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From the web In response to the July 8 Arkansas Blog item, “Leslie Rutledge joins bathroom lawsuit”: Which bathroom does General Leslie choose to use? Who gets the job of verifying the plumbing? Who will pay the notary public?

Silverback66 But of course she is. The “Party” called and gave her daily marching orders. She is following the party line on this just like she has all the other issues she’s jumped on. Does her staff do anything for Arkansas citizens or just things that the National Republican Party wants? arkdemocrat The big question in my mind is where will Leslie Rutledge live after she’s no longer Asa’s nasty tool? I sure as hell don’t want her living in my neighborhood. I’m afraid, like she attaches herself to all out-of-state pro-discrimination lawsuits, my chicken eggs will forever attach to the side of her house if it is within throwing distance.

The Red Team thinks we’re dumb.

Well, a whole lot of our friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers are dumb but if we keep telling these ninnies how awful Red Team Asa is for their families, drum drum drum like we’re walking and talking Fox News, our ninnies will eventually figure out voting for a Republican in this state is a mix, from bad to awful to sometimes deadly.

We must ask ourselves who makes money every time Leslie signs up in support of a losing cause. It’s always about the money, so who makes money when Leslie jumps to the wrong side of history joining our state with Nebraska?

Remind me to visit Nebraska someday, or better yet, let us all continue to never think about Nebraska or anywhere else that would welcome the likes of Leslie to join their unconstitutional lawsuits.

Yes, our state is known around the world as Arkanstupid thanks to Red Team Asa and the six representing us in Congress. Not much we can do about it at the moment other than lie to people when they ask where we live. I’m pretending to live in Ridgefield, Conn., and as long as I never leave home or answer the doorbell, I might get away with this lie.

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We need a state constitutional amendment that says the Leslie Rutledges of this world pay from their own state salaries the costs of stupid lawsuits they file unsuccessfully against federal court decisions.

Claude Bahls In response to the July 9 Arkansas Blog item, “Open carry advocate unhappy about label as ‘suspect’ in Dallas shooting”: Until we get some sort of meaningful gun control in this country, these types of incidents are going to continue to escalate out of control. Average citizens have no business with high-volume shooting rifles/guns. NONE. Orlando, Dallas and so many more incidents in the past make that abundantly clear.

Rick 1 The best we can expect to come out of this tragedy is that the NRA finds itself in an even more politically difficult and awkward position.

Texas’ open carry law meets peaceful protesters and good cops meets racist politicians (e.g. Dan Patrick) defend-

ing racist cops meets easy access to firearms by people who should never have them meets a broken mental health system including the military and VA meets the nationwide failure of police departments to train their officers in how to de-escalate violence meets the shameless disgustingly racist NRA. The chickens keep coming home to roost and shit on the pig head of Wayne LaPierre.

Black Panthers for Open Carry Perhaps the raving left will wait for the facts before lynching another innocent person or group. Considering how wrong most of you were about Trayvon, Brown, Garner and Freddie, people would think most of you would shut up until facts could be collected.

Steven E If you ever need some encouragement regarding race issues, just remember that black men making political statements with firearms scared people in 1960s and ’70s California enough to kick off the modern gun control movement.

Now, most people don’t really care.

Baby steps.

Gylippus Anyone who openly carries weapons in a public place has a belligerent attitude and therefore bears watching.

The police should be commended for questioning him.

And Gyl, whom I don’t agree with very often, hits the nail on the head.

Back when black radicals in Oakland were carrying guns, they were dangerous. Now that white supremacists are carrying them, it is their god-given right. plainjim In response to the July 8 Arkansas Blog item, “Life, death and the Arkansas Constitution at stake in execution case”: I didn’t see Rapert on Facebook demanding these Black Robed Lawyers be taken off the court; why is that?

Oh, that’s right: ’cause he likes the state killing people, but if a woman takes a pill the day after unprotected sex she is going to hell!

ConwayMichael The Arkansas Supremes also showed that any agreement a lawyer for a defendant might make with the great state of Arkansas isn’t worth the paper it is written on. The not-so-Supremes tossed

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Our so-called “Christian” legislators are in so much hurry to disobey another of the 10 Suggestions. And that is why we don’t need Rapert’s Folly on the Capitol grounds or any state property. couldn’t be better In response to Gene Lyons’ July 7 column, “Same story on Hillary”: [U.S. Rep.] Trey Gowdy spent $6 million? What did Kenny spend? Was that $60 million? Did we yet see the bill for the FBI investigation(s)? Do these calculations include overhead costs for the “representatives” and “senators” that participated in the hearings, including prep and staff time costs? So, conservatively, would $100 million be an unreasonable estimate? I used to think that if I ever decided to run for office, I would have to do some “stuff,” because otherwise I might be embarrassed if I were investigated and found not to have done anything interesting. How can anyone question the intrinsic honesty of a person who has endured 25 years of $100 million spent on attempts to find something (not a balanced investigation)?

As Lyons indicates, the media people who hyped speculations and the media management people who hired and promoted those people are in greater need of investigation. How does the media look at Hillary metaphorically, at least for now, standing next to Donny, and decide to talk about Hillary’s honesty?

Reporters who choose to focus on Hillary might benefit from judicious use of mirrors. deadseasquirrel

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Nah. That kinda stench doesn’t go away. Or, it shouldn’t.

Rick Fahr CORRECTION An article in the July 7 issue of the Times on a political action committee formed by Progressive Arkansas Women mistakenly referred to Republican Carlton Wing, who faces Democrat Victoria Leigh in the General Election for the District 38 seat in the state House of Representatives, as a legislator. He is not. arktimes.com

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

WEEK THAT WAS

Quote of the Week:

— Dallas Police Chief David Brown at a press conference the morning after five officers were killed and seven were wounded by a gunman, Micah Johnson, who said his aim was to kill white cops. Johnson, a 25-year-old black Army veteran who evidently acted alone, was killed by police using a robot equipped with a bomb.

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“We are hurting. … We are heartbroken. There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city.

All I know is that this must stop — this divisiveness between our police and our citizens. … Our city, our country, is better than that.”

BOUQUETS: A woman in a flower print dress who identifies herself as Miss Lula sells flowers at the Little Rock Farmer’s Market.

Reeling The ambush in downtown Dallas unfolded at the end of a peaceful protest over the killings of two black men at the hands of police last week. The shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., both of which were caught on video, spurred demonstrations around the nation. In Little Rock, a diverse crowd of about 100 people gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Friday for a “Hands Up, Guns Down” rally organized by three Arkansas college students. In Memphis, a crowd of over 1,000 shut down the I-40 bridge across the Mississippi River for nearly four hours; there, unlike in some other cities, officers dispersed the crowd without injuries or arrests and the interim director of the Memphis Police Department met with several of the protestors.

Bogarting the ballot Medical marijuana will be back before Arkansas voters this November. The secretary of state confirmed that a group collected enough valid signatures — over 77,000 — to place the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act on the ballot. A similar initiative failed by only 2 percent in 2012, and polling indicates that public support for the issue has grown in the years since.

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However, there’s a wrinkle. Signatures supporting a rival pro-pot measure, this one a proposed constitutional amendment, were also submitted last week. It seems likely to qualify for the November ballot as well. Squabbling could undermine both efforts: Supporters of the constitutional amendment say the AMCA’s provision allowing some patients to cultivate their own plants could sink the proposal, while supporters of the AMCA say the amendment would effectively create monopolies for a few well-heeled growers. David Couch, the lawyer championing the constitutional amendment, has said he’s considering a lawsuit challenging the AMCA.

Another year, another test The state released the results of its new standardized test, the ACT Aspire, which was administered to Arkansas students in the spring. How’d the kids do? Hard to say, considering schools last year took an entirely different test (the PARCC) and yet another one the year before that (the Arkansas Benchmark).

The Aspire scores indicate improvement is needed — statewide, 68 percent of students met a readiness benchmark in English and 43 percent in math, with even lower percentages in reading, sci-

ence and writing — but as long as the state keeps switching the playing field, it’s impossible to gauge whether or not progress is being made.

From chaplain to convict A prosecutor announced that Kenneth Dewitt, a former chaplain at the McPherson women’s prison in Newport, has pleaded guilty to three counts of third degree sexual assault. Dewitt, 67, was fired in 2014 for having had a sexual relationship with a parolee; a State Police investigation then revealed he’d also had sex with at least three inmates as well. He’ll receive a 10-year sentence per count — but the sentences will be served concurrently and with five years suspended on each, meaning Dewitt will serve a maximum of five years behind bars and likely even less.

Rutledge joins bathroom lawsuit Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has joined nine other states in another reprehensible lawsuit against the federal government. This time, it’s over the guidance recently issued by the Obama administration that tells public schools they should

allow transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender identity. According to Rutledge, Arkansas and other states are being forced “to adopt a radical social policy that raises serious safety concerns for school-age children.” The states, she said, are the real victims of bullying, at the hands of an overweening federal government.

We’d like to see her explain that conclusion to a group of transgender high school students.

OPINION

The week’s lowlights

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nother week of dispiriting news, the worst being the continuing deadly crisis over police/community relations. Beyond that:

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: Read Leslie Peacock’s article this week on neighborhood worries about residential subdivision proposals on the fringes of Little Rock that would rely on subdivision-operated sewage treatment plants and pose pollution threats to waterways in the Lake Maumelle area. These plants are an issue everywhere, more so because a seller and operator of such systems, Republican Rep. Andy Davis of Little Rock, has a seat in the General Assembly.

Davis has spent much of his taxpayerpaid time in the legislature working on legislation to make easier the lives of people who operate plants he sells and who dump materials in waterways. His 2015 legislation relieved operators of sewage treatment plants from posting a bond or having insurance. If something goes wrong, a $20,000 state trust fund won’t do much. Davis defends this and other

work in behalf of his industry as the natural byproduct of an expert in the field.

His expertise may be judged by 21 citations he’s received for improper dumping into waterways.

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MORE TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: In recent weeks, the Asa Hutchinson administration has sold state home health care services to a private operator and changed the private operator of the state’s problemplagued juvenile lockup in Alexander. In both cases, the state is not providing details on the competing bids. The state chose a more expensive (and blemished) operator for the lockup. The outsourcing of home health services also left unanswered questions about competing bids. Whatever the bottom line on the initial sale, it is unlikely to save money. Outsourcing means private companies make more for the same services. In the Republican era, running government like a business means higher

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rom William Hope “Coin” Harvey to Gerald L.K. Smith, Arkansas has always offered a refuge for the reviled, so it is perfect that Tony Blair and George W. Bush flee here this week to escape the slings and arrows of their nations’ brutal politics. A Presidential Leadership Scholars graduation provides the patina for the get-together.

The world’s gentlest parson, Bill Clinton, will be here to comfort them. We’ll not ask any hurtful questions about the disastrous Iraq War they led us into, although it killed 62 and wounded 465 young Arkansas men and women and left many others crippled in spirit. But if we do, we’ll accept their lame answers: “The world is a safer place with Saddam Hussein dead.” The Arkansas DemocratGazette will pen a nice editorial about their heroic service in killing Saddam and buying the cradle of civilization for U.S. taxpayers.

Forgotten for the few hours they repose in this welcoming glade will be Donald Trump’s savage attacks on Bush and his war, which deprived bubba Jeb of the office for which he was officially pedigreed. Forgotten, too, will be the scathing British commission’s report last week

that recorded in 2.6 million words how Bush and Blair led their nations into the disastrous 14-year (and countERNEST ing) war through DUMAS phony “intelligence,” lies and appeals to patriotism.

Let’s get it all out of the way before Bush and Blair get here so they can sojourn in peace alongside the healing waters of the Arkansas River as it courses by the Clinton library on its way to Napoleon, Ark., and the Father of Waters.

Iraq, after all, is or should be the overriding foreign-policy issue of the presidential campaign, for it represents the folly of well-intentioned U.S. policy in the Middle East for much of 60 years, which was to take sides in the tribal, sectarian and ethnic rivalries in hopes the people who seemed at least on that day to come closer to our values would prevail.

As a senator from New York, the Democratic candidate for president, our own Hillary Clinton, voted for Bush’s war resolution in October 2002, along with nearly every Republican in Congress and most Democrats. Five of Arkansas’s six mem-

costs for government, greater profits for private business, little accountability and taking care of friends.

TAKING CARE OF BIGELOW: Sen. Jason Rapert of Bigelow, Toadsuck, Conway and the world did it again – issued a judgmentchallenged Facebook rant. His ire was directed at Hillary Clinton and President

Obama. He quoted someone who said he’d like to see Clinton and “Osama Obama” hanged for treason. Did Rapert respond by quoting one of the Ten Commandments, a monument to which Rapert proposes to build on Capitol grounds? No, he said: “I can understand your thoughts on that.” He then mewled that he’d been defamed by a critic who likened this remark to condoning lynching. Rapert’s own words defame him. Regularly.

All the news wasn’t bad. So far, police and protesters in Little Rock have been calm in expressing reaction to recent police shootings, from Baton Rouge to Dallas.

And Yale University students, though they failed in a campaign to strip the name of slavery advocate John Calhoun from a campus residence hall, were offered mitigation in the removal of some artifacts honoring Calhoun. Better still, the Calhoun dining hall was renamed for Little Rock native Roosevelt Thompson, Yale class of 1984, whose bright future was snuffed out by an auto accident shortly before he was to embark on a Rhodes Scholarship. You have to wonder what Rosey — who would have been in his early 50s today — would have done to calm troubled waters. Something more than what the current crop has offered, I have to believe.

bers of Congress — all but Vic Snyder — voted for the resolution. Clinton has regretted her vote and pins her excuse on the language Bush stuck in the resolution emphasizing that every diplomatic effort would be tried before war. Everyone knew that it was window-dressing and that war was on the way, as a British diplomat in Washington wired back to the home office.

Iraq was Trump’s finest hour during the dirty primaries, but, like everything else about his campaign, also his worst.

Trump said Bush stupidly got rid of a dictator who had slaughtered every terrorist entering the country, a slight distortion of the truth, and that the war made Iraq the breeding ground for Sunni radicals who would engulf much of the region.

But Trump also bragged he had publicly demanded that Bush not go to war.

His only recorded remark praised the war.

Like Clinton, he denounced it afterward.

The British report that revived so much calumny on poor Tony Blair only verified what previous British studies of the war had found. It was remarkable only for its depth and breadth, for the many years it took and for Blair’s breathtaking message to Bush before the war blindly assuring the president, “I will be with you, whatever.”

And for this: They did the study. It raises the question, why has the United

States not done such a study of the war and its buildup? Congress has done study after study of the attack on the embassy at Benghazi, where the ambassador and three others died while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, but no investigations were made of the eight embassy attacks that killed 288 people in the years of Reagan, Bill Clinton and the Bushes.

