and thus the base of wealthy future alumni who they can hit up for donations. And where do the bulk of those donors put their money? Why, the football program, in large part.

The system, as Berners would say, is rigged in favor of the plutocrats, billionaires and reactionary politicians who suck off the teats of the skybox dwellers.

Millions for athletics (and skyboxes), but not a penny for the liberal arts and sciences! We hate science anyway, because they keep talking about climate change and evolution. We just put our fingers in our ears and shout “la la la la” whenever they present their biased “research” findings that are just so much ginned-up propaganda for the socialist agenda of Barack Obama and the evil Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile, who can believe that Asa will recommend to a dug-in, hunkereddown reactionary legislature the obvious first step in fixing the many things wrong with public higher ed in D’arkansas: Dramatically increase state funding to compensate for years of starving the beast.

And put pressure on your buddies in the state’s congressional delegation — who are loathe to increase funding to public institutions where public employees might see some meager raises and marginally better benefits than the miserly offerings they now “enjoy,” to join with Democrats (LOL) to push in turn for increased federal funding.

In other words, Asa would have to buck the party hardliners to go against their War on the Public Sector. That, I believe, will never happen so long as he’s in the governor’s office.

So, rhetoric and wishful thinking aside, it seems the more Asa talks about change, the more things remain just the same.

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WEEK THAT WAS

Quote of the week 1:

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“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”

— Hillary Clinton in her speech July 28 accepting the Democratic nomination for president.

Quote of the week 2: “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”

— Khizr Khan, the father of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq, addressing Donald Trump in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Later, in an interview with ABC, Trump suggested that Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, who stood beside her husband during his speech, wasn’t allowed to speak, insinuating that the Khan’s brand of Islam kept women silent and subservient. Trump also said, in response to Khan, that he had worked very hard and created “thousands and thousands of jobs.” He also told ABC he would tell Khan, “We have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism.” U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton were among many Republicans who condemned Trump’s remarks, but reaffirmed their support for him.

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held accountable for delivering results.

That sounds great, especially when you consider the shockingly low graduation rates that are the norm in higher ed (especially two-year schools) and the debt often accrued by students who leave college without a degree.

But there’s also concern an “outcomesbased” approach like the governor wants could create perverse incentives for schools to shy away from recruiting students who are a riskier gamble, including perhaps low-income and nontraditional students, to name two groups.

Hutchinson and Republicans in the state legislature have refused to boost overall funding for higher ed to keep pace with inflation.

Funding for performance pro- A home for Lucie’s Place posed The state’s Higher Education Coordinating Board approved Governor Hutchinson’s proposal to transform Arkansas’s method of funding colleges and universities from a formula based largely on student enrollment to one based on student performance metrics (such as completion of degrees).

The legislature will take up the subject in the 2017 session.

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Lucie’s Place, the Central Arkansas nonprofit serving homeless LGBT youth and young adults, announced it would open a transitional living program for up to four clients in Little Rock this fall. It’s made possible by the donation of

a house from The One Inc., a homeless assistance nonprofit that operates The Van in Little Rock.

Penelope Poppers, the executive director of Lucie’s Place, said the transitional living program will allow formerly homeless LGBT young people to “get on their feet, find employment, develop those life skills they need to live independently. They’ll live there rent-free, so a large majority of their income can go toward a savings account to help them transition to their own home once they get to that point. People forget that you need a thousandplus dollars to put a deposit on an apartment, pay the first month’s rent, pay utility deposits ... and it takes a while to get a thousand bucks in the bank when you’re working minimum wage jobs, or slightly better.”

Up to 40 percent of homeless young adults identify as LGBT, according to figures cited by Lucie’s Place — a vastly higher rate than the general population. However, some homeless shelters affiliated with religious organizations

are unwelcoming to LGBT people.

Meanwhile, Poppers said Lucie’s Place continues a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to purchase a larger building that will contain transitional housing for eight individuals. She still hopes to purchase that larger home by the first of January.

Clinton home reopens Seven months after it was damaged by fire, former President Bill Clinton’s boyhood home has reopened in Hope. A fire on Christmas day, later ruled arson, damaged the back of the house. The National Park Service, which took control of the house in 2011 when it was designated a National Historic Site, is leading the investigation, but no arrests have been made.

Clinton lived in the house for the first four years of his life with his mother and maternal grandparents.

OPINION

An inspiration

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keep hearing that Hillary Clinton is uninspiring, often from her supporters. Hendrix professor and Arkansas Times columnist Jay Barth, who covered the Democratic National Convention for the Arkansas Blog, said in a recent post that she “lacks the ability to inspire on a regular basis.” I take issue with this.

To women like me who work in traditionally male-dominated fields, or have been called shrill and annoying when we use our voice, or have spent extra time getting ready in the morning agonizing over our clothes and hair because we know we will be judged on those first and our accomplishments second, or have been made to feel guilty for wanting our name at the top of the letterhead, Hillary Clinton’s mere presence on the stage as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States is incredibly inspiring.

Those of us who understand what she has accomplished do not need her to get up and say a bunch of flowery or quotable lines. When did we begin measuring the ability to inspire solely by the ability to give a memorable speech? Her competence and knowledge of the issues and her

well-thought-out solutions should be enough to inspire anyone who listens to her. When her speech addressing AUTUMN real problems and TOLBERT proposing real solutions is called “uninspiring” and “dull,” then the struggles and voices of generations of women are discounted.

As a child in the 1980s, I grew up watching movies like “9 to 5” and “Mr. Mom” — movies that depict strong women struggling to get ahead in their careers while they are derided for their ideas and ambitions. Yet, eventually these women are finally recognized for their contributions. I identify with these women. Always have. I am confident in my ideas. I want to be the boss. Instead, like many women, I am called “bossy.” To me, Hillary Clinton is the real-life version of those female movie characters. While being criticized the entire way and while being a wife and mother, she was a successful attorney, a U.S. senator and the secretary of state.

For those who claim she had help rais-

ing Chelsea, well, good for her. It does take a village. But at the end of the day, as every other mom knows, the buck stops with us. My husband and I split the parenting pretty much 50/50, but I am the one who gets the text message when one of my daughters needs more diapers at daycare or is running a fever or needs a permission slip signed. I am the one who feels guilty when I forget to RSVP to a classmate’s birthday party, because I know I am making it harder on another mom. I am the one who feels like a terrible parent when I miss my daughter’s school event because of work. Hillary Clinton has been there. She has experienced that pressure and still managed to be successful in her career. Yet as she stands on the stage as the nominee at the Democratic National Convention, she is called “uninspiring.”

I’ll confess. I did not watch her speech last Thursday night. Early in the evening, I fell asleep, exhausted by a busy day working and rushing around to drop off and pick up my kids from daycare. I watched it the next day in my office, where my own law license hangs next to a photo of my young daughters. I was a sobbing mess as I watch Hillary Clinton walk onto the stage in her white pantsuit after being introduced by her daughter, Chelsea.

While the crowd cheered, I thought

about my mother being turned away from her college library in the 1960s because she was wearing pants. I thought about the time in the early 2000s my law professor told the female students that we should consider wearing skirts instead of pants to an upcoming trial competition in case some of the men judging the competition were “old-fashioned.” I thought about the time only a couple of years ago when I overheard a judge referring to a contentious hearing between me and another female attorney as a “catfight.” I thought, especially, about my 3-year-old daughter who wants to be an astronaut and a firefighter when she grows up. I thought about all of this as I watched Hillary Clinton on that stage. She was not there to support her husband or another man. She was standing there on stage as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America. I was sobbing, because contrary to what so many keep repeating over and over about her being “uninspiring,” for women like me who struggle everyday to make the world a better place for our daughters, Hillary Clinton’s ability to inspire is beyond measure.

Autumn Tolbert is an lawyer in private practice in Fayetteville. Max Brantley is on vacation.

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onald Trump and Hillary Clinton share a common attribute: their inability to control in a healthy way the highly public aspect of their lives over four decades. Owing to their mishandling of the visible part of their spectacular lives, neither would be electable were it not for the other. Trump vs. Clinton puts a burden on voters they have never faced so starkly before.

The burden should be on the candidates to show that what voters think they know about them is unfounded, but the truth is that all that either can do is pick over old wounds, and there is no future in that. In their acceptance speeches, neither tried to come to grips with unusually high negatives.

Clinton hinted at it in the first real admission of her problem. After her 20 years as first lady of Arkansas or the United States, eight as a senator and four as secretary of state “some people just don’t know what to make of me,” she said in the understatement of the year.

“The truth is,” she said, “through all these years of public service, the ‘service’ part has always come easier to me than the ‘public’ part.” She might have admitted

sas couple had borrowed some money they could have by a simple freedom of for a tiny real-estate venture on an Ozark information request of the government creek at the worst time — the cusp of the server. worst inflation spiral in modern history Donald Trump’s problem is not Clinthat her difficulty — and lost every penny and that Hillary ton’s impulsive privacy, but his history opening herself to briefly dabbled in the crazy commodity of compulsive publicity. He exulted in futures market in 1978 and made a cool the Rabelaisian life — extramarital affairs, the intense scrutiny $99,000 before cashing in. that a public life boasting about his sexual prowess and inevitably entails When Republicans and the liberal avoiding venereal disease, mastering the was the source of Post pawed over that trivial stuff after her shady deal, making money by cutting corERNEST all her problems. friend Vince Foster’s suicide, she made ners and stiffing his investors and workers, DUMAS She could not make the mistake that has haunted the Clintons filing lawsuits, making up stories about that concession to weakness. for 23 years. She refused to let the Post or his exploits and boasting about stands he Deeply private people usually do not anyone else see the records of a few weeks never took. His name became his wealth. seek the discomfort of public lives. If not of billing time she and her law partners As a presidential candidate he must her early passion for public service, then did for a tiny thrift run by the Clintons’ now stuff it all back under the sheets. her marriage to Bill Clinton in 1975 made former real-estate partner, because the While Hillary’s solution often is lawyerly all that public prying inevitable. In Little trivial work was no one’s business. To no gloss, his is the obstinate lie and personal Rock, she made little effort to conceal avail, Clinton and all his advisers pleaded attacks on every foe and critic. Now the her contempt for reporters and editors, with her to turn them loose. It resulted in things he once bragged about — loose sex, who gave the couple little peace and who the appointment of two special prosecu- dodging the Vietnam War and making inevitably got some things wrong and tors, who, of course, never found anything huge sums of money in tricky ways — he made mountains out of molehills. Most wrong in the billings, and ultimately to her must keep under wraps or tamp down. newspaper people felt the sting of her husband’s impeachment for covering up Every major presidential candidate since his sexual misconduct. displeasure, some of us more than once.

Nixon has released his or her tax returns The media conflict intensified when Everyone assumed that she was hiding — Clinton for many years, Mitt Romney the Clintons campaigned for the White something. And people assume she was reluctantly for two — but Trump none.

House. It was not the right-wing outlets hiding something when she ran her own His last two filings made public, in 1979 but the big mainstream media, like the email server rather than use the State and 1984 by the New Jersey Casino ConNew York Times and Washington Post, Department’s. She was. She didn’t want trol Commission, showed he made a few who bedeviled her, from 1992 until today. the press or anyone else seeing her frank million dollars but paid no taxes.

It was the good gray Times that reported correspondence with State Department I’d slightly rather be in Clinton’s breathlessly in April 1992 that the Arkan- people or her family and friends, which shoes. arktimes.com

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he question isn’t so much if Donald Trump can win the election as whether or not he’ll still be the GOP candidate come November. Nobody can predict what mad trajectory the Republican nominee’s campaign might take.

But given Trump’s erratic, politically selfdestructive behavior, it’s reasonable to suspect he might get forced out or quit in a huff rather than face the ultimate indignity of losing to a girl.

Just the other day, Republican Rep. Richard Hanna of upstate New York disavowed Trump and endorsed Hillary Clinton. Describing himself as “stunned by the callousness” of the candidate’s remarks about Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents whose son died fighting in Iraq, Hanna called Trump “a national embarrassment” and “unfit to serve.”

Hanna added that while he disagrees with Hillary Clinton on many issues, “she stands and has stood for causes bigger than herself for a lifetime. That matters.” The implication is that Trump’s only cause is himself and his grotesquely swollen ego.

