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possibly increase it to accommodate the growth of Arkansas’s aging population, which is expected to double in the next 20 years.

Food security is essential to the health of Arkansan seniors, and senior center meals programs play a major role in ensuring that Arkansas seniors do not go hungry. It is time for our legislators to acknowledge that providing adequate funding for critically important senior services is both morally right and a good cost-containment strategy for Arkansas Medicaid.

Gloria Gordon North Little Rock

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Hunger and senior health

In the next couple of months, the Arkansas legislature will make key decisions about health care access, delivery and quality for low-income and vulnerable Arkansas populations, including Arkansas seniors. In addition, upcoming budget hearings will determine the level of funding for senior services such as senior citizen centers and Meals on Wheels.

These programs are critically important to low-income and/or homebound seniors, many of whom live in foodinsecure households. Currently about a third of all Arkansans aged 60 or older — more than 160,000 people — are not sure where their next meal is coming from, giving Arkansas the dubious distinction of No. 1 in the nation for senior food insecurity.

This is a major public health prob-

sion, the state Department of Human Services budget for senior services was cut 20 percent — from $5 million annually to $4 million. Thankfully, our legislators voted to restore the lost $1 million with state general revenues to avoid substantial cuts to senior centers’ services — socialization programs, wellness and fitness activities, transportation and, especially, home-delivered meals. However, this was not a permanent fix.

Vulnerable Arkansas seniors need their legislators to restore the senior services budget to its previous level or

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Early voting has started and the March 1 primary is coming up fast.

There is only one candidate who is not taking Big Money donations and is willing to seriously take on Wall Street and other powerful interests.

Our soldiers supposedly kill and die for democracy all over the world, but our Supreme Court and congressmen work overtime to dismantle democracy at home. Only one candidate can be trusted to get Big Money out of politics, and actually protect and improve our democracy, which is drowning in corrupting cash.

Our national government is broken and gridlocked, in large part from campaign finance corruption and a tragic dearth of real leadership. Too many politicians are mere followers, following Big Money donors and opinion polling. These status quo followers will change nothing.

A real leader takes positions that may be unpopular and then leads with the people toward goals that are good for all. Why can only Europeans have tuition-free college and a more costefficient, fully public health care system? A real leader can lead us out of our putrid swamp of systemic corruption and gridlock.

Only one leader is running for president, Bernie Sanders. He also happens to beat all the clown car candidates by larger margins than his scandalplagued, untrustworthy Democratic opponent.

Stand up and vote wisely.

Abel Tomlinson Fayetteville

lem for our state, as senior hunger leads to poor health, depression and limitations in mobility and activities of daily living. Adequate nutrition is essential for preventing and managing chronic medical conditions, including diabetes. Without proper nutrition, seniors are at increased risk of disability, deteriorated physical and mental health, decreased resistance to infections and lengthened hospital stays, all of which have the potential for substantially increasing Medicare/ Medicaid costs.

During the 2015 legislative ses-

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Buses are among the vital lifelines that help keep a city vibrant and alive.

You may not ride the bus, but you sure do know lots of people who do — those who wait on you at your favorite restaurants, who assist you when you are in hospitals. The buses transport hundreds of hard-working employees to their jobs daily and reliably. The buses are there for the elderly who no longer drive, there for all the kids too young to drive, and there to give the disabled and visually impaired a lift to places they could not get to without the buses’ help. So please consider voting for the buses on March 1 — and keep these lifelines flowing.

C.H. Ware Little Rock

From the web In response to Sarah Scanlon’s guest column, “For Bernie”: I just voted for Bernie today. I voted for Bill Clinton every time he ever ran for anything, and I think he was a tremendous president, but Hillary Clinton is running the campaign of 20 years ago, not the campaign of today. Believe it or not, when Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, income inequality was not the problem that it is today. It was incongruous for her to deny that she was an “establishment candidate” in the debate with Bernie, because, of course, the Clintons own the Democratic Party. If the party is to nominate her, it will be politics as usual. What has that got us? It is time for a revolution, rather than politics as usual, and that is why I am supporting Bernie Sanders. Hillary would not change anything. She is too indebted to the rich and the powerful. plainjim

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WALL OF FAME: Paintings of African-American heroes adorn a retaining wall at 12th and Peyton streets.

WEEK THAT WAS

Quote of the Week:

“You are right, we were wrong, and we won’t do it again.”

—Whitney Moore, an attorney representing the Pulaski County Special School District, in a letter to the ACLU of Arkansas. The ACLU had expressed concern over a school assembly at Maumelle High School in which ninth-grade black students — and black students only — were called to listen to a talk on gang violence by a local pastor. Parents were not pleased.

The district said an assistant to the Maumelle High principal had conceived of the assembly as a misguided attempt to meet the district’s obligations under a federal desegregation order and is now facing a reprimand from Superintendent Jerry Guess.

Debunking the truth

Gov. Hutchinson last week held a press conference with legislators in which he made the argument for continuing the state’s Medicaid expansion (which he calls “Arkansas Works,” but which is substantially the same as the private option). The governor’s points in defense of the policy were good — it helps the state budget and hundreds of thousands of Arkansans — except for one thing. Hutchinson said he aimed to “debunk” the argument that backing Medicaid expansion is the same as supporting Obamacare. Sorry, but that’s exactly what Medicaid expansion is: a major component of the Affordable Care Act. Yet to keep the expansion intact, the 6

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governor’s logical contortions are politically necessary, since Republican Party dogma insists Obamacare is by definition a plague on the nation.

Where exactly is Marco Rubio country?

On Sunday, presidential hopeful Marco Rubio paid a visit to Little Rock to rally Republicans to his side as the last, best hope of the sizable contingent of the GOP that can’t stand Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Rubio won Gov. Hutchinson’s endorsement; he’d already attracted the support of dozens of other Republican legislators and party notables in the state. The question is whether any of that will matter. Although establishment support is flowing toward Rubio with renewed vigor after Jeb Bush’s withdrawal from the race, the fact is that the Florida senator has yet to win a state; his just-barely second-place finish in South Carolina was spun as a victory, but Trump took every delegate in that state. Could Arkansas deliver for Rubio on March 1 with Asa’s help? It’s possible, but far from certain: A poll earlier this month showed Arkansas Republicans favored Cruz, with Trump and Rubio tied for second place.

First they came for the sweatpants

The Arkansas Legislative Council last week heard a proposal from Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-Texarkana) to require

Justice for sale, by the numbers Thanks to the intervention of two shadowy D.C.-based conservative groups with deep pockets, the races for state Supreme Court have shattered records for spending. The Judicial Crisis Network, a “dark money” nonprofit with unknown funders, is pumping vast sums into attacking Associate Justice Courtney Goodson, who is running for the chief justice position against Circuit Judge Dan Kemp. Another organization, the Republican State Leadership Committee, this week launched a slimy new series of attack ads against Little Rock attorney Clark Mason in his race against Circuit Judge Shawn Womack for an associate justice seat (see article, page 12).

The election is March 1; here’s what we know about the cash thus far, thanks to an analysis of Federal Communications Commission records by the watchdog group Justice at Stake:

$1,011,105

$450,320

The amount spent on TV ad contracts alone in both races as of Monday, Feb. 22; the figure has risen since then.

The previous record for TV spending in a judicial race, set in 2010.

$604,405 The cost of broadcast TV ads purchased by the Judicial Crisis Network in the chief justice race, all attacking Goodson. That figure doesn’t include cable TV, radio, Internet, newspaper or direct mail advertising bought by the JCN.

$250,000 The amount the Republican State Leadership Committee announced on Tuesday it would spend on attacking Clark Mason.

The amounts raised by the candidates themselves, as of Jan. 31, are as follows:

KEMP GOODSON MASON WOMACK

$281,451

legislators to dress “business casual” at minimum at meetings. Members should not be allowed to show up to work wearing jeans, T-shirts, sweatpants or sweat-

$221,155

$67,836

$96,415

shirts, Hickey said. But his fellow lawmakers disagreed, calling the dress code unnecessary and anti-democratic. The measure failed.

OPINION

Bundy outwaited

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ooks like that epic cowboy movie Cliven Bundy and his boys dreamed of playing starring roles in will never get made. Thankfully, their own epic stupidity ended the fantasy less in tragedy than in farce — definitely more “Blazing Saddles” than “The Wild Bunch.”

Or was it “Cliven Bundy and the Sundance Kid” they were going for? No matter. That one ended badly for the romantic outlaws, too.

Apart from the needless death of one True Believer in a cowboy hat who committed what city folks call “suicide by cop” — announcing his determination never to be taken alive and then reaching for his pistol — the rest of Bundy’s sagebrush revolutionaries eventually surrendered without incident. Most are headed to federal prison.

The ignominious end of their occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in remote eastern Oregon should serve as an object lesson to crackpot insurrectionists across the West. No, the public won’t come rushing to your support.

Local ranchers wanted nothing to do with the uprising. A bird sanctuary was a badly chosen place to make a stand. Put it this

way: Millions of Americans enjoy hiking, hunting and bird-watching.

Cow-watching, not so much.

Nor have you intimidated the U.S. government. “Who are those guys?” Butch and Sundance wanted to know.

But any two-bit drug dealer in Baltimore GENE or New York could LYONS have told them you can’t go around pointing guns at federal agents and start traveling the countryside holding press conferences.

How foolish would you have to be to imagine you could? The Bundy sons vowed a bloody standoff at the Malheur refuge, and then announced a public meeting in the next county 100 miles away. Only one highway links the two places. FBI agents and Oregon state cops set up a roadblock at a remote spot and bagged the lot.

Family patriarch Cliven Bundy next announced his intention to show up in Oregon to support the remaining occupiers. But you can’t take no shooting iron on a commercial airline flight. Secure in the

Trump’s savvy

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he establishment has been right all along that Donald Trump, if he is a Republican at all, is the least Republican of the candidates, but he also has proved something bigger. He knows Republican voters better than anyone else.

Trump nailed down the big Dixiecrat/ George Wallace/white-supremacy vote in the old South and its remnants elsewhere by his early attacks on President Obama as “the food stamp and welfare king” and a weak quisling who is bullied by every petty autocrat in the world. By his raging attacks on immigrants and Muslims and, finally, on Pope Francis, he won over the strain of nativist and anti-Catholic voters in the party that stretches back to the Whigs and Know-Nothings. And although he is the embodiment of six of the church’s seven cardinal sins — boastfulness, lust, greed, wrath, gluttony and envy (all but laziness) — as the Doonesbury comic strip pointed out, he carved away a giant swath of the evangelical vote from its zealous suitors, Ted Cruz and the rest.

A Public Policy Polling survey in South Carolina showed that 70 percent of Trump voters believed the Confederate battle

flag should fly over the state Capitol and that the largest share of his voters on the question of the Civil War ERNEST wished that the DUMAS South had won and preserved slavery. Eighty percent of his voters liked his idea of banning Muslims from entering the country and 40 percent agreed that the government should shut all mosques.

Trump is not the first presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican, to sound dog whistles on the race issue, but he is the boldest and the best at it.

After capturing the Republican nomination in 1980, Ronald Reagan journeyed to the little town of Philadelphia, Miss., famous for the murder of three civil rights workers in the Freedom Summer of 1964, and announced that “I believe in states’ rights,” the slogan that Southerners associated with segregation.

Mississippi and most of the South had already swung to the Republicans after a Democratic Congress and president

knowledge that he and his posse would be unarmed, agents met him at the gate.

They’d been waiting almost two years for the old fool to set himself a trap.

The 69-year-od rebel rancher may never again be seen outside a courtroom.

The FBI grinds slow, but fine. Among the offenses Bundy’s charged with are “Assault on a Federal Law Enforcement Officer,” and “Threatening a Federal Law Enforcement Officer.” The first carries a 20-year sentence and $250,000 penalty; the second, 10 years and $250,000.

The indictment stipulates that he and his sons Ryan and Ammon, “planned, organized, and led the assault in order to extort [government] officers into abandoning approximately 400 head of cattle that were in their lawful care and custody. In addition to conspiring among themselves to plan and execute these crimes, the defendants recruited, organized, and led hundreds of other followers in using armed force against law enforcement officers in order to thwart the seizure and removal of Cliven Bundy’s cattle from federal public lands. Bundy had trespassed on the public lands for over 20 years, refusing to obtain the legally-required permits or pay the required fees to keep and graze his cattle on the land.”

We all saw the whole thing on national

TV. Back in Nevada, federal officials who found themselves outnumbered four to one made a tactical decision not to risk a bloodbath over a herd of scrawny cows. At the expense of being criticized by people spoiling for a showdown, authorities apparently saw limited harm in letting Bundy declare victory while holing up at his remote desert ranch with his posse. Capturing him wasn’t worth a single agent’s life.

Which is why it’s so important that their patience paid off. Also crucial was the Oregon community’s near-unanimous rejection of the Bundy cause.

Cattle ranchers can certainly grow frustrated with government bureaucracy, but they also tend to be extremely practical people. The Bundy acolytes struck them as crackpots; their theories of constitutional law as zany as their tactics.

University of Oregon geography professor Peter Walker spent weeks documenting the local response. “At one community meeting,” he wrote “when almost the entire leadership of the Bundy group arrived unexpectedly, citizens of Harney County stood on their feet, pointed fingers at the Bundys and chanted “Go home! Go home! Go home!”

Real cowboys, see, can’t just go gallivanting off and leave their herds.

Particularly not in winter.

enacted civil rights laws in 1964, 1965 and 1968. But Trump swiped those votes from a field of far more conservative candidates, which none of his predecessors with Southern strategies — Nixon, Goldwater and Reagan — needed or tried to do. And he did it without a strategist like Lee Atwater or Karl Rove. (It was Atwater, by then in the Reagan White House, who explained in a taped interview with an academic political scientist in 1981 how times had changed for collaring white Southern voters: “You started out in 1954 by saying ‘nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.” By 1980, he said, you promise to cut programs that are supposed to help black people. “ ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘nigger, nigger.’ ”) With Trump it’s a celebrity showman’s intuition, not studied calculation. He knows instinctively how to thrill the gallery. Who else could get a crowd to cheer a promise to murder innocent women and children if a relative is a terrorist?

The Donald could win the nomination with fewer than 40 percent of the primary votes. But if you’re a business or moder-

ate Republican, a standard conservative or even a liberal Democrat, here’s the encouraging thing — or the most discouraging thing — about Trump. Little that he says is conviction. He almost certainly will govern more pragmatically than he campaigns.

That has been the pattern of men who entered politics from the celebrity ranks.

Reagan ran for governor of California by denouncing welfare cheats, taxes and big government; as governor he raised taxes and signed a law imposing tough environmental rules and another making it easy for women to get abortions. As president, he cut taxes for the rich and middle incomes and then raised them repeatedly for everyone, sought detente with the hated Russians and secretly bribed Iran with boatloads of missiles to free a few Americans.

Trump has more than hinted at the same. Unlike the other Republican candidates but like most Republican voters he says rich people should pay more taxes (though his proposal seems to cut them).

Alone of the GOP presidential candidates he vows never to cut the great social welfare programs Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. He wants to replace Obamacare with government-guaranteed health care for everyone.

But Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — they really believe all that stuff. www.arktimes.com

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or months, most were dubious that Arkansas’s participation in the so-called “SEC primary” would live up to its promise to bring the state enhanced national attention.

But, the apparent closeness of the battle among the top three GOP contenders in the state, along with the Arkansas GOP’s generally proportional method of allocating delegates that makes it possible for several candidates to come away with a number of delegates, makes the state a sudden electoral magnet.

Public in-state polling has been quite limited, but all signs point to a close three-way contest in Arkansas for the national frontrunners: Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. A Talk Business & Politics/ Hendrix College survey conducted Feb. 4 (which seems like a lifetime ago, considering the recent intensity in the GOP campaign), showed Cruz at 27 percent, with Trump and Rubio close behind at 23 percent. Several other candidates (most of whom have departed the race but are still on the ballot) trailed in single digits. Trump’s success in New Hampshire and South Carolina and some coalescing of establishment Republican support behind Rubio have boosted their standing, which means a close race may now be even closer in Arkansas.

In the final 10 days before the March 1 primary, all three will have made a stop in the state showing the seriousness with which they are taking Arkansas. Rubio, fresh off a narrow secondplace finish in South Carolina, arrived on Sunday to a Little Rock rally filled with those who supply the state Republican Party its resources and its leadership. Rubio will perform best in places like Pulaski, Benton and Washington counties, where establishment Republicans dominate and where education levels are highest. The endorsement by a swath of the highest-profile Arkansas elected officials in recent days — most notably Gov. Hutchinson, who endorsed him on Monday — will also buy Rubio a handful of points. Such was the case in South Carolina where exit polling indicated that Gov. Nikki Haley — with approval numbers similar to Hutchinson’s among their respective state GOP electorate — helped eke Rubio into second place. But, such support is something of a double-edged sword because it

also makes Rubio the newest establishment favorite in an anti-establishment year.

Cruz, on the JAY other hand, is the BARTH candidate who is arguably the best fit for the bulk of GOP voters in the state in recent cycles. A mix of tea party types and evangelicals have fueled the GOP rise in the Obama era and many of those activists have come on board for Cruz. With the fifth-highest percentage of white evangelicals in the country, Arkansas may be the best fit for Cruz on March 1 outside of his home state of Texas and, possibly, Oklahoma.