Investigations relentlessly pursue Hillary Clinton for her paranoid insistence on using her private email server, although no evidence has yet surfaced of the slightest harm coming of it except to her image. Congress authorized a bipartisan study of the 9/11 attacks, although the report glazed over the government’s failings before the attack, omitting the daily presidential briefings where warnings of airplane attacks on U.S. sites were given and the CIA director’s admission that he had briefed Bush’s secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, on them two months before the attacks.

Yet there has been no investigation of the Iraq War planning, although it led to more than a million deaths and a cost to U.S. taxpayers that is estimated to exceed $6 trillion when all the medical bills are paid.

There is an answer. As the emails and everything in Washington demonstrate, nonpartisan study is an oxymoron.

TAKING CARE OF BIGOTRY: Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined 10 other states in a federal lawsuit to address a largely nonexistent problem. She and other Republicans don’t like that President Obama issued a reminder that gender discrimination is unlawful, including against people whose gender is different from that declared at birth. Rutledge thinks school children are at risk from transgender use of appropriate facilities, though by all accounts school districts in Arkansas seem to be coping with the rare transgender student. Rutledge denies science.

She declares that birth gender is gender for all time, no matter what the facts say.

Gov. Hutchinson cheered her work for discrimination. It protects no one, but further marginalizes a small number of people who’ll be more prone to bullying thanks to state-endorsed discrimination.

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eturn with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, specifically to September 1992, when Attorney General William Barr, topranking FBI officials and — believe it or not — a Treasury Department functionary who actually sold “Presidential Bitch” T-shirts with Hillary Clinton’s likeness from her government office, pressured the U.S. attorney in Little Rock to open an investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater investment.

The Arkansas prosecutor was Charles “Chuck” Banks, a Republican appointed by President Reagan, and recently nominated to a federal judgeship by President George H.W. Bush. It was definitely in Banks’ interest to see Bush re-elected.

The problem was that Banks knew all about Madison Guaranty S&L and its screwball proprietor Jim McDougal. His office had unsuccessfully prosecuted the Clintons’ Whitewater partner for bank fraud. He knew perfectly well that McDougal had deceived them about their investment, just as he’d fooled everybody in a frantic fiscal juggling act trying to save his doomed thrift.

The “Presidential Bitch” woman’s analysis showed a shaky grasp of banking law and obvious bias — listing virtually every prominent Democrat in Arkansas as a suspect. So when FBI headquarters in Washington ordered its Little Rock office to proceed on L. Jean Lewis’ criminal referral, Banks decided he had to act. He wrote a stinging letter to superiors in the Department of Justice, refusing to be party to a trumpedup probe clearly intended to affect the presidential election. “Even media questions about such an investigation … he wrote, “all too often publicly purport to ‘legitimize what can’t be proven.’ ” Keep that phrase in mind.

That was the end of the Bush administration’s attempt to win the 1992 election with a fake scandal. Also the end of Chuck Banks’ political career.

The prevailing themes of the Clinton Legends, however, were set: imaginary corruption and a “Presidential Bitch.”

Eight years and $70 million later, Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater prosecutors folded their cards, proving the Little Rock prosecutor had been right all along.

That brings us to today. FBI director James Comey wouldn’t dare take his largely adverbial case (“extremely,” “carelessly,” etc.) into a courtroom against her. Because when the accused can afford competent defense counsel, a

bogus case endangers the prosecutor more than the defendant. Indict the former secretary of state and GENE lose? Goodbye LYONS career. Comey successfully protected his career while wounding the Democratic presidential nominee. No way could the former secretary of state be prosecuted for mishandling classified information without convincing evidence that a bad guy got his hands on it. The best Comey could do was to say, “It is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”

Clinton herself noted that Comey was simply speculating. “But if you go by the evidence,” she said, “there is no evidence that the system was breached or hacked successfully.” (Although the State Department’s was.) You can’t convict somebody with maybe.

What secrets are we talking about?

Slate’s Fred Kaplan explains: “Seven of [Clinton’s] eight email chains dealt with CIA drone strikes, which are classified top secret/special access program — unlike Defense Department drone strikes, which are unclassified. The difference is that CIA drones hit targets in countries, like Pakistan and Yemen, where we are not officially at war; they are part of covert operations. … But these operations are covert mainly to provide cover for the Pakistani and Yemeni governments, so they don’t have to admit they’re cooperating with America.”

The eighth email chain was about the president of Malawi. Seriously.

Even Comey’s press conference assertion that Clinton handled emails marked classified failed to survive a congressional hearing. Shown the actual documents, Comey conceded that they weren’t properly marked. Indeed, it was a “reasonable inference” they weren’t classified at all. Really.

Michael Cohen in the Boston Globe: “Whatever one thinks of Clinton’s actions, Comey’s depiction of Clinton’s actions as ‘extremely careless’ was prejudicial and inappropriate. The only reason for delivering such a lacerating attack on Clinton was to inoculate Comey and the FBI from accusations that he was not recommending charges be filed due to political pressure. But that’s an excuse, not an explanation, and a weak one at that.”

The very definition, indeed, of legitimizing “what can’t be proven.”

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n watching the NFL lo these many years, I always admired the way Jim Harbaugh played the quarterback position. He was the scrappy overachiever sort, tough and quick on his feet, with a slight edge to him. In 1995, he had a woefully undermanned Colts team on the precipice of the AFC championship.

Harbaugh’s carried that chip on the shoulder into the coaching ranks, and I guess it’s sort of abscessed at this point, because that once-virtuous spunk now looks like petulance and cockiness. He’s been indisputably successful as a college frontman, but as he cruised out of Stanford a few years back to take the San Francisco job, two things were generally expected: the Cardinal would return to Earth as the Pac-12’s also-ran, and the 49ers would experience long-term resurgence. Neither of those things occurred.

In fact, the cerebral and more polished successor at Palo Alto, David Shaw, handsomely outdid Harbaugh and has now established that program as the power program in California.

He’s won 54 games in five seasons, including two Rose Bowls, and is 36-9 in conference play; Harbaugh had to reconstruct the program, in fairness, but his first two of four campaigns were losing ones, and he ended up only 29-21 overall there after a dramatic surge to an Orange Bowl win and a final No. 2 ranking in 2010.

Harbaugh went to San Fran, and after initial successes there, his abrasiveness and affinity for bold personnel decisions started to wear thin, particularly on upper management, which undoubtedly didn’t feel compelled to stroke his ego when the team fell off badly after a narrow Super Bowl defeat three seasons ago. He was able to resign timely, and move on to Michigan, his alma mater, which proudly snatched him up.

From there, Harbaugh started the feather-ruffling all over again, goosing Ohio State Coach Urban Meyer, making “satellite camps” part of the football lexicon, and most recently, jettisoning the Arkansas Razorbacks from a planned home-and-home tilt in 2018-19 in favor of renewing Michigan’s barely-iced rivalry with Notre Dame. Michigan will reportedly eat a multimillion-dollar loss in breaking

the deal.

It’s a regional decision for Harbaugh. The Arkansas-MichBEAU igan rivalry is an WILCOX oxymoron (Hogs played the Wolverines in the 1999 Citrus Bowl and got plowed over in the fourth quarter by Tom Brady and Co.), and fans there have assuredly clamored for another shot at Notre Dame. But Bret Bielema expressed his disappointment with the decision, and why not? He’s argued that Big Ten teams and SEC teams need to square off more often so the conferences’ respective clout can be better assessed.

What makes Bielema likable while Harbaugh is seen as bristling is this distinction: While Harbaugh is rapidly tweeting jabs at foes and putting his chiseled chin and felonious stares in front of the cameras, Bielema seems content to be a bit more subtle, and maybe even reserved after the Hogs laid two memorable eggs against presumptive underdogs Toledo and Texas Tech last September. He’s chided Gus Malzahn and Co. for their methods, and said that he felt Harbaugh’s satellite camp tomfoolery would be cracked down on by the NCAA soon enough, none of which is offensive per se, but can have the effect of fueling a rivalry that might not otherwise have flourished.

Malzahn’s on a hot seat of late, and Harbaugh could be, too, if all these theatrics don’t satiate a hungry fan base that turned sharply on predecessor Brady Hoke and never really got comfortable with Rich Rodriguez, who preceded Hoke. Coaches are progressively getting more audacious in words and deeds. Sometimes it works, but in many cases the payoff is timelimited.

When Bielema arrived here, he did so with a somewhat confusing and counterintuitive stance: He wanted to test the SEC waters that he had previously lightly ridiculed as being overblown. Now that he’s in them, he’s curtailed a bit of the bravado, managed the players’ expectations, taken on the accountability for the tough defeats that have transpired through the overall maturation, and he’s not trying to send his team to CONTINUED ON PAGE 38

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Sewage plant battle, round 2 Like Kanis group, Nowlin Creek neighbors say no.

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all, ancient bald cypress and sycamores hug Nowlin Creek in the Maumelle River watershed in western Pulaski County, and flowers, like gayfeather and the rare soapwort gentian, grow near its shady banks. In summer, the creek runs dry, though there are deep pools in places, but it can flood in wetter seasons.

Now, developer Rick Ferguson wants to build a wastewater treatment plant — it would serve a future subdivision — that will dump up to 40,000 gallons of treated sewage into Nowlin Creek daily. Janae Day, who lives with her husband, Jimmy, on 26 acres on Nowlin Creek, says that means the creek will run with nothing but effluent in summer; when it floods, it will bring the treated water up to her barn. Because Nowlin Creek feeds the Maumelle, that treated water will also flow through Pinnacle Mountain State Park.

Last Thursday night, members of the Nowlin Creek Neighborhood Association, a group of landowners who measure their properties by the acre instead of the foot, gathered at the Days’ home to hear from their lawyer about what they can do to convince the Little Rock Planning Commission to reject a Conditional Use Permit application that would allow construction of the plant. The commission will consider the CUP at its meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 14, at City Hall. Ferguson’s application to build the Mountain Valley subdivision, which will place 134 50-foot-wide lots on 36 acres, will be considered separately; it will go before the commission in August.

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June 28 on a resolution asking Little Rock’s Planning Commission to delay until March 31, 2017, approval of private wastewater treatment plants in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction. The court approved the moratorium at the request of opponents of another private sewage treatment plant. The Trails, a proposed development of 266 homes on 154 acres along Kanis Road, would treat its wastewater and send it into Fletcher Creek, which feeds into the Little Maumelle. Trails developer Wayne “Oz” Richie applied last year for a CUP from the Planning Commission. Staff recommended against it, and after questions were raised about how the treatment plant would function, he withdrew the CUP request, deciding to first get a permit to build the plant from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. That permit is pending.

Ferguson, however, went first to the ADEQ for a permit for the wastewater plant. The ADEQ informed him in June that it would not act on his plant permit application until the Planning Commission issues a CUP for the plant. It’s unclear why Ferguson was asked to get a CUP for the permit process to go forward when Richie was not; a spokesman for the agency maintained the applications were treated the same.

City Director Gene Fortson, who was invited to the meeting last week but could not attend, said he had concerns about the construction of private treatment plants, though he believes they have good operational records. “But I want to know a little bit more. I want to know about what the Health Department and the ADEQ say.”

Fortson said he also wanted to talk to a Quorum Court member or County Judge Barry Hyde about the resolution, which should eventually be discussed by the City Board. Fortson also said the city should perhaps develop policy that

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UNDER THREAT: Nowlin Creek, in the Maumelle watershed.

would broaden the Planning Commission’s regulations on extraterritorial development, perhaps allowing them to consider environmental effects of development.

Property owners are concerned not only about what will be dumped into the creek, which The Nature Conservancy described as a “high quality stream” in an assessment for the county waste management district, but how the plant will be operated. Algae blooms have been recorded upstream on Nowlin Creek where effluent from the private Alotian golf club’s treatment plant enters. Patti Hodges, the secretary of the Nowlin Creek Neighborhood Association, illustrated the algae blooms for the neighborhood gathering with photographs of Nowlin Creek above and below the Alotian plant.

Ross Noland, the lawyer working with the Nowlin Creek property owners, told the association that the residents of Mountain Valley, not the developer, will have to pay to maintain the plant.

Should residents be negligent, there is a state trust fund that would provide assistance for repairs. That trust fund, which contains only $20,000, was created in 2015 under a bill by state Rep. Andy Davis (R-Little Rock) to remove “burdensome” financial requirements of permit holders. Previously, permit holders had to have insurance to cover the plant maintenance and operation and post a surety bond. Those requirements are gone. Davis is an engineer who owns a private sewage treatment plant business.

The Planning Commission staff

AFFLUENT EFFLUENT: Patti Hedges, secretary of the Nowlin Creek Neighborhood Association, holds up a poster of pictures of Nowlin Creek algae blooms where the Alotian golf course wastewater enters.

received 30 letters opposing the plant before its publication of the agenda online last week. Nicholas and Marcia Finn wrote, “Our grandchildren play in this creek and we are tremendously concerned for their safety. The Natural Resources Conservation Services would not even allow dirt to be placed on land near the bank of the creek due to possible creek contamination, but this proposal will discharge sewage directly into the creek.”

The sewage treatment plant is not the only worry regarding the Mountain Valley development. A large portion of the subdivision lies in the 100-year flood plain and plans call for it to be filled in.

(That will require a permit from the U.S. Corps of Engineers.) The higher ground would mean Nowlin Creek floodwaters on the opposite bank — onto property along Hood Road, like the Days’ — will reach a higher level. Janae Day, who led

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A TWO-LANE CONCRETE ROAD BUILT IN 1941 is among nine Arkansas properties recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program announced the properties, which also include a barn, a church education building, a Batesville PICTURE building, a mid-century home in Sebastian County, a Baptist church, two residences in Little Rock and a country club clubhouse. The register is a National Park Service designation that may provide tax benefits and consideration for federal grants for preservation when funds are available.

Designation of a road is not unusual, in Arkansas at least. The state has 30 roads that are on the register, including the cobblestone alley behind the buildings that line President Clinton Avenue, a section of road in Monroe County that preserves the 19th century route from Memphis to Little Rock, and brick streets in Warren and Texarkana.

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guests last week on a bush-hogged path alongside the creek, pointed to debris several feet up the bank to show how high floodwaters have gotten recently.

“I really don’t want to sell this place,” Day said. “I want to be buried here.”

But she fears effluent-filled water will erode her property.

Runoff from the densely developed subdivision, which will turn what is now a meadow into a paved neighborhood, also worries Tom Frothingham, who lives east of the development on Pleasant Grove Road. Frothingham is concerned about traffic as well; a plat for the development shows only two exits: one on Cantrell Road and the other on Pleasant Grove, a narrow twolane that intersects Cantrell.

Also attending the neighborhood meeting was Sheriff Doc Holliday, who lived in nearby Roland until he was 5 and who told the group, “We support you; you are part of our community.

