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Sympathy for Justin Harris Must have been a slow news week: Leave Harris alone or start your own daycare. Anyone could have made the same mistake.

As far as us paying a few dollars more per day for a child that may come in late or is on the grounds — I could care less.

Been there with severely challenged kids.

Steve Wheeler North Little Rock

Medicaid reform An open letter to members of Governor Hutchinson’s Health Reform Legislative Task Force: Not all beneficiaries of the private option are deadbeats. As a longtime advocate for the elderly and people with disabilities, I spend a lot of time listening to Arkansas legislators discuss the future of Medicaid and the fate of Arkansas’s uninsured population.

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, bills were introduced to terminate the private option. My state representative suggested that current beneficiaries of that program should get a J-O-B to pay for their own health insurance. For those task force members who share his opinion that Arkansans working minimum-wage jobs can afford the average $275 per month insurance premium but prefer to game the system instead, I refer 4

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you to an editorial appearing on Ithaca.com (May 30, 2015), an online New York State newspaper.

The editorial quotes Mike Sigler, a New York State representative, saying, “I work hard for my health insurance. … Medicaid people are getting charged all the time with fraud.” The editorial poses the question “Who are ‘Medicaid people’?”

I think it’s important for task force members to ask the same question, and take the time to research the answer.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 73 percent of nonelderly Arkansans with Medicaid are children. Despite the fact that 17 percent of families receiving Medicaid have at least one full-time worker and 41 percent have one or more part-time workers, 48 percent of nonelderly Medicaid recipients are living under 100 percent of the Federal Poverty Level ($11,770 for an individual; $24,250 for a family of four). The minimum wage in Arkansas is $7.50 per hour, yield-

ing a weekly salary of $300 less 6.2 percent (about $19) for Social Security taxes.

The vast majority of health care fraudsters are doctors, pharmacists, drug dealers and professional scam artists, not homeless people, single moms, the disabled or grandparents raising children of incarcerated parents. The editorial points out that, “It’s not easy to qualify for Medicaid. … Nor does Medicaid automatically renew.”

The annual review paperwork can be daunting for homeless, mentally ill, or low-literate people. “And the attitude ... that they must be trying to rip off the system, or that they deserve their disabilities and their poverty because of their lack of work ethic or moral fiber … makes applying for that card an exercise in humiliation.”

The editorial goes on to cite the recent Medicaid fraud case in New York City involving homeless people who were recruited at soup kitchens and shelters to unwittingly allow a ring of doctors to run up almost $7 million in phony Medicaid charges in exchange for

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a pair of cheap sneakers. That story was covered by news media nationwide. However, most articles left out the part that the investigation leading to the arrest of 23 people, included nine physicians, was prompted by a homeless lady who walked into the Brooklyn district attorney’s office to report that she had been recruited and brought to a clinic where a podiatrist gave her sneakers and a knee brace, which she insisted she didn’t need. However, accepting the knee brace was a condition of receiving the free sneakers. The editorial concludes: “In other words, an honest ‘Medicaid person’ just saved the state of New York over $7 million. Maybe she should run for office.” While I’m not advocating that this lady run for office, I would hope that she could be provided with appropriate services and supports to get a roof over her head while she gets back on her feet. She is an example of the majority of Medicaid-eligible American citizens, who do not choose to be deadbeats.

Gloria Gordon North Little Rock

Capitalism run amok The problem with our economy is that capitalism in America has arrived at an ugly place. I don’t think Adam Smith envisioned a corporate welfare state when he wrote about the “free market.” A level playing field where a person’s skills and determination can secure a slice of the American Dream is what Smith and other founders dreamed of in the early days of our nation’s founding.

What we’ve become is a nation controlled by corporations who manipulate the legislative process to take advantage of bailouts, subsidies and tax breaks for the wealthy that are paid for by us peons. For an example, look at the current deal with Lockheed Martin. This deal will result in only a few jobs, but will increase the tax burden for poor Arkansans.

This set of circumstances isn’t going to change if we continue to put the same old parties in office.

We need something different in this country. Maybe a Democratic Socialist from Vermont?

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WEEK THAT WAS

“It’s very clear what your views are, sir. My views are keeping our kids safe, which include my children. Now that you have a child, you will understand. … When you speak of sending our kids again, let’s make it worth it not just to send them to politically help some Haliburton or somebody else.”

— Fred Boenig, an anti-war radio host whose son died in Afghanistan in 2010, to U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton at a foreign policy discussion in D.C. Cotton’s first child was born this April.

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END OF THE ROUTE: An abandoned schoolbus sits in a field of wildflowers south of Corning.

No PARCCing After a single year of using the new PARCC test to evaluate Arkansas students, the state will ditch it in favor of a different assessment, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced. It’s not clear if the new test, called the ACT Aspire, will be better or worse than PARCC. What is clear is that the ACT Aspire is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, just as PARCC was.

Yet because Common Core is such a political hot potato — especially in Tea Party circles — Hutchinson and Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin continue to hold public meetings soliciting input on the “question” of whether Arkansas will stick to the standards. We’re about to commit every school in the state to a new exam designed to test knowledge of Common Core … but we’re still not sure if we’re going to keep using Common Core? Right, right.

The river flatulent Last week, an auxiliary pipeline that runs beneath the Arkansas River near the Little Rock airport ruptured, sending 3.9 million cubic feet of natural gas bubbling through the water and into the air. That’s enough gas to supply about 65 average American 6

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homes for a year, said a spokesperson for the pipeline operator, Texas-based Spectra Energy. No one was injured in the blast, although a nearby towboat called the Chris M was damaged by flying debris and several boat captains on the river came fairly close to having heart attacks. Spectra is still investigating the cause of the rupture.

Hope ’n’ carry Is it lawful in Arkansas to openly wear a gun on your hip wherever you go? Attorney General Leslie Rutledge now says it is, based on a 2013 bill that surreptitiously smuggled in a legal change that could be interpreted as allowing for open carry. The previous AG, Democrat Dustin McDaniel, issued an opinion in 2013 saying that was NOT what the law did. But Rutledge, his successor, begs to differ. “I interpret it to mean an individual may carry so long as he or she does so without the intent to unlawfully employ it against another person,” she said in a statement to a news outlet last week.

Two of the rare places in the state where toting a gun remains illegal, by the way: The Capitol and the Attorney General’s office.

Sky still blue, water still wet, Rapert still clueless Conway Pride, which put on its

12th annual LGBT pride parade last weekend, says its mission is “to teach tolerance and acceptance of the LGBT community in the South.”

But you can’t pull the wool over the stern gaze of state Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway), who represents a portion of the city. In a lengthy Facebook missive over the weekend, Rapert revealed the parade’s true objective: “I believe it is because they understand that the lifestyle they are glorifying on our streets is considered sin by every Biblebelieving Christian and they use their parade on a day reserved to worship God and reverence [for] the Lord to mock Christians.”

… and Huckabee still gross For those who prefer their bigotry delivered with a punch line, there’s always Mike Huckabee. A video surfaced last week in which the former governor joked to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention earlier this year that he wished he “could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. … I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’ You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous, doesn’t it?” Ah, for a return to a simpler America, when trans people were easy fodder for comedy — right along with teenage boys doing creepy things to girls.

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Lost in translation: The Ark. GOP

ons in Arkansas, the three Republican officeholders declared that a 2013 law aimed at technical corrections to weapons law had, by trick or accident, legalized open carry in Arkansas. This is contrary to former Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s official opinion, something epublican politicians did some assembly. So fearthat Rutledge has not yet officially counrhetorical dancing in the last ful is he of LGBT termanded. people, he wants week that requires translation.

All three acknowledged a lack of clarthem driven into ity on the law, including disagreement by darkness. No one legislators who voted for it in 2013 and Sen. Jason Rapert For the 12th year, Conway Pride orga- mocked his relialso rejected a bill explicitly authorizing MAX nized a Sunday parade and a park gath- gion nor attempted open carry. Said Rutledge, for example: BRANTLEY ering to express love and brotherhood to prevent him “But anytime law enforcement and citimaxbrantley@arktimes.com for all, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual from practicing it. zens disagree on a law we need to ensure and transgender people.

Rapert HAS attempted to intimidate the there is clarity to protect our citizens. I It drove Rapert nuts. He unloaded Conway City Council and the Arkansas am committed to working with the Gena 1,000-word Facebook rant decrying Supreme Court to make his mean brand eral Assembly to clarify any confusion the marchers (including many clergy) of religion law, including by outlawing surrounding Act 746 and its intent.”

Translation: The law isn’t clear, but as “anti-Christian activists” who’d been Sunday parades. Even a sympathizer “enabled” by the City Council to do so on on Rapert’s Facebook page observed: we’re too chicken to do anything about a Sunday, “the Lord’s day.” Rapert said “A governing entity big and powerful it. If we really wanted unlimited open the parade was meant to “mock” and enough to tell homosexuals they cannot carry, we would have fixed it in the 2015 “intimidate” Christians. assemble on a Sunday is big and power- legislative session. But we’re happy to A Twitter account I follow translated ful enough to tell Christians the same.” let the gun nuts bully this into de facto law. We didn’t get where we are today Rapert best by quoting George Bernard by standing up to their kind.

Shaw: “Hatred is the coward’s revenge Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Lt. Gov. Tim for being intimidated.”

Griffin and Attorney General Leslie Gov. Asa Hutchinson, again.

Translation: Jason Rapert believes Rutledge. his view of religion should trump the Responding to a campaign organized In an interview Sunday, he continFirst Amendment right to speech and by advocates for open carry of weap- ued to tap dance around discrimina-

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Thanks to ledge, you’ll pay more for utilities

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id I mention last week that the current General Assembly had earned the distinction of being the most corporate friendly in history and thereby the most hostile to Arkansas’s sons of toil?

I actually played it down. Unmentioned was a little noticed act, signed

by Gov. Asa Hutchinson in late March, that seeks to force the state Public Service Commission to raise utility rates to give investors higher profits than they’ve gotten in Arkansas and to shift electricity costs from giant energy users like steel and paper mills and big poultry processors like Tyson to homeowners and smaller commercial users.

You’ll understand it much better next year when the PSC approves higher rates for Entergy Corp. and transfers electricity costs from big electricity consum-

ers like the Koch brothers’ Georgia Pacific Corp. to you.

One bit of evidence for this legisERNEST lature’s distinction DUMAS as the friendliest to the Fortune 500 was that the legislature voted last month to borrow $87.1 million to bolster Lockheed Martin’s profits and chances of landing another big military contract and then pay off the Lockheed debt with some 120 million of your tax dollars. Lockheed, with $46 billion in sales and $5.2 billion in profits last year, gets 82 percent of its revenues from Uncle Sam, making it one of the largest beneficiaries of Big Government, and now of Little Government as well.

Two months earlier, the legislature

approved an amendment to the state Constitution to remove the limits on this kind of corporate welfare and permit future legislatures and local governments to obligate as much of Arkansas’s taxes as they like — all of it, if they choose — to corporations that would like to operate out of Arkansas. The amendment also will end the 140-year-old constitutional ban on cities appropriating your tax money to corporations like chambers of commerce for advocating business development.

But this is about the legislature and your utility bills.

Rep. Charlie Collins, the Republican chairman of the House Insurance and Commerce Committee, introduced the utility bill, “An Act to Reform Rate Making of Public Utilities,” and it passed without a dissenting vote, although a few House members took a powder and didn’t vote.

Its “reforms” were two directives to the state utility commission: • From now on, when the commissioners consider a proper rate of return on a utility company’s common equity — the stock held by its investors — they must weigh all the factors and evidence submitted by the company and intervening parties, such as what other states in the

tion against gay people. In an interview during a library program with Deborah Robinson, he said about the “religion protection” legislation he signed, which provides a religious pretext for those who want to discriminate against gay people: “The challenge for us in Arkansas is that the majority of citizens, as expressed by their vote on the constitutional amendment, defines marriage as between one man and one woman,” Hutchinson said. “That is the constitution of Arkansas, and it’s not something you disregard with callousness or just because you want to go a different direction. So you have some strong-held beliefs that the people of Arkansas have versus their common-sense desire not to discriminate. We don’t want to discriminate against anyone.”

Translation: I don’t want to discriminate against anyone unless they are gay or transgender. That kind of discrimination is legal in Arkansas and I intend to keep it that way. Yes, the Arkansas Constitution declares equal rights for all, but I choose to go a different direction.

The bully of Bigelow, Jason Rapert, actually stands out. He disrespects the Constitution and yearns for a theocratic state shaped by Rapert. But at least he’s honest about it.

region allow utilities to earn, and then in their final order the commissioners must explain how much weight they gave that testimony. Hint: Arkansas has allowed utilities a lower rate of return than the likes of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma, and its retail rates are lower. The legislature and the governor now tell the commissioners they can no longer ignore those factors. You can guess what the result will be.

• The new law, Act 725, reverses the historical bent of the utility commission to favor homeowners and small-business users in the competition with large industrials over how a utility’s costs and revenues are to be allocated among the classes of customers. Starting now, the utility commission is directed to give extra weight to the needs of big energyconsuming industries for low rates on the grounds that shifting costs from the big consumers to homeowners and small commercial users will mean more jobs.