How long before Sen. John McCain, whose own heroic service as a Vietnam POW Trump has impugned, decides that he too must act? How long before his patriotism forces him to agree with President Obama that “there has to come a point at which you say ‘enough’?”

I’m betting McCain will bolt before November.

Former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson: “Those who support Trump are setting the Republican Party at odds with the American story told by Lincoln and [Rev. Martin Luther] King: a nationalism defined by striving toward unifying ideals of freedom and human dignity. Is this what the speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader, the chairman of the Republican Party and so many other good people intended when they entered politics? ... It is not too late to repudiate.”

But whether or not Republican leaders can summon the political courage to break with Trump and his inflamed supporters, there are increasing signs that the great man himself is hearing footsteps, as they say in the NFL. To begin with, he doesn’t talk about polls anymore. No surprise, as Trump’s bombastic “I alone” acceptance speech claiming to be the nation’s one-man hope of redemption was an utter failure. Maybe plagiarizing Benito Mussolini wasn’t such a great idea after all.

(OK, that was a cheap shot. Trump hasn’t got the self-discipline to be a fascist.)

Anyway, here’s the thing: A Gallup

poll taken after the 2016 GOP convention showed voters less likely to vote for Trump by a 51-36 margin — the first GENE negative numbers LYONS in polling history.

No national political convention since Gallup began asking the question in 1984 has failed to improve a nominee’s standing.

Even Mitt Romney got a 2 percent bounce.

Trump dropped 15 points.

I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard Trump describe the U.S. as a doomed, hellish landscape with “poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad.”

Were Republicans really so far gone into his cult of personality as to leave patriotism, optimism and the enduring hope of a better tomorrow to Democrats?

Indeed, they were. Hence voter dismay, and a recent CBS News poll showing 63 percent of voters saying Trump “lacks the right temperament” for the presidency. For all the hugger-mugger over Hillary Clinton’s “damned emails,” 60 percent think she’s prepared.

Faced with a far better informed rival who doesn’t rattle easily and also happens to be a woman, Trump’s all of a sudden hunting a way to crawfish out of the presidential debates. What else can he do, call her “shorty?” Say she’s a six and a half?

The debate dates are all wrong, he whines.

Well, you try to schedule a night in September or October that doesn’t conflict with a major athletic event — whether playoff baseball, college football or the NFL. That’s why God made DVRs. But no, the NFL didn’t complain to Trump. He made that up, pretty much as he makes up most of what he says.

So the would-be national savior has started making excuses. He recently told an Ohio audience, “I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged. I have to be honest.”

Oh yeah, honesty compels him. Comes November, see, Trump will only have lost because “Crooked Hillary” cheated. That was the whole point of the idiotic “Lock her up” chant during the GOP convention.

Longtime Trump confidant and GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone (he has Nixon’s face tattooed on his back) says Trump should start claiming that, “If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.”

In short, something like a coup attempt.

Except I don’t believe Trump’s got the guts to go through with it.

Not so different

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he Republican National Convention in Cleveland ended with all of the excitement, near-violence and rancor having happened inside the arena. Before the convention, Cleveland’s Division of Police Chief Calvin D. Williams promised restraint toward protesters: “We are not going to be out with helmets and shields and all this other kind of stuff. We are going to be in regular uniforms. And if in fact there is a need to deal with something that is more aggressive, they will escalate according to the need. But it will be appropriate.”

Chief Williams seems to have delivered.

There were protests outside the “secure zone,” to be sure. They were all reportedly contained peacefully by the CDP. A few people attempted to burn a flag and 23 protesters were arrested altogether. But between the rotten rhetoric of the Republican candidate and the volatile cocktail of groups who planned to be there, the stage was set for something more explosive.

The relative order was especially striking because the U.S. Department of Justice in 2014 delivered a scathing report of its investigation into the Cleveland Division of Police, which found the CDP had engaged in a pattern of using excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. A consent decree reached by the Cleveland police and the DOJ included recommendations for a community police commission and a mental health response advisory committee. The agreement went unmentioned in the doomsday law-andorder Republican speeches delivered at the 2016 RNC, as did the high-profile 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland at the hands of an officer who mistook his toy gun for a real weapon.

Here in Little Rock, Police Chief Kenton Buckner has been called on to address the outrage surrounding the recent fatal police shootings of Delrawn Small in New York, Alva Braziel in Texas, Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castille in Minnesota. Even without projecting outside tragedy onto Little Rock, our city’s recent history looks a lot like Cleveland’s.

Little Rock Police Officer Josh Hastings’ fatal shooting of 15-year-old Bobby Moore in 2012 happened before the protest movement around police violence spread nationwide, two years before Tamir Rice was killed in Cleveland. The fatal shooting of Deon Williams in the summer of 2013 sparked instant protests on 12th Street.

Eugene Ellison, a 67-year-old father of two Little Rock police officers, was shot and killed in his home by an off-duty officer, Donna Lesher, while Lesher was standing outside on a balcony with three

other officers. The investigation into Ellison’s death was assigned to officers supervised by Lesher’s husband (the RYAN Ellison family filed DAVIS a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, which was settled earlier this year with the city agreeing to a public apology, payment of $900,000 and a memorial bench to Ellison). Between 1992 and 2014, Little Rock police fatally shot 22 people, 15 of whom (nearly 70 percent) were black, according to police records.

Meanwhile, as part of a national survey of police militarization, the ACLU found that between 2011 and 2013 Little Rock police tossed flashbang grenades into homes on 112 occasions, or 84 percent of raids — nearly all of them in predominantly black neighborhoods. The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in 2000 that “police cannot automatically throw bombs into drug dealers’ houses, even if the bomb goes by the euphemism ‘flash-bang device.’ ” In December 2014, President Obama created the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, which encouraged transparency and community engagement. Not six months later, every certified officer of the LRPD was outfitted for riot gear.

In a city that has seen few protests (and certainly none on the scale of Ferguson), there is some unjustified paranoia parading as preparation.

Reckoning with excessive force requires much more than riot gear. At a “We Speak Forum,” hosted by St. Luke Baptist Church on Monday, Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola intimated that he was “not sure” that police profiling was unique to AfricanAmerican communities, but that he was sure there was some racially motivated profiling. It would be a measure of goodwill, at least, if the city and the LRPD considered proposals to establish officer residency requirements and to create a citizens’ board to review policing practices. (Although I am not convinced residency requirements would mean very much: There is a marked difference between a police officer who lives off Pike Avenue in North Little Rock and one who lives in Hillcrest.)

We are not Ferguson, Baton Rouge or Cleveland, but the volatile mixture is there.

The opportunity to address the crisis in advance is ours to be missed. What happens to action deferred? “Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?”

Rev. Ryan D. Davis is an associate pastor at Bullock Temple CME Church in Little Rock.

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or the sixth straight August, Pearls embarks on a methodical journey through the Arkansas Razorbacks’ 12-game slate to try to project how this rendering of the squad will fare over this long haul of a season.

The 2016 slate is one of the most balanced the team will play: Nonconference matchups are a bit thornier than in prior years, which is a bit unnerving given that the Hogs have dropped three out-of-SEC games in Bret Bielema’s three years as coach.

That said, Arkansas gets the Ole MissAlabama-LSU gauntlet entirely in Fayetteville, giving the Hogs a sporting chance to snap a 10-year dry run against the Tide and an opportunity to extend their two-game win streaks against the others to three. The road games, accordingly, are not all that intimidating.

September provides an immediate proving ground for a rebuilt offense and a defense looking to surge back to the way it performed late in the 2014 season.

Louisiana Tech in Fayetteville, Sept. 3: Arkansas no doubt learned from its stumbles to Toledo and Texas Tech last year that you cannot, in this age of transferring players and uptempo offenses, forsake an opportunity to win the games you should win.

The Bulldogs had a nice 2015 campaign under Skip Holtz’s direction, 9-4 and culminated with a New Orleans Bowl thrashing of Arkansas State.

They’ve got an offense that tends to mirror what Dan Enos employs for the Razorbacks: lots of power running mixed with a steady pass game reliant on solid protection and a quarterback with some mobility.

Unfortunately for Tech, the lead cogs of last year’s offense — quarterback Jeff Driskel and tailback Kenneth Dixon — are gone. Ironically, both went in the draft near where the Hogs’ Alex Collins and Brandon Allen did, so two teams needing to see their replacements show out will open the year with a quick showcase. Austin Allen will get the better of Ryan Higgins on the passing side, and the Hogs’ defensive line will play a big role in that, getting untracked with five sacks and two picks. Hogs 41, Bulldogs 21.

TCU in Fort Worth, Sept. 10: This game has a lot of Hog fans jittery because of the exceptional job that Gary Patterson has done in constructing a national power. But the Horned

Frogs also face uncertainty: onetime Texas A&M flash-in-the-pan Kenny Hill is at the helm of this BEAU offense now, and WILCOX he’s got little proven weaponry around him.

The Frogs consistently have a nice defense that they lean on when the offense isn’t producing. Patterson has always had the kinds of players who overachieve and mesh well, but the team’s sudden success in the Big 12 means that recruiting has hit an unprecedented high.

Arkansas will struggle early in this one, with two big first-half turnovers leading to 10 TCU points and a 17-10 halftime deficit. But the Hogs’ ballcontrol in the second half is too much as Kody Walker registers a 100-yard rushing game for the first time in his six-season career, and Rawleigh Williams rushes for the go-ahead score early in the fourth. Hogs 31, Horned Frogs 24.

Texas State in Fayetteville, Sept.

17: The last of three out-of-league games to start the season is thankfully the easiest for the Hogs, a team now ranked after a 2-0 start. The fans are rewarded with a complete showing against the Sun Belt Conference team from San Marcos, which went only 3-9 last fall, and a 3-0 start. Hogs 51, Bobcats 10.

Texas A&M in Arlington, Sept.

24: This one will be laden with motivation for the Razorbacks after two consecutive overtime losses where the Hogs gave up fourth-quarter leads. The Aggies are in a state of upheaval and the Hogs’ fury shows early: Thanks to a TD on a fumble recovery and runback by senior linebacker Brooks Ellis, the Hogs start this one on fire, up 21-0 scarcely 10 minutes in.

The Aggie offense recovers somewhat to score twice before halftime, but the Hogs pour it on in the fourth quarter with two more scores off turnovers.

It’s a coming-out party for touted freshman tailback Devwah Whaley, who rips off a long scoring run to punctuate an unexpected but overdue rout. Hogs 38, Aggies 20.

After the first month, Arkansas is a healthy and surging 4-0, and into the Top 15 comfortably. We’ll examine an October anticipated to be much harder on the Hogs next week.

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he Observer really tries to stay out of politics and religion and what people get up to with their money. All of it is bad for indigestion, you understand, and we know we have a lot of lunchtime readers. But this presidential candidate on the Republican side. What to do with a human being like that?

He’s probably hired some clipping service to crawl the internet, finding and printing out every mention of his name, sweatshop laborers later writing each one out in beautiful script before binding the daily stack into a luxurious, puppy-skin-bound book so he can gloat over them at bedtime. So, we’re not going to give him the satisfaction of using his name. Let’s call him, instead, Dorito Mussolini, the orange menace.

As easy as it would be for folks on the right to dismiss what follows as yet another pants-pissing rant by a Leftie (and The Observer is surely that — back during the Wall Street-spawned Great Recession, we stopped just short of calling for folks to roll out the guillotine), there’s something you should know: Long ago, but not long enough, Yours Truly used to be a Rightie — or at least a fiscal conservative and social moderate. Now it can be told. Voted against Bill. Twice. Listened to Rush Limbaugh until it became clear that his show was either some kind of very involved work of performance art or a roach motel for the stupidest people in the land. Clearly the latter, in hindsight.

I have since come around, mostly because, as a father and husband, The Observer saw the 10,000 ways people can lift each other up if we aren’t always thinking, “What’s in it for me?” and the 10,000 ways we can destroy each other if we are. But this man, Dorito Mussolini ... those are lessons he clearly never learned, nor cared to.