We’re involved with you because you’re here.” There was a millennial there as well; she looked at the plat and asked, “Where’s the market for this development? You can’t walk anywhere.”

Walnut Ridge Army Airfield Access Road at College City in Lawrence County. The two-lane concrete highway constructed under the National Defense Highway Act of 1941. It was one of four concrete roads built under the National Defense Highway Act and contains the most integrity, the nomination states.

O.D. Gunn Sale and Trade Barn at Quitman in Cleburne County. This transversecrib barn built circa 1910 was where O.D. Gunn and his son, Fred, showed and sold livestock. It is clad in thin metal sheathing.

First Methodist Church Christian Education Building at Hot Springs in Garland County. This mid-century Modernstyle building was designed by Arkansas architect I. Granger McDaniel and built in 1963-65. Its arches, colonnades and stone accents were designed to help the modern building blend with the style of the church.

Building at 187 E. Main St. in the Batesville Commercial Historic District. The design of the 1908 building was influenced by the Art Moderne style of architecture.

A metal slipcover was removed from the façade, making it a contributing structure in the historic district.

Oscar Chambers House at Fort Smith in Sebastian County. Ernie Jacks designed this mid-century Modern-style residence constructed in 1963-64 to create a relationship between the indoors and outdoors, with sliding glass doors and large windows.

Little Springs Missionary Baptist Church at Poughkeepsie in Sharp County. This was built in 1943 in the Ozark vernacular “giraffe rock” style. The nomination says the “use of ‘giraffe rock’ exteriors had its roots in the arts and crafts movement with its focus on visibility of handicraft and use of local, natural materials.”

Gustave B. Kleinschmidt House, 621 E. 16th St. The 1907 Queen Anne/Colonial Revival residence was the home of a German immigrant and real estate developer.

“The house illustrates the nearly threedecade period of investment and development of the local neighborhood by Gustave B. Kleinschmidt, who helped to create a diverse and thriving community through the construction of over 40 Colonial Revival and Craftsman cottages,” the nomination says.

William Heibach House, 1501 S. Summit St. The house, built circa 1910, was influenced by the Colonial Revival and Italianate styles. With removal of asbestos siding and ongoing restoration to rebuild the roof in the original style and uncover the original siding, the house is now considered a contributing building in the Central High School Neighborhood Historic District.

Sylvan Hills Country Club Clubhouse at Sherwood. The club was designed in the Googie futurist style by North Little Rock architect Raymond Branton and built by N.P. Alessi. It has not changed in looks since it opened in December 1963.

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SPEAKING OUT: University of Arkansas graduate Kayla Kimball says the university mishandled its hearing over the sexual assault she says she was a victim of. She filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which is now investigating the UA.

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How Title IX hurts the sexual assault victims it’s supposed to protect The federal government is investigating the way the University of Arkansas handles allegations of rape.

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mong those who study and try to prevent sexual assault at America’s colleges and universities, the fall semester period between the first day of classes and the last day before Thanksgiving break is known as the Red Zone.

Statistically, it’s the time during the school year when young women have the greatest chance of being the victim of a sexual assault on campus.

There’s a number of factors that might help explain why that’s so, including an influx of freshmen and the collegiate pastime of binge drinking in large groups. But the real reason, the most honest reason, is because there is a small but significant contingent of students on every campus who are either confused about the meaning of sexual consent or, more disturbingly, predatory enough to just not give a damn about it. The aftermath of that ignorance or callousness can be life-altering.

A 2015 survey by the Journal of Adolescent Health found that 19 percent of women students are the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault before their freshman year of college is done. One in five women will be sexually assaulted by the time they graduate.

At the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, once a student relates a sexual assault to any person at the university who has been designated a “responsible employee” — including all deans, department heads, all program directors, coaches, librarians and student Resident Assistants in the dorms — the process moves forward, whether the

victim wants it to or not, even if she doesn’t choose to report it to police.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is the federal law against gender-based civil rights violations and discrimination at federally funded educational institutions. The law prohibits sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic or dating violence and stalking and discrimination based on pregnancy, among other things. Under Title IX, once an allegation of gender-based misconduct is brought to the university’s attention, if the Title IX coordinator believes there is a safety threat to the campus, officials are obligated — even without the alleged victim’s consent or cooperation, if need be — to investigate, reach a decision as to the validity of the claims, whether the accused violated the university’s code of student conduct and mete out punishments up to and including expulsion of the alleged perpetrator. While not a criminal proceeding, many universities handle these proceedings in a manner that can mimic criminal hearings, including bringing in witnesses and admitting evidence. At the UA, an investigator questions all parties involved to build a case, which is then presented — usually by way of testimony from the accuser, the accused, eyewitnesses and character witnesses — to a three-person panel whose members are selected from a pool of specially trained hearing officers among the Office of Student Standards and Conduct, university housing hearing officers and the UA’s Student Conduct Board.

While the number of student victims

reporting a sexual assault on campus has risen sharply in recent years, up 84 percent between 2009 and 2013 according to the U.S. Department of Education, the vigor and quality with which some universities have followed up on those accusations under Title IX has been uneven, and — some victims say — discriminatory. The outcry over Title IX has been such that the federal government has taken action. Since January 2012, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has initiated investigations of complaints about the way sexual assault allegations were handled under Title IX at 192 colleges and universities nationwide. On April 21, the University of Arkansas joined that list, when the OCR informed officials at the UA that it was investigating the handling of three 2015 complaints.

In one case, an unnamed male student alleged that the university had discriminated against him by failing to respond to his allegations that he was sexually harassed and also that the university had mishandled a sexual harassment complaint against him. In the second case, former UA student Kayla Kimball said that the university had discriminated against her by failing to adequately respond to her allegation that another student, her former boyfriend, had assaulted her during their relationship. The OCR investigation into those cases is ongoing.

Kimball and another student who went through the Title IX hearing process at the UA spoke at length to the Arkansas Times. While both spoke glowingly of the help they received from Dr. Mary Wyandt-Hiebert — who is the only full-time paid sexual assault victim advocate for a student body of 25,000-plus students — both described an investigation and hearing process that was, by turns, belittling and humiliating. One called her hearing the worst experience of her life, including the alleged rape that brought her there.

AGGRESSIVELY DENIED We’ll call her Susan.

Speaking to the Arkansas Times on condition of anonymity — because, she said, she doesn’t want to be labeled as a victim of sexual assault for the rest of her life — Susan said that in spring 2014, when she was a 20-year-old sophomore at the UA, she was working as a resident assistant in a dorm when she experienced a medical incident that left her incapacitated. She said a male student and fellow RA she knew

offered to help her. Then, she claims, he assaulted her in her dorm room while she was semiconscious.

Reached on Facebook, the young man Susan accused was given the opportunity to comment for this article, either by phone interview or in response to a series of questions via email. He did not respond to that offer.

Confused and unsure of what to do following the alleged assault, Susan said she went the next day to a trusted older person she worked with to ask her advice. The friend stopped her in the middle of her story. “Before I finished even explaining it, she said, ‘What you’ve explained to me is a sexual assault, and I am a mandated reporter under Title IX, so you’ll have to go through the Title IX process,’ ” Susan said. “Right then and there, it went from getting advice to me being in the Title IX process.”

Having been trained as an RA, Susan said she had heard of Title IX in connection to sexual assault before. “The training is about 10 minutes long,” she said. “It’s like, ‘if somebody discloses a sexual assault to you, you have to disclose it to your boss and then they disclose the details.’ It’s this pass-along game thing.”

By the next day, she was meeting with the school’s Title IX coordinator.

Susan said she was told at the meeting that the hearing process would go on with or without her consent.

“The meeting basically looked like, ‘So you’re in this, and you have the chance to have a voice. If you want out, you can go out, but the process is going to go on without you and your name may get dragged through the mud in the process, so if you want to stand up for yourself, you need to be there,’ ” Susan recalled. At the time, Susan’s whole life was tied to her job as a resident assistant. The position provided her a place to live, a scholarship and a paycheck. Without the job, she said, she couldn’t continue at the university, so she couldn’t quit.

The alleged perpetrator, she said, lived one floor below her and worked on the same staff, which forced her to see and interact with him in the days following the alleged assault. Susan points out he had access to master keys that would open any door in her building, including hers.

Given those factors, Susan asked for and received “interim action” from the university, requesting that he be removed from the building. “I was told by the Title IX coordinator, ‘We can’t tell your bosses what’s happening, they arktimes.com

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STUDIES SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH: The UA’s Dr. Kristen Jozkowski says there’s too much “victim blaming” surrounding campus rape.

will just be told he needs to be removed, but if you want their support and you want them to know what’s going on with you, you will have to tell them.

Then I was told if you tell them, it could be viewed as slander or you gunning for his job.”

Susan went ahead and told her bosses what was going on, and they removed the young man from the staff, then sent around an email to the RA’s in the building announcing that he would no longer be working there. Within days, Susan said, her coworkers had figured out the story and taken sides, with many supporting her alleged attacker and ostracizing her.

Later, she said, a co-worker asked her out for a milkshake, only to secretly record a conversation that would be used to try to attack her character at the student conduct hearing later.

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on multiple occasions. “I was met with, ‘I don’t know what you expect me to do about it. I’m not even supposed to know about the case,’ ” she said.

As the student conduct hearing approached, Susan stayed in touch with the Title IX coordinator’s office, which tried to prepare her for the hearing. She said she was told by a Title IX investigator who worked on her case that she needed to wear makeup and a dress that couldn’t be seen as provocative. “I looked like shit. I really did,” she said. “I lost like 30 pounds, I was skin and bones. ... My health was way down and I was not eating. I had to pick out a dress that didn’t show any cleavage. I had to wear a cardigan and my glasses and have my hair down so I looked all nice. A friend of mine came over and we spent an hour and a half picking out how I should look so I didn’t look like a vindictive bitch who was trying to take his future away.”

When the hearing came, Susan said, she went to a conference room in the Office of Student Conduct and Stan-

dards and appeared before a three-person panel of two women and one man.

She said the next hour was a trial by fire.

“It was, to this day, the worst experience of my life,” she said. “I say it’s worse than the assault. It truly was.

I have flashbacks of the panel, honestly. ... I kid you not, I actually had one man on the panel question me for 20 minutes, until I broke down in tears, about something I said, something in my statement. I kept saying, ‘That’s not in any of my statements. It’s not in any of my statements, I never said it. It’s not in any of my statements.’ He kept repeating it until one of his other panel members cut in and said, essentially: ‘That’s not in her statement. That’s in [another statement].’ ” Susan said the panel member was actually referring to a statement made by a character witness for the accused.

Throughout the hearing, Susan said, she had the feeling that her account of the assault was not just being questioned but “aggressively denied” by the panel. “It was assumed from the

beginning that I lied,” she said. “My only response to that was, ‘Why would I report it in the first place? I didn’t even intentionally report it.’ I said that to the panel multiple times, and they were like, ‘What do you mean?’ Then I had to explain to the panel what mandated reporting was, and that I had accidentally reported.”

She said she believes the hearing was never about whether the alleged sexual assault happened, only about determining who “deserved” to be believed.

“The panel was about, am I a good enough person to have been sexually assaulted? Am I worth more than he was? Am I the better person? ... This law was written to protect us, and they are using it against us. Title IX was written to protect and shelter us from these assaults and discrimination, and instead it puts a magnifying glass over us in front of the sun and we just fry.”

The week after the hearing, Susan was informed that the young man she had accused had been found “not

following semester, Susan said, the man she had accused continued working as an RA. Though she now works with other student sexual assault survivors, the trauma of the hearing she experienced, Susan said, was enough that she actively counsels students to avoid reporting sexual assault to any member of the university staff, specifically to avoid entering the Title IX hearing process. “I’ve told every survivor that I’ve talked to from the University of Arkansas: It is your choice, and I know it’s something that could improve our society on campus, but if it was me, I would not report it,” she said. “It ruined my senior year. It really, truly did. It ruined the university for me. I wanted to go to the University of Arkansas. I chose the University of Arkansas over Harvard. That’s how much I wanted to go to the University of Arkansas. And it failed me so badly that, to this day, I have a hard time going on campus.

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One indication of that, she believes, is the revolving door at the UA Title IX coordinator’s office. According to Steve Voorhies, a spokesman for the University, the UA has had four Title IX coordinators or interim coordinators since the fall semester of 2014, and the position was recently vacated again. The university just hired a candidate to fill the position, who will start July 25, but Voorhies said more details about the candidate couldn’t be released at this time. In spring 2016, four new deputy Title IX coordinators also were added.

“A friend of mine and I have joked that the Title IX position is kind of like the Defense Against the Dark Arts position in Harry Potter,” Baker said.

“It just seems to be cursed. It doesn’t make any sense why they can’t find someone to stay there.”

While Baker said she doesn’t feel like the university is purposely trying to sweep sexual assault allegations under the rug, she points to a number of nationally high-profile civil lawsuits filed after alleged perpetrators were expelled following student conduct hearings to make the point that there is a monetary incentive for a university to give an accused student the benefit of the doubt.

“The people most likely to sue the university and cost the university money are those found [responsible for] sexual assault who don’t think they did anything wrong,” she said. “I truly don’t want to believe the university is purposely covering things up and cutting people slack where that’s not supposed to happen, but I’m also not com-

pletely naive. I do believe that people look the other way sometimes.”

Baker, who is interning with the D.C.-based sexual assault survivor advocacy nonprofit SurvJustice, said part of the problem is that both students and officials seem to be confused about the Title IX hearing process, what the school is investigating and how to go about it. “I think in Arkansas, the main issue that I personally see is a disconnect between what the university thinks it needs to do under the law, the purpose of the law and what survivors really need,” Baker said. “On the one hand, you have the school thinking it’s all about protecting students from bad people, and almost playing this police and prosecutor role. From the survivor’s standpoint, it’s really about [the fact that] when someone has been subjected to sexual violence, that makes going to school extremely difficult, especially when it’s someone you may have a class with or you may run into. That’s where the disconnect is. The school may think they’re doing everything they can to keep the bad people away, but I feel like they’re kind of failing on supporting survivors.”

SurvJustice, which provides legal assistance, support and representation for survivors of sexual assault during campus, civil and criminal proceedings, was founded by Laura Dunn, who is its executive director. As a law school student, Dunn wrote the amendment to the 2013 Violence Against Women Act that changed Title IX law to require schools to allow an “advocate of choice” to accompany accusers into student conduct hearings. Dunn has since

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served as a student advocate during Title IX hearings at the UA, including the hearing against Arkansas track and field star Raymond Higgs, who competed in the long jump in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Accused of an October 2014 sexual assault, Higgs was found responsible in December 2014, but criminal charges were never brought against him. In February 2015, the victim in the case was told Higgs would be expelled, but not until May, the day after he graduated from the university.