Entergy Corp. has applied to the PSC for a rate increase, which will reflect its purchase of a unit of the big gas-fired generating plant at El Dorado and also the need for a higher return on equity than it has historically been given. Last week, its official notice in the classified section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 www.arktimes.com

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ere are a couple of things you may not know about recent topics in the news. First, no secretary of state previous to Hillary Clinton had ever used a government email address or preserved their messages for posterity. And why should they? The law requiring Cabinet members to do so didn’t go into effect until after Clinton left office. Presumably to make one-stop-shopping easier for Chinese and Russian hackers.

But I digress. Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell deleted his emails. Every single one. Condoleeza Rice has said that she simply never used emails, which may even be true.

Second, as of 2011 former President George W. Bush had earned at least $15 million giving speeches mainly to corporate and Republican groups. Politico has found more recent information hard to find. It’s private and confidential.

In 2011, Bush pocketed $100,000 to speak at a fundraiser for a homeless shelter in McKinney, Texas. The shelter’s director called the event a success, adding that the former president was his usual charming self. Bush’s standard practice is that reporters aren’t invited and recording devices not allowed.

“Relative to the Clintons, though,” Politico notes, “he’s attracted considerably less attention.” Maybe that’s because George W. Bush has no close relatives running for president? So that when he accepts $250,000 for speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, it’s not an issue? This event is widely known as the “Sheldon Adelson Primary,” after the billionaire casino magnate who openly auditions GOP hopefuls who oppose online gambling and support Israel.

Anyway, aren’t they all up for sale, the candidates? Clintons, Bushes, Walkers, Cruzes, Perrys, the lot.

Open for business, every single one.

Somehow, however, what would appear the least objectionable buck-raking by a presidential candidate during the 2016 campaign cycle has become the most controversial. I refer, of course, to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary and Bill Clinton’s $2 billion charitable enterprise.

The Clinton Foundation is credited, among other things, with providing cut-rate HIV drugs to patients throughout the Third World, hearing

aids for deaf children in Botswana, earthquake relief in Haiti, and even fighting elephant poaching in Africa GENE — reportedly a pasLYONS sion of Chelsea and Hillary Clinton’s.

And of every other decent human being on earth.

Interestingly, the Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold recently produced a remarkably fair, snark-free account of the Clinton Foundation and its proprietor, a veritable force of nature. A longtime acquaintance like thousands of Arkansans, I almost can’t comprehend the life Bill Clinton has chosen.

His life of endless banquets, celebrity galas and international jetting around would make me crazy.

But then what have I done for the destitute and afflicted? Watched a lot of Red Sox games and read a thousand novels, that’s what.

Meanwhile, the thing to understand about the swirl of innuendo and accusation concerning this remarkable enterprise is that it’s yet another “Swift Boat”-style operation. Written by a career political operative named Peter Schweizer, the book “Clinton Cash” amounts to little more than a conspiracy theory touted by the same newspapers that promoted the Whitewater hoax and cheered on Kenneth Starr and his leak-o-matic prosecutors.

Aptly described by Michael Tomasky in the New York Review of Books as an “imitation of journalism,” “Clinton Cash” basically assembles circumstantial evidence about various potentates and high-flyers in the Clintons’ orbit.

Assuming venal motives, it then leaps to conclusions unsupported by fact. In most instances, the author hasn’t even interviewed his targets.

After making a promotional deal with Schweizer, the New York Times devoted 4,400 words to a jumbled narrative involving a Canadian mining executive who’d pledged half his income to the Clinton Foundation and the subsequent sale of a Wyoming uranium mine to Russian interests.

Way down at the bottom, however, the determined reader learned that Secretary of State Clinton played no role

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hen Arkansas gutted out a 3-2 win over Missouri State at Baum Stadium to cap off a sun-soaked, cuticle-clawing Super Regional best-of-three, it sent the Hogs to the College World Series for the fourth time under Dave Van Horn’s watch. The 2004, 2009 and 2012 teams all etched themselves in the memory banks for various reasons —the lateinning heroics of the ’09 squad were sublime, and in ’12, the Hogs found every conceivable way to win tight, low-scoring battles. This bunch has its own sense of history and penchant for drama as well.

Missouri State was far from a slouch (Irwin Fletcher himself wouldn’t even characterize the Bears as a “tremendous slouch”), and it showed on Saturday at Baum Stadium. The biggest of the three record crowds that amassed smelled blood after the Hogs pounded the Bears 18-4 on Friday, but fiery MSU southpaw Matt Hall simply wasn’t having it. He threw a one-hitter that was arguably one of the most complete pitching efforts seen in the sport all year, brilliantly mixing his diving curveball with a pinpointed fastball.

The changing velocities and precise locations were too much for a Razorback lineup that probably grew impatient after being able to thoroughly dismantle the Bears’ All-American Jon Harris for nine hits and eight runs the day before.

Hall preyed on that eagerness, working quickly on a sweaty day and striking out eight. A seventh-inning bid to rally got snuffed out rather quickly, and Hall regained composure in the final two frames without incident. To be honest, it didn’t bode well for Sunday’s finale, but the character of a baseball team is better gauged by what it can extract from a close loss rather than a blowout victory.

That was where Jackson Lowery indisputably did the unsung but perhaps most critical work of the entire weekend. When Keaton McKinney labored through the first few batters Saturday with sketchy command and fell in an early hole, senior righty Lowery demonstrated the same degree of upperclassman composure that he showed against St. John’s in the final game of the Stillwater Regional. His 6 2/3 innings of relief were marked by an ability to battle back from unfavorable counts and a proper empha-

sis on getting his excellent fielders involved in keeping Missouri State at bay. The approach worked BEAU like a charm even WILCOX though he didn’t get the kind of offensive support that would’ve closed down the whole show without the need for the Sunday game.

It was clear that Lowery’s performance did energize the Hogs on Sunday. They quickly manufactured three first-inning runs off Jordan Knutson, MoState’s quality third starter, and let the saved pitching depth do the remaining work. James Teague provided a nervous but quality fourinning start, Lance Phillips bridged the gap, and Zach Jackson was in full-on flamethrowing mode for the final three-plus stanzas. The Bears’ weekend-long offensive inefficiencies ended up coming back to haunt them, because by the time Jackson started overwhelming them with late-inning heat and movement, those lost early opportunities with men in scoring position were coming home to roost.

Arkansas enters the eight-team fray in Omaha on Saturday feeling just as strongly about its chances of triumph there as any other squad, though its overall record of 40-23 is among the more modest in the field. The Hogs still boast Golden Spikes contender and SEC Player of the Year Andrew Benintendi, whose ongoing 2015 fantasy reached a personal zenith Monday evening when the Boston Red Sox picked him seventh overall in the MLB Draft. But Benintendi’s scorching midseason surge did make pitchers more cautious once postseason play began (he’s still tied for the national lead in homers with 19, but only two of those have come in the last 13 games), so it falls on Tyler Spoon and an array of steady if unassuming bats to help carry the offense.

The pitching doesn’t jump off the page: Lowery’s seven wins, mostly in relief, lead the entire staff, while most of the other entrants boast one or two double-digit winners with gaudy strikeout and ERA numbers. The Hogs’ de facto No. 1 starter is Trey Killian, who struggled so mightily early on that his overall line is a pedestrian 3-4, 4.74 ERA, with 92 hits surrendered in just under 80 innings. But those digits are CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

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n recognition of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s recently opining that the open carry of firearms is, as he understands it, legal now under Arkansas law as long as the person doing the carrying doesn’t intend to commit a crime, The Observer is pleased to announce the next step in the ongoing fight to preserve and defend the Right to Bear Arms: The Open Carry of Large Butcher Knives, Rusty Machetes or Razor-Sharp Hatchets Movement.

At the core of our grassroots, common sense movement is this: Because the world is a terrifying hellscape full of people who don’t look like you and me, nor pray, have sex, live in the same neighborhood or watch the same news channel as you and me, the law-abiding citizens of Arkansas will henceforth exercise our right to bear either a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet everywhere we go.

With our self-defense tools unsheathed and at the ready, we will then go about our day-to-day lives — shopping for slacks, eating egg salad sandwiches, buying the DVD box set of “One Tree Hill,” etc. — all while clutching a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet in one sweaty, white-knuckled paw, possibly while muttering to ourselves that those who protect freedom must be ever vigilant and Thomas Jefferson’s quote about how the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with blood.

Now, if you’re some kind of pinko, you might be thinking to yourself: Do you really NEED to carry a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet everywhere you go? Doesn’t the FBI say the violent crime rate in the U.S. is at its lowest level in, like, 40 years? The better question, however, is: Why do YOU feel the need to question MY rights? What’s wrong with you? Hey, get your hand out of your pocket!

You’re making me nervous, friend. And if there’s one thing you do not want to do, it’s to make a law-abiding citizen holding a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet nervous.

After you’re through trying to think of ways to take away my God-given right to open carry a large butcher knife, rusty machete and/or razor-sharp hatchet in

public, consider this: Imagine how safe and free people will feel at the local Red Lobster, Walmart, Toys “R” Us, shooting range, Build-A-Bear Workshop, public park, Payless Shoe Source, church, waterslide, book club and/or Container Store when they look up and see a law-abiding citizen nearby, feverishly clutching his large butcher knife, rusty machete or razorsharp hatchet. Imagine the relief of your average citizen at that moment: seeing that silent and watchful sentinel, muscles taut, eyes scanning the crowd for aggression, ready to spring into action in a moment’s notice if a non-legitimate, non-law-abiding carrier of a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet were to enter the room and start slashing and stabbing innocent people to death! It happens!

Not often. But like Yours Truly always says: It’s better to have a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet and not need it than to need a large butcher knife, rusty machete or razor-sharp hatchet and not have it.

Sure, if you hate America, walking into a fast-food restaurant full of people choking down burgers and chicken nuggets while gripping large butcher knives, rusty machetes or razor-sharp hatchets in their fists may look intimidating. Maybe your Lil’ Patriot will make it a Freedom Teaching Moment™ by tugging on your sleeve, looking at you with those big, curious eyes, and saying, “Are they going to kill us, Grandpa?”

These kids today with their questions! The True American, of course, will say to that confused child, “Don’t be afraid. While I don’t know any of these people from Jack Johnson, I can tell just by looking at them that they are all clearly law-abiding citizens. So be joyous! We are witnessing liberty in its most powerful and fundamental expression!”

Also, you should remind yourself that with all those self-defense tools and lawabiding citizens well within slashing distance and ready to act, you’re standing in one of the safest places in the world! Unless, of course, the dude you’re dining across from is off his meds and goes apeshit at some point, which rarely happens. Two or three times a week, tops, and usually far, far away from here.

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Pipes now, marina later Burkhalter begins river project.

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK

Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas politician who lives in income-tax-free Florida, held a news conference in Little Rock last week to which local media, save the Arkansas Times, was invited.

Who knew we were so mighty?

Nonetheless, Tweets rolled in from the favored attendees.

Huckabee said only the media cares about his insensitive and juvenile riff in Porky’s in which he compared the difficult issue of transitioning Caitlyn Jenner to his own voyeuristic streak.

Never mind the outpouring of criticism on social media and dozens of websites from hundreds of readers.

He also defended Arkansas Treasurer Dennis Milligan, for whom he was an honorary campaign official and who’s been involved in controversy since he took office in January. (And before, if you account his misdeeds in Saline County and attempting to extort Duncan Baird out of the GOP primary.)

Huckabee rises to Duggars’ defense with Megyn Kelly At his press event in Little Rock, Huckabee said he would love to have the Duggars campaign with him. This week, he went on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show to defend the Duggar family.

In the process, he joined Kelly in misstating facts about the case and claimed the media had been exploiting girls in the Duggar family, even though the Duggars themselves produced daughters for interviews on Kelly’s show.

Multiple lawyers and public officials have explained completely and explicitly how the release of a police report about multiple molestations in the Duggar family home complied with the law and did not reveal identities of people

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in 2011 was stalled by the need to get approval from the Pulaski County Levee District, the Corps of Engineers and the city for work on the city-owned property. The PCD was re-established and approved by the City Board in 2013.

Burkhalter was issued a 404 per-

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ll you can see right now on John Burkhalter’s riverfront property east of the Clinton Presidential Center are steel pipes, a 250-ton crane, some rusted buoys and a small crew.

Eight-foot-tall grasses growing on a levee obscure the Arkansas River. It’s not exactly lovely at the moment, but it’s peaceful and, except for the pair of red-tailed hawks whistling in trees nearby, quiet, despite its proximity to downtown Little Rock.

The quiet is one thing Burkhalter likes about the site, where he plans to build the Rock City Marina and apartment project. The construction on a city park and marina is the first stage in the long-planned landmark marina project, one that Burkhalter says will eventually include 400 boat slips on the river, 15 docks, seven apartment buildings, restaurants and a city park. “If you had told me nine years ago that I would just now be at this stage,” Burkhalter said, “I would have taken a pass.” But now, “at this point, you couldn’t take it away from me.”

Burkhalter consulted with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city before he bought the property a decade ago to build the marina. Burkhalter was the only bidder to build the city park on five acres he’s leasing from the city north of Third Street and east of Bond Street. He owns the adjoining 11.5 acres hugging the river bank from the park to property owned by the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.