In Arkansas, the counties surrounding Pulaski County that conjoin rural life with suburbia and more rural parts of the long-GOP 3rd Congressional District should be where Cruz shows best. (Cruz signs pop up regularly on the backroads of Northwest Arkansas.) Cruz, the candidate who has spent the most time in the state, pops back for one last appeal on Friday of this week.

Finally, Trump — who arrives in Bentonville for a Saturday rally — should perform well all across the state, as he did in winning every congressional district in South Carolina. Running well with Cruz’s core voters, Trump also has shown the ability to bring into the GOP primary independents with lower incomes who’ve rarely participated in such primaries. Fueled by Huckabee’s candidacy, 228,495 voters participated in 2008’s presidential primary in the state, held in early February. If turnout meets or exceeds that number, it means that GOP turnout will be growing outside of the traditional GOP enclaves of Northwest Arkansas and the Little Rock metropolitan area. Those voters’ likely choice: Donald Trump.

Just as important as the competitiveness of the race is the fact that the state’s mostly proportional mode of allocating delegates ensures that all three will likely win a chunk of the state’s delegates. At a moment in the race where every delegate matters for making the case for a candidate’s momentum, this means that every few percentage points of the vote links directly to gaining delegates — the coin of the realm in an unpredictable nomination contest.

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have known Hillary Clinton since she was pregnant with Chelsea.

That may seem like a long time ago, now that she is about to become a grandmother for the second time, but believe it or not Hillary has been working on our behalf even longer than she has been a mother, even before she was First Lady of Arkansas.

Hillary is one of the warmest, most thoughtful and caring people I have been fortunate enough to know. And she has never given up on us.

In fact, her dedication to us is one of the deepest and most personal commitments I have ever witnessed in a public person — or anyone for that matter.

Before she was running for president, Hillary held a televised question-and-answer session with a group of students from my local high school where our twin daughters attend. Hillary mentioned how many times over the years she had been to our town and how she worked with our people to create the first HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters) program for preschoolers in Arkansas. She spoke about all her work in our area for badly needed education reforms.

I thought about how many bright young people have moved to Arkansas because of teacher recruitment programs that she personally promoted for us while she lived here. I thought about the thousands of young mothers who’ve received scholarships through the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, and the countless number of children whose rights have been protected by the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, which Hillary co-founded. I thought about how she knows many of our people here on a first-name basis, and I realized just how unique that is.

In Hillary’s America we still matter. While other candidates talk about everything but those of us in Middle America, Hillary Clinton has lived among us and with us and been a champion for us all her life. She is no flash-in-the-pan who just shows up at election time when the TV lights turn on. She has done the thankless work, taken the cheap shots, struggled against those who fight progress, and

she has let others take the credit if that meant making real change for a young child, a working parent KEVIN trying to make SMITH ends meet, or for a retired senior with pharmacy bills larger than the grocery bill.

Hillary believes that America’s basic bargain is that if you do your part, you ought to be able to get ahead and stay ahead. She recognizes that many aspects of the government are not doing that, that for too many Americans this promise is not being fulfilled. Hillary sees that those on top are getting breaks that the rest of America is not — and that when we only cut taxes for those on top, the wealth does not trickle down to the rest of us.

Hillary also understands that there are many barriers that still must be broken down for Americans to succeed. She has spent the past 40 years fighting for racial and social justice and is determined to do the same if elected. From traveling through Texas to register Latino voters, to fighting for comprehensive immigration reform on the Senate floor, she is the only candidate who has a consistent record of supporting immigrants. As a young lawyer, she went to South Carolina to work to stop teenagers from being incarcerated in adult prisons, and last week unveiled her plan for stopping the school-to-prison pipeline that affects too many communities.

No matter what the future holds, Hillary Clinton will continue to break down barriers and assure that America lives up to its basic bargain that if you work hard, you should be able to get ahead. So here we are nearing the March 1 primary in Arkansas, just a few years after that Q&A with our high school students, and my friend Hillary will be on my ballot. She needs our vote, but we need Hillary as our president even more.

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rying to keep a calm stomach while riding the Razorback roller coaster is just so damned hard.

You’d think that two nights in Bud Walton Arena against the undisputed dregs of the SEC would be gratifying, a return to normalcy of sorts, even for a pretty mediocre bunch coming off two horrible road losses. Instead, the Hogs bottomed out in a borderline disastrous loss to Auburn, then puttered around three days later in a 12-point win over hapless Missouri.

Now, chide me if you must. I know good and well that Bruce Pearl’s Tigers knocked off Kentucky earlier this season.

I know that the other Tigers, those to the north, coached by the most forgettable guy in the league, were actually playing their best basketball of late, having beaten South Carolina and Tennessee in consecutive home tilts. I know that — yes, we’ve been down this road already — Arkansas was not supposed to be very good this year anyhow.

Still, giving up 90 points to Auburn?

One of the nation’s most inept offensive teams? It’s true that Pearl’s team is improving by minor strokes here and there, but Kareem Canty, the team’s leading scorer, had long since been dismissed, and freshman Bryce Brown had been in a long stretch of dismal shooting games before he obliterated his season highs of six three-pointers and 20 points with nine and 27.

Brown is the very definition of a spotup gunner, a player so one-dimensional at this early juncture of his career that in 36 minutes against the Hogs, he did not tally a single rebound or assist. He didn’t shoot a free throw. By both the box score and the video evidence, you could gather that this kid was going to just prowl around the arc all night, and when the ball ended up in his hands and there wasn’t a bus parked on top of him, he was going to shoot it. He did it with precision and confidence on this particular night, two qualities that sometimes only manifest when you face Mike Anderson’s trademark defense.

The term “trademark” is employed liberally here. Arkansas is, to be clear, bad at defense. These Hogs can run and score just fine, but my, how they suffer when the finer points of help and rotation on the other end are required. Auburn missed 10 free throws and turned the ball over 21 times. That’s supposed to be good, right?

Not when the shots from the floor are almost as unchallenged as those from the

line, and not when Arkansas cannot, in its own right, convert on free throw chances or crash the glass. Brown’s BEAU proficiency was WILCOX admirable, but Cinmeon Bowers, not an artful basketballer at 6-7, 260, was even more of a problem for the Hogs. He used his size with a certain degree of reckless impunity, and got away with it, scoring 14 but also dishing out six assists and snatching 10 rebounds. The interesting thing is that Bowers got more mileage out of his rough-hewn performance than Moses Kingsley did with his 20 points and 10 boards on the same court.

The latter may have more skill, but when you watched Bowers bowl over defenders, chuck free throws and zip passes, you gained a certain bizarre admiration of the passion he had, all while playing for a nine-win Hindenburg that just spent its prior 40 minutes getting nearly run off the Plains by visiting Vanderbilt.

Because of how ugly that loss was for the Razorbacks, the epilogue against Mizzou was hardly satisfying. Let’s equate it to the first substantive meal you might have after a few days of stomach flu. Nothing tastes right, and you’re still trying to get all the linens cleaned, but hell, at least it’s solid food.

The Hogs were listless in the second half but it mattered little because they again built a sizable halftime lead. Dusty Hannahs got back on rhythm with 22 points, and Jabril Durham had his finest offensive game overall with 17, along with six assists and no giveaways. Maybe the greatest accomplishment of the game was Anton Beard making a field goal. Otherwise, blah.

Arkansas paid tribute to Eddie Sutton during the Mizzou game, segueing into this week with a home tilt against LSU, the outcome of which will be decided when this hits print. They then take another stab at winning a road game of consequence by traveling to Tennessee.

Maybe those games will end up being good tributes to the longtime head coach who preceded Nolan Richardson on the Hill, and carved out a legacy as a coach who not only recruited the hell out of instate talent, but also exhibited mastery in close games. Those are two characteristics that the current boss will need to develop soon if he wants to have his own invitation back to Fayetteville three decades later.

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he Observer is an advocate of the A+ method of integrating the arts and using creativity to teach across the curriculum, an approach that the Thea Foundation, with help from the Windgate Charitable Foundation, is offering to schools across the state. So imagine our delight when we heard about Ms. Luttrell’s tarantula.

Lucelena Luttrell, a fourth-grade math and science teacher at White County Central Elementary School in Judsonia, was pulling into her driveway last October when she saw a nice, hairy tarantula on the drive and thought: Hmm … my students might like to see that. But before Luttrell could get to the spider, her mother got out of the car and stepped on it.

Oh, well, Luttrell thought. A dead tarantula is the next best thing to a live one. So she took it to school for show and tell.

The tarantula, it turned out, sent her fourth-graders over the moon. They’d never seen one, and wanted to see it better, so they took it to the lab to look at it under a magnifying camera. Fangs!

Not satisfied, the fourth-graders decided to research tarantulas. They named the spider Hershey, and from their research concluded Hershey was a he, since male tarantulas leave their hideouts in October and go searching for mates.

They illustrated spider facts on posters.

Their Day of the Dead celebration was brought home by Hershey. Here was a deceased creature whose life needed to be celebrated. So they composed essays about Hershey’s life in Tracy Donitzen’s creative writing class. They created tarantulas out of clay. And they insisted on a funeral for Hershey. That meant a casket. What size should the casket be to accommodate Hershey and his seven (one was lost in his demise) legs? They calculated the surface area of the casket and then had a casket design competition. The winning box, constructed with popsicle sticks, was painted with a skull and, just in case Hershey was Christian, a cross. Meanwhile, Hershey lay in repose in the teachers lounge freezer.

More curious than squeamish, the kids wondered what would happen to Hershey’s body after they buried him. Luttrell

taught about decomposition, that there are funguses and bacteria in the soil, and that he would be a nutrient. So it was decided to bury Hershey under a tree outside to feed it. For the memorial service, a couple of girls created a cheer (“Give me an H!”), some other students wrote songs (including a parody of the “Itsy Bitsy Spider,”) and with great ceremony the students put Hershey’s coffin into a little yellow wagon draped with black paper and spider webs and rolled him to his final resting place.

They had cookies and punch at a wake afterward, and the spider unit was done.

The dead arachnid had made science, math, writing, music and performance fun.

The Observer is Facebook friends with Matt Campbell, the citizen journalista who runs the Blue Hog Report, that little digital rag that regularly and frustratingly digs up sweet, sweet political dirt. (Dirt we professional types would have gladly dug, dang it!)

Recently, Campbell put up a report on Blue Hog about judicial candidate Kent Tester, who was running for district court judge in Van Buren County, including a screen shot of a text message in which Tester used the forbidden N-word. The post eventually caused Tester to pull out of the race.

Sometime later, Campbell posted to Facebook: “Yesterday, a self-described journalism student from a college that will go unnamed emailed me to ask, ‘could you tell me how you acquired the picture of Kent Tester’s text messages, and/or who from?’ I can’t wrap my head around a journalism student’s expecting someone else to reveal a source.”

That, of course, forced The Observer to opine on the wisdom of the dumb question. To wit: “You gotta ask ’em the dumb ones, just in case they’re dumb enough to answer.”

True story, folks: You absolutely would not believe how many very intelligent people are just dumb enough to answer the dumbest question you can ask them, even when saying nothing would benefit them more. The Observer is convinced that’s the secret bedrock of journalism.

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STARK CONTRAST: Attorney Clark Mason (left) and Circuit Judge Shawn Womack vie for a seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court.

Womack’s past matters Beyond anti-gay legislation, court candidate’s record raises questions.

BY BENJAMIN HARDY

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hen Associate Justice Paul Danielson announced in May his retirement from the Arkansas Supreme Court, only a few hours passed before Circuit Judge Shawn Womack of Mountain Home declared his candidacy for the seat.

Womack, 43, has been a judge since 2008, but is better known for his 10 years in the state legislature, from 1999 to 2009.

Specifically, he’s remembered for his sponsorship of a 2007 bill that would have explicitly barred gay and lesbian couples in Arkansas from fostering or adopting children, even if they were related to those children. The bill was a response to a 2006 state Supreme Court decision that struck down a rule of the Arkansas Department of Human Services that prohibited gay people from adopting or fostering. Womack, a Republican who made opposition to the “gay agenda” a key part of his political identity, responded by attempting to enshrine such a ban in statute.

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Debate over the bill led to a particularly memorable exchange in which another senator pressed Womack on the question of how exactly the government could determine a potential foster or adoptive parent’s sexual orientation. To prove his point, Sen. Jim Argue (D-Little Rock) asked Womack whether he was gay or straight. Womack told his colleague that he was “proudly heterosexual,” according to an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette account.

“Can you prove that to me?” Argue asked.

“I certainly would, yes,” Womack said.

“How would you go about offering up proof?”

“I’m not sure that’s a conversation that we would have in mixed company,” Womack responded.

Though Womack’s bill passed the Senate, it died in the House of Representatives. Undeterred, a socially conservative activist group pursued a ballot ini-

tiative the next year, and Arkansas voters approved the measure in 2008. But the state Supreme Court had the final say: In 2011, it declared the ballot measure unconstitutional, putting to rest the question of whether the state can discriminate against potential adoptive and foster parents purely on the basis of being gay.

Now, as Shawn Womack seeks a seat on that same court, he insists his legislative history has little bearing on his ability to serve as a justice.

“Even though I was a policymaker for 10 years, I kind of hung up that hat as a judge,” Womack told the DemocratGazette in an interview last year when he announced his candidacy. “You’re dealing as the arbiter of justice, not the advocate for any position or any party.”

(Womack did not respond to questions from the Arkansas Times.)

It almost looked as if Womack would coast to the high court without an opponent, but on the afternoon of the Nov. 9 filing deadline for 2016 candidates, Little Rock attorney Clark Mason entered the race.

Mason, 56, has been practicing law for over three decades. Though his decision to run may have seemed last minute, Mason said that he “had been thinking about this for a couple of years after I had the opportunity to serve as a special associate justice.” In 2010, then-Gov. Mike Beebe appointed Mason to fill a seat on the Supreme Court in a case in which several sitting justices recused themselves, Baptist Health v. Murphy. The case involved the question of whether a hospital can refuse to grant privileges to a physician with a financial interest in a competing hospital, a practice sometimes called “economic credentialing.”

The decision (Baptist lost) turned out to be a major one, and it piqued Mason’s interest in the Supreme Court.

“I’m very proud of the result that we reached. It’s a decision that the American Medical Association has praised and that is relied on throughout the country … It really had a significant impact on the field of health care,” he said.

Unlike Womack, who’s spent most of his adult life in elected office, Mason has never been in politics himself. He argues that this fact makes him more qualified when it comes to interpreting the law, not less.

“Over the past 30 years, I have had

a career where I have developed a vast understanding of many areas of the law … agricultural law, business litigation, matters involving the abuse and neglect of our elderly, cases involving the rights of children,” Mason said. “There has probably not been a courthouse in this state I have not been in at one time or another.”

Meanwhile, concerns about Womack’s record extend beyond his policymaking history.

In June 2007, the then-legislator was found to have violated two rules of professional conduct by the state body that renders consequences against attorneys for ethical lapses. A panel of the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct publicly “cautioned” Womack (its second-least severe sanction) and ordered him to pay costs of $125 for a hearing over a complaint made by Catherine Miller, a Baxter County woman who had hired Womack as her attorney in July 2004.

According to the findings of a sevenperson panel, Miller paid Womack $330 “to seek relief for her in a situation where she was not receiving child support from the father of her child.” A court hearing was held in October 2004, at which time Womack was expected to obtain financial information in an affidavit from the father and submit an order. However, he did not file the order until April 2006, 18 months later — and then only after Miller had filed a disciplinary grievance about Womack’s evident lack of attentiveness to the case. By that time, the father of Miller’s child “had relocated to South Arkansas, causing Ms. Miller additional difficulty in attempting to collect on this judgment,” the panel said.

Womack testified at the hearing that he’d told Miller the 2005 legislative session would keep him too busy to work on her case and that he thought she’d found other representation. The senator seemed to argue that his tardiness was of little consequence: “He also offered that, given the history of the father in ignoring mandates of the Court, it was unlikely that a quick Order would have actually produced any money for Ms. Miller.”

By a 6-1 vote, the panel said Womack violated Model Rules 1.3 and 1.4(a), which respectively require lawyers to act with promptness in representing clients and to keep clients “reasonably informed about the status of a matter.” (Rule 1.3 is the most common source of ethics

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violations, the committee’s most recent annual report indicates.) The panel also unanimously found that Womack’s conduct did not violate a third rule prohibiting conduct “prejudicial to the administration of justice.”

If the episode with Catherine Miller raises questions about Womack’s stature as an attorney, a more recent matter provokes some uncertainty over his qualifications as a judge.

In 2014, fellow 14th Judicial District Circuit Judge John Putman recused himself from an attempted murder case against a Boone County man for personal reasons. Womack, in nearby Baxter County, seemed a logical choice to hear the case, but he also recused. In an unusual letter sent to Putman on Aug. 29, 2014, Womack’s trial court assistant explained why.