Even at The Observer’s Rightiest, we believe we could have seen him for what he is: just another bully, snapping bra straps on the playground and gleefully threatening to take thirdgraders’ lunch money. How is it that

millions of our fellow Americans — honest, hardworking folks, who say grace and hold doors open for ladies and old folks; who pull over any time they see a car with the hood up and would normally fight a strutting, bigtalking dickbag like Dorito as long as they could catch him — cannot see through this cheap charlatan, with his colored lights and snake oil promises? How is it that religious people, from big-wheel preachers to simple folk who hit the church door every time the lights are on, have sold their souls to this crusade, led by a thrice-married philanderer who, we’d be willing to wager, couldn’t semi-accurately paraphrase any Bible passage other than “Jesus wept” if you stuck a firecracker up his butt and threatened to light it?

How is it that American soldiers, sailors and airmen — past and present, living or dead, God bless them every one, regardless of their political affiliation, gender, color, sexuality or creed — can support the idea of giving command of the strongest military the world has ever seen, including enough nukes to reduce the earth to a lifeless cinder, to a man who is so intemperate he turns any gentle rebuke on Twitter into a week-long, back-and-forth shitshow; who mocks the mother and father of a soldier blown apart in a foreign land; who once brushed off the heroism of Sen. John McCain, who ejected from a burning plane with an American flag on the tail only to be tortured for five and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton for this country, with: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Dorito, meanwhile, was safe at home, drawing his five deferments.

How is it possible that rational people can support this movement, this man, this rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouching toward Bethlehem to be born? Fear, we guess.

But The Observer has puzzled on it at length, and has yet to reach a satisfactory answer. We hope somebody will, preferably before November.

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Thousands of voters flagged for removal After sending faulty felony data to every county, the secretary of state’s office says it’s up to clerks, not the office, to fix the problem.

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n July 5, Bo Ingram’s mailbox strike felons from their rolls as required was overflowing after the holi- by law. But this particular batch of data, day weekend, and he almost evidently transmitted in June, turned out overlooked a letter from the Lonoke to be severely flawed, as first reported by County clerk’s office telling him he’d been the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. It constripped of his right to vote. Ingram, 50, tained a large number of individuals, such had his voting rights suspended after a as Ingram, who’d had their voting rights felony conviction in 2000, but he was re- restored in the past — as well as about leased from parole in 2005 and reinstated 4,000 other voters who’d never been conto the voter rolls a couple of years later. victed of a felony in the first place.

In a July 6 letter to county clerks, the People convicted of felonies in Arkansas lose their right to vote, but may regain the secretary of state’s elections division right once they have been released from acknowledged that “there is potential incarceration, completed all probation or for some errors to occur” in the data it NOT OUR PROBLEM: Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin has not responded to parole and made good on any outstanding had sent the previous month and sug- requests for comment, but his office says it has no responsibility to correct the error. fines, court costs and restitution. It came gested that local officials “proceed with as a rude surprise, then, for Ingram to be caution” before removing voters. the state’s largest counties are any guide, clerks have reinstated every canceled regtold almost a decade later that his rights The problem occurred when the sec- as many as two-thirds of the individuals istration and are now carefully vetting were being rescinded again. retary of state’s office began getting its flagged in the ACIC data may actually be every case. Others, though, have auto“I took off work Friday and went up data from the Arkansas Crime Informa- eligible to vote. matically canceled everyone on their list there to the parole office in Lonoke” — a tion Center, a clearinghouse that wareIn Jonesboro, Craighead County Clerk and simply plan to reinstate voters on a 30-minute drive from his home in Cabot houses criminal justice data. Previously, Kade Holliday said his office received a case-by-case basis whenever individuals — “and asked if I could get copies of my the secretary of state’s office received list of 153 flagged individuals in June, but complain of the issue. Although county release papers,” he recalled. The parole felon lists from Arkansas Community Cor- “ultimately, we were able to dismiss 92 clerks have a constitutional obligation office confirmed his papers were in order, rection; it switched only after someone of those names, because we were able to to ensure voters have access to the polls, and so he headed to the courthouse to in the office discovered state law speci- show they actually had fulfilled their sen- they also have an obligation to promptly find the county clerk, the local elected fies ACIC should be the source of the tence.” (Unique among the county clerks remove active felons from the rolls. An official responsible for registering voters. information. The Arkansas Community the Arkansas Times spoke to for this story, error of this magnitude leaves them in “I talked to a woman at the voter registra- Correction data contained mostly newer Holliday had vetted every name on the list a bind. With a historic general election tion place, and she was more pissed off conviction information, though, while as of Aug. 1, in large part because he was only three months away, it is unclear how than I was about it,” Ingram said. “She the ACIC data included everyone ever assisted by his local parole and proba- many eligible Arkansas voters remain said there’d already been several people convicted of a felony in Arkansas tion office.) Pulaski County Clerk Larry wrongly disenfranchised. in there with the same problem.”

After sending out the July 6 letter, the “Many individuals,” the letter said, Crane said he received a list of around Ingram said the woman reinstated him, “may have to be reviewed on a case- 2,000 flagged names from the secretary secretary of state’s office has seemingly apologized and explained that the Lonoke by-case basis prior to removing them.” of state’s office in June, and has reviewed washed its hands of the error. It appears some 600 individual cases as of Aug. 1. to be taking no further action to identify County clerk had recently received a list The secretary of state’s office offered to of voters flagged as felons from the office reverse any cancellations already made “Of that 600, roughly 200 are appropriate individuals who have been mistakenly disof Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Mar- from the list — but it left it up to the county felons,” Crane said, while 119 are clearly enfranchised or to offer further guidance tin. The secretary of state is responsible to request such a blanket reinstatement. “innocent bystanders” and many more to counties. Spokesperson Chris Powell Among the things the letter does not require further review. for maintaining election records, and the said the secretary of state’s constitutional The response to the error has varied responsibility ends after it provides the office periodically sends criminal justice make clear is the scope of the problem. data to county clerks, which they use to If the experience of the clerks in two of drastically from county to county. Some data to the clerks.

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“We house the data, but [clerks] are the field described what normally happens official voting registrars of their county. when she receives felon data from the We do not add or remove anyone,” he secretary of state: “We go in and remove said. “I can’t speak for what any individual them, and notify those individuals by letcounties were doing. But there should be ter, and then it’s up to them to prove that due diligence involved in the process. … they’ve been [reinstated].” There were Folks have been verifying the voter rolls about 155 individuals flagged on the list for years.” Powell said his office simply she received in June, Porterfield said; her passed on the list it received from ACIC. office has received “10 to 20 phone calls” “I don’t think we did much editing to the from individuals like Bo Ingram in the data. … We’re just kind of the information past few weeks. “The ones that can prove go-between, if you will,” he said. they were reinstated were reinstated,” she The numbers suggest otherwise. Brad said. Porterfield said she would prefer to Cazort, the repository administrator for have the state “reset” the cancellations but ACIC, said the secretary of state’s office she hasn’t yet made the request, in part “requested anyone with a felony convic- because the secretary of state’s office is tion. … We sent them roughly 197,000 busy handling balnames.” (In the process, Cazort said, ACIC lot initiatives and also discovered the roughly 4,000 people other pre-election in its database who’d been incorrectly tasks. identified as felons by the court system; “We’re waithe said those errors were all 20 years old ing on further or more.) instructions from Powell said he wasn’t sure how many our secretary of names, in total, were on the flawed felon state,” she said. lists the secretary of state sent to the 75 In Clarksville, counties in Arkansas. However, con- a n e m p l o y e e sidering there were just 2,000 names at the Johnson on the list for Pulaski County (which County clerk’s office said the June list comprises over 10 percent of the state’s contained about 40 names. population), it seems unlikely the state “We removed everyone … and sent flagged all 197,000 individuals for removal. them a letter,” Jessica Cochran, of the It remains unclear whether the office’s clerk’s office, said. “We probably got 10 of elections division edited the data in any them that either called or came back in ... way before forwarding it to clerks. Powell to show that they had their felony taken said ACIC later sent the secretary of state care of.” However, it’s likely some of a second, “pared-down” list, but Cazort those letters won’t reach their intended said ACIC never sent a second list. recipient. “Normally, a lot of felon letWhen asked whether the secretary ters come back undeliverable, but I don’t of state’s office was aware beforehand know if we’ve received any back for this that the ACIC data included individuals issue,” she said. Nonetheless, Cochran whose voting rights have been reinstated, said her office has not opted for the blanPowell said, “We thought that it might be ket reinstatement offered by the secrepossible there would be some issues with tary of state. She said she and others in that. ACIC did not have records of who the Johnson County office were under had had their rights restored and who the impression the state’s recommendahad not. Counties do, because people are tion was to “leave it as it was.” supposed to file [to regain voting rights] at Powell said the secretary of state’s the county level. So we didn’t have a way office recommendation is to “err on the of verifying that, nor is it our place to do side of caution” (a directive that can be so.” It is understood that clerks need to interpreted two ways). “It’s kind of the check whatever data they receive from clerks’ prerogative about how they want the state, he said. to handle these things,” he said.

If an eligible voter is mistakenly disBut some of the county clerks the Arkansas Times spoke to over the past enfranchised and doesn’t discover the week say they simply canceled the regis- error until Election Day, Cochran said, trations of all the voters flagged by the sec- “They’ll be given a provisional ballot. retary of state’s office, since they assumed They’ll probably still be allowed to vote.” the data was trustworthy.

In neighboring Pope County, County Lonoke County Clerk Dawn Porter- Clerk Laura McGuire is not waiting on

voters to approach her, in part “because a lot of the letters we sent out were returned undeliverable.” Her office had 90 names on its list and has been contacted by three people so far. To look for erroneous cancellations, she’s instructed her workers to search court records — an easy task if the conviction was in that county, but often time consuming if the conviction is older and in a different county’s court. McGuire is erring on the side of the voter: If someone has voted in recent elections but their felony conviction is from years before, she’s assuming they are indeed eligible. “Nobody should ever be refused the right to vote,” she said.

Many clerks are taking a similar approach and are troubled by the secretary of state’s apparent apathy towards the error.

Benton County Clerk Tena O’Brien said her county, the state’s second largest, received about 500 names from the secretary of state in June. Her office had only removed a fraction of those voters when it began getting phone calls.

“One’s conviction was back in ’74.

Another said, ‘I haven’t been in trouble since I was 20, 21’ … He’s 46 years old now,” O’Brien said. “I’m really upset, especially with this general election.”

She has opted for the blanket reinstatement. “I told the secretary of state, ‘I want them all put back to active till I can go back and review each and every one of them.’ I’m not sure it can be done before the election, though.” With hundreds of names to process and fall elections to prepare for, she’d like some assistance from the state. But, she said, “They more or less indicated that the clerks would have to do this.”

Although O’Brien is concerned about failing to remove a felon who should be removed under law, she’s more worried about disenfranchising people. “I can be sued either way, it turns out. But for the number [of convictions] I was finding that had been taken care of 20-some years ago, I’d rather err on that side of it. I don’t want to prevent anyone from voting.”

‘I’m not going to remove someone who’s been voting these last years.

It’s terrible.'

Washington County Clerk Becky Lewallan said her office had processed about 30 out of 545 names when it realized the data was faulty; she requested the blanket reinstatement as well.

Faulkner County Clerk Margaret Darter had a list of 159 names and “approximately a dozen” complaints. Her office has manually reinstated anyone it initially canceled.

“I hate that this has happened, and I hate opening up wounds for people who have already done this once,” Darter said.

Crane also requested the blanket reinstatement. “And we asked for it to be done statewide … [because] 75 counties have 75 different ways of doing their business,” he added. But the secretary of state’s office told him it would only make the reinstatements at individual counties’ request.

In Camden, Ouachita County Clerk Britt Williford said he realized right away that the list of 178 flagged names he received in June was flawed — in part because many of the conviction dates were so old, and in part because “I came across a couple names of people who I knew were felons in the past and had their rights restored.”

“I’m not going to remove someone who’s been voting these last years. It’s terrible. … That’s violating their rights” Williford said. But he’s concerned others won’t be as cautious. “I know a lot of clerks just blindly accept those batches and run through them if it says ‘felon.’ ” When asked if it was a problem that some clerks may not double-check the data they receive, Powell said, “I can’t speak for what individual clerks are doing. … It is their constitutional duty and authority to be the official registrar of voter rolls in their county.”

Secretary of State Mark Martin himself, who earns an annual salary of $90,000, did not respond to requests for a statement for this story. Governor Hutchinson did offer a comment, however.