It’s not easy to build a marina. Creating access to a major waterway requires cutting through reams of red tape, not surprisingly, and need for interagency coordination as work progresses. His planned commercial development (PCD) was first approved by the city in 2005, and a revised version was approved in 2007. Another revision

The red tape “was more than I bargained for,” he added.

Now, two years off the projected start of the marina, Burkhalter has begun work. Step one: wave attenuators. Burkhalter, an engineer (and Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor last year), bought the wave attenuators — steel pipes 35 inches wide and 60 feet long — from Orange Beach, Ala., and shipped them here to be fabricated according to his own design. (They had been placed in the Gulf of Mexico by a contractor for BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.) The pipes, filled with a buoyant material, will float on the Arkansas River to protect the boat slips and dock from being rocked too strongly by river traffic. He called that

STEP ONE: John Burkhalter discusses an ongoing project to build a marina on the Arkansas River east of the Clinton Center. Workers weld “wave breakers” together at the project site.

mit from the Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard in 2014 (also after a Corps-required redesign). He had to get permission from Pulaski County to build because of the location of the development in the flood plain. He had to do a study for the state to determine the impact of the development on any archeological sites that existed. His last hurdle, Burkhalter said, was getting a “no rise” certificate from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a requirement before Public Works will provide a permit for land grading and flood hazard work.

construction three-quarters built.

Once the river goes down and the attenuator is ready, Burkhalter said, he’ll build a river wall, the boat launch, fueling dock and 125 boat slips ranging in size from 25- to 80-feet wide.

“Since I am spending a tremendous amount of my own money” on the public park, he said, Burkhalter’s lease gives him naming rights. He plans to name it for his parents, Loyce Ann and the late Frank Allen Burkhalter. His father, Burkhalter said, served in the Navy on a PT boat, was an engineer for the Corps and loved the water.

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Little Rock artists have been going down to the drains to keep trash out of our river and streams, painting them with herons, fish, frogs and even a purse. The Drain Smart project, organized by a coalition of governmental and private conservation agencies, selected 17 artists and provided drains in the River Market district, South Main and War Memorial Park as their canvases. The message: The trash that ends up in our storm drains does not go through a filtering sewer system but straight into waterways, like Fourche Creek and the Arkansas River.

The trash isn’t just unsightly, it’s unhealthy.

Here are 5 eight of the 17 drains painted in the project. You 8 can vote on your favorite at drain-smart.org through June; the artist from each in the three selected areas with the most votes will get 6 $500. Here’s a sampling of what you can see, and the artists: 1. “Sunset Herons,” southwest corner of Cumberland and Markham, in front of Big Whiskey’s, Daniella Napolitano.

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2. “Fourche Creek Dragon,” Fair Park near the stadium entrance, Krista Hawkins.

3. “Frogs,” Fair Park and Markham, Lorria Eubanks.

4. “Surfing Frog,” 15th and Main, in front of Green Corner Store, Katy Kane.

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5. “Harmony,” 12th and Main, in front of Community Bakery, Perrion Hurd.

6. “Groovy Fish,” near the southeast corner of 16th and Main, Meg Davis Griffith.

7. “Protect Nature’s Purse,” southwest corner of 16th and Main, in front of Esse Purse Museum, Amanda Heinbockel.

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8. “One Fish, Two Fish,” near the circle entrance to the Clinton Presidential Center, Tina Oppenheimer.

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INSIDER, CONT. involved in the report. Yet Huckabee called the release “illegal, unlawful.”

He also said he was “stunned and shocked” that the girls were “exploited in this by the media for their own purposes.”

The names of the suspect and the victims were redacted in the police report. It was Josh Duggar himself who identified himself and, by implication, some of his sisters, in a public statement.

Two sisters who’d been fondled by their brother subsequently appeared on Kelly’s show and identified themselves as being involved.

Huckabee rose to instant defense of the family after the news broke. The Duggar family endorsement of him has been removed since from his website, though Huckabee said recently it will return. At this point, he has no choice politically but to stick with his defense.

More Duggar defenders Meanwhile, state Sen. Bart Hester (RCave Springs) has called for Springdale Police Chief Kathy O’Kelley to be fired for releasing the 2006 police report on Josh Duggar’s molestations, and former Springdale City Council member Ray Dotson has taken a complaint about O’Kelley to the Civil Service Commission.

Juvenile Judge Stacey Zimmerman ordered the destruction of the police record — something legal authority after legal authority has said she had no grounds to do so. Legal experts also say the police department had no alternative but to release the police report, a public record. Her order makes it impossible for the Civil Service Commission to review the matter, even if it was in its purview, which it doesn’t appear to be.

Zimmerman has issued three separate orders in the case. How do we know?

Dotson presented them to the Civil Service Commission. How did he get orders in a supposed secret case? Good question. But, another touch of irony: The orders Zimmerman issued in this case at various times disclose that a Family in Need of Services case was opened related to the Duggars in this matter. So the judge and whoever else participated in this records release has managed to further add to the public record with information about a supposedly secret case pertaining to molestation in the Duggar home. Don’t forget: Blame the media. Not Zimmerman. Not the Duggars. Not their allies.

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eventy years ago this month, on June 19, 1945, Sue Cowan Morris won her legal battle for the equalization of black and white teachers’ salaries in the Little Rock

School District. The lawsuit ended a longstanding policy of pay discrimination against black teachers and laid the foundations for

later struggles for black educational equality in the city. It also cost

Williams and other educators their jobs for insisting upon justice.

Sue Cowan Morris won the battle to equalize pay of black and white teachers. It cost her her job.

BY JOHN A. KIRK

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Teacher salary equalization suits provided some of the earliest legal victories for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in its pursuit of educational equality in the courts. They helped launch the career of young attorney Thurgood Marshall, who in 1967 was appointed as the United States’ first black Supreme Court justice. Marshall, whose mother was a teacher, had firsthand experiences of the inequalities black educators suffered. Starting in his home state of Maryland, Marshall won court victories for pay equalization that then began to spread to the South.

Little Rock’s black teachers, who as elsewhere were mostly women, monitored the cases with interest.

In 1941, the 86 teachers that taught in Little Rock’s black public schools all belonged to the Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association (CTA), which coordinated the campaign for the salary equalization suit. The CTA formed a Salary Adjustment Committee (SAC) to investigate the facts.

The SAC’s study discovered that white elementary school teachers in Little Rock received an average annual salary of $526, while black elementary school teachers received only $331.

White high school teachers received

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an annual salary of $856, while black high school teachers received only $567. This was despite the fact that both white and black teachers did the same work in the same public school system.

Black teachers drew up a petition for the equalization of salaries and presented it to the recently appointed Little Rock Superintendent of Schools Russell T. Scobee. He passed the petition on to the Little Rock School Board, which chose to table the matter indefinitely. In fact, over the summer, unequal pay raises administered by the school district only increased the pay disparity between black and white teachers. Black teachers began to contribute to a fund for a salary equalization suit and retained local lawyers in preparation for the case. They also contacted NAACP headquarters, and Thurgood Marshall agreed to assist.

Marshall studied the qualifications of CTA members and drew up a short list of possible candidates to head the lawsuit. The person finally chosen was Sue Cowan Morris, head of the English Department at Dunbar High School and a local NAACP branch member. Morris had impec-

cable credentials. Born in 1910 in the small town of Eudora, in South Arkansas, her parents were both schoolteachers. She attended some of the best schools open to black students at the time, including Spelman College in Atlanta and Talladega College in Alabama. Morris started teaching at Dunbar in 1935. During the summer of 1941, she attended a graduate program at the University of Chicago and made straight A’s on the course “Methods of Teaching English.”

On Feb. 28, 1942, federal Judge Thomas C. Trimble heard preliminary arguments in the CTA lawsuit. The CTA alleged that the school district had, “consistently pursued and maintained a policy, custom and usage of paying colored teachers and principals less salary than white teachers.”

This violated 14th Amendment rights to equal protection and due process under the law. Attorneys for the school district disagreed. They denied that racial discrimination existed in the district’s policy on teachers’ pay. Rather, they claimed, the criteria that the district used to determine salaries was not based on race but upon a wide range of factors, including “special training,

ability, character, experiences, duties, services and accomplishments” of teachers.

It was 19 months before the case came to trial. When the hearing was finally held between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, 1943, Marshall told the court that the school district employed only white supervisors to observe black teachers, to advise them with their work, to assist them in improving their teaching methods and to report back to the schools superintendent with observations and suggestions for improvement.

The supervisors rated teachers against certain qualifications and abilities laid out on a merit ratings sheet. These were then used in determining teachers’ salaries.

Principal of Dunbar High, John H. Lewis, testified that in his opinion Morris, “ought to be a Group 1 [highly rated] teacher.” Lewis held a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, a divinity degree from Yale, and had done graduate work at the University of California. He was a former president of Morris Brown College in Atlanta and he was a qualified expert on rating teachers. By contrast, Charles R. Hamilton, principal of the white Garland

High School, who was in charge of setting salary rates at Dunbar, only held a bachelor’s degree. Hamilton admitted to the court that he based his judgments on salary ratings on only “three or four” visits to Dunbar every year.

Nevertheless, the school district’s attorneys from Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm hammered on the argument that their clients judged teachers not by the color of their skin, but rather on a transparent merit-based system. They produced a merit ratings sheet for 1941 that purported to demonstrate that all black teachers in the district were, in Marshall’s words, “lousy.” Next, Annie Giffey, the white supervisor of primary teachers in Little Rock, took the stand.

In a blatant assertion of white teachers’ racial superiority she testified that “regardless of college degrees and teaching experience no white teacher in Little Rock is inferior to the best Negro teacher.”

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PREVAILED IN SUIT FOR EQUAL PAY: Dunbar English Department head Sue Cowan Morris, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Though they won, the Little Rock School District found a way to pay whites more.

LEFT DUNBAR AFTER SALARY SUIT WON: Dunbar Principal John H. Lewis (left), CTA head and teacher John H. Gipson.

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rehired because I had filed that suit,” she later reflected. “But that was never put in writing. The letter stated that I would have no further contract. It never said why.” After spending a brief time teaching at Arkansas AM&N College (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), Morris moved back to Little Rock and worked testing ammunition at the Arkansas Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville. At the end of World War II, when the plant closed, she took up a post teaching English at Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock.

Lewis, the principal of Dunbar High, also left his job. In a letter of resignation to the superintendent of schools, Lewis stated that it was the “definite dissatisfaction” shown over his part in the teachers’ salary suit that had forced him to leave his post. “I definitely told them that if they did not want me, I did not want them and if I was called as a witness a thousand times I would take the same position,” Lewis wrote Thurgood Marshall. Lewis was appointed president of Shorter College in North Little Rock. Shortly afterward, John H. Gipson, head of the CTA and a teacher at Dunbar, left his job and joined Lewis at Shorter.

When Judge Trimble finally announced his verdict on Jan. 5, 1944, it was, as Marshall had suspected it would be, in favor of the school district. How-

ever, Morris and her attorneys were successful in overturning Trimble’s decision before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. On June 19, 1945, the appeals court reversed Trimble’s ruling and declared that, “very substantial inequalities have existed between the salaries paid to colored teachers and those paid to white teachers and that such inequalities have continued over a period of years.”

Despite the victory, the case had its limitations. In line with other Southern school districts, Little Rock eventually adopted the National Teacher Examination that provided a standardized and allegedly objective test to legitimize continuing black and white teachers’ unequal pay. The decision in the Morris case affected only the salaries of Little Rock teachers and not those of other black teachers in the state who faced even worse pay discrimination.

But the teachers’ salary suit did have a profound impact in other ways.

Importantly, it helped to forge links between local black activists and the NAACP. Thurgood Marshall’s presence in Little Rock enthused and energized the black population. “He sure did shoot them some straight dope as to their part and membership to be played in the NAACP cause,” reported Little Rock NAACP branch secretary H.L. Porter about one meeting that

Marshall attended. “Then and there at that meeting we collected $68.50 in membership … Little Rock is ‘agog’ over him.”

In response to this rising local interest, the national NAACP headquarters began to show more interest in organizing Arkansas. In 1945, an Arkansas State Conference of NAACP Branches (ASC) was founded. In 1952, Daisy Bates, who along with her husband, L.C. Bates, co-owned the Arkansas State Press newspaper, was elected ASC president.

Soon after Bates’ election the paths of local black activists and the national NAACP crossed again. After the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education school desegregation decision, Bates spearheaded state and local efforts to implement it, culminating in the 1957 Little Rock school crisis. There were other direct links between the earlier teachers’ salary suit and the school crisis. The mother and the aunt of one of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green, were both teachers and had both been involved in the teachers’ salary equalization case.

Sue Morris married Little Rock pastor Rev. Booker T. Williams in 1946, after which she became Sue Cowan Williams. She was rehired at Dunbar in 1952 after Dr. Leroy M. Christophe, who was appointed Dunbar’s principal in 1945, continually pestered the

school district to reappoint her. The school district first demanded an apology from Williams for filing the salary equalization suit. Superintendent of Schools Harry Little called Williams “and asked me if I had learned my lesson.” She reluctantly admitted that she had — “The lesson was not to file suits and — you know, don’t do that anymore” — in order to pursue her vocation as a teacher.