“Judge Womack ask [sic] that he be recused from the above referenced case, due to the natural [sic] of the case. He believes that this case would require a more experienced judge with a greater criminal background. He respectfully ask [sic] that we utilize a Judge from the Administrative Office of the Courts,” the letter says.

It’s unclear why Womack felt he was unqualified to hear this case. But considering the letter was written 18 months ago — at a time when the judge would have been planning his run for Supreme Court — it is fair to ask whether Womack today possesses the criminal justice experience necessary to sit on the state’s highest court. (Again, the judge did not respond to requests for comment.)

Such questions haven’t stopped Womack from advocating for higher judicial pay. In January 2015, as a newly created independent citizens commission began considering changes to the salary schedules of Arkansas’s public officials, Womack appeared before the body to warn that compensation for judges over the past decade had increased by only 15 percent in Arkansas, as compared to 43 percent in Tennessee, 36 percent in Texas and 30 percent in Oklahoma.

“We’re pretty quickly losing ground,” Womack told the commission.

But percentage growth figures mask the actual numbers. Among neighboring states, only Tennessee pays judges more than Arkansas. An Arkansas circuit judge earned $140,372 annually when Wom-

ack made his comments; after a boost from the commission last year, the job now pays $160,000 a year. (The 2014 median household income in Arkansas was $40,768.)

Today, Arkansas ranks 14th in the nation in judicial pay, according to the National Center for State Courts. When adjusted for cost of living, the figures look even better for judges: Arkansas is 4th from the top.

With the election approaching next week, Womack reported raising $96,415 in campaign funds by the end of January to Mason’s $67,836. That partly reflects support from the state Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, though Mason has well-heeled supporters, too: Attorneys are backing him strongly.

But in the past few days, a third party has inserted itself in the race with advertising purchases that far exceed that of either campaign. An out-of-state 527 group called the Republican State Leadership Committee announced Tuesday that it has purchased $250,000 worth of TV, radio and direct mail ads attacking Mason. One mailer decries Mason’s “Obama-style liberalism” and urges voters to support “conservative Judge Shawn Womack,” whom it describes as “pro-life, pro-family, and in-touch with the people and values of our state.”

The Washington, D.C., group is devoted to influencing down-ballot races around the nation. Its major donors include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, tobacco companies Reynolds American and Altria Group, casino operator Las Vegas Sands and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

According to Justice at Stake, a watchdog organization, the RSLC devoted about $3.4 million in 2014 to state and local judicial races.

The RSLC’s interest in the Arkansas Supreme Court race seems sparked by tort reform: A television ad says, “As a liberal trial lawyer, [Mason] made a practice out of profiting off of his injured and suffering clients.” Indeed, Mason’s private practice has included claims against nursing homes and similar long-term care facilities, and he once headed the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association.

Groups that want to limit the punitive damages juries can assess in personal injury cases are therefore inclined to back Womack, who was a friend to business interests in the legislature.

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LIKE MOST PRISON SYSTEMS in the United States, the Arkansas Department of Correction has a “loaf style nourishment” for those prisoners who have been restricted from dining in the cafeteria, usually due to some disciplinary issue involving mealtime.

While technically meeting nutritional requirements, what’s sometimes called “disciplinary loaf” can be so bad that prisoners in other states have sued — and won — alleging it to be cruel and unusual punishment. As stipulated in the ADC’s Administrative Directive 13-86, prisoners can be put on “special management meatloaf” three meals a day for up to seven days, for infractions including throwing a food tray or impeding the distribution of meals.

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The recipe is different in every state, so we filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the ADC for the one it uses. While the ingredients actually don’t sound that terrible, the abject lack of seasonings would likely make standard prison chow taste like Michelin-star-grade cuisine by comparison. Whatever the case, the recipe appears below. It’s perfect for your next potluck at work, if you reeeally hate your co-workers.

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ADC SPECIAL MANAGEMENT MEATLOAF INGREDIENTS: 4 oz. nonfat dry milk 3 slices homemade bread 1/4 cup cornmeal 1/4 cup dry oats 6 oz. raw ground beef 3/8 cup raw beef liver 1 med. raw egg 7 oz. shredded potato 4 oz. shredded raw carrot 7 oz. shredded cabbage.

4 oz. chopped spinach 2 oz. tomato sauce

4 oz. white beans, cooked and drained.

4 oz. black-eyed peas, cooked and drained.

20 chopped dates 1/2 teaspoon iodized salt 4 oz. salad oil Mix all ingredients together lightly and place in a meatloaf pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 45 minutes or until an internal temperature of 155 degrees is reached. One meatloaf is to be sliced into three equal portions to provide three servings per day.

Unused portions should be cooled in a shallow pan in the refrigerator to a temperature of 35 or 40 degrees.

All refrigerated portions must be used within 24 hours. Unused portions, if properly cooled and stored, may be wrapped in foil and frozen.

To use, thaw, heat to an internal temperature of 165 degrees, slice and serve. Do not refreeze. The meatloaf may be frozen for up to 30 days. After this time, it should be discarded.

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with our luggage and the numerous souvenirs we had bought, all wrapped in Mexican newspapers and taped up by the vendors who had sold them to us. Leaving the trunk open, the agent then walked over to a small building on the bridge that was part of the customs facility and summoned another male agent. They both came over to our car.

“Stand back, please,” one of them said.

They opened the passenger-side door and pulled the seatback forward (our vehicle was a two-door hardtop).

They removed the ice chest and began rummaging around the back seat.

In a moment, they had pulled the seat bottom loose from the floor attachments.

I could see through the opened door that they were pulling out an object from underneath the seat. The item was box-shaped and wrapped in newspapers. My attention was fixed on their actions and my mind was racing with silent questions. The wrapped item one of the agents now held in his hands was nothing I had ever seen before, a package I had neither bought nor placed under the car’s rear seat.

The two agents looked grim, glanced at each other and nodded. A deep sense of dread came over me. I felt sure that something bad was about to happen.

The first agent walked over, gave me an icy stare, and said, “Mr. Glasgow, you are under arrest.”

Border agents ultimately searched the cavity of the car’s back seat and confiscated 24 pounds of marijuana. Assistant U.S. Attorney Raul Gonzales charged the Glasgows with a felony — transporting a controlled substance, marijuana, with intent to distribute. Roger Glasgow, 30 years old at the time, was deputy attorney general. Weeks earlier, he had lost his bid for Pulaski County prosecuting attorney in a Democratic primary runoff against Lee Munson. The Glasgows posted bond and later hired Brownsville defense attorney Thomas Sharp.

One night in mid-September, Tom Sharp called. I could not recall him ever calling after

work, so I took the phone with a fair amount of trepidation. The news, I thought, was either real good or real bad.

“Does the name John Patterson mean anything to you?” Sharp asked.

“He is a cab driver in Little Rock.”

“I don’t know anybody who is a cab driver,” I replied. “Why do you ask?”

“I just got a call from Raul. He said he had been contacted by the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a guy named Sonny something,” continued Sharp.

“Sonny Dillahunty. He’s the U.S. attorney here,” I said.

“Okay,” Sharp went on. “It seems that Sonny got some information from a confidential informant up there, Patterson, this cab-driver guy, who is considered reliable. The word is you were set up, that the marijuana was planted.”

I was stunned and unable to speak for a moment. Then, recovering somewhat, I shouted to Jeannie, who was standing nearby, “Tom says somebody planted the marijuana on us. I was framed!”

“Well, Raul didn’t go quite that far,” Sharp continued, having no trouble hearing my shouting. “But, he felt he should tell me. Raul shoots pretty straight. He said he would check into it further and let me know. If the whole set-up deal can be verified, he won’t prosecute an innocent man.”

“My God, Tom,” I exulted. “That’s the break we’ve been looking for!”

“Well, it’s certainly something I thought you should know about right away,” Sharp said. “But let’s not get too excited just yet. Informant stories can be misleading. I should hear more tomorrow.”

Sharp called the next day with more information. It seems that Patterson, who was a regular police informant in Little Rock, told of picking up a passenger named Jim Hunter at a house in North Little Rock. A party was under way, and Hunter, who had been drinking heavily, was in no position to drive himself home. In Patterson’s cab, Hunter supposedly made some incriminating statements to the effect of, “How do you like the way we fixed up old Glasgow down on the border?”

Raul Gonzales had reported this to his superior, and they agreed to assign a couple of Customs Service special investigators to interview Patterson, and Hunter also, if he would consent. If the whole thing proved true, Gonzales would ask permission to nolle prosequi (voluntarily dismiss) the case, perhaps backed up with a polygraph from me.

THE AUTHOR: Roger Glasgow, in his 1972 campaign photograph.

“That would be a dandy way to dispose of it,” I said.

“It may not be that simple,” Sharp continued. “Patterson is an informant for the state prosecutor in Little Rock, not the feds, so we don’t know how much credence he’ll be given.”

“Let me fill you in on the local politics,” I said. “The prosecuting attorney here was Jim Guy Tucker, a friend of mine. When Tucker ran for state attorney general, I ran for his seat and lost to a guy named Lee Munson. Jim Hunter was one of Munson’s biggest financial supporters. Munson was also supported by the Little Rock Police Department, particularly Police Chief Gale Weeks. They hate both Jim Guy and me. If the Customs Service investigators get hooked up with any of them, you can bet they’ll do everything they can to discredit the informant and turn the tables.”

“There’s not much we can do about that at this point,” Sharp said, “but wait and see.”

We heard nothing for the next few weeks. The longer the silence lasted, the worse I felt. I knew that if Lee Munson’s people found out, they would do everything possible to interfere. Unable to stand it any longer, I called Tom Sharp and learned that the investigators had completed their www.arktimes.com

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interviews with John Patterson and Jim Hunter. Patterson had vaguely implicated Munson, so the investigators were arranging to interview him as well.

“I can’t see anything good coming out of Munson getting involved,” I said.

“I’ll be getting copies of the statements from Patterson and Hunter,” Sharp said, “plus the Munson statement and any others they take. We’ll know more then.”

A few days later, I received copies of the recorded statements of John Patterson and Jim T. Hunter. I read each one a couple of times to be sure of what they said. I found myself shaking my head, dumfounded at my own naivete. I recalled a comment Mamie Ruth [Williams, the media consultant and strategist in the Arkansas Attorney General’s office] had once made about my being “a babe in the woods” about local politics. I had been clueless about the real nature of my political opponents. Now I was angry, but I was also embarrassed.

The details of what Hunter had told the cabdriver and the casual brazenness with which it had all happened were startling. Patterson’s story began on Sept. 15, 1972, some three weeks after my arrest at the Mexican border.

He had been called to a home in an exclusive area of North Little Rock to pick up a fare. He found three men in the driveway beside two automobiles, a Cadillac and a Lincoln Continental with a license plate reading “JTH.” One of the men was Munson. Another was Hunter, who was drunk. Munson and the third man, whom Patterson did not know, were holding Hunter by the arm to keep him from getting in the Lincoln and driving home in his impaired condition. Patterson had driven Hunter in his cab before, and they recognized each other. On the way to Hunter’s home, they got to talking about the prosecuting attorney race.

Patterson’s interview contained the following exchange: And we got to talking about several different things, just common talk, and he asked me how I liked the way they fixed up Roger Glasgow down in Mexico.

So I asked him at the time, “What do you mean, the way you fixed him up?”

He said, “You didn’t read that in the paper?” And I said, “Yes, I read it in the

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paper. Are you trying to tell me something about this?” And he said, “Well …”

I said, “Everybody in town here thinks he is guilty.” And he said, “Aw, bullshit.

You know that man is not guilty of that.”

And I said, “Well, I don’t know it for sure. Everybody I talked to thinks he’s guilty.” And he responded, “Well, he’s not, believe me, he’s not.”

So we got to talking a little bit more about different things and then I finally asked him. I said, “You mean you got enough power down there to do that?”

And he said, “Well, let me tell you something, I’m not a millionaire, but I do have a little money.” He said, “I do have influence across the border. I race horses down there in Mexico. I own a racing stable ... and I go down there every year and race horses and I know a lot of people down there. I can get anything done in Mexico that I want.

From this and other statements made by Patterson, it was clear to me that Hunter and others had framed me.

And it had been done with Munson’s knowledge and approval. Before this, I had never even imagined such a thing.

But thinking back, plenty of clues were available if I had paid attention. I was aware of the widespread rumors that the bond business was heavily infiltrated by a group known as the Dixie Mafia, and I knew Hunter was the owner of a bond house, Delta Securities, and was one of Munson’s chief supporters. I had seen him several times at campaign events in the company of Little Rock Police Department detectives, whom I also knew to be strong Munson supporters.

Patterson’s transcript also revealed that Hunter’s intent was more than punishment for my campaign activities.

The plan was to permanently remove me from the political arena.

The transcript showed the following: [Patterson:] When we rode on out and I finally asked him, “What does Lee Munson think about it?” And he said, “Aw, he knows all about it, he knows all about. ... It was done with his approval.” And I said, “What was your purpose of doing this? He won the election.” And he said, “Yes, but that no good rotten son of a bitch,” he said.

Q. Referring to Glasgow?

A. Right. He said, “Did you see the dirt

that he brought up during the campaign? He brought out more damn dirt. He really put it on us bad, and we figured that’s the only way.”

Q. What was he referring to when he said “dirt”? Was he referring to the racetrack business and the bookie business?

A. No, he was talking about the dirt that Roger Glasgow put on Mr. Lee Munson.

Q. Yes, but what type of dirt?

A. I don’t know. He came out with some pretty bad stuff during the campaign on Lee Munson. He said, “We figure that he is the only one that can be able to run against Lee in the next election and we just fixed his wagon where he couldn’t run at all.”

Q. And this would be the day before he came back into the United States.

A. Yes, the night before.

Q. The night before. Was there any mention of how this was done physically?

I mean did someone remove the back seat or did he make any indication how it was done physically?

A. The only thing he told me was that the night before while they were in the motel that they put it under their seat.

Q. Did he mention the motel?

A. No sir, he did not mention the name of the motel. He did mention the motel, but he didn’t mention the name of the motel, but he did mention the motel.

Q. He said they put it under the seat?

A. Yes sir.

Patterson’s statement also described an offer by Hunter to buy a list of other paid informants supplying confidential information to then-prosecuting attorney Jim Guy Tucker. At the time, Tucker’s office was deep into an investigation into suspected corruption and racketeering by elements of the Little Rock Police Department, where Munson had strong support. As the newly elected prosecuting attorney, Munson would clearly be interested in a list of informants who might compromise his friends at the LRPD. Patterson stated that he was willing to obtain the list and supply it to Hunter, all the while realizing that he intended to turn it over to Munson.

The transcript continued: Q. Now, okay, you arrived at the residence of Jim T. Hunter, now what took place there?

A. We sat and talked for about 15 minutes I guess, and he was talking to me about

different things and then he asked me if I thought I could do him a favor and I said, “Yeah, I probably could if everything …” He said, “Well I tell you what. I’ll give you $100 now and I’ll give you $100 when you get it.” And I said, “Well what is it you want?” And he said, “Well, do you think you could get me a list of the paid informers from the prosecuting attorney’s office?” I told him, “I don’t know, that would be pretty hard to do, because you just don’t get into Jim Guy Tucker’s office like that, because he’s got a tight office.”

And he said, “Well, do you know anybody up there?” And I responded, “I know some people up there.” And he said, “Well if you can get me the list, I’ll give you $100.” And I said, “Well I’ll try like hell to get it, but it’s going to cost me something too.” And he said, “At least whatever it is, I’ll fix you up on it.” And I said, “Okay.”

Q. Did he indicate what he wanted the list for?

A. Yes, he said that Jim Guy Tucker wouldn’t … leave them anything in the prosecuting attorney’s office to work on after they took office the first of the year. And he said they needed the list in order so they could get work sooner. I agreed to get the list for them, if I could.

Q. At this point he gave you $10 for the cab and $100?

A. $100, yes.

Q. So he gave you a pretty good tip and put $100 on you?

A. Yes. Q. Okay, then what happened? He gave you a phone number?

A. Yes sir, he gave me his home phone number.

Q. Now, after the conversation you had that night. Has he ever brought it up again?

A. Yes sir.

Q. He has brought it up again, and when was this?

A. It was on Sunday morning about 10 o’clock in the morning.

Q. This was last Sunday?

A. Yes. And we sat there and we had a long conversation. We talked for about an hour, I guess, and I asked him how this deal turned out down there in Mexico, because I had called his wife the day before trying to get in touch with him and she told me that he was in Texas.

Q. That would have been Saturday,

right?

A. Yes sir, when I called her she told me that he would be back the next day; for me to call him then. I called him Sunday. It would have been Friday he was in Texas. He told me he had just got back from Juarez, Mexico, when I saw him that Sunday morning. I asked him, “Well, how did that deal turn out down

there?” And he said, “Well, I bullshit a lot. You can’t believe everything I say, because I am a liar.” So then I asked him what type of business that he was in and he told me that he owned Delta Securities in the Worthen Bank building. I asked him what type of business that was and he said well, he said, he sells some securities. But, he said

most of his money is made through the racetrack and his racehorses. The conversation got back on him and he was kinda reluctant to talk about it, he didn’t want to talk about it too much.