“I have full confidence the secretary of state’s office will remedy this situation and make sure every voter has access this upcoming election,” Hutchinson said through a spokesperson. “We are also reviewing any errors in the accuracy of the information provided to the secretary of state’s office to ensure that this does not happen again in the future.” arktimes.com

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MASTERFUL: Andy Zawacki, the Historic Arkansas Museum’s furniture maker and conservator par excellence.

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RENAISSANCE MAN For 35 years, object conservator and craftsman Andy Zawacki has helped keep the past present at the Historic Arkansas Museum.

BRIAN CHILSON

BY DAVID KOON

he agents of loss are always working to steal the past from us: moisture, termites, rot, mold, even our society’s thirst for new things, which we often make room for by throwing away with both hands the places and objects that make up our heritage.

While living in a disposable society means you’ll never have to wonder whether you’re up-to-the-minute fresh, it also can mean living in a culture that drifts untethered from history, and is therefore doomed to repeat its mistakes over and over.

At the Historic Arkansas Museum in downtown Little Rock, one of those working on the frontlines against shared cultural loss is the museum’s on-staff object conservator Andy Zawacki (it’s a Polish name, pronounced: “Za-VOT-ski”). Though he was trained as a museum conservator, with particular emphasis on the preservation of wooden objects and furniture, since hiring on in 1981 Zawacki has grown into the museum’s resident polymath, working behind the scenes on projects big and small, from cabinet making to historical artifact reproduction, paper and photograph conservation to the unobtrusive and underappreciated art of making his-

torical object mounts that disappear into the background of a display. With Zawacki scheduled to retire in three years, officials at the museum will tell you without hesitation that they’ll never come close to being able to fill his big shoes with just one hire.

Born in Madison, Wis., a fact that his heavy Midwestern accent still betrays, Zawacki started out as a woodworker with a particular interest in history. As a kid, he and his friends used to ride their bikes across town to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, which, as was typical of many museums of the era, featured diorama-style displays of historical events. Zawacki said his father was an amateur woodworker and got him into building simple things from wood.

“We lived walking distance from a lumber yard, so all the little guys and some of the little girls in the neighborhood would work on projects,” he said. “They’d give us scraps. Anything under the radial arm saw, we could have. They would cut off four feet of something and just throw it under there in those days. We’d go down there with our wagons and just load up.”

With his dad’s help, Zawacki progressed quickly from nailing together

birdhouses from scrap lumber to building wooden boats, something that’s still a passion. He built his first boat when he was 12. “The first one, I wanted it to be a racing boat,” he said.

“We lived walking distance from this little lake, and there was some guy who had a little hydroplane. I’d be out there and think, ‘Man, that looks cool.’... There are a lot of ways to go fast on the water now that don’t cost that much,” but in those days, a racing boat was the only way.

While still in high school, Zawacki raced the second and third boats he built, both made from ultra-light mahogany plywood, in the Class B stock outboard class at American Powerboat Association meets held at lakes and rivers all over the Midwest. He competed from 1970 to ’73, and again in 1976. Piloting fragile, powerful boats that weighed around 100 pounds, racers competed on a one-mile oval course. It was dangerous business, and accidents weren’t uncommon, Zawacki said.

“I would still like to build race boats, I just don’t want to race,” he said with a laugh. “I’ve done that, and I’m not that brave anymore. When you’re 20 or in your teens, you’re fearless. I have fear now.” He still builds arktimes.com

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IN THE SHOP: Zawacki “can do anything with his hands,” says HAM Director Bill Worthen.

boats, just not for racing. He builds period-accurate wooden canoes, collects and restores outboard motors, and frequently takes a 20-foot cabin cruiser he built on long excursions, including a trip last October up the Arkansas as far as Muskogee, Okla., and a jaunt down the Arkansas and Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico in June.

The bug for woodworking and understanding mechanical things having bit early, Zawacki majored in forest products at the University of Wisconsin and started building furniture. In June 1977, with a grant from a Polish-American foundation, Zawacki visited Poland and traveled all over the country in a work-study program in historic furniture conservation.

“The advantage we had in the socialist period was they concentrated the conservators into one workshop, so there were like 15 to 20 of us,” he said. “You’re not working with one person. You’re working with 20 different guys who do it 20 different ways, within parameters. That kind of learning opportunity isn’t available anymore. I was really lucky to get that.”

After graduation and back in the U.S., Zawacki found a book at the library that listed every American museum with a furniture collection and wrote to them, inquiring if they had a position for a furniture conservator. “I got a really good response rate,” he said. “Only about four or five didn’t respond to me, but it was all negative. Nobody was hiring at the time.” That included a no from the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, the predecessor of the Historic Arkansas Museum. Still hoping to work in the field, Zawacki took a contract position with the state historical society of Wisconsin. He was surprised six months later when he received a letter from Territorial Restoration Director Bill Worthen. “He wrote me a letter out of the clear blue and said, ‘If you’re still interested, submit a resume

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NINETEENTH CENTURY MAN: Among the things Zawacki has crafted for HAM include (from top) a Ramage press like the one used

by William Woodruff to print the Arkansas Gazette, a folding bed, wagon wheels and pleasure wagon.

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because the position opened,’ ” Zawacki said. “I did, came down and interviewed and got the job.” Zawacki’s first day of work was Nov. 23, 1981, and he’s been there ever since.

Worthen, who still heads the museum, said that hiring Zawacki turned out to be a great decision for HAM as a whole. “Here you have this guy who can do anything,” Worthen said. “He can really do anything with his hands.”

Over the years, with careful practice and study, Zawacki has mastered skills that go far beyond his original job title as on-staff conservator, working as a machinist, welder, metalcaster, mannequin-maker. Zawacki’s most recent endeavor, Worthen said, is making cheeses to be smoked in the museum’s on-site smokehouse.

Worthen said that he’s considered nominating Zawacki for the Arkansas Living Treasure Award of the Arkansas Arts Council.

“The quality of his work has meant as much as anything or anybody has ever done here,” Worthern said. “It really helped us be on the map as a full-service museum.”

After 35 years on staff, the fruits of Zawacki’s labors are everywhere you look on HAM’s grounds. Inside the Hinderliter Tavern, for instance, is a round, cage-like bar Zawacki built as a much younger man. With a locking serving window and a top studded with spikes to protect the bartender and liquor stocks from drunken patrons, it’s a meticulous recreation of one he found in Kentucky.

Across the block, in the upstairs of a brick building meant to be a representation of the circa 1824 print shop of Arkansas Gazette founder and printer to the Arkansas Territory William Woodruff, stands another project that consumed Zawacki’s craft and passion for over a year: a huge wooden press he built from oak and cherry, copying an original he found in Vincennes, Ind. Featuring Zawacki’s artful woodwork and metal parts fabricated by Stone County Ironworks in Mountain View and Central Machine Shop in Little Rock, the press is period-correct in every detail, and has actually been

used on occasion for demonstrations and to do short runs of handbills and other printed goods. In addition to the press, Zawacki built or oversaw the building of every item needed to operate a full-service 1820s print shop, from dinner plate-sized ink daubers to intricate type-composing sticks.

Were Woodruff somehow brought back from the grave, he could start turning out fresh copies of the Gazette in short order.

Swannee Bennett, deputy director and chief curator of the 75-yearold Historic Arkansas Museum, said that Zawacki is a renaissance man and has been an integral part of building and preserving the museum’s unique collection, which focuses on items made or used extensively in Arkansas. “We feel that’s our focus: saving, interpreting, preserving that creative legacy that was Arkansas,” Bennett said. “Andy Zawacki is an integral part of that because he makes sure that those things we’re preserving and interpreting remain in the best possible condition they can be in.”

Building his reputation as a conservator of historic wooden items, Zawacki has followed his passion all over the world during his career, including Morocco in 1996 and 1997, when he took an eight-month leave of absence from HAM to be part of a team of woodworkers and conservators put together by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to stabilize and preserve the minbar — a kind of tall, movable pulpit from which an Imam delivers his sermon — of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh. “[The museum] asked me if I wanted to do it, and I said absolutely,” Zawacki said. “Then, time went by and I sort of thought, well, nothing is going to happen. Then I got a call saying that unless somebody had an objection, I was [on the team]. Then I had to hustle to get somebody to live in my house while I was gone.” Zawacki was able to recruit a paper conservator from Canada to cover his position at HAM and house-sit for him, then was off to Morocco.

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age and all, means every historic artifact can have a meaningful impact on visitors, even if it’s decayed to the point that it looks nothing like it did when new.

“Nothing is ever too far gone,” Zawacki said. “It depends on whether or not the original intent [of the maker] is still readable. Sometimes that’s enough. If it’s missing half of it, you might not want to replace it all, you’ll just want to stabilize what is there so you can still read what the artist’s intent was … . There’s never really ‘too far gone.’ ” Too, even objects decades or hundreds of years old still have their surprises. On display in the museum is a set of Northumbrian bagpipes owned

by Robert Brownlee, who settled in Little Rock for a time before joining the gold rush to California in the 1840s, and donated by a descendant. Brownlee’s house still stands on the grounds of the Historic Arkansas Museum. After the pipes were donated, Zawacki was put in charge of preserving and building a display mount for them. While trying to fit a paper shim, Zawacki noticed a piece of yellowed paper had been rolled up tight and pushed into one of the holes.

“He had stuffed a California newspaper into one of the stops,” Zawacki said. “It brackets the date that he put it in there because there were businesses listed on the backside of the paper.”

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fabulously detailed, with incredible interlocking inlay, minutely carved lattice and inscriptions of Koranic verse, but 800-plus years had not been kind to the delicate woodwork. Working slowly with tiny brushes, puffs of air and denatured alcohol, Zawacki and other conservators spent weeks just removing centuries of grime and dust from the minbar’s delicate crevices. Once the piece was cleaned, they came back with hide glue and rabbitskin glue to carefully reattach decorative pieces that were in danger of falling off. The goal, Zawacki said, was not to “restore” the piece, but to stabilize and preserve it, while allowing viewers to see the maker’s intent via the parts that remained and faint, inked layout lines that guided the construction over eight centuries ago.

“With the inked drawings behind and the amount of ornament that remain in place, you could still read the intent of the maker,” Zawacki said.

The goal in the modern conservation of objects, Zawacki said, isn’t to restore an object to the way it was when new, but to preserve what’s there while stabilizing it for future generations. The other goal, he said, is to make anything you do to an object as a conservator completely reversible, in case better technology or science comes along someday. Going at the process of conservation from the viewpoint of preserving things, dam-

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of steel axles and springs, the body of the little wagon will be less than 8 feet long. It features an ingenious series of wooden springs, including a curved frame that will flex as the wagon encounters bumps, and a cantilevered seat that floats on two wrist-thick pieces of springy white oak. Other than the forged metal parts and bolts

wooden axles and light, strong wagon wheels. The project, he said, has been a near-perfect combination of his two great loves.

“That pleasure wagon, it’s a combination of boat building and furniture making,” he said. “If you look at the joints, there a lot of mortise and tenon [joinery], which is used in

anywhere.”

Zawacki said that a life spent preserving history has given him an appreciation of how things and techniques that were once thought of as common and simple have been lost by modern generations. While he still finds the old ways fascinating, he said he likes it here in the future, and not

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After looking up and cross-referencing when the businesses listed on the paper were opened and closed, the museum staff was able to pin down a single, five-year window when Brownlee could have put the paper into his pipes. “That was so cool,” Zawacki said. “It’s fun. It’s really fun.”

The minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque may not be the oldest object Zawacki has worked on. In his cluttered office just off the room where the gadget-beautiful 1937 South Bend metalworking lathe he bought in Florida for $300 and restored holds court, Zawacki still has a detailed file on the 1999 recovery and preservation of the Peeler Bend Canoe, a 24-foot yellow pine dugout discovered half-buried in the mud near where Interstate 30 crosses the Saline River close to Benton. Carbon dated at over 900 years old, the canoe was likely made by the ancestors of the Caddo. It was created without the aid of metal tools by slowly burning out the center and scraping the charcoal away with stones. Zawacki said it was discovered by a Benton man, who got together a group of friends and recovered it with shovels and a trailer, then let it sit in the sun a full day before calling professionals.