When Horace Mann High was built and opened as a segregated school in Little Rock in 1956, involving staffing changes at Dunbar, Williams was promoted to her old position as chair of the English Department. She held that position until she retired from the school in 1974. After her retirement from Dunbar, Williams taught at Arkansas Baptist College and worked part time for the Little Rock School District in the reading-testing program for elementary students. She died in 1994.

In 1997, the 10th library in the Central Arkansas Library System, which serves the Dunbar area, was dedicated as the Sue Cowan Williams Library in her honor.

John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

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A shifting picture ‘Kaleidoscope’ the story of a discovered African-American ancestry.

BY GRIF STOCKLEY

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ow can a book this brief be so important in the history of Arkansas literature? A measure of the significance of “Kaleidoscope: Redrawing an American Family Tree” (University of Arkansas Press, 2015) lies in the fact that it was written by Margaret Jones Bolsterli of Fayetteville, whose two previous memoirs, “Born in the Delta” and “During Wind and Rain,” have taken their place as exquisitely told accounts of an Arkansas woman’s struggle to come to terms with her family’s relentless efforts to tame the land and to maintain the fictions they found necessary to do so.

In particular, “Born in the Delta” is the classic tale of the Southerner, who, while growing up in Arkansas, finds herself increasingly at odds with the culture. In it she writes, “Our house was full of stories and things, but I yearned for conversation and ideas. …

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South is frequently evasion disguised with charm, and children are socialized to practice it as surely as little girls are subtly taught to manipulate men.”

What is it that Southerners were evading? Reality, for one thing. It all came crashing down when Bolsterli received an email in 2005 from a cousin on her mother’s side who wrote that he had evidence that Bolsterli’s “maternal ancestors were mulattoes, free people of color residing in Mississippi before the Civil War.” She writes, “Of course, I didn’t believe him,” but knew she had to investigate.

The result of her labor is “Kaleidoscope,” a metaphor she employs to great effect. As she states, “It would be hard to imagine a family whiter than we were: staunch white AngloSaxon Protestants in a straight line all the way back to Adam and Eve, who, of course had been created in his own image by God.”

A READJUSTED PICTURE: The author discovers a new facet in her history.

Despite humanity’s inclination to conceal inconvenient truths, she notes that science and technology keep pulling aside our fig leafs. Today, DNA and the Internet demystify our ancestors in the twinkling of an eye.

The result, as Bolsterli writes, is that “[W]e have all been ‘outed’ where race is concerned.” In her family’s case, the truth, she finds, is incontestable, and this discovery makes all the difference in the world. Indeed, Bolsterli comes to understand during trips to Natchez to view the splendid architecture of

the Old South that she is no longer a detached observer. “For the first time, I found myself wondering what the slaves must have thought about this splendor; when I tried to imagine what African Americans think about it now, I almost thought we. I had lost my ‘white eyes.’ ” If it took a heroic effort on the part of her “white” family to subdue the wilderness in Arkansas, and it did, she doubly appreciates what it cost Jordan Chavis, her African-American great-great grandfather, to make the journey he did.

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A&E NEWS “We never doubted the courage and perseverance it took to go to the frontier and thrive as my father’s white forebears had. … But the qualities of their characters pale beside the courage and perseverance it must have taken for free people of color to go to the frontier and thrive and then years later to cross a river to another slave state and secretly pass from one caste to another in a matter of a few days to keep from being sold into slavery.”

In the process of learning about these ancestors, Bolsterli comprehends that Jordan Chavis and various family members are much more than unlikely occupants in the family tapestry. As she says, “Growing up Southern white does not prepare one to imagine a mulatto Scarlett in the ‘Big House’ of your family’s fantasies.” Bolsterli compares the process of understanding “this new information” as “like looking at what I had thought was my family’s history through a kaleidoscope. There is the picture and then a slight turn of the lens reshapes the familiar components into a new pattern, somehow the same but different.”

For any honest Southerner today who makes this journey the exploration is fraught with irony. There is an initial shock when one discovers that Chavis, a free black, owned slaves.

Bosterli sees that the real story here is not about us. “It’s about them, the absent ones who were at the dinner table, too, in my mother’s mind and in our history and in our genes; we just didn’t know it when we were listening to those stories about the white side of the family. They were in the stories Mother didn’t tell. There were there in the tapestry of our lives as they were there in the fabric of our national life, about which we weren’t being told the whole truth, either.”

We are in Bosterli’s debt for telling her story. In doing so, she has told a far more universal and honest account of our national identity.

Grif Stockley is the author of 10 books, including “Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present.” “Kaleidoscope” is available in paperback from the University of Arkansas Press, $19.95; bookstores and online.

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That screening will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18, $5. Looking ahead, we’ll be screening the cult favorite documentary “Hands on a Hard Body” on July 16.

THE DEBUT LP FROM LITTLE ROCK native J Fernandez, “Many Levels of Laughter,” is out this week via Joyful Noise Recordings. The former frontman for beloved Fayetteville band Tel Aviv, Fernandez is now a mapmaker based in Chicago and a dream-pop solo artist who has been called “America’s next great singer-songwriter”

by NME. Listen to the first single, “Read My Mind,” on Rock Candy — Fernandez described it to The FADER as a “love song” about “an unhealthy obsessive-compulsive type of relationship.”

STICKYZ HAS ANNOUNCED THAT the legendary funk and soul artist Shuggie Otis, best known for the classic ‘70s anthem “Strawberry Letter 23” (covered as a Top 5 hit by The Brothers Johnson), will perform in Little Rock on Wednesday, July 15. Otis collaborated with Frank Zappa, Etta James, George Duke and many others (B.B. King once called him his “favorite new guitarist”). After his 1974 record “Inspiration Information,” he was approached by Quincy Jones, who offered to produce his next album, and Billy Preston, who asked him to join The Rolling Stones as a touring guitarist. He declined both offers and never recorded another album, slipping into semi-obscurity until his rediscovery in the 1990s. Tickets are $20 and available now at arkansaslivemusic.com.

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY REPORTS that Little Rock author Cara Brookins has sold a memoir titled “Rise” in a “sixfigure North American rights deal” with St. Martin’s Press. The book concerns “Brookins’ experience as a single mother coming out of an abusive relationship, [and] building her own house from the ground up.” As Brookins describes the work on her website, “Terrible things had brought us to such a low place that building our own home while rebuilding our family felt like the only logical option.

But by the time the house was complete, good things were beginning to outweigh the bad.” The book is scheduled to be released in fall 2016.

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BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSON

FRIDAY 6/12

FAMILY FORCE 5

8 p.m. Magic Springs, Hot Springs. $39.99.

was nominated for a Grammy for collaborating on a song called “Words.” The Atlanta JournalConstitution went on to call him the best thing to come out of the city “since Usher,” though the comparison hasn’t exactly proved prophetic — David has struggled to come out from under the India.Arie associa-

tion, and his style is a little too cosmopolitan, retro and reserved for the zeitgeist. Still, he has a powerful voice (“Bill Withers meets Mos Def” is how India.Arie described him) and a well-deserved following.

He performs at The Joint as part of Rodney Block’s new monthly Music Innovators series. WS

T h e R u s s i a n c o n c e p t u a l a r tists Komar and Melamid created a f as ci n ati n g s e r i e s o f ar tw o r k s in the mid-1990s that they titled “People’s Choice.” Consisting mostly of paintings (but also tw o s o n g s ) , th e s e r i e s w as b ui l t ar o un d th e n o ti o n o f th e “mo s t wanted” and “most unwanted” works of art, polling 11 countries to determine, by popular consensus, what elements we objectively like or dislike to see o r h e ar r e pr e s e n te d. Th e s o n g s that resulted featured bagpipes, an o pe r a s i n g e r r appi n g , a ch i l dren’s choir (hyping Walmart) and a bullhorn. I remembered the “People’s Choice” series while reading the Wikipedia page for Family Force 5, who have been described as “rap metal,” “Christian alternative” and “crunkcore” (with “positi v e , par ty l y r i cs ”) . A b o n a f i de family band, the group’s members perform under alter-egos like Crouton, Fatty and Chap Stique (a former member was named Soul Glow Activatur).

“Crank it like a chainsaw” is th e r e f r ai n to o n e o f th e i r mo s t popular hits, “Chainsaw,” which could be characterized as nightmare car-commercial dubstep.

I ts un l i k e ab i l i ty i s s o th o r o ug h an d o v e r w h e l mi n g as to b e f as cinating — as a work of cultural an th r o po l o g y an d po s t- ar t, i t i s equal to the achievements of Ko mar an d M e l ami d. WS

exotic, head to Gallery 221 (221 W. Second St.), where the show “ZEITGEIST” features, among other works by top area artists, Tracy Hamlin’s alligator head bustier and codpiece.

“Southern Curiosities” continues at the Arkansas Capital Corp. Group (200 River Market Ave.) with work

by Diane Harper, Dominique Simmons and Barbara Satterfield. The “State Youth Art Show 2015” is at

the Butler Center in the Arkansas Studies Institute (401 President Clinton Ave.) along with the continuing exhibit “Human Faces & Landscapes: Paintings by Sui Hoe Khoo.”

Parkstone provides the live music; the retail gallery highlights bead weaver Eleanor Lux. Seph Lawless’ photographs on urban display are up their final night at the Cox Creative Center (120 River Market Ave.).

The beer referred to earlier is made

by Core Brewing and Distilling Co. of Springdale, and along with the suds, HAM (200 E. Third St.) serves up a new show, “Heather Condren and Miranda Young,” repurposed books by Condren and linocuts from Young. Bonnie Montgomery and Geoff Robinson will perform at the Old State House (300 W. Markham St.) between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. LNP

RED CLAY CHRONICLES: Anthony David performs at The Joint at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, $20.

THURSDAY 6/11

ANTHONY DAVID

7:30 p.m. The Joint, Argenta. $20.

Anthony David spent four years in the military “fixing radios and night-vision goggles,” before moving to Atlanta and befriending the neo-soul singer India.Arie. He wrote songs for her and toured with her and eventually the pair

FRIDAY 6/12

2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT

5-8 p.m., downtown galleries. Free.

It’s never too hot to make an art pilgrimage. Besides the frisson you’ll get looking at artwork, the galleries have cold beer (at the Historic Arkansas Museum), chilled wine and air conditioning. Thanks to the Art Night trolley, you don’t even have to walk between venues. For a bit of the 20

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THURSDAY 6/11

FRIDAY 6/12-28

‘THE ADDAMS FAMILY: A NEW MUSICAL’ 7:30 p.m., The Weekend Theater. $16-$20.

They’re creepy, kooky, altogether spooky, and funny, too, the family created by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams. Perhaps you remember the cartoon of little Wednesday Addams putting her doll’s head in her

toy guillotine? Or being pushed on her broomstick swing by her father, Gomez? Set to music, it ought to really be a scre-um. “Jersey Boys” authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice put the ook in ooky in bringing the cartoons to life for the musical, which opened on Broadway in 2010. The storyline: All hell has broken loose because Wednesday has a boyfriend from a normal family. Making the

macabre musical will be Drew Ellis as Gomez, Claudia Moskova Cremeens as Morticia, Mackenzie Holtzclaw as Wednesday, Victor Basco as Pugsly, Dahren White as Grandma, Ryan Whitfield as Fester, Xavier Jones as Lurch, James West as Mal, Kristin Marts as Alice and Ethan Patterson as Lucas. In the chorus: Emma Boone, Chloe Clement, Brian Earles, Kelsey Ivory and Payton Justice. LNP

WEDNESDAY 6/17

IAN MOORE

8 p.m. Juanita’s. $15.

GOD'S LONELY MAN: The Ron Robinson Theater screens "Taxi Driver," starring Robert De Niro, at 10 p.m. Saturday, $5.

SATURDAY 6/13

‘TAXI DRIVER’

10 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $5.

Martin Scorsese has sometimes claimed that the most important scene in “Taxi Driver,” the 1976 neo-noir classic he directed from a script by Paul Schrader, is a long shot of Travis Bickle (played by Robert De Niro) on the phone with Jodie Foster’s character after a disastrous date. While he talks — and we only hear his side of the conversation — the camera begins to slowly pan off to the right, abandoning De Niro entirely to frame an empty hallway instead. “As if it’s about to reveal something,” Scorsese says on the film’s DVD commentary, “And it doesn’t.” For a film about “the pathology of loneliness” (as Schrader has put it), it’s a remarkably stark and pitiful and enig-

matic moment: De Niro is utterly alone, and if there is a moral or message to his journey in the film, it is never offered.

The film emerged during the decade or so in which the release of a new Robert De Niro movie marked an important cultural event, and his intensity in “Taxi Driver” can be almost unbearable. It’s a horror film in some ways, and a black comedy in others. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from Underground” and by the diaries of Arthur Bremer (the man who shot George Wallace), the film features the final score by legendary Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, an often-overlooked performance by Albert Brooks, and some of De Niro’s most iconic moments (from the “You talkin’ to me?” speech to the chilling narration). WS

Ian Moore was a musicology major in college — he’s said he wanted to be a journalist like Peter Guralnick, chronicling the twisted roots of Southern music. Instead he became a blues guitarist in Austin, with all the attendant baggage of that persona — Stevie Ray Vaughan comparisons, touring with Joe Ely, being pigeonholed by his own fans. In the early 1990s he signed to Capricorn Records, the Georgia label run by Phil Walden (former manager for Otis Redding and Sam Cooke) known mostly for its association with the Allman Brothers.