Q. About the Glasgow affair?

A. Right. So then he kept asking me questions about myself and he kept turning a little switch on and off in the car,

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you could hear it clicking. When I asked him what the sound was, he told me it was the air conditioner, but the air conditioner wasn’t blowing.

So evidently he had a tape recorder in his car. That is what I believe it was, and so at the time I did sort of incriminate myself talking to him and the thing that I talked to him about, I was guilty of and so …

Q. So actually he’s got a hammer of sorts on you at this stage of the game?

A. No sir, he don’t have a hammer on me.

Q. Well he’s got some information on you.

A. The prosecuting attorney already knows about it.

Q. Ok. A. And there’s no charges filed on it.

Q. Did you turn over a list?

A. Yes sir, I did.

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n his statement, Jim Hunter admitted that he had been at the house in North Little Rock on the night in question, that John Patterson’s cab had been hailed to drive him home because he had been drinking, and that a conversation occurred touching on the Mexico marijuana case. But Hunter claimed he was too drunk to remember exact detail. Interestingly, the content of Hunter’s interview reveals that he had been told by the Customs Service investigators about the interview they had done with Patterson, including some of the statements Patterson had attributed to Hunter.

Q. Mr. Hunter, the allegation has been made concerning a statement made by you the night of September 15, 1972.

Now we have previously discussed this allegation, have we not?

A. We have.

Q. Now, where were you the night of September 15, 1972?

A. The first part of the evening I was at the home of Ted Johnson in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Q. How did you get home?

A. As the night wore on, I make a policy of not drinking and driving, and I rode home in a taxi.

Q. Did you know the cabdriver?

A. I recognized him ... he recognized me too.

Q. After getting into the cab with this driver did you have a conversation with him? …

A. Yes, we did have a conversation.

Q. Did the name of Roger Glasgow come up?

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A. Yes it did. …

Q. Did you at any time make the statement, to your recollection, to the effect that, we planted the marijuana or had it planted on Glasgow the night before he came back to the United States?

A. That’s preposterous. I can’t, no, I don’t think so.

Q. Could you have?

A. I could’ve said anything but it’s beyond my belief that I could have ever said those particular words.

Q. Did you discuss Lee Munson in any context during the cab drive?

A. I am sure Munson was discussed because he seemed to be impressed that I knew Lee Munson, and he already knew that I supported Munson. … The Glasgow affair (he was asking me questions) I say “affair,” it was brought up. Was Glasgow guilty? Did I think he was guilty, you know. I of course, don’t particularly care. I wasn’t too much of a conversationalist; I actually don’t remember all the details of the conversation.

Hunter also admitted later that he received the list of informants from Patterson, but he tried to make light of it.

Finally, he conceded that Patterson had inquired again about the previous conversation of Hunter’s role in the planting of the marijuana, but he passed that off as well, saying that the cabdriver must have “misconstrued something.”

The transcript continued: Q. Did you subsequently have any contact with this cab driver?

A. Yes, I did.

Q. What was that occasion?

A. ... I got a phone call that woke me up from my sleep. I had been on the road, out of town, had gotten in late and was really tired; I asked him what he wanted and he said he would rather not talk about it on the phone. I didn’t have any idea what he was talking about so I asked him to call me back in an hour so I could sleep just a bit longer. In an hour or so the phone rang again, it was this taxi driver.

Q. Did he give you anything at this meeting?

A. I did want to know what the big secret was that he didn’t want to talk about over the phone. I was under the impression that he wanted to talk about me helping him in a business that was brought up, but he had a calling card with several names on it.

Q. Whose calling card? Do you recall?

A. I honestly do not; it was just a small

card that had some names on it and he asked me if I wanted this list of names.

I said what is it? He said, these are some of the informers in the prosecuting attorney’s office. I said, not really, I don’t like to get involved in things like that, but I did take the card and put it in my pocket.

Q. Did you have any other discussion with him at this time?

A. Yes, he brought up that Glasgow matter.

Q. Did he bring up the previous conversation concerning your having something to do with the plant in Mexico?

A. Yes he did.

Q. What did you say?

A. I said I didn’t even know what he was talking about.

Q. Did he make any comment about your drinking?

A. I told him I was inebriated, but hell, he knew that. I looked at him like he was crazy. I told him he must have misconstrued something, but that conversation didn’t last long at all.

After I had calmed down some from the shock of reading the transcripts, I called Tom Sharp. I was convinced that the details of the interviews would prove beyond any doubt what happened and why.

“I can’t believe Gonzales would actually take this case to trial,” I declared.

“We’ll make him look like a fool.”

“It’s not quite that simple, Roger,” Sharp said. “Gonzales says there are discrepancies in what the cab driver said and the actual facts. For example, the driver claimed that the car was in a garage when the plant occurred, and there is no garage at the Holiday Inn.” “Oh hell,” I said, “that’s just a minor detail, and it’s all hearsay. Hunter was telling the story and the driver was simply trying to recall it several weeks later.

It’s impossible to remember every detail perfectly. Besides I’m sure Hunter himself didn’t personally do the dirty deed.

He was probably some distance away and had his hired Mexican minions to do the actual plant. He likely didn’t even know what kind of car it was or whether the car was outside or in a garage.”

Sharp agreed but added, “There’s still more to it than that. Gonzalez thinks Hunter was only guilty of drunk talk, and he says the cab driver has a lot of credibility problems, plus a fairly long rap sheet.”

During the campaign I had an inside source at the Little Rock Police Department — for his protection, I’ll just call him “Officer Jones” — who occasion-

ally fed me information he regarded as important.

He had been a sergeant in the detective division for several years but had been demoted back down to patrol by LRPD chief Gale Weeks. He was quite bitter at Weeks about that, but he had maintained a couple of good friends in the detective division who kept him abreast of various goings-on in the upper-officer ranks.

Officer Jones worked part-time as a security guard at Pfeifer-Blass, a downtown department store on Main Street.

Jeannie also worked there in the cosmetics department at the time. Officer Jones learned that she was my wife and struck up a friendly relationship with her. At times, he would write her notes and provide other materials to deliver to me concerning the illegal happenings involving the upper echelon of the police department.

After I lost the election to Munson and took the ill-fated Mexico vacation trip, Officer Jones continued to pass information. One nugget of particular interest was a report, allegedly from a participant, of a big party at Buice Drugstore celebrating my arrest.

The drugstore, owned by Little Rock mayor George Wimberly, was frequently used by police officers and city officials for back-room meetings. Once I heard about this, I arranged to meet with Jones at the Pfeifer-Blass store the next night.

I wanted him to tell me the names of all who were there and as many details about the affair as he knew.

When we met, Jones told me that the party occurred two or three days after my arrest and was attended by many of

the people who were involved in setting me up. Jones said [Forrest] Parkman [head of the LRPD intelligence unit] had once laughingly told him that he and [Fred] Hensley [an LRPD detective] had been in Matamoros, Mexico, the same night the marijuana had been planted in my car.

Hunter and some unidentified “federal agents” were also there, and several of them took advantage of the locale to consort with local prostitutes, no doubt while the dirty drugs deed was being done.

Jones told me how Parkman extravagantly related the setting at “boys town” on the south side of Matamoros where the prostitutes were. It was a kind of Old West replica, he said, with saloons lining both sides of a dirt street.

The one they were in had a long bar along a back wall where the customers could order drinks, and a dance floor, complete with Mexican musicians. An array of couches surrounded the dance floor where the girls lounged, displayed their wares, and hustled. They all got roaring drunk and had a great time making their selections, dancing and lounging with the girls, groping and squeezing them.

Jones further identified the individuals in attendance at the late-night party at Buice Drugstore. In addition to the host Wimberly, the attendees included Munson, [Kenneth] Pearson [head of the LRPD vice squad], Parkman, and Hensley. Jones did not know if Hunter was there, but he said he heard they all drank a lot of whiskey and vociferously celebrated a job well done.

Most of this information was of no particular surprise. From the Patterson and Hunter interviews, I already knew or strongly suspected that the individuals named were involved in my setup. But it was stunning nevertheless.

Later, I shared this information with Sharp, and I said that I wondered if we should subpoena Officer Jones, Wimberly, or Munson for trial.

“No,” he said. “First off, what the source told you is all hearsay and therefore inadmissible in court. Secondly, you can be sure neither Munson nor Wimberly would admit anything. We would just muddy up the water and offer up free enemy witnesses. God only knows what they would say about you at trial.” “ Yes,” I ag reed.

“That’s a can of worms we don’t want to open up.”

That ended the matter, but the image of that party, no doubt around the infamous table in the back of Wimberly’s drugstore, stuck vividly in my mind. There was little left to do other than wait for the trial to begin.

At a trial in October 1972 in Brownsville, a jury found Glasgow not guilty on drug charges. He has worked as a lawyer for Wright, Lindsey & Jennings for more than 40 years. Munson went on to serve as municipal and chancery/circuit judge in Pulaski County. He retired in 2008. As Glasgow writes in his memoir, Munson was “never directly associated with any wrongdoings, except by innuendo.”

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Family Medicine DANIEL W. WATSON Autumn Road Family Practice 904 Autumn Rd, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 72211 501-227-6363 STEVE L. SIMPSON CHI St. Vincent 10000 N Rodney Parham Rd Little Rock, AR 72227 501-221-0888 KEVIN ROBERTS Little Rock Family Practice Clinic 701 N University Ave, Ste 100 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-4810 ROBERT STEPHEN TUCKER Little Rock Family Practice Clinic 4208 N Rodney Parham Rd Little Rock, AR 72212 501-228-7200 RALPH FARRIS JOSEPH St. Vincent Family Clinic 4202 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72204 501-562-4838 FORREST B. MILLER St. Vincent Family Clinic 4202 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72204 501-562-4838 WILLIAM H. RILEY, JR. St. Vincent Family Clinic 4202 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72204 501-562-4838

CHARLES H. RODGERS St. Vincent Family Clinic 4202 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72204 501-562-4838 RONALD BRIMBERRY UAMS Family Medical Center Springdale 601 W Maple Ave, Ste 102 Springdale, AR 72764 479-750-6585 JIMMY ACKLIN Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks Department of Sparks Medical Plaza 1500 Dodson Ave Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-441-2600 MARK S. THOMAS Washington Regional Palliative Care 3215 N North Hills Blvd Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-463-7363 Gastroenterology D. DEAN KUMPURIS St. Vincent Gastroenterology Clinic 417 N University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-666-0249 Geriatric Medicine DAVID A. LIPSCHITZ Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital Primary Care, Patt Team 35 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3933 LARRY D. WRIGHT Circle of Life Hospice 901 Jones Rd Springdale, AR 72762 479-750-6632 HOSAM K. KAMEL Geriatrics Consulting Services 120 Dellmere Dr Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-520-1489 ANN T. RIGGS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic 629 Jack Stephens Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6219 JEANNE Y. WEI University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic 629 Jack Stephens Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6219 Hand Surgery G. THOMAS FRAZIER, JR. Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics 600 S McKinley St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-663-3647

Infectious Disease THOMAS P. MONSON Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital Division of Infectious Disease 4300 W 7th St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-257-5866 JOHN E. DIETRICH Infectious Disease Resource Group 1 Saint Vincent Cir, Ste 160 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-661-0037 MARK LEE STILLWELL Northwest Center for Infectious Diseases 2900 Medical Center Pkwy, Ste 240A Bentonville, AR 72712 479-553-2121 ROBERT W. BRADSHER, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Infectious Diseases Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1616 MICHAEL SACCENTE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Infectious Diseases Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1616 Internal Medicine AMY J. FITZGERALD CHI St. Vincent Primary Care - 70 West 1707 Airport Rd Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-767-6200 MARK A. DYER Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000 SUE A. ULMER Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000 PAUL WILLIAM ZELNICK Physicians Group Doctors Bldg, Ste 615 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-666-3666 MITZI ANN WASHINGTON PrimeCare 400 S Main St, Ste 100 Searcy, AR 72143 501-279-9000 ROBERT T. CHEEK University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Internal Medicine Clinic - South Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000

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WILLIAM E. GOLDEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Internal Medicine Clinic - South Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000

MICHAEL SACCENTE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Infectious Diseases Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1616

Medical Genetics G. BRADLEY SCHAEFER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

ROBERT HOWARD HOPKINS, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Internal Medicine Clinic - South Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000

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PETER D. EMANUEL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Medical Oncology Clinic 4018 W Capital Ave, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8530 ISAAM MAKHOUL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Medical Oncology Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8530 Nephrology ROBERT F. MCCRARY, JR. Arkansas Renal Group Hot Springs Diagnostic Associates 115 Wrights St Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-321-9803 JOHN WAYNE SMITH Arkansas Renal Group Hot Springs Diagnostic Associates 115 Wrights St Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-321-9803

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Neurological Surgery STEVEN L. CATHEY 3500 Springhill Dr, Ste 201 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-771-2000 ALI F. KRISHT Arkansas Neuroscience Institute Department of Neurosurgery 5 Saint Vincent Cir, Ste 220 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-552-6412 JOHN DIAZ DAY University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Neurosurgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8757 T. GLENN PAIT University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute 501 Jack Stephens Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5270 Neurology M. BETUL GUNDOGDU Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital Neurology Service 4300 W 7th St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-257-6050

JOHN L. KAREUS Cooper Clinic Department of Neurology 6801 Rogers Ave, 2nd Fl Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-274-3300 DUANE L. BIRKY Sparks Neurology Center 1504 Dodson Ave Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-709-7175 ROBERT LEROY (LEE) ARCHER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute Neurology Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838 WALTER STEVEN METZER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute Neurology Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 8th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838 STACY A. RUDNICKI University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5838 Nuclear Medicine KATHY LYNN THOMAS Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital Department of Nuclear Medicine 4300 W 7th St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-257-6100 DAVID W. WEISS Radiology Consultants of Little Rock Baptist Medical Towers 1, Ste 1100 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-5240 JAMES E. MCDONALD University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Nuclear Medicine 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5740 Obstetrics and Gynecology STEPHEN RAY MARKS 3343 Springhill Dr, Ste 1005 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-758-9251 STEPHEN M. CHATELAIN Arkansas Perinatal Services Medical Towers II, Ste 810 9501 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-217-8467

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

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

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

JENNIFER T. SCRUGGS Baptist Health Eye Center 9800 Baptist Health Dr, Ste 600 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-221-0123

CHRISTOPHER T. WESTFALL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jones Eye Institute 4105 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5822

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

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

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JAMES D. ALLEN Medical Park Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine 501 Virginia Dr, Ste C Batesville, AR 72501 870-793-2371 JAMES WALTER LONG Mercy Clinic Orthopedics - River Valley 3501 W E Knight Dr Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-709-6750 SHAHRYAR AHMADI University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Orthopaedic Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 1st Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6067 C. LOWRY BARNES University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Orthopaedic Clinic - West Little Rock 2 Shackleford W Blvd Little Rock, AR 72211 501-614-2663 RICHARD W. NICHOLAS, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Orthopaedic Cancer Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200 RUTH L. THOMAS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Orthopaedic Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 1st Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6067 JOHN L. VANDER SCHILDEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Orthopaedic Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 1st Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-7823 Otolaryngology J. MICHAEL KEY Arkansas Children’s Hospital ENT Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 GRESHAM RICHTER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Vascular Anomalies Center Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1225 JOHN RODDEY EDWARDS DICKINS Arkansas Otolaryngology Center 10201 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-5050 JOHN L. DORNHOFFER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic 501 Jack Stephens Dr, 3rd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5878 MAURICIO MORENO University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Head and Neck Oncology Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 6th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200 26 26

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JAMES Y. SUEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Head and Neck Oncology Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 6th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200 Pathology FRED G. SILVA II NephroPath 10810 Executive Center Dr, Ste 100 Little Rock, AR 72211 501-604-2695 MURAT GOKDEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Neuropathology Shorey Bldg, 4th Fl, Rm 4S-09 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1963 AUBREY HOUGH, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-6990 JENNIFER HUNT University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5170 LAURA W. LAMPS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pathology and Laboratory Services Shorey Bldg, 4th Fl, Rm 4S-09 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-7966 Pediatric Allergy and Immunology D. MELISSA GRAHAM Advanced Allergy and Asthma Doctors Bldg, Ste 215 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-420-1085 Pediatric Allergy and Immunology STACIE M. JONES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Allergy and Immunology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1060 TAMARA T. PERRY Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Allergy and Immunology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 AMY M. SCURLOCK Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Allergy and Immunology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 JIM M. INGRAM Little Rock Allergy and Asthma Clinic 18 Corporate Hill Dr, Ste 110 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-224-1156 Pediatric Anesthesiology JESUS (JOJO) APUYA Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

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PAUL MICHAEL SEIB Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

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

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

ANNA-MARIA ONISEI Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100 MICHAEL L. SCHMITZ Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100 M. SAIF SIDDIQUI Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100 ABID UL GHAFOOR Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100 Pediatric Cardiac Surgery MICHIAKI IMAMURA Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-5858 THOMAS H. BEST Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 RENEE ADAMS BORNEMEIER Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 BRIAN K. EBLE Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 EUDICE E. FONTENOT Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 ELIZABETH A. FRAZIER Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 M. MICHELE MOSS Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479