SurvJustice filed a letter of objection in that case. After being contacted by Huffington Post to comment on why Higgs wouldn’t be expelled until May, the university reversed course, telling the alleged victim that the letter she’d received had been sent “in error” and that Higgs would instead be expelled immediately.

“While they came to the right conclusion in that case,” Dunn said, “finding the student responsible, initially the school wasn’t going to expel him until after graduation, which really doesn’t mean anything to anyone at all. It was very upsetting and devastating to the survivor.”

The issue of due process for the accused always comes up during discussions of Title IX hearings, but Dunn said students facing an allegation that they violated rules governing student conduct shouldn’t receive or expect to receive a “criminal level of due process.”

She said the stakes aren’t as high as they are in a criminal proceeding.

“Under the law, in an administrative setting, due process is a balancing act,” she said. “You don’t get all the due process rights that a criminal defendant does. That’s the highest level. That’s because jail, death sentences, life sentences, are huge limitations on liberty and freedom, so there’s increased protections. On campus, the worst thing that can happen is expulsion. People always say if they’re expelled, they’ll have no future. That’s not true. I know students who were expelled for sexual violence who were accepted by another school the next year.”

Dunn said that in her experience, there is good and bad with the student conduct hearing process at the UA. She said that the university has established “a bifurcated system” in which the accuser and accused are questioned separately, with the process very much about fact-finding and avoiding an adversarial atmosphere.

Asked whether the federal government needs to step in to bring uniformity in

the Title IX investigation and hearing system nationwide, surprisingly Dunn said no, noting that it would be unconstitutional for the federal government to usurp state control over education, including how they want to conduct student conduct hearings and enforcement.

“Education is a state right. It’s not left to the federal government,” she said. “You can’t have a federal law that micromanages state level education.

The only reason there’s federal law at all is because of funding. Title IX only applies because of the spending clause: Schools get money from the federal government and, as a result, have to abide by federal law.”

Dunn said she believes the huge spike in reporting of sexual assault on campus in recent years is a good thing, even if the victims in some of those cases feel like little is being done.

“Before there was this amount of reporting, the exact same level of violence was happening, but people were choosing to deal with it privately or were discouraged and turned away,” she said. “Now we’re actually saying to survivors, you still have the option to deal with it privately, but if you want to come forward, we’re going to make

sure these systems are getting better. ... The reality of not reporting is, harm perpetuates. It goes on. So being brave and speaking out is better if you have to make a choice.”

UA RESPONSE The Arkansas Times submitted a series of questions to the University of Arkansas for this story, including questions about university policies and procedures concerning sexual assault, sexual assault prevention and hearings conducted under Title IX. Of the efforts to combat sexual violence on campus, university spokesperson Voorhies said the school has zero-tolerance for sexual assault and devotes “considerable effort to building a strong program of support, training and awareness about preventing and addressing sexual assault and related misconduct.” Information about sexual assault and Title IX is provided to all incoming freshmen, as well as transfer students, the university said, and is included in a video shown during freshman orientation.

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ric of our campus community from the moment students and employees arrive on campus. The University of Arkansas takes great care to educate our community about sexual assault prevention and services. The campus investigates all reports of sexual assault and takes seriously the responsibility and opportunity to educate the campus community about appropriate behaviors and actions.”

Responding to a question about the Title IX-related investigations by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the UA said it has and will comply with any OCR requests. “Generally speaking,” the UA said, “the University has investigated all reported cases of sexual misconduct and feels that it has responded appropriately and in a proactive manner.”

Asked about the Raymond Higgs case, the university said that under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, it could only provide the “final results” of a disciplinary hearing where a student was found responsible for violating university rules and policies.

Asked specifically about the contention by “Susan” that she was reduced to tears by the hearing process in her case, which she described as more traumatic than the sexual assault she allegedly experienced, the university said, in part: “[W]e are required to provide an equitable process for both parties involved. This can be stressful for those involved but we must be equitable and thorough as we take this responsibility very seriously. We strive to ensure fairness and equity in every situation.

Further, neither party is required to participate in the process and may choose not to appear before the Hearing Panel.

The complainant and respondent are interviewed and questioned separately and are not allowed to personally question or cross-examine each other during the hearing. Questions that may be asked during the hearing may elicit an emotional response, given the highly sensitive nature of these cases.”

A professor in the UA’s Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, Dr. Kristen Jozkowski is working with Rep. Greg Leding (D-Fayetteville) to craft a campus climate survey to sample attitudes about sexual assault and sexual consent among the state’s college students (see sidebar).

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consent among college students.

Speaking generally about universities nationwide and not specifically about UA policies, Jozkowski said that while universities could do a better job teaching their students about consent, education on the subject needs to start years before a freshman arrives.

“That education or additional education really needs to start long before students get on campus,” she said. “It should be part of a grammar, middle school, high school education — talking about gender issues [and] healthy relationships. As kids get older in high school, there really should be some type of sexual health education that includes a component of boundaries, respect and consent.”

While cases of sexual assault on campus often include some element of binge drinking by the victim or perpetrator, Jozkowski said that the way alcohol gets discussed when it comes to sexual assault is often in a “victim blaming context.” She points to the high-profile case in which an intoxicated young woman was raped behind a dumpster after attending a frat party at Stanford University in January 2015. Chased away and apprehended by two passersby, her rapist, Brock Allen Turner, was eventually convicted and sentenced to six months in jail.

“There was a lot of victim blaming going on: ‘If she hadn’t gotten so drunk she wouldn’t have been raped.’ ” Jozkowski said. “Well, there’s a lot of people who get very drunk and pass out every day, unfortunately — and that’s a separate issue we could discuss — but on a daily basis people get so intoxicated they black out or brown out and they don’t get assaulted. So there’s a lot at play here that doesn’t get discussed, and we tend to frame this in a victim-blaming context: ‘Well, she shouldn’t have got so drunk.”

Jozkowski said that when you begin examining how sexual assault on campus happens and why, all the pieces add up to, she said, “a system that institutionally supports rape.” While she admits that sounds harsh or dramatic, she believes the climate on many campuses perpetuates sexual violence and then hinders the efforts of those who want to hold those who commit sexual violence responsible.

Though cases of false sexual assault allegations always make the headlines, Jozkowski said research across the board has found that false reports account for between 3 and 8 percent of allegations. “Are those 3 and 8 percent

of cases terrible? Absolutely, and I’m not denying that,” she said. “But it doesn’t make it the majority of the cases. By and large, when someone says they’ve been sexually assaulted, they’ve been sexually assaulted.”

While the number of students who report being sexually assaulted while in college is staggering, Jozkowski said studies show that the number of perpetrators committing those rapes is actually very low. A 2002 anonymous survey of 1,882 male college students by researchers David Lisak and Paul Miller found that 6.4 percent of the students sampled reported either engaging in or attempting to engaging in acts that fit the criminal definition of rape, with the vast majority of those (80.8 percent) saying they had raped women who were unable to give consent because they were incapacitated by drugs or alcohol.

The study also found that those who admitted committing rape were also likely to be repeat offenders, with 63.3 percent of the admitted rapists in the study saying they had committed more than one rape. In the group that admitted to committing rape more than once, the average at the time of the study was 5.8 rapes each. While the percentage of men committing rape on campus is probably low, Jozkowski believes perpetrators are often insulated from being held responsible by campus culture.

“I think we’ve got a small percentage of men who would actually commit sexual assault,” she said. “But you also have a lot more men and women who participate in a system that basically provides that 6 percent of men a license to operate. You have people who endorse a victim-blaming culture.

You have the 6 percent of men who see a drunk woman passed out behind a dumpster — like the guy from Stanford — and see that as an opportunity to sexually assault her. But you might have a lot more people who walk by and do nothing, or say, ‘She shouldn’t have gotten so drunk,’ or ‘it’s her fault and she must be wanting this because she’s had sex before, or has posted a picture to Facebook that shows her cleavage.’ A lot of these cultural undercurrents perpetuate the idea that women or victims do things that call people to sexually assault them, rather than that we need to hold these people responsible.”

Student conduct hearings under Title IX, Jozkowski said, take a crime on campus and then refuse to treat it like a crime. The result, she said, is like putting a Band-Aid on a hemorrhaging wound. The better course, she said,

Quantifying rape Proposed survey of sexual assault and consent aims to identify problems and solutions on campus.

GIVEN THAT HIS DISTRICT INCLUDES the state’s flagship university, Rep. Greg Leding (D-Fayetteville) speaks to classes there often.

For a while now, he said, he’s been conducting an informal poll.

“I started asking, when I spoke to classes, regardless of what the subject was, if the students had ever felt unsafe on campus,” he said. “Without fail, every woman in the classroom would raise her hand and no man in the class would ever raise his hand.

That just struck me as something I needed to look more closely at.”

Leding said what moved him to action as an official was — ironically — the since-discredited November 2014 Rolling Stone article called “A Rape on Campus” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, which detailed an allegation of sexual assault at the University of Virginia. “The story, before it was proven to be false, prompted some students and parents to reach out to me about what the University [of Arkansas] was doing,” he said. “I honestly didn’t know. So I started talking to some university officials.”

What Leding found was that universities and colleges across the state had little current survey data from students on the issue of sexual assault and their attitudes about sexual consent — information that’s crucial if legislative or educational solutions to the issue of rape on campus are to be found. At a chance meeting at a panel discussion Leding attended with UA professor and campus sexual assault researcher Dr. Kristen Jozkowski, Leding found that Jozkowski was willing to construct a survey based on recommendations released by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault in April 2014. Last August, Leding fielded an interim study proposal on the issue, asking a subcommittee of the Arkansas Legislative Council to conduct a survey examining “sexual awareness, prevention and response on the fouryear and two-year college campuses in Arkansas.” With the questions on the survey soon to be finalized, Leding and Jozkowski hope four-year and two-year campuses statewide will be on board to have their students complete the survey in early 2017.

“We have some national statis-

tics,” Leding said. “But we want to know what’s happening on our own campuses. I thought it would be a good opportunity for all legislators, but particularly those who have campuses in their districts, to learn about what their campuses are doing — what they’re doing well, what they could be doing better.”

Jozkowski said she and Leding come at the issue of sexual assault from different perspectives, but with overlapping agendas. “We both want some kind of prevention mechanism to come out of this,” she said. “That’s both of our hopes. What that will look like, neither of us know, but what both of us agree on is that having a sense of the current climate on campus is imperative for whatever prevention mechanism, whether it’s going to be more education programming, other types of programming or policy shift or legislation.”

Jozkowski said questions on the anonymous survey, which will be conducted online, will include whether students have ever been the victim of a sexual assault; when and where assaults happened; who survivors told about their assault and why; whether they recanted their allegations or not; and other questions related to rape and consent. She said there will also be questions about false reporting, including whether students have ever made a false sexual assault allegation, or feel they have been the subject of a false report. “I think the statistics [on false accusations] will be quite low,” she said, “but we are asking about that because it’s a concern for some people.”

Jozkowski said the construction of the survey is in the final stages.

Though they currently don’t have commitments from any universities in the state to administer the survey to their students, Jozkowski is hopeful that Leding will be able to convince campuses to participate, including the UA. “He’s been sort of spearheading that,” she said, “but we need to get universities to buy in and be willing to conduct the survey. We’re hopeful that universities will be willing, because I think that it’s in everybody’s best interest.”

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would be putting time and resources toward adequately implementing prevention measures and making the Title IX issues more equitable, including putting experts in sexual assault on panels that hear student allegations of sexual assault.

Like Dunn, she believes claims that the due process rights of the accused aren’t respected are overblown. “I think it needs to be kept in mind that this is not a criminal justice system, therefore the burden of proof doesn’t have to be beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said. “I think this whole concept of providing them with ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ due process is blown out of proportion.

I think universities are so concerned about being sued — and rightfully so, because individuals who were found responsible for violating conduct are now turning around and suing universities — that we culturally still endorse a victim-blaming mentality.”

Another area Jozkowski finds concerning is the mandated reporter system, which takes the decision of whether to go forward with a student conduct hearing out of the hands of the alleged victim. While universities have an interest in knowing when assaults or sex-based discrimination has happened on campus, she said she doesn’t think it’s in the victim’s best interest to do something they don’t want to do.

“There’s actually a term in the scientific literature called ‘Second Rape,’ which is the idea of, you were sexually assaulted, then you told someone who basically required you to press charges when you didn’t want to. That’s a problem. But, at the same time, we are technically mandated reporters. I understand why that process is in place.

Universities want to understand what’s going on.”

Kimball has since befriended “Susan.” The thing that brought them together is simultaneously disturbing and heartbreaking, even though, if true, it would appear to dovetail perfectly with what’s known about on-campus sexual assault: They claim that they were both assaulted by the same person.

Between March 2014 and March 2015, when she was 20, Kimball had a relationship with a fellow student. As chronicled extensively on her blog, Kimball said that through introspection and therapy, she came to see that many of the sexual encounters she experienced during that relationship constituted sexual assault, including their first sexual experience, which she claims occurred while she was intoxicated to the point of blacking out.

“He would get me drunk, then take advantage of me while I was drunk,” she said. “Later on in the relationship, I stopped drinking because I didn’t want that to happen anymore. He would still do it. In the middle of the night, he’d wake me up and have sex with me and I would not consent. That was a big problem. He made me think it was OK that this was happening, that because we were in a relationship this was OK and that this was supposed to happen.”

Kimball said the young man “took over every aspect of my life,” including isolating her from friends and family and convincing her to resent those she had trusted. After they broke up in March 2015, Kimball began seeing a therapist, who she said helped her see that many of her encounters with the her former boyfriend were nonconsensual. On April 21, 2015, she filed a complaint with the university alleging dating violence and sexual assault and met with the UA’s Title IX coordinator.

During the process leading up to her hearing, Kimball said that she often felt in the dark about proceedings in her case, never sure where things stood. “[A Title IX coordinator] told me that I needed to stay in town, because if I missed a meeting, then I just wouldn’t have a say in what happened,” she said. “I would have just missed it and

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HOMETOWN GIRL The case reported to the university by former student Kayla Kimball is one of those currently being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. A native of Fayetteville, Kimball grew up near the campus.

wouldn’t know what was going on. I had canceled all of my plans for the summer and I stayed here. He studied abroad.”

Her hearing in the case was held on Aug. 14, 2015. Like Susan, Kimball said that she felt “accosted” during her hourlong hearing, which was held before a panel of two women and one man.

“Any time the women would ask something, the man would repeat the question multiple times,” Kimball said.

“During the whole meeting I just felt like I wasn’t being believed and that I was being invalidated. ... He’d ask me to repeat myself multiple times. I didn’t feel like that was OK. He said that he just wanted to understand what happened, but I was saying the same things over and over again.”

Mainly, she said, the panel focused on the first sexual encounter between Kimball and her former boyfriend. Kimball, who said she suffers from an anxiety-induced heart condition, said that as the questioning continued, “I could feel my chest tightening and I felt I was having palpitations. ... I felt like these people were stressing me out with the constant repetition of questions,” she said. “It felt like if they had asked me one thing and then moved on, it wouldn’t have been as stressful as asking me over and over and over again.”