“We got there the day after it came out of the water,” Zawacki said, “and it was already beginning to check and crack. The problem is the wood is deteriorated. About 30 percent of the wood structure is gone, so it’s quite weak.” To halt the cracking caused by being dried out too quickly, the decision was made to sink the canoe in a local farm pond until a large water tank could be made to start the chemical process of drying it out. Zawacki was one of those who had to bite the bullet for history and wade into the farm pond “up to our necks in ice water” one December to attach straps to the canoe so it could be lifted out and submerged in the tank. It took two full years of careful monitoring and chemical treating before the Peeler Bend canoe was stable enough to be removed from the tank and displayed.

A lot of Zawacki’s passion and focus right now is going into the construction of a new artifact for the museum’s collection and living history efforts: an intricately made “pleasure wagon,” created from hundreds of photographs and a minutely detailed set of measured drawings Zawacki made in January 2015 from a surviving 1830s example at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.

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IN THE PRINT SHOP: Zawacki built everything in the reproduced Woodruff shop, from the press, to the blotters, to the mantel, to the bed.

made by HAM’s blacksmith, Zawacki has made every piece of the pleasure wagon in his workshop. Impractical for almost anything other than leisurely rides around town, the wagon, Zawacki said, would have been the 1830s equivalent of a modern sports car, meant to show off the wealth of the person riding in it. They had to recreate it, Zawacki said, because such pleasure wagons would have been fairly rare even in their day. Few have survived.

“If you want a chuck wagon or a farm wagon, you might be able to find one. But if you want a pleasure wagon to run around town, you don’t find those.”

The process of building his first wagon, Zawacki said, has been a challenge all the way around, which makes it fun for him. That included researching the lost art of making

furniture making, but you’re always fitting a curve to a curve , which is just like boats. It’s a lot easier when everything is straight.” He plans to have the wagon finished, painted and ready to roll by September.

At age 62, Zawacki doesn’t appear to have slowed down any, though he’s still planning on retiring when he turns 65. “I’ll do stuff at home. I’ll build more boats,” he said. “I’ve got plenty of projects, plus I’ve got welding equipment. I make lots of yard geegaws.”

When Zawacki retires, Swannee Bennett said, it will not be a process of replacing him, because he simply cannot be replaced. “You find somebody who has a skill set that will be valuable to the museum, but there’s very few people who bring this much skill to any one position,” Bennett said.

“It’s difficult. Of course, he could work

just for its conveniences. “I had cataract surgery in early June, and it was borderline enjoyable,” he said. “You don’t feel anything. They’re talking and stuff, and you’re part of the process and it’s over. Three days later you can drive. Just 25 years ago, it wasn’t like that. My grandmother had cataract surgery in the ’70s. She could see better, but it wasn’t great. Now, it’s a 15-minute operation.”

Part of his job is being around artful things created by people who are long gone. That makes him realize that he has created things that will outlive him. It gives him a sense of being immersed in history, and part of the ongoing story of humanity.

“You notice things every day that have been here since before we were born,” he said. “Somebody has died since these things were built. But objects live on.”

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A century of satire JOHN DAVID PITTMAN

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BAKE AMERICA’S CAKE AGAIN: Kathryn A. Pryor (as Hillary Clinton) and Craig Wilson (as Donald Trump) join over 80 other legal professionals on stage at The Rep for Gridiron, a biennial production with roots in the Little Rock Bar Association’s 1916 spoof of local politics.

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ne hundred years ago, while incumbent Woodrow Wilson tried to maintain neutrality during two concurrent conflicts, the Mexican Revolution and World War I, and managed to squeak out a win over his Republican opponent Charles Hughes under the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War,” a group of lawyers at the Little Rock Bar Association were planning a satirical spoof whose seeds would bear theatrical fruit for the following century. This weekend, Gridiron cel26

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ebrates its centennial with “Gridiron 2016: Bake America’s Cake Again,” a full-fledged dramatic production at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre put on by Central Arkansas’s community of legal professionals, and aside from the obvious implications in promotional photos, nobody’s sharing any hints on what the centennial plot entails.

“The content of the show is a deeply held secret,” says Dent Gitchel, a Gridiron cast member since 1970 and the production’s designated archivist. “The poli-

ticians pretty well wrote the script for us this year, though. You can’t improve on that.” In a year where the election cycle has unquestionably met and exceeded its quota of strangeness, Judge Mary Spencer McGowan, who’s in her 20th year producing the show, agreed. “It wrote itself. It’s a funny year, and the script is made even funnier because of it.”

With choreographer Jana Beard and musical director Lori Isner at the dramatic helm, Gridiron has gone from, as actor Craig Wilson says, “a skit at lunch

among a small group of men to what we do now, with 80 to 100 people on a fullscale production stage over the course of five nights.” Wilson, director of health policy at the Arkansas Center for Health Involvement, is among the cast’s most accomplished actors, having taken a brief hiatus from what was then a relatively new law career to act professionally.

“The Gridiron family was integral in my being able to do that,” said Wilson. “Theater and music put me through school,” he said, “and I chose the path of being

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Wilson’s co-star Kathryn Pryor, a partner at the Wright Lindsey Jennings law firm, is a longtime veteran of Arkansas’s acting community. “I was in Gridiron in 1984, before I went to law school, and I’ve been in it every year since then. For Craig and myself, it’s less stress and less time than doing a normal theatrical production, and gives us time to get on stage.”

The pair’s quick wits have, no doubt, been put to the test in the courtroom, for which they’re likely thankful during the Gridiron run; the script is distributed only when rehearsals begin and often changes along the way to spoof the current political climate. “Rewrites go on until opening night,” McGowan says. “There have been a couple of seasons when we’ve changed it during the run. We’re nimble.” Pryor recalls one time in particular, when actor Judge Reinhold, while doing substance abuse counseling in Arkansas prisons, was written into Gridiron’s script at the last moment. McGowan spoke with Reinhold (“Beverly Hills Cop,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”) after the actor had seen a show. “He asked if he could be in it, and we said, ‘Are you kidding? Of course.’ Our committee got to work, and we inserted him into what was already sort of an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ scene.”

The original 1916 production was likely more of a roast than its later iterations, an irreverent gathering of lawyers poking fun at local politicians, colleagues and themselves, but that’s just an informed guess; no proof remains of that inaugural show, but a program from the 1920 Gridiron equivalent (now in the archives at the Butler Center) reads, “We present our 5th Annual Luncheon … .” Gitchel says there’s a bit of a “black hole from 1928 until about 1945,” presumably due to the struggle of daily life during the Depression and World War II, when many of Little Rock’s lawyers were serving in the military.

Productions resumed in 1946 as luncheons in the now-demolished Marion Hotel until Griffin Smith, a high-profile lawyer and enthusiastic fan of Broadway musicals (Gitchel says the bookcase housing Griffin’s collection of Broadway tunes must have been around 8 feet high) decided to expand Gridiron’s scope. “Remember, there were likely

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only a few lawyers in the county, or even in the state, who were women,” Gitchel said, “and Griffin had this brilliant idea: He said, ‘Let’s go ahead and make this full-fledged.’ ” He hired University of Arkansas at Little Rock theater professor Margaret Carner to direct, UALR dance professor Dot Callanen to choreograph and bandleader Betty Fowler to direct the music. Shows migrated to the UALR auditorium, then to Hall High, then to the Arkansas Arts Center until 1990, when Gridiron formed a relationship with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, where the biennial production (save for a hiatus in 2012)

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“DOCTOR WHO” FANS, TAKE note: A full-sized replica of the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space), created by Hot Springs artist Zack Dryden, is to be unveiled 6 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Garland County Library in advance of September’s Spa-Con. Before its arrival at the comic convention, the iconic police box will take a tour of Hot Springs landmarks, announcing each location on social media and at spa-con.org.

PERHAPS AS AN ATTEMPT to rescue the “Charlie’s Angels” tradition from its powderpuff past, Sony and director Elizabeth Banks have tasked an ace playwright with the script for the latest film iteration of the detective story: Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize recipient David Auburn (“Proof,” “The Lake House”), who grew up in Arkansas.

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“It’s a lot like family,” McGowan said, and Wilson echoed that sentiment. “As lawyers, many of us deal in the political space a lot, so for us it’s an opportunity to take a step back and have a little fun, to take a step back and not take ourselves too seriously just for one night, for one hour.”

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BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

SATURDAY 8/6

48 HOUR FILM PROJECT AWARDS ‘BEST OF’ SCREENING

7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $11.

IN HONOR OF ART PORTER: Selina Albright and her father, Gerald, perform at Wildwood Park for the Arts as part of “A Work of ART,” a week of jazz camps and concerts for young musicians sponsored by Art Porter Music Education Inc., 8 p.m., $50-$65. See artporter.org for tickets.

THURSDAY 8/4-SATURDAY 8/6

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Various times. Khalil’s Pub and Wildwood Park for the Arts. Free-$65.

Perhaps because Bill Clinton was a saxophonist himself — or perhaps because, even as a 16-year-old, Art Porter Jr. was such a mature jazz saxophone player, it seemed unjust for Porter to have been arrested for being a minor playing a bar gig with his father and beloved Arkansas musician Art Porter Sr. So, then-Attorney General Clinton pushed to pass the “Art Porter Bill,” a law that allowed underage

musicians to play in drinking establishments with parental supervision. Porter went on to honor his inimitable father’s memory through his career, weaving cool jazz with gospel and funk until his untimely death in a boating accident in Thailand after playing for the 50th anniversary of the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Art Porter Music Education Inc., a nonprofit organization, honors the memories of the Porters by pairing young musicians with accomplished jazz players in a camp and concert series at various venues across Little Rock. This year’s “Minors in Music” workshops culminate

with two Thursday performances from Arkansas native and saxophonist Ben Pruitt at Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., $40; a “Porter Players Jam Session” at 5 p.m. Friday at Khalil’s (free admission); and a performance from saxophonist Gerald Albright and his daughter, vocalist Selina Albright, joined by student entertainers at Wildwood Park at 8 p.m. Saturday, $50-$65. During that final concert, APME will also award Central High’s Kendric Kelley with the organization’s 2016 scholarship. For tickets and details, visit artporter.org.

put him close enough to people suffering through the most catastrophic time of their lives to inform lyrics like those in “I Won’t Come Back Again”: “If you want to find me, follow the blood trail to my heart/I’ll be lifting spirits at the end of the bar, talking to my new Jewish friend,” from his excellent self-titled album. Of that connection, Mize says on the website of

his record label, Big Legal Mess: “I saw two guys carrying a rolled up carpet with a pair of legs sticking out of it after Hurricane Andrew in Florida … and all kinds of people pushed to their limit. That’s connected to the songs I write. I always keep my antennae up. All of my tunes boil down to one thing, and that’s observations.” For tickets, visit arkansassounds.org.

FRIDAY 8/5

JIM MIZE

7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $10.

Jim Mize is either a musician who used to do insurance adjustment, or a former insurance adjuster who plays music. Either way, the Conway resident’s got a voice that tumbles out of his throat and rises to a bawl with abandon. His former day job 28

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Some feats are worth doing for the sake of proving they can be done, like climbing Mount Everest. But if that doesn’t quite match your skill set, there’s always the 48 Hour Film Project. Each year, teams create, script and film a short flick under incredible time constraints, using genre parameters and character names assigned at random by festival officials, mostly as a sort of embedded code to ensure film production begins only after the designated start time. After two preliminary screenings in the Ron Robinson Theater, festival producer Jeff Hahn, with the help of a team of judges and paper ballots from the audiences at the screenings, winnowed entries down to 13 selections, including a stunning noir detective “adventure serial” (cleverly framed as a series sponsored by a name-brand “adventure cereal”), an examination of the personal filters through which we see race dynamics at play during a traffic stop, the hard-luck tale of a father in search of a last-minute fish for his daughter’s birthday gift, and — from the team that won “Best Effects” at the festival’s global level last year — a video-game style war film with a twist at the end. Saturday night, the selected films, all of them between four- and sevenminutes long, will be screened before the announcement of the festival’s awards for standout writing, acting and cinematography, culminating with the designation of “Best Film,” the one that will advance to compete with 140 others around the world for a screening at the Cannes International Film Festival’s “Short Film Corner.”

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 8/4 CORY BRANAN CHANNELS punk and populism with an appearance at South on Main before heading out on the road with Lucero, 9 p.m., $10.