Pediatric Critical Care RICHARD THOMAS FISER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845 XIOMARA GARCIA-CASAL Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 MARK J. HEULITT Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845 M. MICHELE MOSS Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 PARTHAK PRODHAN Arkansas Children’s Hospital The Heart Center 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1479 RONALD C. SANDERS, JR. Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845 STEPHEN M. SCHEXNAYDER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Critical Care Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1845 Pediatric Dermatology JAY M. KINCANNON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Dermatology Clinic 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 Pediatric Developmental and Behavioral Problems JILL FUSSELL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences James L. Dennis Developmental Center Department of Pediatrics 1301 Wolfe St Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1830 ELDON GERALD SCHULZ University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences James L. Dennis Developmental Center Department of Pediatrics 1301 Wolfe St Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1830

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Pediatric Infectious Disease JIN-YOUNG HAN Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Infectious Disease 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

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NADA S. HARIK Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

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

W. MATTHEW LINAM Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

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JOSE R. ROMERO Arkansas Children’s Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1416

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

J. GARY WHEELER Arkansas Department of Health Department of Infectious Diseases 4815 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-661-2797

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

Pediatric Interventional Radiology CHARLES ALBERT JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175

TONYA MARIE THOMPSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Emergency Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1050 Pediatric Gastroenterology JULIANA FREM Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Gastroenterology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1004 Pediatric Hematology-Oncology DAVID L. BECTON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 AMIR R. MIAN Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 CAROLYN SUZANNE SACCENTE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Hematology and Oncology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Medical Genetics STEPHEN G. KAHLER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 Pediatric Medical Genetics G. BRADLEY SCHAEFER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Genetics and Metabolism 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 Pediatric Medical Toxicology LAURA P. JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1418 Pediatric Nephrology RICHARD T. BLASZAK Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

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EILEEN N. ELLIS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 KAREN M. REDWINE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 THOMAS G. WELLS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Nephrology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 Pediatric Neurological Surgery GEORGE T. (TIM) BURSON Neurosurgery Arkansas Baptist Medical Towers 1, Ste 750 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-224-0200 Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery ROBERT DALE BLASIER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Orthopaedics 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 RICHARD E. MCCARTHY Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Orthopaedics 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 JAMES D. ALLEN Medical Park Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine 501 Virginia Dr, Ste C Batesville, AR 72501 870-793-2371 Pediatric Otolaryngology CHARLES MICHAEL BOWER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Otolaryngology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

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

Pediatric Rheumatology JASON A. DARE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Rheumatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Pain Management MICHAEL L. SCHMITZ Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100

Pediatric Sleep Medicine JOHN LEE CARROLL Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1006

Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehab VIKKI A. STEFANS Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Developmental, Behavioral and Rehabilitation Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-3728

Pediatric Specialist/Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine ELTON R. CLEVELAND Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Adolescent Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

Pediatric Pulmonology ARIEL BERLINSKI Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

BRIAN H. HARDIN Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Adolescent Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

JOHN LEE CARROLL Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1006

J. DARRELL NESMITH Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Adolescent Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

SUPRIYA K. JAMBHEKAR Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 DENNIS SCHELLHASE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Childrens Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 Pediatric Radiology CHARLES ALBERT JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175

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BILLY RAY THOMAS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1397

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Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, General BERNADETTE M. LANGE Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neurology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

JOANNE S. SZABO Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100 BONNIE J. TAYLOR Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neonatology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1100 TERRANCE ZUERLEIN Baptist Health Medical Center Division of Neonatalogy 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-225-8821 BRYAN L. BURKE, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1397 R. WHIT HALL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1255 CLARE C. NESMITH University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72202 501-296-1397

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GREGORY B. SHARP Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Neurology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

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

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Pediatric Surgery M. SIDNEY DASSINGER Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1446 RICHARD J. JACKSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 R. TODD MAXSON Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000 SAMUEL D. SMITH Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-4000

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t Arkansas Pediatric Clinic, we strive to provide a medical home for your children, providing care for infants, children and adolescents. We have a well-equipped lab where most tests are done in house. We are also one of only a few clinics in Arkansas with a separate Well Child Clinic where we can provide well child care/checkups for your child from birth to age 2. Our well child clinic allows us to minimize your child’s exposure to illness while in our waiting room and hopefully results in shorter wait times for checkups. We have a very dedicated staff that works hard to provide the highest quality medical care for your child.

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JOHN SIMMONS Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322 JAMES S. SWINDLE Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Northwest Arkansas Pediatric Clinic 3380 N Futrall Dr, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-7322 FEDERICO C. DE MIRANDA Mercy Clinic Pediatrics 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 200 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-314-4810 MERLE E. MCCLAIN Mercy Clinic Pediatrics 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 200 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-314-4810

RICHARD R. ACLIN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences AHEC Family Medical Center 612 S 12th St Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-785-2431 BRYAN L. BURKE, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Section of Neonatology 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1397 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation KEVIN J. COLLINS Rehabilitation Medicine Consultants of Arkansas Springhill Medical Plaza 3401 Springhill Dr, Ste 460 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-945-1888

JON R. HENDRICKSON Pediatric Partners 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 201 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-478-7200 CHRISTOPHER SCHLUTERMAN Pediatric Partners 7303 Rogers Ave, Ste 201 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-478-7200 CECIL W. GABY Sparks Regional Medical Center Department of Pediatrics 1001 Towson Ave Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-441-4000 VINCENT CALDERON, JR. St. Vincent Family Clinic 4202 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72204 501-562-4838 HORACE L. GREEN The Children’s Clinic 1420 W 43rd Ave Pine Bluff, AR 71603 870-534-6210

WARREN A. SKAUG The Children’s Clinic 800 S Church St, Ste 400 Jonesboro, AR 72401 870-935-6012

Plastic Surgery GARY E. TALBERT Arkansas Plastic Surgery 9500 Kanis Rd, Ste 502 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-219-8388 JAMES C. YUEN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8711 JAMES KELLY Western Arkansas Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery Center Mercy Medical Plaza 3501 W.E. Knight Drive Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-709-8300

Psychiatry TIM A. KIMBRELL Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center Mental Health Clinic 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3131 JEFFREY M. PYNE Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research Bldg 58 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-1000 JOHN SPOLLEN Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center Mental Health Clinic 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3131 JAMES A. CLARDY University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8100 JEFFREY L. CLOTHIER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8100 PEDRO L. DELGADO University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8100 G. RICHARD SMITH University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8169

ZACHARY N. STOWE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Psychiatry 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-8100 Pulmonary Medicine CARL I. SCHOENBERGER Pulmonology Associates 101 Skyline Dr Russellville, AR 72801 479-964-4344 PAULA JEAN ANDERSON University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Cystic Fibrosis Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1400 Radiology CHARLES ALBERT JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of Radiology 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175 DANNA F. GREAR Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 237 E Millsap Rd, Ste 5 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 STEVEN E. HARMS Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 237 E Millsap Rd, Ste 5 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 KELLY A. JOHNSON Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 237 E Millsap Rd, Ste 5 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 KEVIN L. POPE Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 237 E Millsap Rd, Ste 5 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266

STACY SMITH-FOLEY Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 237 E Millsap Rd, Ste 5 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 JENNIFER TURNER Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Fayetteville Diagnostic Clinic 3344 N Futrall Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-521-8200 EREN ERDEM Neurosurgery Arkansas Baptist Medical Towers 1, Ste 750 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-224-0200 ALBERT S. ALEXANDER Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 JODI M. BARBOZA Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 F. KEITH BELL Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 C. WILLIAM DEATON Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 STEVE A. DUNNAGAN Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

JONATHAN F. FRAVEL Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 JEROME J. GEHL Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 AARON L. JANOS Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 DON L. KUSENBERGER Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 W. JEAN MATCHETT Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 JOHN N. MEADORS Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 GEORGE A. NORTON Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 ROGERICH T. PAYLOR Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-2614 CHRISTIE B. PHELAN Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

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JOHN P. SCURLOCK Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 RAJESH SETHI Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

KEDAR JAMBHEKAR University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1595

DUANE L. BIRKY Sparks Neurology Center 1504 Dodson Ave Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-709-7175

HEMENDRA R. SHAH University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1595

Surgery WAYNE A. HUDEC Ozark Surgical Associates 3017 Bob Younkin Dr, Ste 101 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-521-1484 JOHN W. WEBB St. Vincent Surgery Clinic Medical Office Bldg, Ste 201 1 Mercy Ln Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-609-2229

Rheumatology RICHARD W. HOUK Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

KATHLEEN M. SITARIK Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

THOMAS M. KOVALESKI Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

AARON M. SPANN Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

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

DAVID E. TAMAS Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

LAURA B. TRIGG Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000

SHANNON R. TURNER Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

THOMAS R. DYKMAN Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Fayetteville Diagnostic Clinic 3344 N Futrall Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-521-8200

NEIL E. CROW, JR. Sparks Regional Medical Center Department of 1001 Towson Ave Fort Smith, AR 72901 479-441-4181 EDGARDO J. CHUA ANGTUACO University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Neuro4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-526-5941

SETH MARK BERNEY University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Rheumatology Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 1st Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5586

TERESITA L. ANGTUACO University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Body Imaging 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-5762

Sleep Medicine JOHN LEE CARROLL Arkansas Children’s Hospital Section of Pulmonary Medicine 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1006

T. MICHAEL STANTON Surgical Associates of Conway 525 Western Ave, Ste 203 Conway, AR 72034 501-327-4828 CHRIS M. CATE The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 JON D. FULLER The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 JOHN C. JONES The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 WILLIAM EVERETT TUCKER The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

GARY W. BARONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Liver Transplant Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 4th Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6086

JOHN C. JONES The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080

PAUL LEVY NEA Baptist Clinic Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 4802 E Johnson Ave Jonesboro, AR 72401 870-936-8000

JOHN B. CONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000

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MARCH 2

Spa City Blues Society Blues Jam at the Big Chill, 8-12 p.m.

MARCH 3

Every Thursday evening, the legendary Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa on Central Avenue hosts Larry Womack and Jackie Beaumont in the lobby. On Friday and Saturday nights, Willie Davis & Co. provide entertainment. The lobby was recently named one of the Top 15 Favorite Hotel Bars in the world by Refinery29. Claim your spot at the bar, order a cocktail, listen to these sounds and see why.

MARCH 3

Live music from Parker Francis from 5-8 p.m. in Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn.

MARCH 4

Live music by Delta Donnie at Pop’s Lounge from 5-8 p.m. and the Big Dam Horns from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Silks Bar & Grill at Oaklawn.

MARCH 5

Live music by Christine Demeo and Cassie Ford from 5-8 p.m. at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn and the Big Dam Horns at Silks Bar & Grill from 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

MARCH 10

Brewer Band from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Silks Bar & Grill.

Spa City Blues Society Blues Jam at the Big Chill, 8-12 p.m.

across town, including longtime establishments like Maxine’s and The Ohio Club. Presented

by Low Key Arts, this year’s event features performances

by Juiceboxxx, Grandchildren, Water Liars, Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe and many more plus workshops and other events. Festival passes are $75 with a limited number of VIP passes available for $100. Day passes are $10.

MARCH 18

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MARCH 12

Live music by Jocko at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn from 5-8 p.m. and the John Calvin Brewer Band from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Silks Bar & Grill.

MARCH 16

Live music by Hwy. 124 from 5-8 p.m. at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn.

Live music by the Joe Hall Duo from 5-8 p.m. at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn and by Moxie from 10 a.m.-2 a.m. at Silks Bar & Grill.

MARCH 11

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Live music by Jocko at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn from 5-8 p.m. and the John Calvin

The 12th Annual Valley of the Vapors independent music festival takes place in venues

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Come celebrate the one-year anniversary of the re-opening of the Mid-America Science Museum. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

(Tuesday through Saturday) and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $10. Through the month of March, family memberships are only $75.

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Gallery Walk takes place from 5-9 p.m. Local galleries in historic Hot Springs National Park stay open late and offer light refreshments to patrons of the arts.

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MARCH 17

The World’s First Ever 13th Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade rolls down Bridge Street. At 98-feet long, it’s the shortest street in the world for everyday use, according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not. This year’s Grand Marshalls are Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael a.k.a. the Bacon Brothers Band. The duo will perform following the parade. The concert is free. The official parade starter is none other than Academy Award-nominated Gary Busey. Should be a wild time.

MARCH 19

Laissez les bon temps rouler at Valley of the Vapors and Hot SpringsVillage’s Crawfish Bowl featuring music by Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe from 6-10 p.m. Advanced tickets are $25 and available online at hsvticketsales.com. Call 501-922-4231 for more info.

MARCH 19

Live music by Moxie from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at the infield at Oaklawn; Christine Demeo and Cassie Ford at Pop’s Lounge from 5-8 p.m. and Moxie from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Silks Bar & Grill.

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The Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa hosts a beautiful Easter brunch from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. with John Puckett on piano. The cost is $36 for adults and $18 for children.

The hotel also invites you to the Friday night seafood feast and their regular scheduled and award-winning Sunday brunch.

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The luck of the Irish will be upon Oaklawn guests on St. Patrick’s Day with the Shamrock N’ Roll Party from 5-10 p.m. There will be a $4.99 Irish Dinner in Lagniappes, $2 draft beer specials and $5,000 free play drawing.

Start your day of luck off with a fun-filled day at the races.

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MARCH 20

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Philip Mann, returns to Garvan Woodland Gardens to present “Something Old.” Numbers by Bach, Vivaldi, Respighi and Suk will be a part of this beautiful performance. A reception will follow in the Magnolia Room. The concert starts at 3 p.m. Tickets are $30 for members and $45 for non-members.

MARCH 24

Lightnin’Lee Langdon performs live at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn from 5-8 p.m.

MARCH 25

Live music by Brian Mullen from 5-8 p.m. at Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn. Hwy. 124 plays Silks Bar & Grill from 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

MARCH 26

Live music by Moxie in the Oaklawn infield from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. John Calvin Brewer plays Pop’s Lounge from 5-8 p.m. and Hwy. 124 performs at Silks Bar & Grill from 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

MARCH 31

Tara Thompson and Brent Frazier play Pop’s Lounge at Oaklawn from 5-8 p.m.

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THE POET: Joseph Graves, as a soldier immortal, tells the story of the Trojan War in the one-man show “An Iliad.”

War in our time The Rep opens Black Box with “An Iliad.”

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he Poet, dressed in a tattered wool jacket sewn with military insignia and wearing an unraveling knit hat on his head, roars in Greek, “Meh nin ah!” Rage!

And thus opens “An Iliad,” not the one you read in high school, but a contemporary version of Homer’s epic poem, told by one man, in our case the actor Joseph Graves.

Graves will be making his 12th appearance (he most recently played Mark Rothko in “Red”) in a production at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre when “An Iliad” opens Friday, Feb. 26, in The Rep’s 120-seat Black Box Theatre. The Rep is celebrating both its 40th anniversary and its first season in the Black Box. 38

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A refresher on Homer’s “Iliad,” said to be the oldest story in Western literature: The abduction of women — Helen

by Paris and Briseis by Agamemnon — and the anger of the men who’ve lost them drives the Trojan War. To tell the story, Graves assumes the roles of many of the principals in Homer’s “Iliad”: the cowardly Paris, the conceited Agamemnon, sometimes tender and doomed Hector. The audience will see in the tale, which Graves will tell in 105 passionate minutes, certain universalities about war, the foolishness of causes, the selfishness that drives conflict.

Graves is lean, his voice is ringing, and he has a certain haunted look in his eyes, which is perfect for the role

of The Poet.

“I will come in after the audience is seated,” Graves described the opening of the play, “and see that people have invaded my space,” his space including a pile of blankets under a tarp of some sort, littered with bottles of booze and other detritus. He is, like many veterans, homeless.

At a signal from the Gods, our Poet, doomed to immortality and the Gods’ demand that he repeat the story of the Trojan War over the centuries that have passed since the abduction of Helen and the beginning of bloodshed, will reluctantly begin to speak.

The audience, in risers on either side of a long, narrow stage, will be only feet away from the Poet as he narrates his tale. “It’s very intimate,” Graves said, the right setting for the beautiful and harrowing tale rewritten for contemporary contemplation by playwrights Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson. He’ll be eye to eye with members of the audience at times, drawing them into the

story, Graves said, like the storyteller at a campfire.

The epic is, at its core, about “the internal war we all have,” Graves said.

“There’s some evidence that Homer [hoped to convey] it was not political decisions, but rage in our own lives” that makes men fight.

The play — as acted by Graves — is so compelling, Bob Hupp, The Rep’s producing artistic director said, that “in rehearsal I’m always interested in what’s going to happen next,” though of course he knows it by heart.

It is a rigorous role, one Graves has performed in Portland and Syracuse This is not a pro-war play or an antiwar play. But, it is about war, and will include “Arkansas Stories of War,” six “talkbacks” with local veterans telling their own stories, after performances Feb. 25 and 27 and March 2 and 4. The Rep has worked with the area veterans organization ARVETS to enlist men and women in discussions to be moderated by Just Communities of Arkansas.

One of those vets is Nicole Hart, the director of ARVETS, who served with the 39th Infantry Brigade during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and 2005.

She’s scheduled for an afternoon talk — unless her baby, due any day, comes.

“One of the biggest challenges we face is miseducation” about veterans, “so people connecting with the life of a veteran, the seriousness of war, how that affects lives, this is an opportunity to really hear from that perspective,” Hart said. In that way, she said, people will “more closely connect with the veteran population.”

Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin will also take part, but is yet to be scheduled.

The play, which is being sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, will be performed at 7 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday through March 5, and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. Tickets are $25 for one or $40 for two. Pay What You Can nights are Feb. 24 and 25, and there will be a reception after opening night Feb. 26.

“An Iliad” will be followed by yet another one-man show, “Bill Clinton Hercules,” which will run March 24-26.

The Black Box Theatre is at 518 Main St., cater-cornered from the Rep.

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A&E NEWS THE ARKANSAS TIMES Film Series will return March 15 with a screening of Orson Welles’ classic 1958 film noir “Touch of Evil,” to be screened at Riverdale 10 Cinema, 7 p.m., $7.50. Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Welles himself, the film is a fast-paced and suspenseful thriller set on the Mexican border and is one of Welles’ best and most beloved late-career achievements.

It has been called “the apotheosis of pulp” by the New Yorker’s Anthony Lane.

“Expressionistic in the extreme, filled with shadows, angles and cinematic flourishes,” wrote a Los Angeles Times reviewer, “the film raises the usual brooding nightmare ambiance of film noir to a level few other pictures have attempted.”

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THE ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER has issued a call for entries for the 58th Annual Delta Exhibition, a juried show that will be on exhibit June 10-Aug. 28. Deadline to enter is Friday, March 11, and applicants must be at least 18 years old. To enter, visit ArkansasArtsCenter.org/Delta.

FAYETTEVILLE WILL HOST a new independent music festival next month: On the Map Fest, with performances by Bleached, Pallbearer, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass, Water Liars and more. The event will take place over two nights, March 24-25, and will be held at the Fayetteville Town Center.

Buy tickets at OnTheMapFest.com.

COWBOY BUDDHA PUBLISHING, an independent book press based in Benton, has announced the March release of a new book by Manila native Rickie Lee Reynolds, the original guitarist from Black Oak Arkansas. “Evil Thingies,” billed as a “fantasy tale,” is based on bedtime stories Reynolds told his daughters. A book signing will be held at That Bookstore in Blytheville on March 5.

The Eureka Springs Blues Weekend has released the details of its 2016 event, which will be held June 16-19 at various venues around Eureka Springs. Along with various vendors and family-friendly activities, the festival will feature performances

by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Brick Fields, CeDell Davis, The Cate Brothers and many more. For a full schedule and more info, check EurekaSpringsBlues.com.

Verizon Arena has announced two forthcoming concerts, Barry Manilow (on April 1) and Steely Dan (June 25), and that the Def Leppard concert is rescheduled for March 11. Tickets for Barry Manilow went on sale Wednesday; tickets for Steely Dan go on sale on Friday, Feb. 26.

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THE TO-DO THURSDAY 2/25-SUNDAY 5/8

‘CHARLES BURCHFIELD’S BLACK IRON’ AND ‘DOROTHEA LANGE’S AMERICA’

Lecture and preview 6 p.m. Feb. 25.

Arkansas Arts Center. Free to members, $15 to nonmembers.

Before Charles Burchfield began to make his vibrating, almost psychedelic watercolors of nature in later life, he was intrigued by the industrial, painting scenes of factories, grain elevators and such in the Great Lakes region. One of these works, “Black Iron,” a large watercolor of a railroad drawbridge over Buffalo Creek in New York, is now in the collection of the Arkansas Arts Center, thanks to a gift from Hope Aldrich in honor of her father, John D. Rockefeller III. The Arts Center has developed an exhibition around this gift, which also included sketches and documents, that features other Burchfield works from the 1930s from galleries and private collections and will open it Thursday with a reception and talk, “The Force and Power of Industry: Charles Burchfield’s ‘Black Iron’ ” by Ann Prentice Wagner, the Arts Center’s curator of drawings. The counterweight to the industrial show, “Dorothea Lange’s America,” which captures the face of humanity in this same period, also opens. The show includes Lange’s iconic “Migrant Mother” photograph of a furrowedbrow figure with children and other Depression-era photographs by Lange and fellow Farm Security Administration photographers Walker Evans, Ben Shahn and Marion Post Wolcott.

Also in the show are photographs

by Arkansan Mike Disfarmer, Lewis Hine, Doris Ulmann and Willard Van Dyke. In conjunction with the Lange show, Gayle Seymour, associate dean in the College of Fine Arts and Communications at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, will give a lecture, “Arkansas Post Office Murals: Women Artists of the Depression,” at 5:30 p.m. March 31. The documentary “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning” will be screened at 2 p.m. April 3 and 17 and at noon April 29 in the lecture hall. LNP 40

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THURSDAY 2/25

JACOB METCALF, SIAMESE, YOUNG SPIELBERG 9 p.m. South on Main. $10.

One of Arkansas’s best, most consistently interesting indie rock groups of recent years is The Coasts, whose debut LP “Racilia” made the Arkansas Times’ top 10 albums of the year list in 2014. Coasts songwriter Ike Peters

has recently struck out alone with a side project called Young Spielberg, an alter-ego that shares his better-known band’s gift for earworm melodies, subtle arrangements and melancholy affect.

Thursday night Young Spielberg will open for two groups from the Dallas area: Jacob Metcalf and Siamese. Metcalf, a member of Fox and the Bird and the Dallas Family Band, makes insular,

fragile, carefully orchestrated indie-folk, and will be kicking off a tour celebrating the release of his debut record, “Fjord,” an album he financed partly by living out of his car. Siamese, meanwhile, is a harder-charging psych-rock band that describes itself as “avant glam art pop” complemented by a “lush” and “handmade” live visual component. WS

TRAILBLAZERS: Arkansas Sounds presents a tribute to the legendary Little Rock composers Florence Price and William Grant Still, 7 p.m. Friday at the Ron Robinson Theater.

FRIDAY 2/26

FLORENCE PRICE AND WILLIAM GRANT STILL TRIBUTE

7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. Free.

Friday night the concert series Arkansas Sounds pays tribute to two of the most important pioneers in American classical music, both of them from Little Rock. Florence Price was the first black woman recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition performed by a major American orchestra. William Grant Still, sometimes called the “Dean of African-American composers,” was the first black composer to have symphonies performed by major orchestras, operas performed by major opera

companies, and the first black conductor of a major American orchestra, at various points conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New Orleans Philharmonic. Price was born in Little Rock in 1887, the daughter of a dentist and a music teacher, and she lived here on and off until 1927, the year John Carter was lynched — hung from a telephone poll and shot, his body dragged through the streets of downtown Little Rock to the corner of Ninth and Broadway, where Little Rock whites set his remains on fire. Her family headed north after that to Chicago, where Price’s composition career thrived. Still was born in Mississippi, but soon moved to Little Rock, where he was raised by a single mother who taught English (his father

died when he was 3 months old). At Little Rock’s M.W. Gibbs High School, Still taught himself the saxophone, the oboe, the double bass, the cello, the viola and the clarinet, and won a scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Edgard Varese.

He went on to arrange music for W.C. Handy and to compose “Afro-American Symphony No. 1” (among many other now-iconic works), the first symphony written by a black American composer and performed by a major American orchestra. Ron Robinson will present a screening of the hour-long documentary “The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price,” followed by performances of pieces by both composers by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. WS

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 2/25 The Clinton School for Public Service hosts “Black & Brown Lives: Justice Over Social Divides,” a panel discussion with Esmeralda Baltazar, an artist and educator at the Highlander Research and Education Center, and Aquil Charlton, a musician and artist in residence at Chicago’s Urban Gateways, at Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. Hot Springs native and Illinois circuit judge Timothy C. Evans will be the featured speaker at the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame’s Distinguished Laureate Lecture Series at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 6 p.m. The Ron Robinson Theater hosts a screening of the recent Johnny Depp film “Black Mass” at 7 p.m., $5. The Goddamn Gallows play at Maxine’s in Hot Springs with The Devil’s Cut and Joe Myside and the Sorrow, 9 p.m., $7. Comedian Kevin Bozeman is at the Loony Bin at 7:30 p.m., $7 (and at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $10). KABF’s Shoog Radio presents the Russellville indie-folk group Jamie Lou & The Hullabaloo at the Joint in Argenta, 8 p.m., $5. Conway Americana band Handmade Moments performs at the White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 2/26 SHOWCASE FINALISTS: (clockwise from top left) SOULution, Sean Fresh & The Nasty Fresh Crew, The Uh-Huhs, Vintage Pistol and (middle) Collin vs. Adam.

FRIDAY 2/26

ARKANSAS TIMES MUSICIANS SHOWCASE FINALS

8 p.m. Revolution. $5.

Congrats to Vintage Pistol, which won round four of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase semifinals last Thursday night at Stickyz. At the showcase finals Friday night at Rev-

olution, the band will compete with neo-soul collective SOULution, R&B stalwarts Sean Fresh & The Nasty Fresh Crew, post-punk dance rockers Collin vs. Adam and Little Rock garage punk group The Uh Huhs.

The winning band will receive a prize package that includes headlining spots at Valley of the Vapors, the

Arkansas State Fair, Riverfest and Legends of Arkansas; gift certificates to Jacksonville Guitar, Blue Chair Studios, State of Mind Clothing and Trio’s Restaurant; a photo shoot with the Arkansas Times’ Brian Chilson; and a celebration party and a personalized drink courtesy of Stickyz and Revolution. WS

SATURDAY 2/27

SATURDAY 2/27-MONDAY 5/30

5TH ANNUAL MADONNARAMA

‘THE OPEN ROAD’

The House of Avalon is a party-planning collective that evolved from throwing house parties in Hillcrest to generating full-on multimedia experiences at the downtown nightclub Sway. Morgan Sykes, who profiled the crew for the Arkansas Times in 2014, noted that, at their best, these parties provide “a kind of spiritual center” for the young, vibrant Little Rock gay community. One of its most successful series has been the Madonnarama parties — note the mysterious Madonna silhouettes that have been posted up downtown in recent weeks — and this weekend’s event is its fifth. With an aesthetic influenced by equal parts Miley Cyrus, Cher and “Party Monster” (“anything irreverent, anything culty,” in its words), the parties are guaranteed to be memorable. As the House of Avalon told the Times, “We’re doing God’s gay work for young people in Little Rock.” WS

The U.S.A: the land of the free and the big car, where the road trip is part of the American experience. Photographers like Robert Frank, Ed Ruscha, Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston and Joel Meyerowitz have made photography of the American roadside a genre in itself. This weekend, Crystal Bridges opens an exhibition of 100 photographs by these masters and others, scenes of America’s tawdry grandeur (Las Vegas, Mt. Rushmore), roadside motels, the beautiful, the weird, the rich, the poor, the broken, the vast. Curator David Campany (author of the book “The Open Road”) asks and answers the question, “Is America even imaginable without the road trip?” The Arkansas Times is offering bus travel to the show April 2. LNP

9 p.m. Sway.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville

The 25th Annual Arkansas Flower and Garden Show, featuring food demonstrations from local chefs, kidfriendly activities and live music, kicks off at the Statehouse Convention Center at 10 a.m. (through Feb. 28).

The Boombox Cartel plays at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville with Henry & The Invisibles, 9:30 p.m., $12.

Award-winning electric blues multiinstrumentalist Cedric Burnside returns to White Water, 9:30 p.m., $10.

SATURDAY 2/27 The Foreign Tongues Poetry Troupe performs at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center at 6 p.m., free. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performs a program of Bernstein & Brahms at the Maumelle Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. (also 3 p.m. Sunday), $19-$58.

Backroad Anthem & Friends perform at Revolution, 8:30 p.m. Boom Kinetic plays at Stickyz at 9 p.m., $10. Low Key Arts’ fundraiser for the Valley of the Vapors music festival in Hot Springs features Don’t Cry Paula, Bad Match, Landrest and more, 8 p.m., $10.

MONDAY 2/29 Andy Smith of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center gives a talk titled “Why Americans Love to Hate Polls” at the Clinton School for Public Service’s Sturgis Hall, noon. Jazz group the Chris James Trio performs at the Afterthought, 9 p.m. www.arktimes.com

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THURSDAY, FEB. 25

MUSIC

Babah Fly, O.T. Ray. Vino’s, $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

The Goddamn Gallows, The Devil’s Cut, Joe Myside and the Sorrow. Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $7.

700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

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

5:40, Lil Hollywood. Revolution, 9 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

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

Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana.

Jacob Metcalf, Siamese, Young Spielberg.

South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501244-9660. southonmain.com.

Jamie Lou & The Hullabaloo. Presented by Shoog Radio. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

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

Josh Abbott Band. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $20. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-442-4226.

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

Little Rock Wind Symphony, “Darth Vader and Trombones.” Second Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., $10. 600 Pleasant Valley Drive.

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

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.

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

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

Voices Without Borders. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 10 a.m., free. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com.

ELECTRIC BLUES ROYALTY: The Cedric Burnside Project performs at the White Water Tavern at 9:30 p.m. Friday, $10.

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LECTURES

“Black & Brown Lives: Justice Over Social Divides.” With Esmeralda Baltazar, an artist and educator at the Highlander Research and Education Center, and Aquil Charlton, a musician and artist in residence at Chicago’s Urban Gateways. Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys. edu.

Timothy C. Evans. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 6 p.m., free. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com.

SPORTS

Horse racing. Oaklawn Park: 1:30 p.m., $2.50$4.50. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-6234411. www.oaklawn.com.

Women’s college basketball. UALR vs. TexasArlington, 5:15 p.m. Jack Stephens Center. $1 discount seats, regular seating $8 and up.

Men’s college basketball. UALR vs. TexasArlington, 7:15 p.m. Jack Stephens Center. $1 discount seats, regular seating $8 and up.

COMEDY

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MUSIC

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COMEDY

Kevin Bozeman. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $7.

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

EVENTS

#ArkiePubTrivia. Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m. 402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154.

FILM

“Black Mass.” Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $5.

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With SOULution, Sean Fresh & The Nasty Fresh Crew, Collin vs. Adam, The Uh Huhs and Vintage Pistol. Revolution, 8 p.m., $5. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

Boombox Cartel, Henry & the Invisibles.

George’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $12. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.

The Cedric Burnside Project. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Deadbird, William Blackart. Vino’s, 9 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Florence Price and William Grant Still Tribute.

A screening of the documentary “The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price,” followed by a performance by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www. cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

Good Time Ramblers. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

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

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

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.

Third Degree (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m.

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

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

Kevin Bozeman. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

“Little Rock and a Hard Place.” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

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

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501221-7568. www.blsdance.org.

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

EVENTS

25th Annual Arkansas Flower and Garden Show. Featuring food demonstrations from local chefs, kid-friendly activities and live music.

Statehouse Convention Center, 10 a.m., $10-$15.

7 Statehouse Plaza.

2nd Annual STEM Festival. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 10 a.m., free. 2801 S. University. ualr.edu.

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. 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. 501-244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook.

SPORTS

Horse racing. Oaklawn Park: 1:30 p.m., $2.50$4.50. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-6234411. www.oaklawn.com.

SATURDAY, FEB. 27

MUSIC

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Bernstein & Brahms. Maumelle High School, 7:30 p.m., $19$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501-851-5350.

B-Flats. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $7.

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

Backroad Anthem & Friends. Revolution, 8:30 p.m. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

Boom Kinetic. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Canvas (headliner), Brian Ramsey (happy hour).

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

Inrage, Terminal Nation, Bitter Times, Piece of Mind, Mailbomber. Vino’s, $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

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

Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

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

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

5th Annual Madonnarama. Sway, 9 p.m. 412 Louisiana.

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.

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

Zoogma. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $12. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-4424226.

COMEDY

Kevin Bozeman. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road.

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

“Little Rock and a Hard Place.” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

EVENTS

25th Annual Arkansas Flower and Garden Show. See Feb. 26.

64th Annual Home Show. Verizon Arena, 9 a.m. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com.

LECTURES

“Why Americans Love to Hate Polls.” A talk by Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Sturgis Hall, noon.

1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1

MUSIC

ASO Chamber Music. Clinton Presidential Center, 7 p.m., $23. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 370-8000. www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org.

The Faceless. George’s Majestic Lounge, 7:30 p.m., $13. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226.

Gil Franklin & Friends. Holiday Inn, North Little Rock, first Tuesday, Wednesday of every month.

120 W. Pershing Blvd., NLR. 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.

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

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

UCA Dixieland Band. South on Main, 7 p.m., free.

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

COMEDY

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

EVENTS

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

SPORTS

Women’s college basketball. UALR vs. Arkansas State, 5:15 p.m. Jack Stephens Center. $8 and up.

Men’s college basketball. UALR vs. Arkansas State, 7:15 p.m. Jack Stephens Center. $8 and up.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2

MUSIC

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

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

Drageoke with Chi Chi Valdez. Sway. 412 Louisiana.

Gil Franklin & Friends. Holiday Inn, North Little Rock, first Tuesday, Wednesday of every month.

120 W. Pershing Blvd., NLR. Harvest Thieves. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $5. 107 River Market Ave. 501372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

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

Mark Currey. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 5:30

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OXFORD AMERICAN AND SOUTH ON MAIN present these excellent shows in March: MAR 1 UCA DIXIELAND BAND The Oxford American is proud to host the UCA Dixieland Band at South on Main at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

To reserve a table, call 501-244-9660.