Susan said she wrote a statement detailing her own previous allegations about the young man, but wasn’t allowed to submit it to the hearing panel in Kimball’s case, saying she was told that because he had been found not responsible in her case, she wasn’t allowed to submit such claims.

“So the panel never found out. They never knew,” she said. “One thing that happened over and over again was me being told, ‘It’s not your experience anymore.’ “ On Aug. 21, 2015, Kimball received a letter saying that the student she had accused had been found not responsible, with the university saying there was no compelling evidence to support Kimball’s claims. “In their response, they mentioned one of the reasons that they said that he was found not responsible was that, based on witness statements, I had a considerable tolerance for alcohol,” she said. “I felt as if that was something that they can’t judge based on witness statements. Even witnesses don’t know how much I’ve had to drink. That really bothered me.”

Like Susan, Kimball appealed the decision, but her appeal was denied.

She began blogging about the Title IX

hearing and her alleged sexual assault in September 2015. Three days after her first blog post appeared, Kimball was summoned to the office of the Dean of Students, where, she said, she was told that while she wouldn’t be in trouble for the posts “at this time,” she could face future consequences if she didn’t stop blogging about the issue, because it could constitute retaliation against the young man she had accused.

Kimball eventually filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, with SurvJustice filing an additional complaint over the harassment Kimball allegedly endured in class from her peers following her hearing. In a personal statement attached to the SurvJustice complaint, Kimball told the OCR, “I am scared to walk to class, go to the dining halls, or even go to our student union. I have begun to feel unwelcome on my own campus, in a town I grew up in.” She went on to say that her heart condition had caused her to fall ill on several occasions since the hearing. “All I would like to do is take the classes I want to take, walk around my campus without being scared, and not feel like I’m being punished for reporting the physical, sexual and emotional abuse I endured for a year,” Kimball wrote.

Kimball said when she heard the OCR had decided to investigate her case, it made her hopeful that the hearing process at the UA might be reformed to better serve victims. “I’m extremely hopeful that there will be some sort of change in the system — some process enforced that isn’t so traumatizing, and proper training for people involved in hearings,” she said.

“I really hope that before the investigation is concluded that the university will do something to change the system.”

Kimball graduated from the UA last semester. When the Arkansas Times asked her why she decided to speak out so publicly about her case, including writing about it on her blog and participating in articles like this one, she said it’s because she believes it’s important for people in her hometown to see the face of someone hurt by sexual assault.

“People need to know that this is happening to someone,” she said. “I grew up in Fayetteville. I went to high school right down the street from this campus. I grew up pretty much next door to the campus. People need to know this is happening to someone who grew up in this community.”

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MINUTIAE FOR THE MIXTAPE MAKER The ‘33 1/3’ book series.

BY GLEN HOOKS

William: “So Russell … what do you love about music?”

Russell: “To begin with: everything.”

—“Almost Famous” (2000)

T

he deep music heads are out there.

You might know them.

They’re the ones who casually speak in lyrics, who can somehow shoehorn music factoids into conversations about lawn care or preschool choices, and who still woo potential paramours with mixtapes. In my circle, it’s not uncommon for me to opine about a semi-obscure record, have that statement corrected (er, “refined”) by Friend A and then further refined by Friend B in the space of 20 seconds. It’s what we do when we’re not obsessively making playlists for every specific mini-mood or current event.

For these people, my people, the “33 1/3” book series exists.

“33 1/3” debuted in 2003 from an academic publishing group named Continuum (it’s now published by Bloomsbury), and the concept is a simple one: Each volume is devoted to a single album. These books are not about an artist or a band. They are not rock biographies. They utterly dissect and unearth the minutiae that make up one album. Currently, the series covers 115 albums. Music heads, do I have your attention now?

One hundred and fifteen albums.

Let’s continue.

Maybe you achingly loved Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” back in 1993, which professed to be a trackby-track answer to the Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main Street.” Pick 24

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up Vol. 96 of the series for a full-on scholarly analysis that not only addresses each track, but places the whole album in feminist historical context — feminist context writ large, but also specific to the maledominated Chicago indie scene of the early 1990s. After barely 100 pages, writer Gina Arnold gave me a mental metric ton of new angles to ponder other than the album’s shocking-forthe-times blue lyrics.

While I am objectively interested in the facts and history, that’s ultimately not what shines through in the best “33 1/3” books. It’s the fandom. Even while using the most scholarly of tones to describe Phair’s “Exile in Guyville,” Arnold unabashedly and openly loves this album; it’s meaningful to her on a visceral level: “There is no longer any doubt about why ‘Exile in Guyville’ speaks so eloquently to me: it’s because when I was coming of age in San Francisco in the 1990s I lived in a little corner of Guyville without even knowing its name. ... That is why today, if I hear “Divorce Song” or “Stratford-onGuy” or “Strange Loop,” I am completely overcome with nostalgia for those days, whether in San Francisco or Chicago — for walking down Valencia Street on a hot summer night, or heading for the El for a late-night cab ride through the snow, half drunk, with my ears ringing, for getting all dressed up with my girlfriends to go to a gig, for the sense we had, always, of absolutely owning that town.”

Reaching a little further back, Vol. 21 thoroughly chronicles the

33 1/3: Bloomsbury Publishing’s crowdsourced 115-book series (and counting) dissects seminal albums one at a time, challenging the definition of what is “classic.”

history and hoopla surrounding Elvis Costello’s 1979 classic “Armed Forces.” Standing alone and devoid of context, the urgency and energy of “Armed Forces” would undoubtedly grab the attention of most 2016 listeners, but writer Franklin Bruno ups the ante considerably by sandwiching the album between crucial events of that time — historically, politically and in Costello’s career, making “Armed Forces” even richer and ultimately more approachable in retrospect.

To be clear, the “33 1/3” series

clearly does not aim to be a “best of” collection that stodgily chronicles the Greatest Albums Ever Made.

This is not The Canon. Now that “33 1/3” has more than a decade of publication in the rearview mirror, a review of its titles shows the selections moving away from widely accepted classics to those far more niche and diverse in genre. The first 10 volumes include choices like Dusty Springfield’s “Dusty in Memphis,” Neil Young’s “Harvest,” Pink Floyd’s “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,” and The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s

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“Electric Ladyland,” but flash-forward to the present and you’ll find obscure offerings from Beat Happening, Geto Boys, Sleater-Kinney, and even Koji Kondo’s “Super Mario Bros.” soundtrack. Mirroring recent American history itself, conventional ideas of “classic” and “important” are being challenged and rewritten as more voices and generations are invited to the table.

Maybe the most thrilling part of this series? You can be part of it. So can I. The voices are fresh and diverse because Bloomsbury has opened up the process to everyone. Think of your favorite album, the one to which you know every lyric, note, scream and grunt, the one that speaks to you and just utterly defines that one year for you. Want to write about it? Hop on over to 333sound.com for details on how to pitch your own proposal for a book in the series.

That’s what “33 1/3” is. It’s being invited in to one person’s head as they talk about one album that is important — sure, they wrap it all in facts and information, but it feels more like a seminar course on great music with that one cool professor who didn’t really believe in “grades” or “taking attendance” and insisted that we all call her “Stella” instead of “Dr. Funkenstein.”

You’ll want to go to class. You’ll want to do the assigned reading. And, by god, you’ll want to participate fully in class discussion.

FOR ALL THOSE WHO LAMENT that Arkansas tends to export its artistic talent to more bustling metropoles, count Graham Gordy as an exception. Gordy is the cocreator of Cinemax’s upcoming TV show “Quarry,” which he created with Michael D. Fuller. This fall, Gordy’s feature-length script for “Antiquities” will be shot in Arkansas on a 28-day filming schedule and directed by Daniel Campbell, another native Arkansan. Gordy and Campbell met at the Little Rock Film Festival in 2010, when Campbell’s “Antiquities” — then only a short — won the Charles B. Pierce

“My ambitions are to make a living at this,” Gordy said, “and to do it from here, so we said, ‘Let’s try it. Let’s start out with a smaller film, it can be a very small budget, and 75 percent of the movie takes place in one location.”

Gordy’s been in the movie business long enough to temper his expectations, but he said the idea of Mortuus Pater Pictures is “to set up the infrastructure so other films can come here. My personal ambition is that if the film makes any money, 100 percent of that goes into the next project.”

SINCE 2005, BILL SOLLEDER and his partner, Shea Childs, have been promoting independent music, art and film in Hot Springs through Low Key Arts, a 501(c) (3) arts organization responsible for the Valley of the Vapors music festival, the Hot Water Hills Festival, Arkansas Shorts: A Night of Short Film and KUHS-FM 97.9, a solar-powered community radio COMEDY IN A MALL: A scene from “Antiquities.” station. Two new directors, David Award for Arkansas Film.

Hill and Bobby Missile, have stepped in The two kept talking, eventually disto fill Solleder’s shoes as he takes on a cussing the idea of expanding Campbell’s role as special events manager for Visit short into a feature film, prompting Gordy Hot Springs. Missile, a touring musician to ask an inevitable question: “Why did himself (Ghost Bones) and former owner you set a comedy in an antique mall?” of Ballistic Missile Booking, has been Compelled by experiences Campbell and involved with Low Key Arts as curator Gordy had with losing their own fathers and talent buyer for VOV 2016. Hill, vice — and by Loudon Wainwright’s depiction president of the National Writers Union, of dealing with his own father’s death in a returns to his native Hot Springs to help song called “Sometimes I Forget” (“Why run Low Key Arts and to complete work would you leave your wallet behind / Your on his book about The Vapors nightclub.

“Growing up in Hot Springs, the arts glasses, your wristwatch and ring?”) — community always fit into a small and the film’s script explores the life of Walt, a well-defined box,” Hill said. “Bill and young man who’s returned home after his everyone involved in Low Key Arts have father’s death.” Walt, Gordy says, “wants done so much in such a short time to to find out who his father was,” so he gets expand those definitions and invigoa job at the antique mall where his father rate the arts community in Hot Springs. worked as a teenager. “It’s a very full It’s a privilege to help carry that torch world. It’s either going to be a producforward.” The first event under the new tion designer’s dream or a production leadership will be the Hot Water Hills designer’s nightmare.”

Festival Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at Hill Wheatley After unsuccessfully pushing for Plaza. For more information, check out “Quarry” to be filmed in Arkansas, Gordy lowkeyarts.org. and others turned to making “Antiquities” here in the state and to generating money to create a production company, rather than for a single feature film.

Gary Newton, the president and CEO of Arkansas Learns and a former executive THE KALEIDOSCOPE FILM FESTIVAL, vice president at the Little Rock Regional which will be held Aug. 18-21 mostly at Chamber of Commerce who worked on the Argenta Community Theater and The local film projects, called not getting Joint in North Little Rock, announced its “Quarry” in Arkansas “the worst disapfull lineup on KABF’s “T with Tracie” show pointment.” earlier this week. The festival, which high“The loss of [“Quarry”] was the catalyst lights LGBT films and filmmakers, opens for me. It felt like we finally had the Holy with Deborah Esquenazi’s “Southwest Grail, to have been the first choice of the of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio studio, to be able to put Arkansans to Four,” which tells the story of four Latina work, and develop a crew base. The fact lesbians wrongfully convicted of rape, that we lost that was a gut-check.” the director and subjects of which will So Newton formed Mortuus Pater be in attendance at the screening. Also Pictures and raised $650,000 to support on the lineup: Stephen Dunn’s “Closet Gordy, Campbell and Arkansas film and Monster,” Andrew Stegall’s “Departure,” TV projects.

Julio Hernandez Cordon’s “I Promise You Anarchy,” Tim Kirkman’s “Lazy Eye,” Cal Skaggs’ “Road To Home,” and Annalise Ophelian’s “Major!” Among the first films to be chosen for the lineup was “White Nights,” director Mark Thiedeman’s adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story of the same name, positioned in “a world of glittering lights and gay romanticism,” Thiedeman says. The film, a self-described “pseudo-musical,” was scored by musician and visual artist Philip Rex Huddleston and stars Sean Oakley and Caleb Feeney in their debut cinematic roles.

LITTLE ROCK’S NATE POWELL’S triptych depicting the struggle of civil rights activist U.S. Rep. John Lewis is approaching its climax. Powell, a veteran of the long-lived performance art band Soophie Nun Squad and eight-time nominee for the Eisner Award — the pinnacle achievement in the comics industry — will celebrate the release “March: Book Three” (Top Shelf) Aug. 2, with a debut at San Diego Comic Con July 21.

Lewis co-wrote the books with Andrew Aydin, recounting his involvement with (and eventual departure from) the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church and the police violence that erupted on “Bloody Sunday” after the standoff at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. An early review from Kirkus says, “Powell’s high-contrast black-and-white images underscore the narrative’s emotional intensity with a parade of hate-filled white faces and fearful but resolute black ones … essential reading for an understanding of those times — and these.” Powell, who was born in Little Rock and grew up partially in Montgomery, Ala., described his connection to Lewis’ story in an interview with Comic Book Resources, saying, “I discovered that the secular private elementary school I went to in Montgomery was founded in 1955 as a white-flight response to Brown v. Board of Education. … I was going to that school thirty years after the desegregation order came down from the Supreme Court. Thirty years is a tangible thing, and it’s not a long time. I understand what that is in real terms, now.

It’s haunting.” arktimes.com

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THE TO-DO

LIST

FRIDAY 7/15-SUNDAY 7/17

FRIDAY 7/15

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

9 p.m. South on Main. $10.

7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. The Weekend Theater. $16-$20.

“The Drowsy Chaperone” was born in 1997 as an elaborate joke and a wedding gift. In fact, “The Wedding Gift” was the name of the play’s precursor; it was essentially a bawdy set of Jazz Age spoof songs composed by friends of actor Bob Martin’s (the Comedy Network’s “Puppets Who Kill,” Sundance Channel’s “Slings and Arrows”) on the occasion of his bachelor party.

What happened at that stag party didn’t stay at that stag party, though, and the show — complete with leading love interests named after the real-life Bob and his wife, Janet van de Graaf — premiered at the Rivoli Theater in Toronto the following year and on Broadway in 2006. In it, a selectively fastidious theater nut — whom we know only as “Man in Chair” — opens the show with the line, “I hate theater,” spoken in complete darkness, after which he launches into the prayer he sends to the heavens before seeing a musical; that it be brief (“Chaperone” itself clocks in at one hour and 40 minutes and is without an intermission, save for the mimicked one when “Man in Chair” leaves to use the restroom), that the actors not roam through the audience, that he might experience “a story and a few good songs that’ll take me away,” and for the play to resemble the golden age of Porter and Gershwin instead of what he sees as the banality of modern drama — “Please, Elton John, must we continue this charade?” As “Man in Chair” puts on a recording of the eponymous fictional 1928 musical, the show unfolds around him onstage playing Tom Servo to the prohibition-era hijinks. Performances at The Weekend Theater continue each week Friday through Sunday, through July 31, with a single Thursday performance on July 28, and tickets are available at weekendtheater.org.