It appealed to the musicologist in Moore, who dutifully released a very successful and popular blues rock album in 1993, with hits like “Satisfied” that won him spots touring with Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. The problem was, his taste changed and Walden’s didn’t. “We built this really deep relationship, and he loved my first record,” Moore told the Houston Press recently. “And pretty much from then on, he never liked anything that I did.”

They finally came to blows over Moore’s power-pop-leaning third album, and that was the end of the beginning. Since then, Moore has carved out a leaner, quieter, more independent career, making his own records and playing guitar for bigger acts (Jason Mraz, etc.).

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HRC Arkansas hosts the LGBT health-focused “Equal Care for Equal Lives” Summit at the Brandon Conference Center, on the campus of Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Riverdale 10 Cinema screens Clive Barker’s seminal 1987 horror film “Hellraiser” as part of its Classic Movie Series, 7 p.m., $5. Comedian Vince Morris is at the Loony Bin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, $7 (and at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $10). New Jersey post-hardcore band Palisades performs at Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $10. Little Rock rapper Rah Howard plays an album release show at the White Water Tavern with Osyrus Bolly, Southwest Boaz, SeanFresh and Ill Bill, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY 6/12 Untapped, Arkansas’s only professional tap dance company, presents “Legends of Rhythm” at the Ron Robinson Theater, 7:15 p.m., $20. Local comedy troupe The Main Thing performs its new original production, “HOGNADO!” at The Joint, 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, $22. Country singer Charlie Robison, a former judge on “Nashville Star” whose music has been featured in “True Blood,” performs at Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. Carder/Mack perform at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $10. The Kyle Sowashes play at the White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 6/13 Before “Taxi Driver,” the Ron Robinson Theater screens “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” at 2 p.m., $5, and “Annie Hall” at 7 p.m., $5. The Little Rock Wind Symphony performs “A Stars and Stripes Celebration” at MacArthur Park, 7 p.m. “Gimme Abbey,” a tribute to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, comes to First Security Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $30-$52. Shawn James and The Shapeshifters and The Uh Huhs play at the White Water Tavern to mark the release of the new issue of Idle Class Magazine, 9 p.m. Woodson Lateral and Animal Spirit perform at Vino’s, 9 p.m. Country singer Ray Scott is at Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $10.

MONDAY 6/15 The Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation holds its annual fundraiser at the Afterthought, featuring a tribute to the late Clark Terry and live music by an ensemble featuring local legends Bill Huntington, John Bush, Chris Parker and Bryan Withers, 8 p.m., $20.

Ohio metalcore band Miss May I plays at Juanita’s with Today in History and Woo Pig Suicide, 8 p.m., $10.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 11

MUSIC

Anthony David. The Music Innovators Series. The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Arkansas River Blues Society Thursday Jam. Revolution, 7 p.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com. ew.

Chris Long. Kent Walker Artisan Cheese, 5 p.m. 1515 E. 4th St. 501-301-4963. www.kentwalkercheese.com.

Hot Springs Music Festival. Hot Springs National Park Cultural Center, through June 13, $150.

Ozark Bathhouse, Hot Springs. 501-620-6715.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Palisades. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Pitchers & Catchers: Post Travs Game Patio Party. Sway. 412 Louisiana. 501-907-2582.

Queen Ann’s Revenge, Monkey Soop. Vino’s, 8 p.m. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Rah Howard (album release), Osyrus Bolly, Southwest Boaz, SeanFresh, Ill Bill. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

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

COMEDY

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

EVENTS

Equal Care for Equal Lives Summit. Hosted by HRC Arkansas. Arkansas Children’s Hospital. 1 Children’s Way.

FILM

“Hellraiser.” Riverdale 10 Cinema, 7 p.m., $5. 2600 Cantrell Road. 501-296-9955.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs.com.

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THE BOTTLE HITS YOU BACK: Country singer Ray Scott performs at Juanita’s at 10 p.m. Saturday, $10.

FRIDAY, JUNE 12

MUSIC

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

Bonnie Montgomery and Geoff Robson. Old State House Museum, 5 p.m. 300 W. Markham St. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

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

Charlie Robison. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $12 adv., $15 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. www.rumbarevolution.com.ew.

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

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

Family Force 5. Magic Springs’ Timberwood Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $54.99. 1701 E. Grand Ave., Hot Springs.

Hot Springs Music Festival. Hot Springs National Park Cultural Center, through June 13, $150.

Ozark Bathhouse, Hot Springs. 501-620-6715.

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

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

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

Sway’s Secret: Andrew Christian Swimsuit and Underwear Show. Sway. 412 Louisiana.

501-907-2582.

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

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

COMEDY

“HOGNADO!” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

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

DANCE

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

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

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

Untapped Presents: Legends of Rhythm.

Arkansas’s only professional tap dancing company. Ron Robinson Theater, 7:15 p.m., $20. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us. on-robinson-theater.aspx.

EVENTS

LGBTQ.GL weekly meeting. Diverse Youth for Social Change is a group for LGBTQ.GL and straight ally youth and young adults age 14 to 23. For more information, call 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGBTQ.GL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

SPORTS

Arkansas Travelers vs. Springfield. DickeyStephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $6-$12. 400 W. Broadway St., NLR. 501-664-1555. www.travs. com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 13

MUSIC

Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See June 12.

Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. Featuring the Shari Bales Band, The Bel-Airs, Earl & Them, Patrick Sweany, Brick Fields, Shawn Holt and the Teardrops and more. Downtown Eureka Springs, June 13-21, $5-$75.

“Gimme Abbey.” A tribute to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. First Security Amphitheater, 8 p.m., $30-$52. 400 President Clinton Ave. Hot Springs Music Festival. Hot Springs National Park Cultural Center, $150. Ozark Bathhouse, Hot Springs. 501-620-6715.

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

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

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

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

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

501-492-9802.

Little Rock Wind Symphony, “A Stars and Stripes Celebration.” MacArthur Park, 7 p.m.

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

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

Ray Scott. Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Shawn James and The Shapeshifters, The Uh Huhs. Idle Class Magazine release. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com.

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

Woodson Lateral, Animal Spirit. Vino’s, 9 p.m.

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

COMEDY

“HOGNADO!” An original production by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

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

EVENTS

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

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

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

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.

“The Quest for Statehood: From the Delta to the Hills.” Old State House Museum, 10 a.m. 300 W. Markham St. 501-324-9685. www. oldstatehouse.com.

FILM

“Annie Hall.” Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $5.

1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us. on-robinson-theater.aspx.

“Honey I Shrunk The Kids.” Ron Robinson Theater, 2 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us.on-robinson-theater.aspx.

“Taxi Driver.” Ron Robinson Theater, 10 p.m., $5.

1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us. on-robinson-theater.aspx.

SUNDAY, JUNE 14

MUSIC

August Burns Red, Chariot the Moon, Abandon The Artifice. Juanita’s, 7 p.m., $15.

614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

Drummerboyinfinity. Michael Jackson tribute.

Revolution, 9 p.m., $10-$60. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com.ew.

Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. See June 13.

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

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

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

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

501-982-1939 .

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

EVENTS

Artist for Recovery. A secular recovery group for people with addictions. Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 10 a.m. 1601 S.

Louisiana St..

MONDAY, JUNE 15

MUSIC

Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. See June 13.

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

Miss May I, Today In History, Woo Pig Suicide.

Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $10. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

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

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

EVENTS

Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation Annual Fundraiser. Featuring a tribute to the late Clark Terry and live music by an ensemble featuring Bill Huntington, John Bush, Chris Parker and Bryan Withers. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 8 p.m., $20. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

MUSIC

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Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. See June 13.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

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

William Fitzsimmons, Denison Witmer. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $12. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com.

COMEDY

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

DANCE

Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Walton Arts Center, 7 p.m., $10. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-443-5600.

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

EVENTS

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

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MOVIE REVIEW

AFTER DARK, CONT. com.tores.ittlerock.

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MUSIC

‘SPY’: Melissa McCarthy stars.

The ‘Spy’ we need Melissa McCarthy delights in secret agent spoof.

BY SAM EIFLING

T

he evolution of the Melissa Mc- McCarthy has an ally in a fellow basement Carthy comedy has stumbled ahead agent, Miranda Hart, the Jeff to McCarsomewhat with “Spy,” a spook spoof thy’s Mutt, just as outsider-librarian nerdy. in which the joke, for once, is not that Mc- Everyone else is content to dump on her: Carthy is a bumbling lout (see: “Tammy”), The CIA deputy director, a no-nonsense but rather than she’s secretly, perhaps even Allison Janney, continues to feed McCarto her, incredibly good at her job. In this thy a diet of false identities seemingly case she’s at the CIA, running support pulled from the church bake-sale coron the microphone side of field agents’ ners of Midwestern Facebook. Jason Staearpieces. Specifically, in the opening, we tham is the chauvinistic field agent sent have agent Jude Law doing his best full- to remind McCarthy constantly that he of-himself James Bond impression, all in- earned his bona fides by having his arm souciant swagger and action-hero fisticuffs, torn off and reattached, or by ingesting made possibly only through McCarthy’s hundreds of poisons in an underground directions on how to escape a villain. It’s poison-taking ring. The casting mastera role they both downplay: Out in the field, stroke, though, is brittle evildoer Rose they all chuckle, can you imagine how she’d Byrne, ostensibly in a classic villain role fare? but far too funny to stay mad at. Like That lasts until tragedy befalls the field Kristen Wiig and Sandra Bullock before agent, and the knowledge that agents’ iden- her, Byrne gives McCarthy a pucker-tight tities have been compromised leads the presence to play against, with a dollop of anonymous basement jockey — who fared wickedness. quite nicely, it turns out, during her comFeig likes to let his actors riff and to bat training years earlier — to venture into let God and his editors sort out the takes the field, in Europe, certain that she will be into a coherent film. True to form, “Spy” completely anonymous. The laughs come feels loose throughout, full of jokes you from the blunt vulgarity of director Paul can tell just flew off the top of someone’s Feig’s script; he also worked on McCarthy head and setups that require a detour from pics “Bridesmaids” and “The Heat,” which reality to make remotely plausible. But rhymes a bit with the CIA setup here. Per- it’s really no more of a cartoon than the haps alone right now among stars of her typical Bond film that it sends up even as caliber, McCarthy winds up getting picked it celebrates it. The opening credits, in a on in her roles; “Spy” goes to that well sequence ripped straight from the Bond several times, naming everything about aesthetic, announce that it’s a comedy only her (clothes, word choice, inexperience, in how ultra-seriously it’s taking itself. The single-ness) without touching on her size, tone can’t hold to the utterly straight-faced tactfully. And it hardly has to, for once — it’s not “Airplane” — but works to make she starts kicking the asses of would-be its central premise believable, that genEuroscum terrorists and their lackeys, her tle desk-bound Jude Law fangirl Melissa physical comedy says all it needs to with McCarthy is the spy America needs now, every goon she throws onto the body pile. to save us from rogue nukes. It has a funny “Spy” celebrates the nebbishes who ring to it, made all the more so when she can yank a trigger when given a chance. starts cracking skulls.

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ARKANSAS TIMES

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

Ancient River, Open Fields, The Casual Pleasures. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $7. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

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

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

Eureka Springs Blues Weekend. See June 13.

Ian Moore. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

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

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

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

2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

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

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

Shaman’s Harvest. Revolution, 8 p.m., $5. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com.ew.

Stuart Baer with Bugtussle Slim. Local Live.

South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

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

COMEDY

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

DANCE

Good Things.mall Packages: A Night of MicroShorts. A collection of world shorts, including several made in Arkansas. Studio Theatre, 7 p.m., $8. 320 W. 7th St. 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

Movies in the Park: “The Proposal.” First Security Amphitheater, 8:30 p.m., free. 400 President Clinton Ave.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

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

KIDS

Little Beginnings Toddler Program: Architecture at the Old State House. Old State House Museum, 10:30 a.m. 300 W. Markham St. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

ARTS

THEATER

“The Addams Family: A New Musical.” The Weekend Theater, through June 28: Thu.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 p.m.; Fri., June 19, 8 p.m., $20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org.

“August: Osage County.” Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through June 18: Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 and 7 p.m.; Tue.-Thu., 7 p.m. 601 Main St. 501378-0405. www.therep.org.

“Fiddler on the Roof.” Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Fri., June 12, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., June 14, 2 p.m.; Sun., June 21, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Wed., June 24, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sat., June 27, 7:30 p.m., $28. 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.

“The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. The Village at Hendrix, Thu., June 11, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., June 13, 7:30 p.m., $15. 1040 Reynolds Ave., Conway.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS New shows in bold-face ARGENTA GALLERY, 413 A-B Main St., NLR: “The Mom Series,” photographs by Lali Khalid, “A” side, June 19-July 10, reception 5-8 p.m.

June 19, Argenta ArtWalk; Arkansas League of Artists’ “Spring Members Show,” “B” side, through June 30. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 2255600.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP. GROUP, 200 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “Southern Curiosities,” work by Diane Harper, Dominique Simmons and Barbara Satterfield, through June 26, reception 5-8 p.m. June 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. 374-9247.