MARCH 10 THE FAIRFIELD FOUR As part of the Oxford American’s Artetypes & Troubadours Series, The Fairfield Four will take the South on Main stage at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $20-$35 and available online at www.southonmain.com/events.

MARCH 17 BRIA SKONBERG Bria Skonberg performs in the fourth and final performer in the Oxford American’s Jazz Series at South on Main. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20-$32 and available online at www.southonmain.com/events.

THROUGH MARCH 5

Audience favorite Joe Graves returns to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre for Lisa Peterson and Dennis O’Hare’s production of AN ILLIAD. This oneman show adapts Homer’s Trojan War epic into a compelling monologue. For tickets and show times, visit www.therep.org.

FEB 26

Calling all local music fans: Don’t miss the finals of the ARKANSAS TIMES MUSICIANS SHOWCASE at Rev Room. Finalists include Soulution, Sean Fresh & the Nasty Fresh Crew, The Uh Huhs and Vintage Pistol. 8 p.m., $10.

MARCH 6

THE 14TH ANNUAL LITTLE ROCK MARATHON races through the state’s capital city. The event benefits Little Rock Parks & Recreation. To register and find more info on the weekend’s events, visit www. littlerockmarathon.com.

MARCH 12

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MARCH 23

MARCH 31

Comedian RODNEY CARRINGTON performs at Verizon Arena before mature audiences. The show starts at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $29.75 and $44.75 and available online at www.ticketmaster. com.

In honor of Women’s History Month, WINE EXPERT LORI HAMBUCHEN will be a special guest at Colonial Wines and Spirits from 4-7 p.m. She will pour Rabble Wines to sample.

OPAL’S HUSBAND is now showing at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse. The lovable Opal Kronkie returns in this hilarious sequel to the popular Everybody Loves Opal.

Visit www.murrysdp. com for show times and dinner reservations.

Temple B’Nai Israel hosts “A TASTE OF JUDAISM” on Thursday evenings, March 31, April 7 and April 14. The three-session class is free of charge for patrons interested in learning the foundations of Judaism.

Call 501-225-9700 or visit www.bnai-israel.us to register.

APRIL 2

MARCH THE GO RED FOR WOMEN LUNCHEON takes place at the Little Rock Marriott.

From 10 a.m.-noon is the purse-onality auction and women’s expo followed by the lunch from noon-1 p.m. with guest speaker Holly Hoffman. Tickets are $200 per person or $2,000 for a table of 10. Heart disease is the #1 cause of death among women.

Proceeds benefit women’s cardiac research and education. Visit www.centralARGoRed. Heart.org to register or volunteer.

Watch the ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE at 6th and Main in Little Rock then head over to the north side for the ARGENTA IRISH FESTIVAL from 2-5 p.m.

Enjoy live music, food trucks and a beer garden featuring Diamond Bear, Lost Forty, Stone’s Throw, Flyway and more. Free admission with activities for the kids too. 520 Main St.

MARCH 15

MARCH 10

Colonial Wines and Spirits hosts a special Rock Town Distillery bourbon tasting at the Tasting Bar from 4-7 p.m. Andrew Windfield, Brand Ambassador of RockTown will be there.

Riverdale 10 and the Arkansas Times Movie Night features the Orson Welles’ classic TOUCH OF EVIL at 7 p.m. The monthly event takes place the third Tuesday of each month. Visit www.riverdale10.com for more.

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THE BE YOU WOMEN’S CONFERENCE takes place at McArthur Church in Jacksonville with guest speaker Chrystal Evans Hurst, Tony Evans daughter. The event includes vendor shopping with booths by several local favorites, including Southern Fox. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more info, visit www.mcarthurchurch.com or southernfoxnlr on Facebook

MARCH 11

POSTSECRET: THE SHOW comes to the Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. This audio-visual experience explores our deepest fears, ambitions and confessions based on the provocative postcards on PostSecret.com. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and contains adult material. Tickets are $10 and available online at www. tickets.uca.edu. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.uca.edu/publicappearances. n Country crooner LUKE BRYAN makes a stop at Verizon Arena on his “Kill the Lights Tour.” Dustin Lynch opens the show. Tickets are $53 and $90.50 and available online at www.ticketmaster.com. n Hop on the free trolley, and see where the 2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT takes you. From 5-8 p.m., pop into participating galleries like the Historic Arkansas Museum, Cox Creative Center, Butler Center Galleries, Arkansas Capial Corp and Gallery 221.

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MARCH 19

Verizon Arena hosts the SEC GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIP at 1 p.m. Tickets are $12-$16 and available online at www. ticketmaster. com.

MARCH 20

A special Sunday show takes place at South on Main featuring Yale University’s TANGLED UP IN BLUE. The show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $10. Call 501244-9660 to reserve a table, and visit www. southonmain.com/events for more info.

A N N O U N C E M E N TS

ATTENTION HALL HIGH ALUMNI: You are invited to join the alumni association.

Connect with us on Facebook or visit www. hallhighalumni.org. Get involved with homecoming, mentoring, gardening and more.

HOT SPRINGS is just a short drive away and has a ton of events happening this month, like the wacky World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Valley of the Vapors indie festival. Check out the full calendar of events in this issue on page 34.

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE LARGEST EVER NURSING EXPO PRESENTED BY PUBLISHING CONCEPTS, INC. NURSE AND ALLIED HEALTHCARE RECRUITERS, NURSING SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL RECRUITERS WILL BE ON-SITE AT THE JACK STEPHENS CENTER ON THE UALR CAMPUS FROM 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. 44

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The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents MENDELSSOHN’S STRING SYMPHONY NO. 10, BEETHOVEN’S STRING QUARTET IN C MINOR and BACH’S BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 2 at the Clinton Presidential Center at 7 p.m. Tickets are $23. Visit www.arkansassymphony.org for tickets.

Two new exhibitions: “INDUSTRIAL BEAUTY: CHARLES BURCHFIELD’S BLACK IRON” and “DOROTHEA LANGE’S AMERICA” open at the Arkansas Arts Center. Burchfield is best known as one of America’s outstanding modern watercolorists. This exhibition celebrates the arrival of his masterpiece, Black Iron, in Arkansas. Dorothea Lange’s America brings together many of the photographer’s images from the 1930s, documenting the suffering of unemployed or underpaid workers and their families. For more, visit www.arkarts.com.

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THE 15TH ANNUAL OZARK FOOTHILLS FILMFEST is currently accepting submissions. The festival will take place in Batesville, April 1-2 and April 8-9. For details, visit http://www.ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org.

AFTER DARK, CONT. p.m. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbistroandbar.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.

COMEDY

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

DANCE

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

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

“Cinderella.” Walton Arts Center, March 1-3, 7 p.m.; March 4-5, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sun., March 6, 7:30 p.m., $20-$70. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-443-5600.

“Fault.” An original new work by TheatreSquared director Robert Ford. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, through Feb. 28: Thu.Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., $22-$25. 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. theatre2.org.

“An Iliad.” Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through March 5: Wed.-Sun., 7 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 28, 2 p.m., $25. 601 Main St. 501-378-0405. www.therep.org.

“The Odyssey.” Arkansas Arts Center, through Feb. 28: Fri., Sat., 7 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., $10.

501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

“Once On This Island: A Musical.” A Tonynominated musical set in the Caribbean, based on the novel by Rosa Guy. The Weekend Theater, through Feb. 28: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 p.m., $20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www. weekendtheater.org.

“Saturday Night Fever.” Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Sun., Feb. 28, 5 p.m., $27-$35. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: Preview of “Dorothea Lange’s America” and “Industrial Beauty: Charles Burchfield’s ‘Black Iron,’ ” 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 after a lecture by Ann Prentice Wagner, 6 p.m., free to members, $15 to nonmembers; “Miranda Young: A Printed Menagerie,” museum school gallery, through May 29; 46th annual “Mid-Southern Watercolorists Exhibition,” through April 17; “Admiration,” painting by William Adolph Bouguereau, through May 15; “Life and Light: “Nathalia Edenmont: Force of Nature,” through May 1.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

GALLERY 221 & ART STUDIOS 221, Second and Center streets: “80/20,” retrospective of work by George Chlebak, Feb. 26-March 18, artist’s reception 5:30-9 p.m. Feb. 27; new works by Kasten McClellan Searles, through Feb. 27. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 801-0211 .

BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip,” 100 images by 19 photographers of America from 1950 to today, including Robert Frank, Ed Rscha, Gary Winogrand, William Eggleston, Joel Meyerowitz and others, member preview all day Feb. 26, panel discussion with photographers Stephen Shore and Justine Kurland 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 26, gallery talks, 1-2 p.m. and 6:30-7:30 p.m. March 3; run of show Feb. 27-May 30; “Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention,” painting on loan

by Samuel F. B. Morse. 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.

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EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: “Colors from Here to There,” paintings by Dee Schulten, closing reception 6 p.m. Feb. 27; “Student Art Show and Competition,” through Feb. 27. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 870-862-5474.

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NEWPORT DOWNTOWN: 8th annual “Delta Visual Arts Show,” works in all media by 181 artists from three states at several locations downtown, workshops, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 27. newportarcity.org/calendar.

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NEW MUSEUM EXHIBITS, EVENTS PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, U.S. Hwy. 165 and state Hwy. 161: Lye soap-making workshop, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 27, $25 registration; permanent exhibits on historic agriculture.

8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $4 adults, $3 children. 961-1409.

CALL FOR ENTRIES Gallery 360 is taking entries of miniature works for “Shrunken,” a group show scheduled for mid-April. Two-dimensional submissions should be no more than 50 square inches, small 3D sought as well. Further info at Facebook/360Gallery, or call 663-2222. Deadline is April 5.

The Arkansas Arts Council is taking applications for artist fellowships to be awarded in poetry, music composition and painting.

Deadline to apply is April 15. Artists must be 25 years old and a resident of Arkansas for a least one year to be eligible. Applications are available at www.arkansasarts.org. For more information, call the Arts Council at 501-3249348 or email robinm@arkansasheritage.org.

Drawl Southern Contemporary Art and Oxford American magazine are seeking entries of art and literature for “The Gun Show,” a juried regional competition and exhibition of work about the roles that guns play in Southern life to run May 20 to June 17. Deadline is March 25. Prizes are $2,500 for first, $1,000 for second and $500 for third. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Chad Alligood will be juror. To enter and for more information, go to www.drawlgallery.com/the-gun-show.

The Arkansas Arts Center is accepting entries to the 58th annual “Delta Exhibition,” open to artists in Arkansas and contiguous states. Entry forms are at ArkansasArtsCenter.org/delta. Deadline is March 11. The exhibition runs June 10-Aug. 28.

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FOR THE THIRD YEAR in a row, Chef Matthew McClure, of The Hive in the 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville, has been named a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards in the Best Chef: South category. The Beard awards are the Academy Awards of the restaurant business. McClure was the only Arkansas nominee. He’s the reigning chef winner in our annual Readers Choice restaurant poll in the Around the State division.

FOURQUARTER BAR, located at 415 Main St. in downtown North Little Rock, is amid a soft opening. The New Orleans-inspired bar and venue is the brainchild of Conan Robinson, longtime manager at Midtown Billards, who partnered on this new venture with Midtown owner Maggie Hinson. The bar, which offers a full cocktail menu and 13 beers on tap, also serves barbecue smoked in-house from hogs raised by Brown Chicken Brown Sow in Mountain Home. No word on the official opening date, but for now hours are 3 p.m. until 2 a.m. daily, though you might want to call ahead to be sure, 313-4553.

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1515 CAFE This bustling, business-suit filled breakfast and lunch spot, just across from the state Capitol, features old-fashioned, buffetstyle home cookin’ for a song. Inexpensive lunch entrées, too. 1515 W. 7th St. No alcohol. $-$$. 501-376-1434. L Wed.-Fri., D Mon-Sat. BUFFALO WILD WINGS A sports bar on steroids with numerous humongous TVs and a menu full of thirst-inducing items. The wings, which can be slathered with one of 14 sauces, are the starring attraction and will undoubtedly have fans. 14800 Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-868-5279. LD daily.

BY THE GLASS A broad but not ridiculously large wine list is studded with interesting, diverse selections, and prices are uniformly reasonable. The food focus is on high-end items that pair well with wine — olives, hummus, cheese, bread, and some meats and sausages.

Happy hour daily from 4-6 p.m. 5713 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-663-9463.

D Mon.-Sat. CAFE BRUNELLE Coffee shop and cafe serving sweets, tasty sandwiches and Loblolly ice cream.

17819 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

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CRAZEE’S COOL CAFE Good burgers, daily plate specials and bar food amid pool tables and TVs. 7626 Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-221-9696. LD Mon.-Sat. CUPCAKE FACTORY About a dozen cupcake varieties daily, plus pies, whole or by-the-slice, 46

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425 President Clinton Ave. Little Rock 850-0265 cachelittlerock.com QUICK BITE While Cache stands out in its beef and fish entrees and its pastas dishes at night, both lunch and dinner feature individual pizzas in the $9-$14 range.

HOURS 11 a.m. to 9:45 (last seating) weekdays, 5 p.m. to 9:45 (last seating) Saturdays, closed for dinner Sundays. Brunch 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

SWANKY, AND THE FOOD’S GOOD, TOO: Cache worth the cash.

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eviews of Cache Restaurant in the Times — one every year for the past two — have expressed widely differing opinions. After opening two years ago, Cache received a favorable review of its dinner options; last year, lunch was a disappointment. Over that time, its original executive chef bolted for Northwest Arkansas and Payne Harding, son of owners Rush and Linda Harding, took over the kitchen.

We weren’t intending to take in Cache for a third review this early in its brief life, but a happenstance visit on Valentine’s weekend was so spectacular and so worth every penny of the $200-plus we laid down for dinner for two, bottle of wine and tip, that we were encouraged by the bossman here to try dinner again and report back.

No doubt by now most Little Rock foodies know Cache garners puns about its name and the price tag on dinner. On our second visit, we set out to see if we could eat well for under $30 for one person, and we succeeded.

Yes, we understand that $30 for dinner (appetizer, main course) would stop many around here in their tracks. It also reminds us, however, of the sage words from longtime Little Rock restaurateur/ protestor Robert “Say” McIntosh, who proclaimed, “Good food ain’t cheap, and

cheap food ain’t good.”

What puts Cache on the level of great restaurants one might experience in Las Vegas, Dallas, New York — besides the swanky, modern layout that carves out an L on the northeast corner of The Arcade building, and the cool upstairs bar with a balcony overlooking President Clinton Avenue — is the obvious care that goes into each portion of each dish served up

by Chef Harding.

For example, our appetizer of Creolestyle barbecue shrimp ($14) was built around a house-made Worcestershire sauce that imparted a slight sweetness on the backend of each taste of shrimp or the sopping baguette slices (we want more than two next time, though). The dish wasn’t dominated by any real heat (hence Creole, rather than Cajun cayenne-laced); neither the garlic nor the butter overwhelmed the dish, either. The shrimp was allowed to stand on its own.

For our entrée, with $16 or less to spend, our fantastic server Jo Jo Sims (who many remember from the Capital Bar, and who no doubt remembers you with her impeccable recall) wisely suggested the ricotta tortellini ($14), with another sop-worthy lemon-butter sauce that was perfectly balanced to go with crispy prosciutto.

Our two dining companions weren’t

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on the same budget we subjected ourselves to, and to be honest, we cheated — another diner bought the bottle of wine that we shared. Cache, if you haven’t visited yet, has an extensive wine list with a wide range of prices, all presented on an iPad for perusal.

Hence, one happily chose the caprese salad ($11), where at Cache, the added extra is avocado slices on top of the house-made fresh mozzarella, lots of fresh basil, and a tomato seemingly picked that day and drizzled with a balsamic reduction. The sherry vinaigrettedressed bibb salad ($9) with sundried cranberries and shredded carrots didn’t stand up next to the caprese.

The other drawing card to Cache is knowing the beef or fish will be of a quality you simply won’t find at your local market. We experienced that first on Valentine’s night with a prix fixe dinner ($75 per person for three courses; the beef alone is regularly $40) featuring a special of center cut prime filet and a lobster tail. The kitchen also handled our challenge to cook the beef “not medium but not medium rare” expertly. Creamy garlic potatoes were presented along with sauteed asparagus.

Our companion had also chosen beef on the Friday before Valentine’s Day, but luckily the other special is a regular on the menu: pan-seared Alaskan salmon ($32) on top of rice pilaf with mirepoix, sauteed asparagus and a dollop of tarragon butter on the fish.

On Valentine’s night, Cache surprised us with a massive slice-to-serve-two of an outrageously rich chocolate layer cake.

A few nights later, three of us enjoyed a bread pudding that was served something above piping hot. At least we were

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warned by Jo Jo, even if we couldn’t wait to dig in.

One last thing: Before our meal with our Valentine’s honey, we waited for her arrival at the bar, enjoying a visit with a well-versed bartender on the greatness of various bourbons and ryes. You can taste any you’d imagine at Cache, including Pappy Van Winkle bourbon (we’ll have that when our lottery ticket hits). Feeling momentarily like we were

in New Orleans, we went for the Sazerac ($20) with the hard-to-find Sazerac rye shot.