Casual Pleasures, Dook of Hurl and The Leisure Club share a bill at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $5. Jason Hale plays tunes from his new album, “Child of the Dark,” at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. After a free screening of “Billy Jack” from Vino’s Brewpub Cinema, The Federalis and Midwest State of Mind play the back room, 9 p.m., $5. Golden, Colo., band Uncle Tuesday brings rock tunes from its album “Upper Level Low” to Thirst N’ Howl, 9 p.m. The Eureka Springs Indie Film Festival puts the focus on women in film and films that grapple with issues of human rights, through Saturday, $15-$30. See esfilmfest.org for schedule. Lost 40 Brewery hosts a campout-style screening of “Wet Hot American Summer” with a swag bag from Electric Ghost Printing included with admission, 7:30 p.m., $20. “Doug Loves Movies” regular Aaron Kleiber comes to the Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m.

Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12.

Thrash-metal-turned-country rocker Cody Jinks joins Whitey Morgan for a show at Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $25$125.

LIGHTNING WILL FIND YOU: Nashville songstress Tristen brings the fruits of her studies in the pop tradition to Stickyz Sunday night, 7:30 p.m., $7.

SUNDAY 8/7

TRISTEN

7:30 p.m. Stickyz. $7.

Tristen Gaspadarek is a selfdescribed “pop traditionalist,” a Nashville pop queen with the melodic sensibility of Stephin Merritt, an affinity for ’60s girl-group harmonies and choruses expansive enough to deserve a Polyphonic Spree-sized choir singing and clapping along. Before she started playing synth and singing backup for Jenny Lewis on the regular, she put out “Caves” with the help of Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis. It’s musically glossier than

its two predecessors, “Charlatans at the Garden Gate” and “Teardrops and Lollipops,” and boasts less bite than earlier tracks like “Eager for Your Love”: “Dang that nasty shrew, ’cause she knows what you’re up to, you’ve gotta keep her feelin’ hungry so she’s eager for your love.”

“Caves” is a dance album, seemingly more informed by, say, Annie Lennox than by Tristen’s cited heroes Wanda Jackson or Dolly Parton. Either way, she shares with those women an ability to perform ridiculously catchy tunes with complete sincerity, winking at her

own sense of bubblegum in the same moment she sings, “Baby, don’t you want me to bring you those drugs?” Despite abundant praise from the likes of Paste, Rolling Stone, Bust and the Wall Street Journal, Tristen’s work has somehow managed to fly under the radar for many potential devotees, so if you think your Sunday evening might be brightened by a Linda Ronstadt-lookalike crooning smart, bouncy three-minute pop confections with multiple refrains layered in a round “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” style, you should absolutely go to this show.

FRIDAY 8/5 FOUL PLAY CABARET takes the stage at Stickyz with live accompaniment from Moonshine Mafia, 8:30 p.m., free.

Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain play a former gangster haunt in Hot Springs, The Ohio Club, 9 p.m. Club Sway challenges the definition of “high art” at its monthly open stage night, “Club Camp,” 9 p.m. The Brian Nahlen Band plays Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5.

Mojo Depot brings two decades of experience in barroom rock to White Water, 9:30 p.m. Vino’s hosts a metal show with Family, Ozark Shaman, and Amonkst the Trees, 9 p.m., $7.

American Lions play King’s Live Music in Conway with an opening set from Luke Smith, 8:30 p.m., $5.

SATURDAY 8/6 SATURDAY 8/6

THE DANGEROUS IDIOTS DVD RELEASE SHOW 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern. $7.

There’s little that deserves more appreciation than a band playing their pulsing hearts right out onto the concrete floor for a small crowd, as was the case when The Dangerous Idiots played a monstrously powerful and precise set in the back room at Vino’s

on a holiday weekend earlier this year.

This time, the band’s back in its original form for one night only — Aaron Sarlo on vocals and guitar, Jake Rutherford on bass and LeeWood Thomas on drums — to celebrate the limited pressing of a live DVD, “The Dangerous Idiots Live at the Legendary White Water Tavern,” recorded July 20, 2013. Fortunately for us and for

the band, I doubt there will be nearly as much room as there was on the floor that night at Vino’s, so get there early and enjoy the dreamy sounds of Russellville’s Jamie Lou & the Hullabaloo and some sweet Springfield twang from The Toos, whose tune “Old Songs” wins the award for the most tasteful reference to “Hey Jude” in recent history.

MARQUIS & MOOD elevate the too-often-Muzaked soprano saxophone at a show at South on Main, 10 p.m., $15. The Statehouse Convention Center hosts the Great Arkansas Beer Festival, 5:30 p.m., $30-$40. Comedian Kevin Hart takes the stage at the Walmart AMP in Rogers, 8 p.m., $50$120. New Orleans funk band Chapter: SOUL plays a late-night performance at Four Quarter Bar, 10:30 p.m. Ghost Bones and Ginsu Wives share a bill with Athens’ Muuy Biien at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9:30 p.m., $7. arktimes.com

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224-2010. markhamstreetpub.com.

Porter Players Jam Session. Part of the “A Work of Art” jazz series honoring the late Art Porter Sr. and Art Porter Jr. Khalil’s Pub, 5 p.m., free. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. artporter.org.

Salsa Dancing. Clear Channel Metroplex, 9 p.m., $5-$10. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/.

Upscale Friday. IV Corners, 7 p.m. 824 W. Capitol Ave.

THURSDAY, AUG. 4

MUSIC

Ben Pruitt. Part of the “A Work of Art” jazz series honoring the late Art Porter Sr. and Art Porter Jr. Khalil’s Pub, 7 p.m., $40. 110 S. Shackleford Road. 501-224-0224. artporter.org.

The Casual Pleasures, Leisure Club, Dook of Hurl. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Cody Jinks and Whitey Morgan. Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $25-$125. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. codyjinks.com.

Cory Branan. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Drageoke. Hosted by Queen Anthony James Gerard: a drag show followed by karaoke. Sway, 8 p.m. 412 Louisiana. clubsway.com.

The Federalis, Midwest State of Mind. Vino’s, 9 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

Jason Hale. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

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

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Mayday by Midnight. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

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. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/.

Ten High, The Thyroids, Matthew J & Dray.

Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., free. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com.

Uncle Tuesday. Thirst n’ Howl, 9 p.m. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501-379-8189. uncletuesday.com.

COMEDY

Aaron Kleiber. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $8.

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

EVENTS

ArkiePub Trivia. Stone’s Throw, 6:30 p.m., free.

402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154. stonesthrowbeer. com.

Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music.

Hillcrest, first Thursday of every month, 5 p.m.

501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants.com.

FILM

“Billy Jack.” A Vino’s BrewPub Cinema screening.

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

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Aaron Kleiber. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

“Forever Hold Your Peace.” By comedy trio The Main Thing. The Joint, through Sept. 2: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-3720205. thejointargenta.com.

DANCE

TO THE TASMAN SEA: Goon des Garcon’s group Young Gods of America join Tan the Terrible, Hector $lash and Solo Jaxon for a show Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Rev Room to raise funds for a New Zealand tour, 9 p.m., $10.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals.

Dickey-Stephens Park, through Aug. 6, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-6641555. milb.com.

KIDS

Garden Club. A project of the Faulkner County Urban Farm Project. Ages 7 and up or with supervision. Faulkner County Library, 3:30 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. www.fcl.org.

FRIDAY, AUG. 5

MUSIC

Alex Summerlin. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf. com.

All In Fridays. Envy. 7200 Colonel Glenn Road.

501-562-3317.

Brian Nahlen Band. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5.

2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf. com.

Cowboy Mouth. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $15$20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. cowboymouth.com.

Family, Amonkst the Trees. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

Foul Play Cabaret with Moonshine Mafia.

With a Lagunitas “Beer Circus.” Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., free. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com.

Jim Mize. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. arkansassounds. org.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Mojo Depot. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m.

2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Panama Brothers. Markham Street Grill And Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-

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

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets.

501-221-7568. www.blsdance.org.

Contra dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., $5. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org.

EVENTS

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 501-2449690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. First Presbyterian Church, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Sandwiching in History. Arkansas School for the Deaf, noon, free. 2400 W. Markham St. 501324-9543. arkansaspreservation.com.

FILM

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. The Auditorium, 6:30 p.m., free. 36 Main St., Eureka Springs. esfilmfest.org.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals.

Dickey-Stephens Park, through Aug. 6, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-6641555. milb.com.

SATURDAY, AUG. 6

MUSIC

2 Chainz. With Young Dolph. Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $56-$112. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. metroplexlive.com.

Candlebox. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $55-$65. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs. magicsprings.com.

Dangerous Idiots DVD Release Show. With Jamie Lou & The Hullabaloo and The Toos.

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

Gerald Albright, Selina Albright. Part of the “A Work of Art” jazz series honoring the late Art Porter, Sr. and Art Porter, Jr. Wildwood Park for the Arts, 8 p.m., $50-$65. 20919 Denny Road. artporter.org.

Ghost Bones, Muuy Biien, Ginsu Wives.

Maxine’s, 9:30 p.m., $7. 700 Central Ave., Hot

Springs. maxineslive.com.

Goon des Garcons. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

Grind: An Alice in Chains Tribute. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. revroom.com.

Jet 420. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Ol’ Puddin’head & Carey Griffin. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501-224-2010. markhamstreetpub.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.

Styles & Complete. George’s Majestic Lounge, 7 p.m., $12. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-370-7013. www. capitalbarandgrill.com/.

COMEDY

Aaron Kleiber. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

“Forever Hold Your Peace.” By comedy trio The Main Thing. The Joint, through Sept. 2: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-3720205. thejointargenta.com.

Kevin Hart. Walmart AMP, 8 p.m., $50-$120.

5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. 479-4435600. waltonartscenter.org.

EVENTS

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

Great Arkansas Beer Festival. River Market pavilions, 5:30 p.m., $30-$40. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.garbf.com.

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. 501-6137001.

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

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.

Quapaw Quarter Association’s Summer Suppers. With food prepared by Mayor Mark Stodola. The Rogers House, 5 p.m., free-$25.

400 W. 18th St. 501-690-8125. quapaw.com.

FILM

48-Hour Film Project Awards Ceremony.

Screening of the winning entries in the 48-Hour Film Festival, plus a wrap party. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10-$13. 1 Pulaski Way. 501320-5703. 48hourfilm.com.

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. The Auditorium, 10 a.m., free. 36 Main St., Eureka Springs. esfilmfest.org.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield Cardinals.

Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. milb.com.

SUNDAY, AUG. 7

MUSIC

Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Ricky Solis. Part of Faulkner County Library’s Summer Music Series. Faulkner County Library, 2 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. fcl.org.

EVENTS

Artists for Recovery. A secular recovery group for people with addictions, open to the public, located in the church’s Parlor. Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 10 a.m.

1601 S. Louisiana.

Bernice Garden Farmer’s Market. Bernice Garden, 10 a.m. 1401 S. Main St. www.thebernicegarden.org.

Muzikal Fashion Show III. A rooftop fashion show hosted by model TK Kelson. Bank of America Plaza, 7 p.m., $20-$40. 200 W. Capitol.

501378-1267. mfs2015.eventbrite.com.

MONDAY, AUG. 8

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MUSIC

A Cappella Rising: Open House. A barbershop performance and open house. Cornerstone Bible Fellowship Church, 7 p.m., free. 7351 Warden Road, Sherwood. www.acapellarising.com.

Disney Magic. An outdoor performance from the Hot Springs Concert Band. Whittington Park, 6 p.m., free. Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. 501-984-1678. hotspringsband.org.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.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.

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CLASSES

Finding Family Facts. Rhonda Stewart’s genealogy research class for beginners. Arkansas Studies Institute, second Monday of every month, 3:30 p.m. 401 President Clinton Ave. 501-320-5700 . www.butlercenter.org.

TUESDAY, AUG. 9

MUSIC

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

CosmOcean, Becoming Elephants. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., donations. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.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.

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AFTER DARK, CONT. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

COMEDY

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Brett Ihler. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

EVENTS

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

Little Rock Green Drinks. Informal networking session for people who work in the environmental field. Ciao Baci, 5:30-7 p.m. 605 N. Beechwood St. 501-603-0238. www.greendrinks.org.

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

CLASSES

Garden Sketch Hour. Through August. Faulkner County Library, free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway.