ART GROUP GALLERY, Pleasant Ridge Town Center, 11525 Cantrell Road: “grow garden grow,” ceramics by Karen Hamilton, opening reception 5-8 p.m. June 11; also work by gallery members. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-6 p.m. Sun. 690-2193.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “State Youth Art Show 2015: An Exhibition by Arkansas Art Educators”; “Human Faces & Landscapes: Paintings by Sui Hoe Khoo,” Butler Center West Gallery, through July 25; “White River Memoirs,” artwork collected by canoist and photographer Chris Engholm along the White, Concordia Hall, through July 25; “A Different State of Mind,” exhibition by the Arkansas Society of Printmakers, Loft Gallery, through June 27. Open 5-8 p.m. June 12, 2nd Friday Art Night, featured retail gallery artist Eleanor Lux, music by Parkstone. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Sat. 320-5790.

COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “Seph Lawless,” photographs on urban decay, closing reception 5-8 p.m. June 12, 2nd Friday Art Night; “And then, I … ,” ceramic installation by Barbara Satterfield, 3rd Floor Gallery, June 16-27, receptions and improvisational performances 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. June 20. 918-3090.

GALLERY 221, 221 W. 2nd St.: “ZEITGEIST,” work by David Bailin, Guy Bell, Elizabeth Bogard, Taimur Cleary, Amy Edgington, Tracy Hamlin, Kimberly Kwee, Mathew Lopas, Brian Madden, Victorial Gomez Mayol, Kasten Searles, Kat Wilson and Craig Wynn, through July 4, reception 5-8 p.m. June 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Sat. 801-0211.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Heather Condren and Miranda Young,” repurposed books by Condren, linocuts and ceramics by Young,” June 12-Aug. 9, reception 5-8 p.m. June 12, 2nd Friday Art Night, with beer from Core Brewing and Distilling Co. of Springdale; “(Everyday) Interpretations: Cindy Arsaga, Joe Morzuch and Adam Posnak,” through Aug. 9; “Suggin Territory: The Marvelous World of Folklorist Josephine Graham,” through Nov. 29. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 501 W. 9th St: “Art as Activism,” Washington University professor Dr. Ila Sheren hosts a discussion with filmaker Thomas Allen Harris, Tisch School of the Arts professor Dr. Deborah Willis, and artists Charley Palmer and Delita Martin, 6:30 p.m. June 18. 372-4000.

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham: “Different Strokes,” the history of bicycling and places cycling in Arkansas, featuring artifacts, historical pictures and video, through February 2016. Music by Bonnie Montgomery and Geoff Robson, 6-8 p.m. June 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

FAYETTEVILLE WALTON ARTS CENTER, 495 W. Dickson St.: “I Think I Can,” interactive installation by the Terrapin Theater of Australia with model trains, puppetry, live video and audience participation, June 16-27, an Artosphere event; “Remembered and Rendered: A Ceramic Garden,” created by Katie Sleyman in col-

laboration with Community Creative Center, through June 27, Tyson Plaza. An Artosphere 2015 event.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Selections from the Permanent Collection,” through Sept. 6; “Dawn Holder: Several Collections of Commemorative Plates,” mixed media

by Dawn Holder, through July 19. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787.

HELENA DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry St.: “The Arkansas Delta Duo: The Art of Tim Jacob and the Art of Norwood Creech,” paintings, through Aug. 22, reception 5-6:30 p.m. June 12. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 870-338-4350.

CALL FOR ENTRIES The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting applications from performing, literary or visual artist who would like to join the Arts in Education Artist Roster. Call Cynthia Haas at 324-9769 or email Cynthia@arkansasheritage.org for more information. Deadline is July 10.

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

CONTINUING GALLERY EXHIBITS

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur

Park: “54th Young Artists Exhibition,” art

by Arkansas students grades K-12, through July 26; “30 Americans,” works by AfricanAmerican artists from the Rubell Collection, through June 21; “Humble Hum: Rhythm of the Potter’s Wheel,” recent work by resident artist Ashley Morrison, Museum School Gallery, through June 21. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “The Quiet Hours,” paintings by John Wooldridge, through July 10. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “Plein Air Painters of Arkansas,” work

by Victoria Harvey, Clarence Cash, Tom Herrin, Greg Lahti, Sean LeCrone, John Wooldridge and Diana Shearon.

CHROMA GALLERY, 5707 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by Robert Reep and other Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0880.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New work by Robert Bean and Stephen Cefalo, through July 11. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 2nd and Center: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander. 801-0211.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR, and HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: National Silverpoint Invitational 2015 “Drawing with Silverpoint,” through June 27, works by Sherry Camhy, Jeannine Cook, Lori Field, Marietta Hoferer, Michael Kukla, Jeffrey Lewis, Tom Maz-

zullo, Susan Schwalb, Aj Smith and Marjorie Williams-Smith.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave: “Page Turners: Original Illustrations and Prints by Bryan Collier,” through June 22. 372-6822.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Go West, Young Man,” through June 30, free giclee drawing 7 p.m. June 18. 660-4006.

LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Dennis McCann: A History.” 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 758-1720.

LOCAL COLOUR, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Rotating work by 27 artists in collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422.

M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road (Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center): Watercolors

by Lisa Krannichfeld, through June 12; also work by Bryan Frazier, Dan Holland and Sabine Danze, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 944-7155.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “From Stars to Sidewalks,” works by printmakers Jorey May and Regan Renfro. 442-7778.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Paula Jones, new paintings; Jim Goshorn, new sculpture; also sculpture by Joe Martin, paintings by Amy Hill-Imler, Theresa Cates and Patrick Cunningham, ornaments by D. Wharton, landscapes by James Ellis, raku by Kelly Edwards and other works.

753-5227. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. STEPHANO’S FINE ART, 1813 N. Grant St.: New work by Jennifer Wilson, Mike Gaines, Maryam Moeeni, Ken Davis, John Kushmaul and Gene Brack. 563-4218.

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Dining

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WHAT’S COOKIN’

Fonda Mexican Cuisine

MAGGIE HINSON, OWNER OF THE beloved Little Rock dive bar Midtown Billiards, is working on opening a new jazz and blues club in North Little Rock’s Argenta neighborhood. The club, to be called 4-Quarter, will be housed in the old location of Sidetracks Bar at 415 Main St. She said the target open date is sometime in mid-August and that the kitchen at the new club will serve Southern-style barbecue.

Hinson will partner with longtime Midtown employee Conan Robinson in the venture. Robinson currently serves as the bookings and promotions director for Midtown.

Hinson said she has owned the building where 4-Quarter will be located since the mid-1990s. Remodeling efforts will include restoring and opening the building’s old skylights, with a “well-ventilated” smoking lounge upstairs. Hours for 4-Quarter have not yet been determined.

DINING CAPSULES

AMERICAN

1515 CAFE This bustling, business-suit filled breakfast and lunch spot, just across from the state Capitol, features old-fashioned, buffetstyle home cookin’ for a song. Inexpensive lunch entrées, too. 1515 W 7th St. No alcohol. $-$$. 501-376-1434. L Wed.-Fri., D Mon-Sat. 4 SQUARE CAFE AND GIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis and a broad selection of smoothies in an Arkansas products gift shop. 405 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-244-2622. BLD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. ANOTHER ROUND PUB Tasty pub grub. 12111 W. Markham. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-313-2612.

D Mon.-Thu., LD Fri.-Sun. APPLE SPICE JUNCTION A chain sandwich and salad spot with sit-down lunch space and a vibrant box lunch catering business. With a wide range of options and quick service. Order online via applespice.com. 2000 S. University Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-663-7008. L Mon.-Fri. (10 a.m.-3 p.m.).

BUFFALO WILD WINGS A sports bar on steroids with numerous humongous TVs and a menu full of thirst-inducing items. The wings, which can be slathered with one of 14 sauces, are the starring attraction and will undoubtedly have fans. 14800 Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-868-5279. LD daily.

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

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

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400 N. Bowman Road 501-313-4120 www.fondamexicancuisinebestmex.com QUICK BITE Three breakfast items and six lunch dishes are included on the Sunday brunch buffet ($10.99). Served 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the brunch also features $2 mimosas and Bloody Marys.

HOURS 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. Sunday.

OTHER INFO Full bar, credit cards accepted.

MADE TO ORDER: Guacamole at Fonda Mexican Cuisine.

Mex for less Fonda stands out in West Little Rock.

W

e’re fond of Fonda. It’s hard to write about the place and not use that throwaway line.

It’s a bit of a quirky spot, though, an anomaly in an otherwise pretty generic part of West Little Rock.

Bowman Curve used to feel a lot farther west when The Faded Rose opened in this space in 1988, but for downtowners like us with a growing number of great spots to eat not far outside our door, we still don’t venture out to WLR too often. But Fonda gives us a good reason to go (and the new, nearby Whole Foods grocery is pretty cool, too).

Fonda offers the style of Mexican food more commonly found in Southwest Little Rock or maybe Levy — not often in a Tex-Mex sort of neighborhood. That’s the anomaly part. We first picked up on the quirkiness when we were perusing the menu. One of us noticed the guacamole was touted as “prepared table side” on one menu and “made to order” on the other. And the prices were way different — $2 or $3 higher on many items on one menu

than the other. We asked the waitress and were shocked to learn the “new” menu was the one with the lower prices.

That’s a switch.

We saw only a $7.99 version of the guacamole offered, but when we were asked “small or large” we opted for small and found when our bill came we had been served a “side order” of guacamole, which was a decent, small-bowl portion for $2.49. No one sliced/diced at our table, but the guacamole indeed seems “made to order” — very chunky with just about as much tomato as avocado and enough onion and jalapeno to jazz it up a bit.

The main courses arrived only about five minutes after the guac. The Tacos Arabe ($8.99 for four) are in the same not-overstuffed “street taco” style many around here equate with food truck tacos. They featured well-seasoned pork shoulder griddled with a little crunch, on small, soft, thickish corn tortillas topped with cilantro and a dusting of Oaxaca cheese. Squirts of lime brightened the flavor, and sauteed

onion sweetened the deal. The advertised side of chipotle sauce was absent but not missed.

We had equated “barbacoa” with pork but later learned the word applies to the slow-roasting style of cooking and the meat varies by district of Mexico. In central Mexico, and at Fonda, that equates to lamb. Though the menu touted “lamb chunks,” we were served shredded lamb, pot roast style ($13.98).

Topped with onions and cilantro the meat was tender, flavorful and succulent. We also enjoyed the black beans and the somewhat-salty rice, but not as much as we adored the lamb, and the portion was plenty to stretch to the next day’s lunch.

Another quirky thing: Neither version of the menu listed desserts, but when we asked our waitress we were told Kahlua flan and cream-stuffed churros were available. We opted for the churros just as we heard a waiter at the next table also mention sopapillas as an option. We’re glad we went for the homemade, still-warm churros ($5.99), which were four small, soft, cinnamony pastries with a chocolate sauce drizzle (that didn’t add a lot to the taste).

Our margaritas were made from scratch with quality ingredients, which was a constant throughout our fine meal at Fonda. As for the look of the place, the booth/table layout is about the same as The Faded Rose and the relatively shortlived Bumpy’s. The decor is a mix of beer- and tequila-brand lanterns, alternately campy and gaudy art, cone-dominated piñatas, artful cacti, iguanas and other figurines. And there’s just enough Razorback stuff to remind you where you are.

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. sweets, tasty sandwiches and Loblolly ice cream.

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

501-448-2687. BLD daily.

CAFE@HEIFER Serving fresh pastries, omelets, soups, salads, sandwiches and pizzas. Located inside Heifer Village. 1 World Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $. 501-907-8801. BL Mon.-Fri. CAPITAL BAR AND GRILL Big hearty sandwiches, daily lunch specials and fine evening dining all rolled up into one at this landing spot downtown. Surprisingly inexpensive with a great bar staff and a good selection of unique desserts. 111 Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-370-7013. LD daily.

DEMPSEY BAKERY Bakery with sit-down area, serving coffee and specializing in gluten-, nutand soy-free baked goods. 323 Cross St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-375-2257. Serving BL Tue.-Sat. DOE’S EAT PLACE A skid-row dive turned power brokers’ watering hole with huge steaks, great tamales and broiled shrimp, and killer burgers at lunch. 1023 W. Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-376-1195. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. DOUBLETREE PLAZA BAR & GRILL The lobby restaurant in the Doubletree is elegantly comfortable, but you’ll find no airs put on at heaping breakfast and lunch buffets. 424 W. Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-372-4371.

BLD daily.

EJ’S EATS AND DRINKS The friendly neighborhood hoagie shop downtown serves at a handful of tables and by delivery. The sandwiches are generous, the soup homemade and the salads cold. Vegetarians can craft any number of acceptable meals from the flexible menu. The housemade potato chips are da bomb. 523 Center St. Full bar, all CC. $-$$.

501-666-3700. LD Mon.-Fri., BR Sun. FILIBUSTER’S BISTRO & LOUNGE Sandwiches, salads in the Legacy Hotel. 625 W. Capitol Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-374-0100. D Mon.-Fri. FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Nationwide burger chain with emphasis on freshly made fries and patties. 2923 Lakewood Village Drive.