We can’t vouch for any improvements at lunch, but we can’t imagine in almost a year’s time, with Chef Harding getting a handle on all aspects of the open-air, active kitchen, that Cache hasn’t stepped up its game at midday to match what is an amazing experience at night.

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BIG ON TOKYO Serviceable fried rice, teriyaki chicken and sushi. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-375-6200. BLD Mon.-Sat. CHINA PLUS BUFFET Large Chinese buffet.

6211 Colonel Glenn Road. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-562-1688. LD daily.

CHINESE KITCHEN Good Chinese takeout. Try the Cantonese press duck. 11401 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-2242100. LD Tue.-Sun. HANAROO SUSHI BAR One of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare. Try the popular Tuna Tataki bento box.

205 W. Capitol Ave. Beer and wine, all CC. $$.

501-301-7900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. TOKYO HOUSE Defying stereotypes, this Japanese buffet serves up a broad range of fresh, slightly exotic fare — grilled calamari, octopus salad, dozens of varieties of fresh sushi — as well as more standard shrimp and steak options. 11 Shackleford Drive. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-219-4286. LD daily.

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

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18104 Kanis Road. No alcohol, all CC. 501-8219913. L Mon.-Fri. CUPCAKES ON KAVANAUGH Gourmet cupcakes and coffee, indoor seating. 5625 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-664-2253. LD Mon.-Sat. DEL FRISCO’S GRILLE Chain specializes in steak and upscale pub food. Try the crab cake.

17707 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$.

501-448-2631. LD Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. DEMPSEY BAKERY Bakery with sit-down area, serving coffee and specializing in gluten-, nutand soy-free baked goods. 323 Cross St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-375-2257. Serving BL Tue.-Sat. HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-374-1400. BL Mon.-Fri. 9700 N. Rodney Parham. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-224-6637. BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. IRA’S PARK HILL GRILL Inventive and toothsome fine dining in a casual setting. 3812 JFK Blvd. NLR. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-771-6900.

L Tue.-Fri., Sun.; D Tue.-Sat. BR Sun. IRONHORSE SALOON Bar and grill offering juicy hamburgers and cheeseburgers. 9125 Mann Road. Full bar, all CC. $. 501-562-4464.

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J. GUMBO’S Fast-casual Cajun fare served, primarily, in a bowl. Will surprise you. 12911 Cantrell Road. Beer, all CC. $-$$. 501-916-9635.

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JERKY’S SPICY CHICKEN AND MORE Jerk chicken, Southern fried chicken, Southern fried jerk chicken, along with burgers, sandwiches, salads. 521 Center St. No alcohol. $-$$. 501-2463096. LD Mon.-Sat. LULAV A MODERN EATERY Bistro-style menu of American favorites broken down by expensive to affordable plates, and strong wine list, also group-priced to your liking. Great filet.

Don’t miss the chicken and waffles. 220 W. 6th St. Full bar, CC. $$$. 501-374-5100. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. THE OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on Mondays), peel-andeat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive po’ boys. Killer jukebox. 3003 W. Markham St. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100. LD Mon.-Sat. STAGECOACH GROCERY AND DELI Fine po’ boys and muffalettas — and cheap. 6024

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HEART HEALTH MONTH SCIENCE FINDING LINKS BETWEEN SLEEP AND A HEALTHY HEART

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is more common as people age, but can veryone knows the benefits of sound, appear as early as childhood. It not only puts restorative sleep on one’s mood, proa person at higher risk for cardiovascular ductivity and alertness but did you know disease, but also makes it harder to treat that good sleep is also a key element of such conditions. And, patients are often good heart health? caught in a vicious cycle as their lack of According to the National Sleep Founsleep results in ancillary behaviors that dation, not getting enough sleep carries only worsens their condition and degrades higher risk for cardiovascular disease, overall health. the leading cause of death in the United “If you’re not sleeping very well, that States and for stroke, the fifth-leading affects your dietary pattern,” Chakka said. cause of death in the U.S. In one study of “That tends to promote eating at the wrong 3,000 adults over the age of 45, those who times or staying up and watching TV until slept fewer than six hours per night were midnight and having a snack at 11 o’clock at roughly twice as likely to have a stroke or night. Obviously, that will add the pounds heart attack as people who slept six to that in turn will affect the blood pressure, eight hours per night. diabetes and heart conditions.”

Rebecca Buerkle of the Southwest AfAs the condition has only been formally filiate of the American Heart Association diagnosed for about 30 years, there’s still in Little Rock said the risk for hypertension “In general, good sleep is very important for your immune system and overall health. much the medical community is discoveris also elevated, a condition for which There’s a definite connection.” ing when it comes to the full ramifications Arkansas is routinely ranked among the of sleep apnea on a person’s health. But this much is clear: sleep apnea has significant connection to heart health.” highest in the nation.

In the most common form of the disease known as obSleep apnea is a disorder which causes disruptions in “Poor sleep quality is linked to high blood pressure; structive sleep apnea, lifestyle management can reduce breathing during the night, forcing patients to wake up to one in three Americans suffer from it,” she said. “Arkansas the likelihood and severity of cases. gulp air. The most severe cases of sleep apnea interrupts ranks seventh in the nation when it comes to hyperten“The best treatment is to lose weight; that’s the main sleep at least 30 times per hour and often significantly more. sion, which is called the silent killer because often people cause of sleep apnea,” Reddy said. “It’s not always that “Sleep apnea has been strongly linked to diseases like don’t have physical side effects that would make them obesity causes sleep apnea, there are other causes, but high blood pressure, heart diseases, especially coronary come into their doctor.” obesity is number one and losing weight will definitely help.” artery disease, and it can also contribute to heart failure,” While a college student’s all-nighter or an overworked Buerkle agreed, while noting cultural elements and social said Dr. Raghu Reddy, pulmonologist at CHI St. Vincent. single mother pulling a double shift isn’t likely to cause stigma can have a dampening effect on people adopting “It can increase the risk of having strokes and a condition these conditions, clinical sleep issues are a different story. lifestyle changes. Last year, Arkansas was declared the most called pulmonary hypertension which is a heart condition “In general, good sleep is very important for your immune obese state in the nation by Trust for America’s Health and where the lungs are also affected.” system and overall health. There’s a definite connection,”said Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.

About one in five adults, and more men than women, Dr. Raj. Chakka, cardiologist and electrophysiologist at CHI “In the South in general, we do like our fried food and have at least mild sleep apnea. Reddy notes the condition St. Vincent Health System in Little Rock. “More specifically, CONTINUED ON PAGE 50

“Arkansas ranks seventh in the nation when it comes to hypertension, which is called the silent killer because often people don’t have physical side effects that would make them come into their doctor.”

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Did you see that new show on Netflix? This question will follow you to the office, to the salon, to a barn in the middle of rural Arkansas. I’m not kidding. The reach of Netflix, a global provider of streaming entertainment with 75 million subscribers, is impressive.

In recent months, the small talk was all about Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None,” then “Making a Murderer,” then Chelsea Handler’s fourpart docuseries, “Chelsea Does.” Last weekend, Netflix released its latest conversation starter, “Love,” produced

by Judd Apatow (“Freaks and Geeks,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up”), in which newly single, nice and nerdy Gus (Paul Rust), and newly single, cool girl Mickey (Gillian Jacobs), serendipitously meet and fall in love … .

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than on the falling, because this show is centered on circumstances that involve its characters stumbling and tripping over themselves. Gus and Mickey are 30-something professionals living in L.A. with no real sense of themselves, let alone each other.

Gus is a polite pushover unafraid of outbursts. Mickey is a tough-skinned addict unafraid of crying. Their meeting provokes a particular type of drama that caters to its audience: the forever young and overthinking millennials who are endlessly fascinated by the type of exploratory self-consciousness at the root of the series. In the pilot, Gus, an on-set television tutor and aspiring writer, asks his friends, “Who am I? Where do guys like me live? Where do the repressed, hostile nerds whose girlfriends accuse them of being fake nice live?” A friend suggests cheerfully, “Santa Monica?”

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. This Turkish eatery offers decent kebabs and great starters. The red pepper hummus is a winner. So are Cigar Pastries. Possibly the best Turkish coffee in Central Arkansas. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-223-9332. LD daily.

KEBAB HOUSE Turkish-style doners and kebabs and a sampling of Tunisian cuisine. Only place in Little Rock to serve Lahmijun (Turkish pizza). 11321 W Markham St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. LD Mon.-Sat. LITTLE GREEK Fast casual chain with excellent Greek food. 11525 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. (501) 223-5300. LD daily.

MUSE ULTRA LOUNGE Mediterranean food and drinks. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. 501-663-6398. D Mon.-Sat. MYLO COFFEE CO. Bakery with a vast assortment of hand-made pastries, house-roasted coffee and an ice cream counter. Soups and sandwiches, too. 2715 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-747-1880. BLD Tue.-Sun.

ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL A chain restaurant with a large menu of pasta, chicken, beef, fish, unusual dishes like Italian nachos, and special dishes with a corporate bent. 11100 W. Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-2213150. LD daily.

ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees (don’t miss the veal marsala) and salads are all outstanding.

With a more affordable lunch menu. 2001 E. Kiehl Ave. NLR. Beer and wine, all CC. 501-8347530. LD Tue.-Fri., D Sat.

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FONDA MEXICAN CUISINE Authentic Mex in a neighborhood not known for that. The guisado (Mexican stew) is excellent. 400 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-3134120. LD Tue.-Sun. LOS TORITOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT Mexican fare in East End. 1022 Angel Court.

IRIANA’S PIZZA Unbelievably generous handNo alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-261-7823. LD tossed New York-style pizza with unmatched daily. zest. Good salads, too; grinders are great, TAQUERIA KARINA AND CAFE A real particularly the Italian sausage. 201 E. Markham Mexican neighborhood cantina from the St. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-374-3656. owners, to freshly baked pan dulce, to LD Mon.-Sat. Mexican-bottled Cokes, to first-rate guacaMELLOW MUSHROOM Popular high-end mole, to inexpensive tacos, burritos, quesapizza chain. 16103 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, all dillas and a broad selection of Mexican-style CC. $$-$$$. 501-379-9157. LD daily. seafood. 5309 W. 65th St. Beer, No CC. $.

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best scenes pair Gus with his weekly music crew, or Mickey with her Australian roommate, Bertie. The scenes with Gus and Mickey are rarely funny or romantic — they’re gritty, dramatic and often cringe-worthy. You could argue that this makes the series more realistic, since relationships often involve a slow and messy buildup. But does anyone want to watch a series about two often unlikeable, incompatible 30-year-olds romantically duking it out? I can name a dozen Netflix titles more binge-worthy than that.

This is not to say that “Love” has no redeeming qualities. In the second episode, Mickey is driving Gus back to his apartment after a cinematic screaming match with his ex. Gus is holding an expansive collection of Blu-rays, boxed up, about which his ex taunted him.

Like most rom-com characters, Gus begins ranting about love. Suddenly, he’s tossing “Pretty Woman,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and the rest of his collection into the streets of L.A., blaming Hollywood for his doomed belief that love could conquer all. “All these movies I’ve watched, they’re lies,” he says, insisting his belief in happy endings is over. But his infatuation with Mickey, which comes on strong around episode three, suggests he hasn’t quite given up the dream.

“Love” claims to navigate the “thrills and agonies of modern relationships”

and, I admit, it has the modern part down. An intoxicated Mickey calls an Uber, and later cyber-stalks Gus on Facebook. Bertie FaceTimes her new love interest, and is proudly paper-free (“I only use credit cards and Apple Pay”). Gus types two long texts to Mickey before deleting and rewriting them and finally sending just, “Sup?” The preteen that Gus tutors postpones her schoolwork by showing him videos on her smartphone, then asks him to take a photo of her for Instagram.

These characters are digitally linked but emotionally disconnected — a mantra so familiar it’s become a cliche. Standing outside Mickey’s house, a man running with a dog passes Gus on the sidewalk. Gus calls out, brightly, “Morning!” The runner turns his head, irritated, and answers, “What?” Gus repeats himself, soft and hesitant now, but the runner doesn’t acknowledge him a second time.

There’s much that the 10-episode first season of “Love” could’ve done better: characterization for one, authentic comedy for another. But there is an enjoyable rebellion in seeing Gus and his friends — of refreshingly varied ages and ethnicities — jamming out, laughing. Or Mickey and Bertie leaning into a mirror, cursing, picking at their pores. These are the moments that seem genuine, even striking.

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STYLISH FOR SPRING We’ve always loved Maddox, the stylish clothier for women of all shapes and sizes, since they first opened in Argenta. We’re even more in love since their spring fashions have arrived. At their always affordable pricing, we can’t wait to add these pieces to our spring rotation of outfits. Be sure to follow them on Facebook for updates on specials and events.

5 QT/4.7 L Ideal for carrots, zucchini, cucumbers and other long produce

PROTECT THE PRODUCE Spring means the arrival of farmers markets and fresh produce. There’s nothing worse than getting home with all your goodies only to have it go to waste before you can even eat it. Krebs has the answer with these produce keepers.

Available in a variety of sizes, they prolong the life of your produce meaning less waste saving you money.

PILLOWS THAT POP Even the smallest changes can bring spaces out of the winter doldrums. We’re excited to add some of these colorful pillows from Ken Rash’s to our outdoor areas. They’re an easy, inexpensive way to brighten up any place.

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BLESSING BRACELETS Whenever you wear it acknowledge one blessing in your life for each pearl on the bracelet.

Each time you are drawn to the bracelet, silently find four people or things you can be grateful for.

Found at The Southern Fox, these make great Easter gifts. Also available: sterling silver bangle with over 40 verse options and a men’s line of leather bracelets.

SPRING CHICKEN Handmade fluffy felted wool spring chicks from Whispering Wool are a sure sign that spring (and Easter!) is around the corner.

We found these at South Main Creative perched atop an antique dough bowl full of vintage velvet Easter eggs.

Buy it! Find the featured items at the following locations: MADDOX 419 Main St., NLR 313.4242 shopmaddoxonline.com

THE SOUTHERN FOX Argenta 304 Main St., NLR 375.DESK (3375)

KEN RASH’S ARKANSAS 11220 N. Rodney Parham, Ste. 14 663.1818 kenrashoutdoorfurniture.com

SOUTH MAIN CREATIVE 1600 Main St. 414.8713

CLOTHIER FOR WOMEN Sizes Small - 3XL. Affordable | Stylish | Great Customer Service.

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Walk the trails enjoying the breathtaking landscape and natural beauty surrounding Crystal Bridges

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The SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS division of The Arkansas Times has a position open for a Publisher. If you have sales experience and enjoy the exciting and crazy world of advertising then we’d like to talk to you. We publish 4 publications: Savvy, AR Wild, Food & Farm and Shelter as well as corresponding websites and social media. What does all this translate to? A high-income potential for a hard working advertising executive. We have fun, but we work hard.

Fast paced and self-motivated individuals are encouraged to apply.

If you have a dynamic energetic personality, we’d like to talk to you.

PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME AND COVER LETTER TO ELIZABETH AT: ELIZABETHHAMAN@ARKTIMES.COM EOE.

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HIRING MAUMELLE ENTRY LEVEL POLICE OFFICERS The CITY OF MAUMELLE is hiring entry level Police Officers. The first step in joining this team is to take and pass the Civil Service examination. The next scheduled examination is Saturday, March 26, 2016. Qualifications for taking the exam are: 1. Be a United States Citizen 2. Be the age of 21 on date of the exam (Police Exam) 3. Be able to pass a background check, a drug test, and/or physical examination 4. Possess a high school diploma or equivalent 5. Possess a valid Arkansas driver’s license Starting salary is $32,500.00 per year; the City offers an excellent employee benefit package which includes employee paid health and dental insurance, life and AD&D insurance, generous retirement program and many more benefits.

APPLICANTS may order the “NPST Candidate Orientation Guide” by going to http://www.fpsi.com/police-orientation-guidedownload-disclaimer/. The NPST Candidate Orientation Guide can be downloaded on the page following the instruction and disclaimer page that applicants must read and agree to. This will ensure the orientation guide is downloaded successfully.

Once the guide is in the FPSI shopping cart, applicants will be given the option to pay with a PayPal account or as a PayPal guest with credit card. The download link will be located on the Order Received-Checkout Page that appears on the FPSI website as soon as payment is submitted and applicants are redirected from PayPal back to FPSI. Applicants must pay close attention to ALL instructions on both FPSI and PayPal’s websites in order to download GUIDE properly.

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MAIL RESUME TO GLOBAL TEACHERS SOLUTIONS LLC, 11901 CRYSTAL HILL ROAD, MAUMELLE, AR, 72113

MATH TEACHER (Little Rock, AR) Teach Math at secondary sch. Bachelors in Math, Math Edu. or Engineer.+1 yr exp as Math tchr at mid or high sch.

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“EOE – Minority, Women, and disabled individuals are encouraged to apply.”

This ad is available from the Title VI Coordinator in large print, on audio, and in Braille at (501) 851-2784, ext. 233 or at vernon@maumelle.org.

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