501-327-7482. fcurbanfarmproject.org.

IF YOUR MEMORY SERVES YOU WELL: Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley, left) and Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) hatch a plan to escape global notoriety, the effects of aging and, as always, sobriety, after inadvertently killing supermodel Kate Moss.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10

Where’s the champagne?

Gallows Bound. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $7. 107 River Market Ave. 501372-7707. stickyz.com.

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

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501372-4782. 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.

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

‘Ab Fab’ revival is true to its bubbly roots.

BY GUY LANCASTER

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professor of mine once argued that the entirety of “Hamlet” could be summed up in the first line of the play: “Who’s there?” This is the big question — is there a god who cares about us and about justice on this earth, or are we left to our own insidious devices, adrift in a universe without meaning?

If there is a line that best sums up the “Absolutely Fabulous” movie — and indeed, the entire BBC series that preceded this film — it’s a line spoken just a few minutes in: “Where’s the champagne?” “Ab Fab,” as it is known to devotees, has always been about the quest to find the perfect party, to know the right people, to enjoy the best of life, and to matter to the wider world in some way, if only as the object of jealousy, though our heroines have always been poorly suited for the challenge. Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) runs a flailing PR business, while her best friend, Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley), is vaguely employed at a noted fashion magazine.

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the lives of the rich and famous.

However, Edina and Patsy’s latest scheme ends in British supermodel Kate Moss being knocked from a balcony into the Thames River and feared dead. Accused of murder and hated by the world, Edina is almost forced to confront the consequences of her shallow lifestyle, but soon she and Patsy are off to the south of France with the hopes that Patsy can find a rich old flame and marry him and thus keep the party going. These plans, like all others, go completely off the rails in spectacular fashion — a result that, in fact, is what redeems these characters. There is something of Falstaff to Edina and Patsy — yes, they are completely materialistic, never thinking beyond the next party, but they are so bad in their scheming and so petty in their wants that it’s hard not to root for them. Or, as Edina says after a recent setback, “It’s going to happen to anyone who’s really lived life!”

It would be easy to dismiss the “Ab Fab” movie as yet another artifact of nostalgia, yet another television series aiming for a big-screen revival years after it was last relevant. But “Ab Fab”

has always been about nostalgia. Indeed, the Bob Dylan song that has long accompanied the title credits, “This Wheel’s on Fire,” sums it up best: “If your mem’ry serves you well / You’ll remember you’re the one / That called on me to call on them / To get you your favors done / And after ev’ry plan had failed / And there was nothing more to tell / You knew that we would meet again / If your mem’ry served you well.” Edina and Patsy have always traded in nostalgia, reveling in memories of the wild parties of the ’60s and ’70s, even as they have sought to regain their own youth by whatever means necessary (early on, Edina laments the inefficacy of her latest treatment, “stem cells and the blood of a 2-year-old child,” only to have Patsy recommend fetal blood as the real fountain of youth). This is a world, after all, that does not treat aging women kindly.

And with this movie, Edina and Patsy force us to confront our own complicity in the youth-industrial complex, even as they themselves remain oblivious to any larger significance to existence.

Or maybe that is too deep a reading for a movie that includes a cameo by Jon Hamm reliving the nightmare of losing his virginity, climaxing with a threewheeled delivery truck splashing down into a luxurious pool. At a spare 91 minutes, it honestly feels like a long episode of the series, though it manages to give a dose of everything that made the show so enjoyable and keeps you laughing long enough not to wonder what that might mean. “Hamlet” famously avoids answering its big question, but “Ab Fab” does, in the end, find the champagne.

MUSIC

COMEDY

Janet Williams. The Loony Bin, Aug. 10-13, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 12-13, 10 p.m., $8-$12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $8. 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 and Cleveland streets. 501-350-4712. www. littlerockbopclub.

FILM

“From Russia With Love.” With a Nerf ball battle at 6 p.m., as part of the James Bond Marathon.

Ron Robinson Theater, 7:30 p.m., $10. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. ronrobinsontheater.org.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show. Kollective Coffee & Tea, 7 p.m., free.

110 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive.com/shows.html.

ARTS

THEATER

“Sweeney Todd.” Pocket Community Theater, Aug. 5-6, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7, 2:30 p.m.; Aug. 12-13, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 14, 2:30 p.m., $5-$15.

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summer shindig party friday, August 12th 5 pm - 8 pm @ the bella vita shop 523 S. Louisiana (In the Lafayette building)

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USE OF BICYCLES OR ANIMALS

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These venues will be open late. There’s plenty of parking and a FREE TROLLEY to each of the locations.

Don’t miss it – lots of fun!

Free parking at 3rd & Cumberland Free street parking all over downtown and behind the River Market (Paid parking available for modest fee.)

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AFTER DARK, CONT. 170 Ravine St., Hot Springs. pockettheatre.com.

NEW IN THE GALLERIES ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Jon Schueler: Weathering Skies,” abstract paintings and watercolors, Aug. 5-Oct. 16; “Cut, Pieced and Stitched: Denim Drawings

by Jim Arendt,” Aug. 5-Oct. 23; “Feed Your Mind Friday” with Delta artist David Bailin, noon-1 p.m. Aug. 5; 58th annual “Delta Exhibition,” through Aug. 28; Renoir’s “Madame Henriot,” loan from the Columbus Museum of Art, through Sept. 11; William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s “Admiration,” loan from the San Antonio Museum of Art. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sun. 372-4000.

THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St., NLR: The Art Department presents “Curiosity Revealed,” found object sculpture, video

by Sandra Sell, opens with reception 6:30-9 p.m. Aug. 5, $10, with hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer, music by Bonnie Montgomery, show through August. 9 a.m.-noon and 1-5 Mon.-Fri. 379-9512.

WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE ARTS, 20919 Denny Road: “Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America,” through Aug. 11. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. 821-7275.

BENTONVILLE BOTTLE ROCKET GALLERY NORTH, 207 NE 2nd St.: “Video — Future Art,” works by Mike Abb, Kat Wilson, Dillon Dooms, Corey Johnson, Sara Segerlin, Danny Baskin and Joel Vedros, closing reception 6-10 p.m. Aug. 5.

EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: “Abstract Expressions,” paintings

by Danny Hobbs, Aug. 4-Sept. 1, Lobby Gallery. Reception is 6 p.m. Aug. 20. 870-8625474.

HELENA DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry St.: “Small Works on Paper,” traveling exhibition of the Arkansas Arts Council, through August. 870-338-4350.

‘CUT, PIECED AND STITCHED’: That’s how South Carolina artist Jim Arendt turns denim into drawings, such as the one above, “Harper (Firecracker),” and other works in an exhibition opening Friday, Aug. 5, at the Arkansas Arts Center.

HOT SPRINGS JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “Water Works,” paintings with a water theme by Mike Elsass, Matthew Hasty, Dolores Justus, Gerri Much, Laura Raborn, Tony Saladino and Rebecca Thompson, opens with reception 5-9 p.m. Aug. 5, Gallery Walk, show through August. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.Sat. 501-321-2335.

LEGACY GALLERY, 804 Central Ave.: Paintings by Carole Katchen, reception 5-9 p.m.

Aug. 5, Gallery Walk. 501-762-0840.

tion for students, teachers, families and community groups wishing to take part in Thea Paves the Way, the annual sidewalk chalk event at the Clinton Presidential Center. This year’s event will run from 8 a.m. to noon Sept.

10; school groups may compete for art supply gift certificates. Participants will get to visit the presidential library free of charge. To register, go to theafoundation.org.

The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting nominations for the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards recognizing artists, patrons and corporations. Deadline to nominate is Aug. 5.

For more information, contact Cheri Leffew at 324-9767 or cheri@arkansasheritage.org.

NEW IN THE MUSEUMS HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: American Bladesmith Society Hall of Fame Induction, 2 p.m. Aug. 6; refurbished 19th century structures from original city and galleries, guided tours Monday and Tuesday on the hour, self-guided Wednesday through Sunday, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

CALL FOR ENTRIES Wildwood Park for the Arts invites printmakers to submit works with a theme of nature for the February 2017 “Nature in Print” exhibit.

Deadline to submit online proposals is Dec. 1. Find more information at wildwoodpark. org/art.

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ONGOING GALLERY EXHIBITS ARGENTA GALLERY/ROCK CITY WERKS, 413 Main St., NLR: Pottery by Logan Hunter and Hannah May. 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 258-8991.

BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New large pastels by Cynthia Kresse, blown glass buckets by Kyle Boswell.

664-0030.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Arkansas League of Artists,” juried show, through Oct. 22; “From the Vault,” work from the Central Arkansas Library’s permanent collection, including works by Win Bruhl, Evan Lindquist, Shep Miers, Gene Hatfield, Ray Khoo and Jerry Phillips, through Oct.

22; “School’s Out: An Exhibition of Student Work,” organized by Arkansas Art Educators, through Aug. 27; “Culture Shock: Shine Your Rubies, Hide Your Diamonds,” work by women’s artist collective, including Melissa Cowper-Smith, Melissa Gill, Tammy Harrington, Dawn Holder, Jessie Hornbrook, Holly Laws, Sandra Luckett, Morgan Page and Rachel Trusty, through Aug. 27, Concordia Hall. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Stop the Presses!” painting, photography, graphic work and ceramics by staff of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including John Deering, Cary Jenkins, Benjamin Krain, John Sykes Jr., Celia Storey, Ron Wolfe, Nikki Dawes and Kirk Montgomery, through Sept.

3. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Last Glimpses of Authentic Polaroid Art,” photography by Brandon Markin, Darrell Adams, Lynn Frost, Rachel Worthen and Rita Henry, through Sept. 30. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Fri., 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun. 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.

DRAWL SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, 5208 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Drawings, paintings, photographs by regional artists. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 680-1871.

GALLERY 221, 221 W. 2nd St.: Work by Arkansas and regional artists. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.Sat. 801-0211.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “In Memoriam,” collages by Amy Edgington, hand-colored photographs by David Rackley, through Sept. 10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Chicana Goddess in the Bosque: Walking with the Ancestors,” art quilts and mixed media by Sabrina Zarco, through Aug. 20.

663-2222.

GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 211 Center St.: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander. 801-0211.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Glennray Tutor — Solo Exhibition,” magical realism paintings, through Sept. 10.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 664-2787.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “AfriCOBRA NOW: Works on Paper” featuring Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Moyo Okediji, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens, through Sept. 3, artists reception 5:30-8 p.m. Sept. 9, tours and discussion 3-5 p.m. Sept. 10. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St. “A Diamond in the Rough; 75 Years of Historic Arkansas Museum,” through February 2017; “Sally Nixon,” illustrations, through Sept. 4; “Fucoid Arrangements” by Robert Lemming and abstract drawings by Louis Watts, through Aug. 7; “Hugo and Gayne Preller’s House of Light,” historic photographs, through October. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Family Portrait,” paintings by Kesha Stovall. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. 687-1061.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Impersonating the Impressionists,” paintings by Louis Beck, through August, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m. Aug. 18. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: Tim West, drawings and paintings; Diana Hausam, photographs; Nathan Beatty, paintings 20052012; MATT MCLEOD FINE ART GALLERY, 108 W. 6th St.: “Art • Craft • Art,” jewelry, tapestries, felt, ceramic, glass, paper, metal and mixed media sculpture by James Hayes, David Clemons, Sage Holland, Tom Holland, Lucas Strack, Beau Anderson, Louise Halsey, Barbara Cade, McLees Baldwin, David Scott Smith, Susan Campbell, Leandra Spangler and Carrie Crocker. 725-8508.

MATTHEWS FINE ART GALLERY, 909 North St.: Paintings by Pat and Tracee Matthews, glass by James Hayes, jewelry by Christie Young, knives by Tom Gwenn, kinetic sculpture by Mark White. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 831-6200.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Morning Stroll Surprise,” photographs by Carey Roberson, through mid-September. 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 379-9101.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Work

by Jeff McKay, C.J. Ellis, TWIN, Amy Hill-Imler, Ellen Hobgood; new glass by James Hayes and ceramics by Kelly Edwards. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive: Susie Henley, paintings, through Sept. 5.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Traditional Arts of the Bedouin,” ExhibitsUSA/Mid American Arts exhibition, through Aug. 5. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. BENTON DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Work by Dianne CONTINUED ON PAGE 39

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Dining WHAT’S COOKIN’ FINALLY: BRUNO’S LITTLE ITALY DELI has the phones on, gotten its Health Department inspection and is ready to open Monday, Aug. 8. The deli will be open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays and will offer po’boys and other lunch sandwiches as well as meats, cheeses and other Italian groceries. The walk-up window won’t be open at first, proprietor Gio Bruno says; give it a week or so. The deli will have nine barstools against a counter along one wall, so most business will be takeout.