NLR. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-246-5295. LD daily. 13000 Chenal Parkway. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-225-1100. LD daily.

GRUMPY’S TOO Music venue and sports bar with lots of TVs, pub grub and regular drink specials. 1801 Green Mountain Drive. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-225-3768. D Mon.-Sat. GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN The best fried chicken in town. Go for chicken and waffles on Sundays. 300 President Clinton Ave. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-372-2211. LD daily. 400 N. Bowman. Beer. $-$$. 501-400-8745. LD daily.

HERITAGE GRILLE STEAK AND FIN Upscale dining inside the Little Rock Marriott. Excellent surf and turf options. 3 Statehouse Plaza. Full bar, all CC. $$$. 501-399-8000. LD daily.

HOMER’S Great vegetables, huge yeast rolls and killer cobblers. Follow the mobs. 2001 E. Roosevelt Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-374-1400. BL Mon.-Fri. 9700 N Rodney Parham. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-224-6637. BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. IRONHORSE SALOON Bar and grill offering juicy hamburgers and cheeseburgers. 9125 Mann Road. Full bar, all CC. $. 501-562-4464.

LD daily.

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

LD daily.

JERKY’S SPICY CHICKEN AND MORE Jerk chicken, Southern fried chicken, Southern fried jerk chicken, along with burgers, sandwiches, salads. 2501 Arch St. No alcohol. 501-246-3096.

JIMMY’S SERIOUS SANDWICHES Consistently fine sandwiches, side orders and desserts for 30 years. Chicken salad’s among the best in town, and there are fun specialty sandwiches such as Thai One On and The Garden. Get there early for lunch. 5116 W. Markham St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-666-3354. LD Mon.-Fri., L Sat. JOUBERT’S TAVERN Local beer and wine haunt that serves Polish sausage and other bar foods.

7303 Kanis Road. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-6649953. D Mon.-Sat. K. HALL AND SONS Neighborhood grocery store with excellent lunch counter. The cheeseburger is hard to beat. 1900 Wright Avenue. No alcohol, CC. $. 501-372-1513. BLD Mon.-Sat. (closes at 6 p.m.), BL Sun. KILWINS Ice cream, candies, fudge and sweets galore made in-house and packaged for eatit-now or eat-it-later. 415 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-379-9865. LD daily.

LAZY PETE’S FISH AND SHRIMP Southern and Cajun pub grub. 200 N. Bowman Road. Full bar, CC. $$. 501-680-2660. LD daily.

LE POPS Delicious, homemade iced lollies (or popsicles, for those who aren’t afraid of the trademark.) 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd. Ste. J. No alcohol, CC. $. 501-313-9558. LD daily.

LOBLOLLY CREAMERY Small batch artisan ice cream and sweet treats company that operates a soda fountain inside The Green Corner Store.

1423 Main St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-3969609. LD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. LOCA LUNA Grilled meats, seafood and pasta dishes that never stray far from country roots, whether Italian, Spanish or Arkie. “Gourmet plate lunches” are good, as is Sunday brunch.

3519 Old Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-4666. BR Sun., LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. LOST FORTY BREWING Brewery and brewpub from the folks behind Big Orange, Local Lime and ZAZA. 501 Byrd St. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-319-7335. LD Wed.-Sun. LOVE FISH MARKET Part fish market, part restaurant. Offering fresh fish to prepare at home or fried catfish and a variety of sides.

1401 John Barrow Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$.

501-224-0202. LD Mon.-Sat. LULAV A MODERN EATERY Bistro-style menu of American favorites broken down by expensive to affordable plates, and strong wine list, also group-priced to your liking. Great filet.

Don’t miss the chicken and waffles. 220 W. 6th St. Full bar, CC. $$$. 501-374-5100. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. THE MAIN CHEESE A restaurant devoted to grilled cheese. 14524 Cantrell Road. Beer and wine. $-$$. 501-367-8082. LD Mon.-Sat. MILFORD TRACK Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill that serves breakfast and lunch. Hot entrees change daily and there are soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. Bread is baked in-house, and there are

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THEATER REVIEW

THE WESTONS: (From left) Susanne Marley as Violet, LeeAnne Hutchison as Barbara and Cliff Baker as Beverly.

Bleak house in ‘Osage County’ Acting shines in The Rep’s brutal comedy.

BY BENJAMIN HARDY

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idway through the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s “August: Osage County,” the aged, pill-addicted matriarch of the Weston family denigrates her middleaged daughter, Ivy, for being too plain to attract a husband. “All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor,” Violet Weston snaps at the perpetually cowed Ivy, “and she wore a ton. Sit up straight.”

Intentionally or not, the line can’t help but evoke Taylor’s role in the 1966 film adaptation of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” “August: Osage County” owes an undeniable debt to Edward Albee’s mesmerizingly brutal (and grotesquely funny) journey into the heart of a violently imploding marriage. Both plays run to three hours long, with two intermissions, and both revolve around the union of an embittered academic and his acidic wife. Both document a family dynamic as toxic and combustible as a 28

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chemical spill, in which affection and decency are sacrificed on the pyre of truth-telling. But whereas Albee limited himself to a cast of four, “August: Osage County” author Tracy Letts traps three generations of an extended Oklahoma clan in a sweltering home on the Great Plains to let their tragicomic disaster unspool. It makes you thankful George and Martha were infertile.

The plot is set in motion when Violet’s husband, Beverly, the Weston patriarch and a once-great poet, abruptly vanishes. This prompts the couple’s three adult daughters to return home to attend to their mother, along with Violet’s sister, Mattie Fae, and their respective husbands, boyfriends and children. Among them is Barbara, the eldest Weston daughter, whose complex love-hate relationship with Violet frames the story throughout. Old tensions surface immediately. Secrets are revealed, with the help of a variety of intoxicants — booze, pot, Dilaudid, repressed guilt, filial sadism — and

then even darker secrets are revealed beneath. The house boils; not only does Violet insist on keeping the home un-airconditioned, she also covers the windows at all times so as to blur the lines between day and night. Some families pull together in times of crisis. Others, like the Westons, fall ever further apart.

What binds together the Rep’s production is the force of the acting, which, with a couple of minor exceptions, runs from very good to purely spectacular.

In particular, Susanne Marley delivers an unbelievable performance as Violet, shapeshifting with hypnotizing ease from doped-up wretch to abusive menace to stalwart matron figure. She’s intimate drama one minute, slapstick comedy the next. She’s a frail old woman on the brink of collapse; she’s a terror bent on utterly eviscerating everyone around her. You want her to pay for her crimes almost as much as you want her to just be OK. While Marley is the force that carries the play, there’s plenty more to admire about this production. LeeAnne Hutchison is excellent as Barbara, especially as she slides into near-mania during the play’s increasingly unhinged second half. Mattie Fae is played with pitchperfect verve and malice by Natalie Canerday, a Russellville native who’s appeared in major films ranging from “Sling Blade” to “Walk the Line.” And then there’s the house itself, a towering, maze-like masterwork of a set that fills the stage and manages to feel claus-

trophobic and agoraphobic all at once.

Despite the power of “August: Osage County,” the play also overreaches in some ways, which is presumably a fault of the script rather than the production. There are hints throughout of an attempt at some larger social or cultural narrative — allusions to the decline of America, the broken promise of the West — but this ambition fails to cohere.

Is there any point to the character of Johnna, the family’s Native American housekeeper, other than to provide a simplistic moral prop and an opportunity for Violet to deliver a couple of outrageous lines about Indians? If so, it’s never revealed.

What does work, however, is the force of the generational narrative — the sense that unhappiness is passed down over the decades, a recursive pattern of dysfunction. The truly awful part about family gatherings, after all, is not the petty annoyances and minor degradations themselves, but the intolerable repetition of it all — the return to those same roles we despise performing yet fall into again and again and again.

In its last few scenes, “August: Osage County” descends to a place that can’t be remotely called comedy, but whether that spiral of cruelty feels gratuitous or has the grim ring of truth depends, perhaps, on the viewer’s personal experience. What could possibly be worse than the recurring brutality of family? Letts answers that question with merciless clarity: being left, finally, all alone.

DINING CAPSULES, CONT. several veggie options. 10809 Executive Center Drive, Searcy Building. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-223-2257. BL Mon.-Fri., L Sat. MOORE 2 U Deli sandwiches, salads, fruit bowls, burgers, fish, chili dogs, and chicken and waffles.

5405 Geyer Springs Road. No alcohol. 501-5621200.

NATCHEZ RESTAURANT Smart, elegant takes on Southern classics. 323 Center St. Beer and wine, CC. $$-$$$. 501-372-1167. D Fri.-Sat., NEXT BISTRO AND BAR Live music, on the outdoor patio in nice weather, bar with specialty drinks like cheesecake shots, strawberry fizz martinis. No cover. 2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

ONE ELEVEN AT THE CAPITAL Inventive fine dining restaurant helmed by Jöel Attunes, a James Beard award-winning chef. 111 Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$$. 370-7011. BD daily, L Mon.-Fri, BR Sun. THE OYSTER BAR Gumbo, red beans and rice (all you can eat on Mondays), peel-andeat shrimp, oysters on the half shell, addictive po’ boys. Killer jukebox. 3003 W. Markham St. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-666-7100. LD Mon.-Sat. OZARK COUNTRY RESTAURANT A longstanding favorite with many Little Rock residents, the eatery specializes in big country breakfasts and pancakes plus sandwiches and several meat-and-two options for lunch and dinner. Try the pancakes and don’t leave without some sort of smoked meat. 202 Keightley Drive.

No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-663-7319. BL daily.

PLAYTIME PIZZA Tons of fun isn’t rained out by lackluster eats at this $11 million, 65,000-squarefoot kidtopia near the Rave Colonel Glenn 18 theater. While the buffet is only so-so, features like indoor mini-golf, laser tag, go karts, arcade games and bumper cars make it a winner for both kids and adults. 600 Colonel Glenn Plaza Loop. All CC. $-$$. 501-227-7529. D Mon.-Wed., LD Thu.-Sun. POTBELLY SANDWICH SHOP Tasty, affordable sandwiches from fast-casual chain. 314 S University Ave. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-6604441. LD daily.

PURPLE COW DINER 1950s fare — cheeseburgers, chili dogs, thick milk shakes — in a ‘50s setting at today’s prices. 8026 Cantrell Road.

Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-221-3555. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 11602 Chenal Pkwy. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-224-4433. LD daily, BR Sat.-Sun. 1419 Higden Ferry Road. Hot Springs. Beer, all CC. $$. 501-625-7999. LD daily, B Sun. THE RELAY STATION This grill offers a short menu, which includes chicken strips, french fries, hamburgers, jalapeno poppers and cheese sticks. 12225 Stagecoach Road. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-455-9919. LD daily.

THE ROOT CAFE Homey, local foods-focused cafe. With tasty burgers, homemade bratwurst, banh mi and a number of vegan and veggie options. Breakfast and Sunday brunch, too.

1500 S. Main St. Beer, all CC. $-$$. 501-414-0423.

BL Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. SALUT BISTRO This bistro/late-night hangout does upscale tapas. 1501 N. University. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4200. L Mon.-Fri., D Tue.-Sat. SANDY’S HOMEPLACE CAFE Specializing in home-style buffet, with two meats and seven vegetables to choose from. It’s all-you-can-eat.

1710 E 15th St. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-3753216. L Mon.-Fri. SATCHEMO’S BAR AND GRILL Pulled pork egg rolls, chicken fries and a “butter” burger star. 1900 W. Third St. Full bar, all CC. $-$$.

501-725-4657. L Mon.-Wed., LD Thu.-Sun.

SCALLIONS Reliably good food, great desserts, pleasant atmosphere, able servers — a solid lunch spot. 5110 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-666-6468. BL Mon.-Sat. SCOOP DOG 5508 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, No CC. 501-753-5407. LD daily.

SHAKE’S FROZEN CUSTARD Frozen custards, concretes, sundaes. 12011 Westhaven Drive.

No alcohol, all CC. $. 501-224-0150. LD daily.

SHIPLEY DO-NUTS With locations just about everywhere in Central Arkansas, it’s hard to miss Shipley’s. Their signature smooth glazed doughnuts and dozen or so varieties of fills are well known. 7514 Cantrell Rd. No alcohol, all CC. $. 501-664-5353. B daily.

SHORTY SMALL’S Land of big, juicy burgers, massive cheese logs, smoky barbecue platters and the signature onion loaf. 11100 N. Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-224-3344.

LD daily.

SLIM CHICKENS Chicken tenders and wings served fast. Better than the Colonel. 4500 W. Markham St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-9070111. LD daily. 301 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 954-9999. LD daily.

SONNY WILLIAMS’ STEAK ROOM Steaks, chicken and seafood in a wonderful setting in the River Market. Steak gets pricey, though.

Menu is seasonal, changes every few months.

500 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$$.

501-324-2999. D Mon.-Sat. TERRI-LYNN’S BBQ AND DELICATESSEN High-quality meats served on large sandwiches and good tamales served with chili or without (the better bargain). 10102 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-227-6371. L Tue.-Fri., LD Sat. (close at 5pm).

WEST END SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Its primary focus is a sports bar with 50-plus TVs, but the dinner entrees (grilled chicken, steaks and such) are plentiful and the bar food is upper quality. 215 N. Shackleford. Full bar, all CC. $$.