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BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

LOUISIANA SOUL REVIVAL When Doug Duffey tours Europe, he calls his outfit the “Doug Duffey International Soul Band,” and he describes his Egyptian, Trinidadian and Swiss colleagues thusly on his blog: “We’re like a Delta blues band. We’re all from a different delta. I’m from the Mississippi Delta; Hani [Ali]’s from the Nile Delta; Kelvin [Bullen]’s from the Thames Delta; and Sebastian [Niessner]’s from the Limmat Delta, which is the river that runs

through Zurich.” Duffey’s been playing gigs since he was 14 years old; has published two books of his photography, “European Collages” and “Louisiana Americana”; and has been inducted into the Louisiana Hall of Fame and the National Blues Hall of Fame. He’s back home now, or at least comparatively near his native Monroe, La., touring with an 11-piece ensemble that performs tunes like “1-900-For-Love” and “B What R Ya,” His vocals are supported by a couple of killer backup singers, a full horn section (trombone, alto sax,

baritone sax, trumpet) and classically trained jazz guitarist Daniel Sumner.

Sumner, who was forced to evacuate his New Orleans home after Hurricane Katrina, locked eyes with Duffey while Sumner was playing with the Louis Romanos Quartet. The pair linked up months later and put together a band to record five quintessentially Louisianan songs in front of a live audience on film, thereby creating the musical cast of Louisiana Soul Revival. Call 501-2449660 to reserve a table.

SATURDAY 7/16

MAXWELL

8 p.m. Verizon Arena. $30-$125.

When we spoke with Maxwell over the phone a few weeks ago, he was in a car with his management team, taking in the scenery “somewhere close to San Francisco” while on tour for his fifth studio album in 20 years, “blackSUMMERS’night,” and said he couldn’t wait to get back to the South. “The people, the vibe … it’s just different down there.” The new album’s a breezier follow-up to 2009’s “BLACKsummers’night,” and the emphasis on summer in the title is matched by a long-walk-on-the-beach sort of mood: “Can we swim a lake by the ocean / We’ll be one like drops in slow motion.” Ostensibly, the lyrics to “Lake By the Ocean” can be interpreted as an ode to achieving a sense of stability in our love lives, to being content with what we have and not tossed about by the tempests of misplaced desire, but it’s worth noting the obvious here: This is some bona fide make-out music. Thanks mostly to Maxwell’s silky falsetto and tender inflection, tracks like “Of All Kind” and “All the Ways Love Can Feel” could feel right at home on a mixtape next to, say, “Slow Hand” or “Love to Love You Baby.” Notably, the crooner’s been working with the same production crew as he did on 1996’s “Urban Hang Suite,” but unlike “This Woman’s Work” or “Pretty Wings,” “blackSUMMERS’night” is bouncy, trippy, aquatic, underpinned by thumping bass or, as on “1990x,” rumbling timpani. Though he’ll likely receive some criticism from longtime fans who prefer to take their Maxwell straight, sans elec-

RETURN OF THE NEO-SOUL CROONER: Maxwell stops at Verizon Arena Saturday on tour for “blackSUMMERS’night,” the long-awaited follow up to ‘BLACKsummers’night,” along with Fantasia and Ro James, 8 p.m., $30-$125.

tronic garnishes, his voice is still ever at the forefront, as expressive as his heroes’: Sade, Marvin Gaye and Harry Belafonte.

(For the uninitiated who might benefit from a crash course, go see “Block Sum-

mer’s Night” at The Joint a couple of days ahead of the Maxwell show, where Rodney Block will be paying homage to the neo-soul pioneer, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, $10-$15.)

IN BRIEF

THURSDAY 7/14

SATURDAY 7/16

BIG SILVER

9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern.

When the opening chords of Big Silver’s “Drawing Pictures” expand outward into a sprawl of a groove, it’s hard to fathom all that sound fitting into the Hillcrest kitchen in which it was recorded. The group’s been spinning out easy, bright pop confections like “Love Note” and lyrically sophisticated ballads like “Frown Upside Down” (a diarist meditation on the phrase, “Speak

now or forever hold your peace”) for an impressively long stint under the pop direction of Isaac Alexander, a multiinstrumentalist and graphic designer.

Alexander’s upped the beauty quotient in Little Rock pop music since 1999 as a solo artist, with his bands The Easys, Molten Lava and Greers Ferry; and through his contributions to the music of Jesse Aycock, Chris Michaels, The Salty Dogs, The Big Cats, Cosby (now called “The Glowing Life,” for justifiable reasons), Jim Mize and others.

His musical imprint on those projects is indelible; his work is often compared to The Beatles — perhaps because of the tendency to use sunny vocal harmonies, or unusual chord changes? Or because of the clarity in Alexander’s voice? Whatever the reason, count him on the “I’ll Follow the Sun”/“Things We Said Today” end of The Fab Four spectrum, and for heaven’s sake, go see this rare performance from a Little Rock institution. Sea Nanners’ beachy lo-fi pop starts things off

Kongos, a band of four South African and London-born brothers, brings its accordion-flavored rock to the Metroplex with The Federalis opening, 8 p.m., $7$10. Mailman, Anna Hall and Nathan Owens share a bill at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. Flow Tribe plays New Orleans funk at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $8-$10. Vino’s Brewpub shows the Led Zeppelin documentary “Dazed and Confused,” 7 p.m., free. Rodney Block pays tribute to singer Maxwell ahead of Saturday’s show at Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m., The Joint, $10-$15.

FRIDAY 7/15 Doom and sludge abound at Vino’s with a show from Fister, Christworm, Iron Tongue and Apothecary, 8:30 p.m., $7.

Mountain music duo The Creek Rocks play White Water in an eclectic bill with Go Fast and The Salty Dogs, 9 p.m., $10.

Argenta ArtWalk, from 5-8 p.m. at galleries in downtown North Little Rock, this month includes an exhibition by Glennray Tutor at Greg Thompson Fine Art, 429 Main St., and the Southern Women’s Artisan Guild, 606 N. Olive St. Casual Pleasures release their 7-inch vinyl with a show at Maxine’s, also featuring Austin’s Long Tongue and Jonathon Terrell, 9 p.m., $5.

Fayetteville favorite Cosmic American plays a farewell show at Smoke and Barrel Tavern with Vintage Pistol, 10 p.m., free.

Austin’s Uncle Lucius celebrates its newfound freedom from its record label with a show at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $7-$10.

SATURDAY 7/16 Good Foot plays a funk set at Next Bistro & Bar on Kavanaugh, 9 p.m., $7, and there’s a funk show in Conway, too: Flatland Funk Donors come to King’s Live Music, with The Curvy Soprano opening, 8:30 p.m., $5. Led Zeppelin tribute band Zoso plays the Rev Room, 9:30 p.m., $15.

SUNDAY 7/17 ANOTHER WISDOM: Malcolm Holcombe brings his raw, electrifying growl to the White Water Tavern Tuesday night, 8:30 p.m., $7.

TUESDAY 7/19

MALCOLM HOLCOMBE

8:30 p.m. White Water Tavern. $7.

Malcolm Holcombe might have had an easier go of it — especially with the Nashville machine — if he had just embraced even one iota of gimmick.

He won’t, though, and while there’s plenty of room in this wide world for speed metal trios in lucha libre masks or bands partially staffed by robots, Holcombe’s music is a simpler distillation. Hell, it’s unthinkable to fathom even adding something as benign as harmony to his songs. Even his peers

in the alt-country world tend to lend their songs a little lilt or a swing, but Holcombe’s tunes are wound tight with nervous retrospective tension. He’s a master of the gradual crescendo, starting out his sets low and slow and ending up playing as if the sum of all the rage he’s ever felt is brimming under the surface of his fingers and barreling across his smoke-worn chords with abandon.

It’s tempting to say Holcombe’s work is stripped of artifice, but that isn’t precisely true, because he never seems to have suffered any artifice of which to be

stripped. When he’s asked about or complimented on his sincerity of purpose, as he was by Puremusic’s Frank Goodman or UK radio host Jeremy Rees, he says things like “There ain’t no magic,” or “I don’t go for this channeling stuff,” or “I don’t have a method … you’ve got to make an effort to put the pencil lead on the paper.” Whether there’s magic in what he does will be left to the viewers at White Water on Tuesday night to judge, but my guess is that they’ll leave the place in disagreement with Holcombe on that point.

Damgoode Pies in the River Market hosts a poetry slam featuring Randi Romo, 7 p.m., $5-$10. Synth-pop duo Lillie Lemon celebrates its new album “Aether” at Dickson Street Pub in Fayetteville, 6 p.m., free. Australian metalcore band Feed Her to the Sharks comes to the Rev Room with opener Dead Ships, 7:30 p.m., $5.

Weezer pairs up with Panic! At the Disco at the Walmart AMP, Rogers, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 7/20 “La Cage Aux Folles” opens at Argenta Community Theater, 7 p.m., $30$50. The 48-Hour Film Project begins screening its entries at the Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $10-$13. The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History screens “Art in the Face of War,” 6:30 p.m., free. arktimes.com

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AFTER DARK All events are in the Greater Little Rock area unless otherwise noted. To place an event in the Arkansas Times calendar, please email the listing and all pertinent information, including date, time, location, price and contact information, to calendar@arktimes.com.

THURSDAY, JULY 14

MUSIC

“Albert Herring.” At the Opera in the Ozarks Theater. Inspiration Point, 7:30 p.m., $10-$30.

16311 Hwy. 62 W., Eureka Springs. 479-2538595. opera.org.

The Block Party. Featuring the music of Rodney Block. The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $10.

301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

Casey Miller & The Barnyard Stompers.

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

DJ Joe Holmes. Next Bistro and Bar, $7-$10.

2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398. www. facebook.com/LRnextbar/timeline.

Drageoke. Hosted by Queen Anthony James Gerard: a drag show followed by karaoke.

Sway, 8 p.m. 412 Louisiana. clubsway.com.

Flow Tribe. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $8-$10. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

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

Kongos. With The Federalis and Brothers & Company. Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $7-$10. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501217-5113. metroplexlive.com.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Mailman, Anna Hall, Nathan Owens. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

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

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

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

Seven Toed Pete. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5.

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

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

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

COMEDY

Mike Baldwin. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $8.

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

ArkiePub Trivia. Stone’s Throw, 6:30 p.m., free. 402 E. Ninth St. 501-244-9154. stonesthrowbeer.com. #ArkiePubTrivia. Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 28

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AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM: The Arkansas Times presents “Night of the Hunter,” an expressionistic fairytale in which Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) poses as a reverend to locate a hidden $10,000 stash, 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, Riverdale 10 Cinema, $8.

p.m. 402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154.

FILM

Movies at the Market: “Blue Hawaii.” Hot Springs Farmers and Artisans Market, 8:30 p.m., free. 121 Orange St., Hot Springs.

501-321-2277.

Vino’s Brewpub Cinema: “Dazed and Confused.” A documentary on Led Zeppelin. Vino’s, 7 p.m., free. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. milb.com.

KIDS

Garden Club. A project of the Faulkner County Urban Farm Project. Ages 7 and up or with supervision. Faulkner County Library, 3:30 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501327-7482. www.fcl.org.

FRIDAY, JULY 15

MUSIC

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

Casual Pleasures. With Long Tongue and Jonathon Terrell (Not in the Face). Maxine’s, 9 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxineslive.com.

Chasing Pictures. With Surf De Soleil, Bottlerocket & The Fairweather. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $7. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Chris DeClerk. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

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

Cosmic American. A farewell show for the Fayetteville band. Vintage Pistol opens the show. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., free. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com.

The Creek Rocks, Go Fast, Brad Williams.

White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

F i s t e r, C h r i s t w o r m , I ro n To n g u e , Apothecary. Vino’s, 8:30 p.m., $7. 923 W.

7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

“Il Tabarro” and “Pagliacci.” Part of Opera in the Ozarks’ 66th season. Inspiration Point, 7:30 p.m., $10-$30. 16311 Hwy. 62 W., Eureka Springs. 479-253-8595. opera.org.

The Intruders. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5.

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

Jet 420. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. 215 N. Shackleford. 501-2247665. westendsmokehouse.net.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Louisiana Soul Revival. Featuring Doug Duffey. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Miranda Lambert. With Kip Moore and Brothers Osborne. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $36-$69. 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers.

479-443-5600. waltonartscenter.org.

Nerd Eye Blind. Silk’s Bar and Grill, July 15, 10 p.m.; July 16, 10 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 5016234411. oaklawn. com.

Rob Moore. Flying Saucer, 8 p.m., free. 323

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Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. milb.com.

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EVENTS

LGBTQ/SGL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ/SGL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 501-2449690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. First Presbyterian Church, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

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DANCE

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

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SATURDAY, JULY 16

MUSIC

President Clinton Ave. 501-372-8032. beerknurd.com.

Salsa Dancing. Clear Channel Metroplex, 9 p.m., $5-$10. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501217-5113. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

Susan Erwin. Pop’s Lounge, July 15, 5 p.m.; July 16, 5 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. oaklawn.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-3707013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com/.

Uncle Lucius. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $7-$10. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com.

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

COMEDY

“Forever Hold Your Peace.” By comedy trio The Main Thing. The Joint, through Sept.

2: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

Mike Baldwin. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m ., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

“Rednecks in Spandex.” An original produc-

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

Comfortable Brother. An album release show. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $10. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com.

Good Foot. Next Bistro and Bar, $7. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398. www.facebook.com/LRnextbar/timeline.

Greg Madden. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

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

Jonathon Terrell. Bear’s Den Pizza, 10 p.m., free. 235 Farris Road, Conway. 501-328-5556. bearsdenpizza.net.

Joseph D. Rowland, La Fin Absolute, Crankbait. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. 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. 501823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Maxwell. With Fantasia and Ro James.

Verizon Arena, 8 p.m., $30-$125. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com.

Mother Hubbard. West End Smokehouse and Tavern, 10 p.m., $7. 215 N. Shackleford.

501-224-7665. westendsmokehouse.net.

Nerd Eye Blind. Silk’s Bar and Grill, 10 p.m., free. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs.

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ages welcome. Faulkner County Library, 9:30 a.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-3277482. www.fcl.org.

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

Susan Erwin. Pop’s Lounge, 5 p.m., free.

2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-6234411. oaklawn.com.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 8 p.m., free. 111 W. Markham St. 501-3707013. www.capitalbarandgrill.com.

Zoso. A Led Zeppelin tribute band.

Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $15. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

COMEDY

“Forever Hold Your Peace.” By comedy trio The Main Thing. The Joint, through Sept. 2: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

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

501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

“Rednecks in Spandex.” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-3720205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

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EVENTS

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Art in the Face of War award-winning documentary

about WWII artists in uniform

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

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

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

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

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

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Tulsa Drillers. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. milb.com.

KIDS

Super Summer Saturday. Sporting and Olympic-themed programming for kids.

10 a.m. Saturdays through June 25. William J. Clinton Presidential Library, free. 1200 Clinton Avenue. 501-374-4242. clintonfoundation.org.

SUNDAY, JULY 17

July 20 Special Facilitator: Director, David Baugnon Sponsored by

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Movies at Mac arthur 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock • 501-376-4602 • arkmilitaryheritage.com

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MUSIC

Feed Her to the Sharks. With Dead Ships.

Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $5. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

The Lance Family. Part of the Faulkner County Library’s Summer Music Series.

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

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Weezer, Panic! at the Disco. With Andrew

McMahon In The Wilderness. Walmart AMP, 7 p.m. 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers.

479-443-5600. waltonartscenter.org.

EVENTS

Artists for Recovery. A secular recovery group for people with addictions, open to the public, located in the church’s Parlor.

Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 10 a.m. 1601 S. Louisiana.

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

Soul Food Sundays. Free buffet with $10 bar purchase, and live music from DJ Paul of KOKY. Se7en Social Lounge, through July 31: 4 p.m. 824 W. Capitol St. 501-803-8519.

MONDAY, JULY 18

MUSIC

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

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

TUESDAY, JULY 19

MUSIC

Brian and Nick. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. 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. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Malcolm Holcombe. White Water Tavern, 8:30 p.m., $7. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Mick Byrd. A happy hour show. White Water Tavern, 5 p.m., donations. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Otherwise. With Sons of Texas. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $12. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Tall Tall Trees. Bear’s Den Pizza, 10 p.m., free.

235 Farris Road, Conway. 501-328-5556. bearsdenpizza.net.

COMEDY

Girls’ Night Out: The Magic Mike Tour. The Loony Bin, 7 p.m., $20. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Brett Ihler.

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

EVENTS

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

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

bition of photography by Ted Grimmett, through July 28, reception 4-6 p.m. July 15; “Traditional Arts of the Bedouin,” ExhibitsUSA/Mid American Arts exhibition, through Aug. 5. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.

CLASSES

Garden Sketch Hour. Through August.

Faulkner County Library, free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. fcurbanfarmproject.org.

Bentonville CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “Distinguished Speaker Series: Cheech Marin,” actor will speak about his collection of Chicano art, 7 p.m. July 15; “American Made: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum,” 115 objects including quilts, carvings, signs, samplers, weathervanes and more, through Sept. 19; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

MUSIC

Ben Byers. Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free.

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

I Was Afraid, Fashion Week, Out of Body.

Vino’s, 8 p.m., $6. 923 W. 7th St. 501-3758466. vinosbrewpub.com.

Jim Dickerson. Sonny Williams’ Steak Room, 7 p.m. 500 President Clinton Ave. 501-3242999. www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

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

Karaoke. MUSE Ultra Lounge, 8:30 p.m., free. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Open Mic Nite with Deuce. Thirst n’ Howl, 7:30 p.m., free. 14710 Cantrell Road. 501379-8189. www.thirst-n-howl.com.

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

Shakey Graves. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8:30 p.m., $17. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

COMEDY

John Morgan. “The Rajun Cajun.” The Loony Bin, July 20-23, 7:30 p.m.; July 22-23, 10 p.m., $10-$15. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group.

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

DANCE

Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome.

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501-350-4712. www. littlerockbopclub.

FILM

48-Hour Film Project Screening. View (and vote on) films created from scratch in 48 hours. Ron Robinson Theater, July 20-21, 7 p.m. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. 48hourfilm.com.

Movies in the Park: Dirty Dancing.

Sponsored by Central Arkansas Library System. River Market, 8:30 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave.

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

“The Drowsy Chaperone.”A Tony Award-

NEW IN THE MUSEUMS

MAGICAL REALISM: “Triad” by Glennray Tutor and other paintings by the artist are on exhibit at Greg Thompson Fine Art in Argenta. There will be a reception at the gallery from 5-8 p.m. July 15, as part of Argenta ArtWalk.

winning “musical within a comedy.” The Weekend Theater, July 15-16, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 17, 2:30 p.m.; July 22-23, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 24, 2:30 p.m.; July 28-30, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 31, 2:30 p.m., $16-$20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. weekendtheater.org.

“La Cage aux Folles.” Argenta Community Theater, July 20-24; July 26-30, $30-$50. 405 Main St., NLR. 501-353-1443. argentacommunitytheater.com.

“Rock of Ages.” Studio Theatre, through July 16, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 17, 2:30 p.m.; through July 23, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., July 24, 2:30 p.m., $20-$25. 320 W. 7th St. 501-374-2615. thestudiotheatre-lr.org.

NEW IN THE GALLERIES

ARGENTA GALLERY/ROCK CITY WERKS, 413 Main St., NLR: Pottery by Logan Hunter and Hannah May, open 5-8 p.m. July 15, Argenta ArtWalk. 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tue.Sat. 258-8991.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Searching for Mildred Thompson: An Artist’s Legacy Project,” lecture on the 20th century African-American artist

by Melissa Messina, 6 p.m. July 21, preceded by reception at 5:30 p.m.; 58th annual “Delta Exhibition,” through Aug. 28; Renoir’s “Madame Henriot,” loan from the Columbus Museum of Art, through Sept. 11; WilliamAdolphe Bouguereau’s “Admiration,” loan from the San Antonio Museum of Art; “55th Young Artists Exhibition,” work by Arkansas students K-12, through July 24. 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 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “In Memoriam,” collages by Amy Edgington, hand-colored photography by David Rackley, opens with reception 7-10 p.m.

July 16, show through Sept. 10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Chicana Goddess in the Bosque: Walking with the Ancestors,” art quilts and mixed media by Sabrina Zarco, opens with reception 7 p.m. July 16, show through Aug. 20.

663-2222.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Glennray Tutor — Solo Exhibition,” magical realism paintings, reception 5-8 p.m.

July 15, Argenta ArtWalk, show through Aug. 13. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 664-2787.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Morning Stroll Surprise,” photographs by Carey Roberson, opens with reception 5-8 p.m.

July 15, Argenta Artwalk, show through mid-September. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 379-9101.

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

SOUTHERN WOMEN’S ARTISAN GUILD GALLERY, 606 W. Olive, NLR: Open 5-8 p.m. July 15, Argenta ArtWalk, concert by the Red Wine Effect, 6-9 p.m. July 16, $20. 398-1165.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Surface Tension,” MA thesis exhi-

MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, 503 E. 9th St. (MacArthur Park): Movies at MacArthur: “Art in the Face of War,” 6:30 p.m. July 20; “Waging Modern Warfare”; “Gen. Wesley Clark”; “Vietnam, America’s Conflict”; “Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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

Bentonville Museum of Native American History, 202 SW O St.: 1930s sandpainting tapestry by Navajo medicine man Hosteen Klah, from the collection of Dr. Howard and Catherine Cockrill, through December. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 479-273-2456.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

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

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

The Arts Council is also seeking submissions for the 2017 “Small Works on Paper” exhibition. Artwork must be no larger than

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MOVIE REVIEW

CHAMPS 4EVA: Mike Stangle (Adam Devine), left, and his brother Dave (Zac Efron) recruit dates (Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick) for their sister’s Hawaiian wedding via a Craigslist ad.

Good for a snort-laugh Lots of braying in ‘Mike and Dave.’

BY SAM EIFLING

“M

ike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” announces early on a premise with an easy solution. The two titular brothers — as played by Adam Devine (Mike) and Zac Efron (Dave) — are hard-partying man-children with a deserved reputation for wrecking family gatherings.

Their sister is getting married in Hawaii, so she and the parents have what amounts to an intervention: Bring a couple of nice girls to distract you, rather than chasing bridesmaids for the week.

The bros relent. Yes, they will find two ladies to schlep to Hawaii. No, this will not go as planned.

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For a Nerf-headed boner comedy, “Mike and Dave” has an unlikely true-life precedent in a couple of actual dudes named Dave and Mike Stangle. Circa 2005, their parents asked them not to come stag to their sister’s wedding.

These real dudes did what the dopes in the movie do, which is post a Craigslist ad (complete with their faces photoshopped onto hypermasculine centaurs) that went viral, got them hundreds of ladies’ info, and made them legends to the Maxim set. In the movie version of their lives, a pair of trashy-and-damnproud New Yorkers — Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza — clean themselves

up, sidle up to our lovelorn bros at a bar, pass themselves off as a hedge fund manager and a schoolteacher and eyelashbat their way into a tropical vacation.

From this setup, director Jake Syzmanski, whose credits include a long list of Funny or Die and “Saturday Night Live” segments, manages to turn out a series of set pieces that almost amounts to a real movie, albeit one whose go-to move is yelling for perceived comedic effect. Devine in particular seems to have been born without an inside voice, while Efron, now veteran of two “Neighbors” flicks, has some comedic chops that can’t help but be overshadowed by his obnoxiously good looks. They’re likable enough as the dolts who unwittingly brought in the two ticking time bombs to the gentile family event in paradise. Kendrick and Plaza, meanwhile, run the show. Kendrick’s Alice, a nervous sort of rogue, is still recouping from getting dumped at the altar; Plaza’s Tatiana is the unflappable alpha who keeps up the coquettish schoolteacher act between burning spliffs in bed and

swatting away Mike’s advances.

As it is an American wedding comedy, one that would like to be shown on cable in its afterlife, “Mike and Dave” takes a tour of all things raunchy and slapstick before domesticating itself into a movie where people learn actual lessons. (Tops on the list: If you look around and realize everything you touch turns to fireworks ash and/or family infighting, maybe a moment of self-reflection is in order.) And while it cranks up the part of the bride (Sugar Lyn Beard) to a tinny roar, the script loses the groom (Sam Richardson) in a straight-man role that should have produced at least a single laugh.

What you can hand it: The cast seems to be just frickin’ going for it, whatever it is. “Mike and Dave” is likable, if frivolous. But everyone in it is laying out as if it’s the last acting job they’re ever going to have. That means a lot of listening to people bray at one another at top volume. It also means the occasional snortlaugh through your nose, always great when you’re on a date.

AFTER DARK, CONT. 18 by 24 inches and only members of the Arkansas Artists Registry may enter. (Membership to the registry is free and open to all Arkansas artists.) David Houston, executive director of the Bo Bartlett Center, will be juror. Deadline is July 22. For more information about how to enter and fees, contact Cheri Leffew at 324-9767 or cheri@arkansasheritage.org.

ONGOING GALLERY EXHIBITS

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New large pastels

by Cynthia Kresse, blown glass buckets by Kyle Boswell. 664-0030.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Arkansas League of Artists,” juried show, through Oct. 22; “From the Vault,” work from the Central Arkansas Library’s permanent collection, including works

by Win Bruhl, Evan Lindquist, Shep Miers, Gene Hatfield, Ray Khoo and Jerry Phillips, through Oct. 22; “School’s Out: An Exhibition of Student Work,” organized

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

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Stop the Presses!” painting, photography, graphic work and ceramics by staff of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including John Deering, Cary Jenkins, Benjamin Krain, John Sykes Jr., Celia Storey, Ron Wolfe, Nikki Dawes and Kirk Montgomery, through Sept. 3. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. (Gallery closed 2 p.m. July 15 to 10 a.m.

July 18.) 224-1335.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Last Glimpses of Authentic Polaroid Art,” photography by Brandon Markin, Darrell Adams, Lynn Frost, Rachel Worthen and Rita Henry, through Sept.

30. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-noon Fri., 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun. CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880.

COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “The Medium is the Message,” mixed media by Laura Fanning, through July. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-4 p.m.

Sun. 918-3093.

DRAWL SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, 5208 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The Gun Show,” works by regional artists. 680-1871.

GALLERY 221, 221 W. 2nd St.: “Drawing on the Edge,” work by advanced art students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, through Aug 30. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m.Sat. 801-0211.

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

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “AfriCOBRA NOW: Works on Paper” featuring Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Moyo Okediji, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson

Stevens, through Sept. 3, artists reception 5:30-8 p.m. Sept. 9, tours and discussion 3-5 p.m. Sept. 10. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St. “A Diamond in the Rough; 75 Years of Historic Arkansas Museum,” through February 2017; “Sally Nixon,” illustrations, through Sept.

4; “Fucoid Arrangements” by Robert Lemming and abstract drawings by Louis Watts, through Aug. 7; “Hugo and Gayne Preller’s House of Light,” historic photographs, through October. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

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

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The Wild Ones,” paintings by Louis Beck, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m.

July 21. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: “Unwrapped,” paintings by Robin Trevor Tucker; “Dressed,” new works by Lisa Krannichfeld; also new works by Bryan Frazier, John Sadowski and Charles James.

225-6721.

MATT MCLEOD FINE ART GALLERY, 108 W. 6th St.: “Art • Craft • Art,” jewelry, tapestries, felt, ceramic, glass, paper, metal and mixed media sculpture by James Hayes, David Clemons, Sage Holland, Tom Holland, Lucas Strack, Beau Anderson, Louise Halsey, Barbara Cade, McLees Baldwin, David Scott Smith, Susan Campbell, Leandra Spangler and Carrie Crocker.

725-8508.

MATTHEWS FINE ART GALLERY, 909 North St.: Paintings by Pat and Tracee Matthews, glass by James Hayes, jewelry

by Christie Young, knives by Tom Gwenn, kinetic sculpture by Mark White. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 831-6200.

NEW DEAL GALLERY/STUDIOS, 2001 S. Louisiana St.: “Solastalgia,” paintings

by Susan Chambers, tapestry by Louise Halsey.

PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 3000 W. Scenic Drive: “Merging Form and Surface,” sculpture by Robyn Horn and Sandra Sell, Windgate Gallery, Center for the Humanities and Arts. 812-2324.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Work by new artist Jeff McKay; also work

by C.J. Ellis, TWIN, Amy Hill-Imler, Ellen Hobgood; new glass by James Hayes

and ceramics by Kelly Edwards. 10 a.m.5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

BENTON DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Work by Dianne Roberts, classes. 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

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

BENTONVILLE BOTTLE ROCKET GALLERY NORTH, 207 NE 2nd St.: “Video — Future Art,” works

by Mike Abb, Kat Wilson, Dillon Dooms, Corey Johnson, Sara Segerlin, Danny Baskin and Joel Vedros, closing reception 6-10 p.m. Aug. 5.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “The Art of Transcendence,” RAM annual invitational, through Oct. 16.11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479784-2787.