WHEN YOU FLIP THE calendar over to August, it’s time to tie on your best bib for Little Rock Restaurant Month.

Find deals downtown for this first week, like half-off desserts at 109 & Co. at 109 Main St.; a prix-fixe three-course lunch at Cache for $12; a $5 discount on 18-inch pizzas and half-off appetizers at Damgoode Pies; 10 percent off a cheeseburger combo at Mason’s Deli and Grill, and many other deals. Next week, find good buys at Midtown, Heights and Hillcrest eateries; West Little Rock has week 3 deals; Southwest Little Rock has week 4 deals. Food trucks will drive the deals the last three days in August.

THE GREAT ARKANSAS BEER Festival, which celebrates craft beers from state and national breweries, comes to the Statehouse Convention Center Saturday, Aug. 6, starting at 5:30 p.m. The entry fee of $30 (in advance; $40 day of event) would let you sample around 400 different beers if that were possible; it’s not advised, however. VIP tickets ($50) buy an early start at the sipping, allowing entry at 4:30 p.m. A portion of ticket sales go to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas. Go to garbf.com to buy tickets.

WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE information on Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe’s plans to open a new location in the Grove Plaza at the Gateway Town Center at Interstate 30 and I-430: Stephanie Keet, a spokesperson for the restaurant, said the new Taziki’s will be the first of the Little Rock locations to have a drive-through. Keet said the restaurant should open in November, just before Thanksgiving, with seating for 100 inside and on a patio. The fast casual eatery — you order at a counter and prep time is around seven minutes — has locations on Cantrell Road and Chenal Parkway in Little Rock, the McCain Mall in North Little Rock, and in Conway, Fayetteville, Bentonville and Tulsa. In 2015, the Arkansas-founded chain was the first franchise to be designated as REAL (Responsible Epicurean and Agricultural Leadership) Certified for its fresh ingredients and healthy menu. Jim Keet is CEO. 36

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PAIRS WELL WITH PECAN POINT ALE: The Butcher Board, with Brie, Gouda, goat cheese and duck breast, is a must for any table of four.

Nuts about Pecan Point Texarkana gastropub a diamond in the rough.

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ack in your old neighborhood, the cigarettes taste so good.

But you’re so misunderstood, so misunderstood.” Every time we go back to our hometown of Texarkana, this Wilco lyric finds its way into our heads. There’s a sense of nostalgia conveyed in those lines that acknowledges the bittersweet sense of familiarity that comes with being home but also the sadness, an understanding that while it may be nice to visit every now and again, your hometown at best never really had a place for you and at worst pushed you away.

The Texarkana food scene hasn’t always been welcoming to the new and unique, the interesting, different, or anything that could otherwise be considered city-slickin’. The town has a history of dynamite mom-and-pop places that struggle to stay open while hungry hordes wait in line for an hour

to slug down taquitos at On The Border. And so, with all this in mind, we were beside ourselves to happen across Pecan Point Brewing Co. on our last trip home.

The restaurant is housed in a historic building in downtown Texarkana (technically in Texas, a block away from the state line) right next door to the Perot Theatre. From the outside, it looks clean and rustic, which is about what you get inside. The beer hall side of the restaurant is bordered with exposed brick, painted white.

Industrial light fixtures hang from the high, tiled ceiling and comfortable bar stools beckon. It’s everything you’d expect from a “new-Southern” restaurant: clean and inviting decor, a not-too expansive and well-executed menu and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

Walking in the door, we had to remind ourselves we weren’t in Little Rock,

DUCK AND GRITS: A great dish, thanks to a little ancho chili dust on the fowl.

Memphis or Nashville.

Pecan Point bills itself as Texarkana’s only gastropub and microbrewery, so we had to try its namesake beer, the Pecan Pointe Ale ($6). It’s a great stab at a pecan ale, similar to a Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan, just not quite as dark.

It was tasty, and became even more so with repeated orders. We thought it paired well with the Butcher Board ($15), a must for any table of four or more. The board came stacked with hearty chunks of Brie, Gouda and goat cheese. The feta came topped with olive tapenade. A smattering of extras, including dried cherries, candied pecans and slices of duck breast, made this a favorite and one we’d shell out for again.

The Pub ’Shrooms ($9) hardly qualify as “pub grub.” Meaty mushroom caps are stuffed with generous portions of crab and covered with a sage beurre blanc sauce. They were rich (but not overpoweringly so), satisfying, and reminiscent of a dish found on menus in more upscale restaurants.

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leaf in a hearty broth came with a couple too many croutons inside, but the topping of Muenster cheese was bubbly and browned to perfection.

For the main course, we ordered a plate of Fish and Chips ($15).

Pecan Point definitely doesn’t skimp on portions, and that’s not a complaint. The cod had a crispy, golden-brown batter that wasn’t greasy. The hand-cut fries were crispy and well seasoned. The dish was served with a house remoulade and homemade ketchup, which was exceptional. It had a smokiness and depth that pleased even our ketchuphating spouse. The side of red bean and cabbage slaw, tossed in a vinegar-based dressing, was nice and light. Wanting something a bit lighter to go along with all this fried fare, we also ordered a Pecan Point House Salad ($7): mixed greens, fresh mango, strawberries, candied pecans and goat cheese, all tossed in a vanilla vinaigrette. The dressing was a tad too sweet for our taste, but,

overall, it was a great summer salad, light and crisp.

We’re a sucker for duck, and getting it right, we’ve found, isn’t always easy. Pecan Point’s Duck and Grits ($18) is sliced duck breast prepared sousvide and topped with a sage butter sauce. It was served with greens and grits. The greens were cooked with the aid of a pork product and went down easily. The grits were slightly cheesy and came topped with a blueberry compote that was on the sweet side, but paired well with everything else. The duck was tender, juicy and wonderful. A light dusting of ancho chili powder helped cut the richness.

It’s a great dish and would be hard to pass up again.

Pecan Point proved to be quite the crowd-pleaser. Ours was the kind of meal where everyone around the table ordered something different and everyone thought they picked the best dish.

It’s good. It’s different. It stands out from the crowd in a city that doesn’t often appreciate that. Here’s hoping it sticks around.

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Celebrate American Folk Art on the Arkansas Times Art Bus Saturday, August 20 To Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art AMERICAN FOLK ART. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S BACHMAN-WILSON HOUSE. BLACK UNITY. We’ll take the opportunity to see the Bentonville museum’s temporary exhibition of more than 115 objects from the American Folk Art Museum in New York: postRevolutionary War quilts, paintings, samplers, weathervanes.

We’ll arrange tours of the Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House, which was moved to the museum grounds from New Jersey.

We’ll also see the temporary exhibition “Black Unity,” which features photography, painting, tapestry and sculpture, including woodwork by the great AfricanAmerican Artist Elizabeth Catlett.

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Pastries with coffee from Boulevard Bread. and box lunches en route to Crystal Bridges.

Dinner and admission to exhibit included.

Drinks will be served en route to Crystal Bridges.

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IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF LEE COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA TIME OF DAY 1419 FILED IN THIS OFFICE THIS THE 27th DAY OF JULY 2016 CARLA REVELS – CLERCK OF JUVENILE COURT LEE COUNTY, GEORGIA IN THE INTEREST OF: C. F.

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Children Under 18 Years of Age NOTICE OF PUBLICATION You are hereby notified that the above-styled action seeking to termination of parental rights and other specific relief was filed against you in said Court on February 2, 2016, by the Department of Family and Children Services, and that by reason of an order for service of summons by publication entered by this Court on July 26, 2016 you are hereby commanded and required to file with the Clerk of said Court and serve upon Patrick S. Eidson, Petitioner attorney, whose address is P.O. Box 570, Leesburg, Georgia 31763, an Answer to the Petition to Terminate Parental Rights within sixty (60) days of the date of summons by publication.

NOTICE OF EFFECT OF TERMINATION JUDGMENT Georgia law provides that you can permanently lose your rights as a parent. A petition to terminate parental rights to your children has been filed requesting the court to terminate your parental rights to your children. A copy of the petition to terminate parental rights is attached to this notice. A court hearing of your case has been scheduled for the 28th day of September, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the Sumter County Courthouse, 500 West Lamar Street, Americus, Georgia.

If you fail to appear, the court can terminate your rights in your absence.

If the court at the trial finds that the facts set out in the petition to terminate parental rights are true and that termination of your rights will serve the best interest of your children, the court can enter a judgment ending your rights to your children.

If the judgment terminates your parental rights, you will no longer have any rights to your children. This means that you will not have the right to visit, contact, or have custody of your children or make any decisions affecting your children or your children’s earnings or property. Your children will be legally freed to be adopted by someone else.

Even if your parental rights are terminated: (1) You will still be responsible for providing financial support (child support payments) for your child’s care unless and until your child is adopted; and (2) Your child can still inherit from you unless and until your child is adopted.

The termination of parental rights hearing shall not be earlier than 31 days after the date of the last publication. Service by publication shall be as follows: (A) Service by publication shall be made once a week for four consecutive weeks in the legal organ of the county where the petition to terminate parental rights has been filed and of the county of the biological father’s last known address. Service shall be deemed complete upon the date of the last publication.

(B) When served by publication, the notice shall contain the names of the parties, except that the anonymity of a child shall be preserved by the use of appropriate initials, and the date of the petition to terminate parental rights was filed. The notice shall indicate the general nature of the allegations and where a copy of the petition to terminate parental rights can be obtained and require the biological father or legal father to appear before the court at the time fixed to answer the allegations of the petition to terminate parental rights; (C) The petition to terminate parental rights shall be available to the biological father or legal father whose rights are sought to be terminated free of charge from the court during business hours or upon request, shall be mailed to the biological father or legal father; and (D) Within 15 days after the filing of the order of service by publication, the clerk of court shall mail a copy of the notice, a copy of the order of service by publication, and a copy of the petition to terminate parental rights to the biological father’s or legal father’s last known address. If you have any questions concerning this notice, you may call the telephone number of the clerk’s office which is (229) 928-4569.

You are further notified that a hearing on said petition has been scheduled for the 28th day of September, 2016 at the Sumter County Courthouse, 500 West Lamar Street, Americus, Georgia at 10:00 a.m. O’clock on the prayers of the petitioners.

WITNESS the Honorable Lisa C. Rambo, Judge of this Juvenile Court.

This 27th day of July, 2016.

CARLA REVELS, Juvenile Clerk Lee County, Georgia

SCIENCES OR HEALTH SCIENCES Research Associate sought by Myeloma Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR. Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology or related field, plus 1 year biological research experience performing molecular biology & biochemistry techniques; conducting protein expression studies, including characterization, cloning, overexpression, isolation and purification; designing experiments & developing research protocols; developing assays and cell culture.

Send resume to: Janet L. Aronson, UAMS Myeloma Institute, 4301 West Markham, #816, Little Rock, AR 72205 or Email: MyelomaInstitute@uams.edu

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BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “American Made: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum,” 115 objects including quilts, carvings, signs, samplers, weathervanes and more, through Sept. 19; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “The Art of Transcendence,” RAM annual invitational, through Oct. 16. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787.

JASPER NELMS GALLERY, 107 Church St.: Work by Don Kitz, Don Nelms, Pamla Klenczar, Scott Baldassari and others. 870-446-5477.

MOUNTAIN HOME ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY-MOUNTAIN HOME, 1600 S. College St.: Equinethemed drawings and paintings by Samantha Sherry, through August, Vada Sheid Community Development Center. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Fri. 870-508-6109.

PERRYVILLE SUDS GALLERY, Courthouse Square: Paintings by Dottie Morrissey, Alma Gipson, Al Garrett Jr., Phyllis Loftin, Alene Otts, Mauretta Frantz, Raylene Finkbeiner, Kathy Williams and Evelyn Garrett. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri, noon-4 p.m. Sat. 501-766-7584.

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