501-224-7665. L Fri.-Sun., D daily.

WHICH WICH AT CHENAL Sandwiches in three sizes, plus cookies and milkshakes, online or faxed (501-312-9435) ordering available.

Also at 2607 McCain Blvd., 501-771-9424, fax 501-771-4329. 12800 Chenal Parkway, Suite 10.

No alcohol. 312-9424.

WING LOVERS The name says it all. 4411 W 12th St. $-$$. 501-663-3166. LD Mon.-Sat. WING SHACK 6323 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol. 501-562-0010.

WINGSTOP It’s all about wings. The joint features 10 flavors of chicken flappers for almost any palate, including mild, hot, Cajun and atomic, as well as specialty flavors like lemon pepper, teriyaki, Garlic parmesan and Hawaiian. 11321 W. Markham St. Beer, all CC. $-$$. 501-224-9464. LD daily.

ASIAN

A.W. LIN’S ASIAN CUISINE Excellent panAsian with wonderful service. 17717 Chenal Parkway H101. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-8215398. LD daily.

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

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

CHINESE KITCHEN Good Chinese takeout. Try the Cantonese press duck. 11401 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-2242100. LD Tue.-Sun. HANAROO SUSHI BAR One of the few spots in downtown Little Rock to serve sushi. With an

expansive menu, featuring largely Japanese fare. Try the popular Tuna Tatari bento box.

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

501-301-7900. L Mon.-Fri., D Mon.-Sat. KBIRD Delicious, authentic Thai. 600 N. Tyler. No alcohol, CC. $$-$$$. 501-352-3549. LD Mon.-Fri. MIKE’S CAFE VIETNAMESE Cheap Vietnamese that could use some more spice, typically. The pho is good. 5501 Asher Ave. Beer, CC. $-$$. 501-562-1515. LD daily.

MR. CHEN’S ASIAN SUPERMARKET AND RESTAURANT A combination Asian restaurant and grocery with cheap, tasty and exotic offerings. 3901 S. University Ave. $. 501-562-7900.

LD daily.

NEW CHINA A burgeoning line of massive buffets, with hibachi grill, sushi, mounds of Chinese food and soft serve ice cream. 4617 John F. Kennedy Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-753-8988. LD daily. 2104 Harkrider.

Conway. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-764-1888.

LD Mon.-Sun. OISHI HIBACHI AND THAI CUISINE Tasty Thai and hibachi from the Chi family. 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-603-0080. LD daily.

PHO THANH MY It says “Vietnamese noodle soup” on the sign out front, and that’s what you should order. The pho comes in outrageously large portions with bean sprouts and fresh herbs. Traditional pork dishes, spring rolls and bubble tea also available. 302 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-312-7498. LD daily.

ROYAL BUFFET A big buffet of Chinese fare, with other Asian tastes as well. 109 E. Pershing.

NLR. Beer, all CC. 501-753-8885. LD daily.

SEKISUI Fresh-tasting sushi chain with fun hibachi grill and an overwhelming assortment of traditional entrees. Nice wine selection, also serves sake and specialty drinks. 219 N. Shackleford Road. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-2217070. LD daily.

SHOGUN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE The chefs will dazzle you, as will the variety of tasty stir-fry combinations and the sushi bar. Usually crowded at night. 2815 Cantrell Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-666-7070. D daily.

THREE FOLD NOODLES AND DUMPLING CO. Authentic Chinese noodles, buns and dumplings. With vegetarian options. 215 Center St. No alcohol, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-3721739. LD Mon.-Fri. TOKYO HOUSE Defying stereotypes, this Japanese buffet serves up a broad range of fresh, slightly exotic fare — grilled calamari, octopus salad, dozens of varieties of fresh sushi — as well as more standard shrimp and steak options. 11 Shackleford Drive. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-219-4286. LD daily.

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

BARBECUE

CHIP’S BARBECUE Tasty, if a little pricey, barbecue piled high on sandwiches generously doused with the original tangy sauce or one of five other sauces. Better known for the incredible family recipe pies and cheesecakes, which come tall and wide. 9801 W. Markham St. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-225-4346. LD Mon.-Sat.

CATFISH

SWEET SOUL Southern classics by the proprietors of the late, great Haystack Cafe in Ferndale: Chicken fried steak (just about

perfect), catfish, collards, cornbread, blackeyed peas and fried chicken. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, all CC. 501-374-7685.

L Mon.-Fri.

EUROPEAN / ETHNIC

ANATOLIA RESTAURANT Middle of the road Mediterranean fare. 315 N. Bowman Road. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-219-9090. LD Mon.-Sat. CREGEEN’S IRISH PUB Irish-themed pub with a large selection of on-tap and bottled British beers and ales, an Irish inspired menu and lots of nooks and crannies to meet in. Specialties include fish ‘n’ chips and Guinness beef stew.

Live music on weekends and $5 cover on Saturdays, special brunch on Sunday. 301 Main St. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-376-7468. LD daily.

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

501-223-9332. LD daily.

KEBAB HOUSE Turkish style doners and kebabs and a sampling of Tunisian cuisine. Only place in Little Rock to serve Lahmijun (Turkish pizza).

11321 W Markham St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. LD Mon.-Sat. LAYLA’S GYROS AND PIZZERIA Delicious Mediterranean fare — gyros, falafel, shawarma, kabobs, hummus and babaganush — that has a devoted following. All meat is slaughtered according to Islamic dietary law. 9501 N Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-227-7272. LD daily (close 5 p.m. on Sun.) 6100 Stones Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$.

501-868-8226. LD Mon.-Sat. L E O ’ S G R E E K C A S T L E Wonderful Mediterranean food — gyro sandwiches or platters, falafel and tabouleh — plus dependable hamburgers, ham sandwiches, steak platters and BLTs. Breakfast offerings are expanded with gyro meat, pitas and triple berry pancakes.

2925 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, CC. $-$$.

501-666-7414. BLD Mon.-Sat., BL Sun. (close at 4 p.m.).

LITTLE GREEK Fast casual chain with excellent Greek food. 11525 Cantrell Road. Beer, all CC. $$. LD daily.

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

ITALIAN

CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork, seafood, steak and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting. Little Rock standard for 18 years. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-5355. LD Mon.- Fri, D Sat. CIAO ITALIAN RESTAURANT Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront. The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W. Seventh St. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-372-0238. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. PIERRE’S GOURMET PIZZA CO. EXPRESS KITCHEN Chef/owner Michael Ayers has reinvented his pizzeria, once located on JFK CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 www.arktimes.com

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DUMAS, CONT. broke down the impact of $167 million in new annual revenue from its customers. Residential rates and small commercial rates would go up more than 13 percent but big industrial users less than 2 percent.

In the past, the PSC staff, the attorney general and eventually the commission itself have always favored homeowners in the allocation of costs while Arkansas Electric Energy Consumers, a consortium of big energy users like the big steel and paper mills, oil companies, Riceland Foods, Acme Brick and Tyson Foods, was left to plead with the commission to soften the impact on the big industries’ monthly bills.

Act 725 reverses the policy. Now the PSC must favor big industrials, if the utility or other interveners make the case that it would be good for jobs, but it can soften the rate impact on homeowners and businesses if someone can plead their case like the consortium did for the biggies. The attorney general has been the ratepayers’ advocate in these cases for 50 years, but the new attorney

general, Leslie Rutledge, has taken the side of the Koch brothers, who supported her campaign, and other industrial polluters against President Obama’s clean-power plan. Can she switch and become a champion of ordinary ratepayers over her benefactors? Wait and see.

The justification for favoring big industries over everyone else in fixing monthly electric bills — along with any policy on anything that anyone favors today — is that it would be good for jobs. Acknowledging Act 725’s injunction, an Entergy executive filed testimony in the case saying that, yes, favorable energy rates for big plants and less favorable rates for other businesses and homeowners would indeed be good for jobs.

If she chose, Rutledge or anyone else might use federal job records and projections to show the opposite is true: Job numbers come from small businesses, not big manufacturers. But in the new regime formed by massive political contributions from corporate wealth, facts must not get in the way of policy.

PIPES NOW, MARINA LATER, CONT. Burkhalter said his family was involved in Boy Scouts and he hopes to have Scouting programs on two 44-foot Navy racing boats he bought that he plans to dock at the marina.

The rusted river buoys, the size of satellites, that now lie in high grass will be painted and placed in the park. On the other side of a rise that defines the Burkhalter property’s southern edge is Carver Magnet Elementary School.

The cost of the first phase will be around $5 million to $6 million and the job should be completed by summer of 2016, Burkhalter said. He said he has no partners in the venture.

Next up: Seven “high-end apartment dwellings” with 200 units total, with balconies and river views, already approved by the city; construction of another 275 boat slips, and a retail boat supply. An optimistic sort, Burkhalter says they’ll be finished by 2017.

Eventually, Burkhalter said, he wants to “create a village” that will support a full-service floating restaurant or two.

When all is said and done, he expects the project will cost between $40 million and $50 million.

“A lot of people have said, ‘Is he really doing it?’ ” Burkhalter said. “I’m doing it.”

PEARLS ABOUT SWINE, CONT. skewed because of his belated return from elbow soreness to start the year; he’s been far more efficient in late April and May, if still prone to an occasional rocky inning. The key is whether freshman McKinney is starting to show too much wear from a long season in which expectations were heaped on him because of Killian’s struggles and then Dominic Taccolini’s season-ending shoulder and armpit (yes, armpit) pain. He’ll get ample recovery time, fortunately, and Lowery’s flourishing as an additional back-end option has mitigated many problems.

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ceedings in the heartland with a 2 p.m.

Saturday, June 13, ESPN game against Virginia, which dumped Southern Cal in the regional round, then bested Maryland, which had ousted No. 1 overall seed UCLA in the Supers. The Cavaliers have become a familiar postseason nemesis for this program, but by no means one that intimidates Van Horn’s bunch. With half of the Omaha octet coming from the SEC, Arkansas feels it belongs here and that it has a viable shot at coming home with the team’s first-ever championship, and considering that the Hogs are 29-11 over their last 40 games, there’s credibility for that faith.

LYONS, CONT. in the deal whatsoever. At least none that the Times could find. It’s pure supposition.

The newspaper then remained silent as Schweizer appeared on conservative talk shows depicting the foundation as a giant slush fund devoting only 10 percent of its budget to charity. In fact, according to the American Institute of Philanthropy, the real number is 89 percent — an A rating.

Look, any cynic can play at this.

Check out your hometown society page. That doctor’s wife at the Heart Fund gala: Is it about charity, or about

people back home in Turkey Scratch seeing her socializing with a Walmart heiress? How about the architect?

Does he care about sick kids, or is he about getting the contract for the new hospital wing named for the heiress?

Does Bill Clinton do all this for humanity, or does he just need more attention and admiration than we “normal” people? Does Hillary want to be president for America’s sake, or for her own?

The correct answer is all of the above.

But when journalists cry corruption, make them prove it.

DINING CAPSULES, CONT. in North Little Rock, as the first RV entry into mobile food truck scene. With a broad menu of pizza, calzones, salads and subs. 760 C Edgewood Drive. No alcohol, No CC. $$.

501-410-0377. L Mon.-Fri. PIRO BRICK OVEN AND BARROOM The South Main neighborhood’s renaissance continues with Piro, an upscale pizza joint that also features sandwiches and unique appetizers (think roasted bone marrow). 1318 S. Main St. Full bar, CC. $-$$. 501-374-7476. LD Tue.-Sat., L Sun. THE PIZZERIA AT TERRY’S FINER FOODS Tasty Neapolitan-style pizza and calzones from the people who used to run the Santa Lucia food truck. 5018 Kavanaugh. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-551-1388. Tue.-Sat. ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL A chain restaurant with a large menu of pasta, chicken, beef, fish, unusual dishes like Italian nachos, and special dishes with a corporate bent. 11100 W Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-2213150. LD daily.

LATINO

Bowman Road. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-3134120. LD Tue.-Sun. HEIGHTS TACO & TAMALE CO. Throwback Southern-style tamales, taco plates, enchiladas and more, all doused with a generous helping of cheese and chili. Hits just the right balance between nostalgia and fresh flavors. 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-3134848. LD daily.

LA HERRADURA Traditional Mexican fare.

8414 Geyer Springs Road. Full bar, all CC. $-$$.

501-565-6063. LD Tue.-Sun. LAS MARGARITAS Sparse offerings at this taco truck. No chicken, for instance. Try the veggie quesadilla. 7308 Baseline Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. LD Tue.-Thu.

HEALTHY ADULTS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH STUDY We are currently seeking

BAJA GRILL Food truck turned brick-andVOLUNTEERS 18-50 years. mortar taco joint that serves a unique MexiIf you are healthy and not taking Cali style menu full of tacos, burritos and certain medications quesadillas. 5923 Kavanaugh Blvd. CC. $-$$. you may be eligible to participate 501-722-8920. LD Mon.-Sat. CANON GRILL Tex-Mex, pasta, sandin a study to test the behavioral wiches and salads. Creative appetizers effects of common medications. come in huge quantities, and the varied Participation involves completing a main-course menu rarely disappoints, medical evaluation and attending 6 though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. sessions at the Psychiatric Research 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $$.

501-664-2068. LD daily.

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