HOT SPRINGS JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “For the Love of Line,” pen and ink drawings

by Gary Simmons, printmaking by Kristin DeGeorge, paintings by Donnie Copeland and ceramics by Michael Ashley, through July. 501-321-2335.

JASPER NELMS GALLERY, 107 Church St.: Work

by Don Kitz, Don Nelms, Pamla Klenczar, Scott Baldassari and others. 870-446-5477.

PERRYVILLE SUDS GALLERY, Courthouse Square: Paintings by Dottie Morrissey, Alma Gipson, Al Garrett Jr., Phyllis Loftin, Alene Otts, Mauretta Frantz, Raylene Finkbeiner, Kathy Williams and Evelyn Garrett. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri, noon-4 p.m. Sat. 501-7667584.

PINE BLUFF ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St.: “Here. African American Art from the Permanent Collection,” through Oct. 15.

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

YELLVILLE PALETTE ART LEAGUE, 300 Hwy. 62 W: Work by area artists. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-

Sat. 870-656-2057.

ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITS ARKANSAS INLAND MARITIME MUSEUM, North Little Rock: USS Razorback submarine, USS Hoga tug tours. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 3718320.

ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD MUSEUM, Camp Robinson: Artifacts on military history, Camp Robinson and its predecessor, Camp Pike, also a gift shop.

8 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon.-Fri., audio tour available at no cost. 212-5215.

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

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

ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “Changing Tides: 100 Years of Iconic Swimwear,” 20th century swimwear from the collection of the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario, through Aug. 7; “What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags,” permanent exhibit. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun. $10, $8 for students, seniors and military. 916-9022.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: Refurbished 19th century structures from original city and galleries, guided tours Monday and Tuesday on the hour, self-guided Wednesday through Sunday, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: Permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 683-3610.

MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: “Wiggle Worms,” science program for pre-K children 10 -10:30 a.m. every Tue. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 13 and older, $8 ages 1-12, free to members and children under 1. 396-7050.

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham St.: “Different Spokes: Bicycling in Arkansas,” through July; “First Families: Mingling of Politics and Culture” permanent exhibit including first ladies’ gowns. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

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MOVIE REVIEW

“SULTAN’: Salman Khan stars.

‘Sultan’ rising New Bollywood film a must-see.

BY GUY LANCASTER

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or several years now, the occasional Bollywood film has broken into the Top 10 of American box office rankings despite only meager attention from American media outlets. Little Rock has contributed to the success of Indian cinema in the United States, with the Rave screening various Bollywood blockbusters, the latest of which is “Sultan,” a sports drama starring Salman Khan, a cross between George Clooney and Burt Reynolds who is perhaps the most successful actor working in Hindi-language cinema. This movie is an absolute must-see, a rip-roaring tale of respect and redemption that will restore the faith in cinema you lost with every iteration of the CGI-superhero.

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after his expiration date. The movie opens with Aakash Oberoi (Amit Sadh) in financial straits, his attempts to bring mixed martial arts to India floundering for lack of interest. On the advice of his father, he travels to the remote village of Haryana to try to recruit wrestling legend Sultan Ali Khan (Salman Khan) to spur some public interest. However, the Sultan he finds is a washed-up figure, working his rote job at the local water department and standing each night outside the temple to catch a glimpse of the woman he loves, a woman who acts as if he does not exist.

Aakash meets Govind (Anant Vidhaat Sharma), Sultan’s oldest friend, and learns the wrestler’s story. As it turns out, Sultan was nothing but an illiterate farmer’s son who also worked installing satellite dishes until he met Aarfa (Anushka Sharma), daughter of

the local wrestling coach and a wrestler herself. She spurns the advances of our hero until, through a series of training montages, he proves himself worthy of her love. They marry, and she becomes pregnant, ending temporarily her own ambitions, and she throws herself into his advancement on the world stage, on through the Olympics and various world championships.

But our humble farmer’s son grows more and more arrogant with each success, until one day he returns from abroad to confront a tragedy that he could have prevented had he not aimed so high and prioritized his family instead. Aarfa refuses to speak to her husband ever again, while Sultan, utterly distraught, gives up wrestling to take the humble job at the water department and stand each night outside the temple, only to be slighted by the wife he still adores.

Into this story steps Aakash with his offer of money and a chance at redemption. What follows is not only another series of training montages as the overthe-hill wrestler struggles to prepare himself for a strange sport and younger competitors, but also an emotional

drama of dreams deferred, of a man and wife struggling with their worst nightmare, of the possibility of forgiveness and what it means to fight against fate and love and time.

“Sultan” clocks in at nearly three hours, but it never feels long; no moment ever feels just tacked on to the story for effect. Granted, the song-and-dance offerings of “Sultan” are tepid compared to the average Bollywood spectacle of choreography, but Ali Abbas Zafar’s direction, during those rare musical numbers, feels organic, with the camera joining the action a la Alfonso Cuaron rather than observing from some remove. Too, Salman Khan and Anuska Sharma imbue their respective characters with such strength and wit as to make them genuine equals in the story.

“Sultan” is the rarest movie around — the action tearjerker that will have you crying at the same time that you grit your teeth and clench your fists in imitation of the fight you see taking place on the big screen. This is a wrestling movie with heart, a sports film that transcends the genre, a story that reminds you of the truly unique power of cinema.

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CLASSICALLY PREPARED: The duck confit is luscious, rich, salty and properly greasy, and permanently on Skye’s menu.

High on Skye’s Bistro’s French fare worth a visit.

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s avid frequenters of Dugan’s Pub and Stratton’s Market, we’ve kept a close watch on the evolving prepared food/restaurant presence at Stratton’s. After a couple of incarnations it more recently was rebranded Skye’s Little Bistro, named for the daughter of the two namesakes of the aforementioned, conjoined businesses.

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But what made us do more than notice was the announcement that Stephen Burrow had joined the team as chef and Stratton’s manager. We enjoyed Burrow’s work for years at 42, the Clinton Presidential Center restaurant, and knew he’d later spent time in the kitchen at Chenal Country Club. And now he’s back downtown at a place where his influence

can be huge.

Burrow’s first big move was going to a blackboard menu that changes periodically. He professes a dedication to locally sourced produce and meats, and Stratton’s has a decent selection of both, as well as local cheese from Kent Walker, which also finds its way onto Skye’s menu.

We opted for two entrees on our first lunch visit — the duck confit ($17) and chicken with gnocchi ($11).

The chef says duck confit is a permanent menu item, and that’s good news. The dish is classically done at Skye’s — a thigh/leg combo pan sauteed in duck fat. It was luscious,

rich, salty and properly greasy. The accompanying zephyr squash casserole was creamy, somewhat salty and generally amazing. We could have eaten t hree por tions.

Lyonnaise potatoes were advertised as the other side item, but instead we got soft, almost f luff y gnocchi. We will be back for this dish, but we don’t expect a lot of downtown workers are in the market for a $17 lunch entree. The chicken and gnocchi was as bland as the duck was flavorful. Salt helped, but the chicken, though plentiful, was a bit dry.

Interestingly, since Stratton’s Market is also a liquor store, Skye’s can’t serve alcoholic beverages to its diners or let you purchase a bottle of wine to consume there. However, the market has a tasting permit that allows it to serve a small pour, and Christoph, our Parisian waiter, was kind enough to offer some very tasty Chateau St. Michelle chardonnay, an offer we graciously accepted. We also indulged in a couple of bottles of high-end soda pop — Boylan Bottling’s ginger ale and creme soda, each a reasonable $1.49.

We were concerned that we were the only diners on our first lunch, but when we returned three days later, there were several others also enjoying Skye’s, which has only a few small bistro tables inside and even fewer on the sidewalk outside.

This lunch started with a bowl of gazpacho ($6), which Christoph was kind enough to split for us — and we think we got more soup than we deserved. It wasn’t typical tomatoonion-bell pepper based gazpacho.

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sweetness that came from watermelon (we found a seed). It was cool and delightful on a hot day.

For our main courses we opted for sandwiches — the Croque Monsieur ($10) and Rotisserie Lamb ($11). Each came with a French classic: cubed potatoes cooked crispy in duck fat, with creamy centers. Croque Monsieur is ubiquitous in France, and for good reason. It’s essentially a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich slathered with bechamel and topped with another slice of Swiss for good measure. The ham was high quality, which ensured the sandwich would be a hit. We enjoyed the lamb even more — very thinly sliced, fairly rare meat piled high and topped with just a bit of grated Asiago, Dijon mustard and some sweet homemade pickle slices on toasted marble rye. It was yummy in every way.

Skye’s is definitely worth a visit. It offers some items that are unique to this area, and the whole in-store bistro experience is a good one, helped along by the friendly Christoph.

Stratton’s Market itself is worth a visit as well. It offers a nice selection of Boar’s Head meats and cheeses

as well as Tillamook and four Kent Walker cheeses. The only liquor store in the heart of downtown, Stratton’s has a great selection of wines, beers and three racks of liquors.

Amy Bradley-Hole’s garlicky Bonta Toscana pasta sauce and Arkansas herbs and spices from Fennel and Fire are available, as are other gourmet goods, from West Rock Coffee to almond butter to caviar. But it’s not all frou-frou — as the Campbell’s tomato soup and Miracle Whip attest.

Skye’s Little Bistro 405 E. Third St. 791-6700

QUICK BITE Skye’s offers several prepared-food items for $9.99 a pound, most of them appetizers or side items perfect for pairing at home with your own main course. Stuffed grilled zucchini, tabouleh, grilled asparagus with wild rice pilaf, watermelon salad, pasta salad and a caprese salad were featured recently.

HOURS 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

OTHER INFO Credit cards accepted, no alcohol.

WHAT’S COOKIN’ EAT MY CATFISH OWNER Travis Hester says construction is nearing completion in his new space in Breckenridge Village. If he gets a green light from the city, he could open as soon as next week. Hours, like locations in Benton and Conway, will be 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

There will be bottled beer available.

The Little Rock location is at 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road, Suite A-4, in the former home of Barbara Graves Intimate Fashions.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Little Rock Restaurant Month runs Aug. 1-31. This year, each week will focus on a different district. As many as 30 restaurants in each district will offer dining discounts.

Aug. 1-7: Downtown District (River Market, Creative Corridor, Downtown/ East Village, SOMA).

Aug. 8-14: Midtown (Heights, Hillcrest, Riverdale, University corridor, Rebsamen, Cantrell, Rodney Parham).

Aug. 15-21: West Little Rock (west of I-430, north of I-630, Chenal, Highway 10).

Aug. 22-28: Airport and Southwest Little Rock.

Aug. 29-31: Food trucks.

SHARON WOODSON, OWNER of Honey Pies, which she’s operated at farmers markets and food truck events, will move the business within the next few weeks to a brick-andmortar space at 315 N. Bowman Road.

Part of the location was occupied by the short-lived BASH Burger Co.; Woodson won’t use the whole space for Honey Pies, but she will rent out a portion at some point.

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There’s a steadiness to this that some people find maddening. Probably a good portion of surveyed Razorback fans would take Harbaugh as head coach right now over Bielema, conjecture that really stems from the fact that Hog fans have always embraced not “winners” but “personalities.” Houston Nutt was pardoned for mediocrity for years because of his self-professed adoration of the program, one of the many exaggerations or falsehoods he spun here for a solid decade, the last six or seven years of which he didn’t deserve.

Bobby Petrino was seen as a cutthroat offensive genius, and he was that to a fault.

Bielema won at Wisconsin, and did it consistently and impressively, but Hog fans weren’t nearly as apt to embrace it. Why? Well, he wore a windbreaker everywhere, seemed to be kind of a dim bulb on the sidelines, and didn’t cash in on big-game opportunities. But beneath all of that,

CHICANA GODDESSES: Sabrina Zarco brings her mixed media work to Gallery 360 this weekend in a show called “Chicana Goddesses in the Bosque: Walking with the Ancestors.” The show opens with a reception at 7 p.m. July 16.

Sun. 324-9685.

WITT STEPHENS JR. CENTRAL ARKANSAS NATURE CENTER, Riverfront Park: Exhibits on fishing and hunting and the state Game and Fish Commission. 907-0636.

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

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

JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, 100 Veterans Circle: Exhibits on D-Day; F-105, Vietnam era plane (“The Thud”); the Civil War Battle of Reed’s Bridge, Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP) and other military history. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $3 adults; $2 seniors, military; $1 students. 501-241-1943.

MORRILTON MUSEUM OF AUTOMOBILES, Petit Jean Mountain: Permanent exhibit of more than 50 cars from 1904-1967 depicting the evo38

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lution of the automobile. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days. 501-727-5427.

PINE BLUFF ARTS AND SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St.: “Exploring the Frontier: Arkansas 1540-1840,” Arkansas Discovery Network hands-on exhibition; “Heritage Detectives: Discovering Arkansas’ Hidden Heritage.” 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Fri., 1-4 p.m. Sat. 870-536-3375.

POTTSVILLE POTTS INN, 25 E. Ash St.: Preserved 1850s stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route, with period furnishings, log structures, hat museum, doll museum, doctor’s office, antique farm equipment. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. $5 adults, $2 students, 5 and under free. 479-968-9369.

SCOTT PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, U.S. Hwy. 165 and state Hwy. 161: Permanent exhibits on historic agriculture. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $4 adults, $3 children. 961-1409.

SCOTT PLANTATION SETTLEMENT: 1840s log cabin, one-room school house, tenant houses, smokehouse and artifacts on plantation life. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thu.-Sat. 351-0300. www.scottconnections.org.

there’s a fire that burns just as hot as the one in Harbaugh, whose competitive spirit has never been questioned while his general sanity has. It would be a mistake to think that the surface reading is what is of consequence.

There’s also probably a tacit admission in Michigan ditching this game: The Wolverines improved greatly last year, but still got pounded by Ohio State and still don’t know quite how well this will work long-term. They also know that Arkansas is on the rise, and that under Bielema’s leadership, the team they would theoretically be facing in 2018 might have presented a far stiffer challenge than the one Touchdown Jesus generally puts forth.

And if causing a power program to turn away from a contractual opportunity to face an 8-5 Liberty Bowl champion says anything about Arkansas, it says there’s a degree of respect for the Hogs now that hasn’t been there since Lou Holtz reigned.

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The Arkansas Times is launching its third annual Women Entrepreneurs issue in October, and we want to know who you think we should feature. Here is what to keep in mind: • Your nominee must be a woman who started her own business or took over a business and is still the owner/operator.

• She must be an Arkansan.

• She must be in business currently and have at least one year in business by the time of your nomination.

• We welcome nominees who are LGBTQ.

• She must fit in one of these industry categories: food, professions (teachers, doctors, attorneys, financial advisors, etc.), nontraditional, retail and design, and two new categories - trailblazers (women who do not have their own business but have led their profession to success – pastors, teachers, CEOs, writers, etc.), and those women entrepreneurs outside of Pulaski County.

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