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Trump trading President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders that aim to identify every trade abuse and “non-reciprocal practice” that contribute to the trade deficit. In the president’s opinion, the United States has been losing the trade war for quite some time. However, there isn’t a winner or loser when trading occurs. Both parties benefit from a trade, each country receiving something they couldn’t otherwise produce at all or as cheaply. For example, the United States imports most of our clothes because we find it cheaper and trade for these garments.

When looking at a trade deficit, it is misleading to make judgments about whether or not a trade is “fair.” For example, the U.S. may import clothes by trading large sums of money, making the trade seem like China is benefiting more than the U.S. On the contrary, eventually China will use these American dollars to buy goods from the U.S. that it cannot produce as cheaply as we can, such a pharmaceuticals. As a result, both countries benefit and have the goods they desire.

Restricting our trade with large trading partners such as China will decrease the wealth of both countries.

Homeland production of clothes and other good we import will make these goods much more expensive. Instead of being concerned about the fairness of a trade, the U.S. should focus on the repercussions that would happen if Trump’s trade restrictions are put in place.

Lindsey Worthington Little Rock Our state is best known for its history: the Little Rock Nine, beginning of the superstore Walmart, even the Crater of Diamonds, which is the only active diamond mine in the U.S. What’s one thing that’s going on in our state that no one wants to talk about but needs to be addressed? At Catholic schools, members of the LGBT community are able to be punished with expulsion just for telling someone they are a part of that community. We tell our children to be themselves, and while some parents don’t, some parents do support their children upon finding out their child considers himself or herself as part of the LGBT community.

America is said to be the “melting pot” of the world, with so many diverse people and choices. People are encouraged to be themselves, as it’s not interesting to be around 20 4

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people who speak, act and dress the same. Everyone wants a name for themselves — whether it’s known or not, having your name out there encourages others to make a change, to inspire others. How come people are able to be expelled for a life choice people are born with? Yes, you can pull out of the school before an expulsion, but what’s the point in that?

Arkansas is a relatively small state, but we can make such a big change in how the LGBT community is treated. Being kicked out of school for being associated with LGBT? It’s

an idiotic concept. Can we change this, for equality?

Kylie Kirger Bryant

From the web In response to Arkansas Blog posts on Congress keeping health care perks that all other Americans will lose under their Obamacare-gutting plan and the Alaska state lawmaker who said women in the sticks get pregnant so they can get a free trip to Anchorage for an abortion: Typical GOP approach to everything.

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Take care of themselves and their rich buddies and screw the rest of us. Loss of the ACA will INCREASE everyone’s health care costs, even those with company-provided health care, as hospitals spread that uncompensated care as far as possible over every procedure. Rural hospitals are likely to not be able to survive, but since [U.S. Rep. French] Hill lives in the rich area of the district, no issue for him. couldn’t be better The new rules are for thee, not for ME!” The Party of Personal Responsibility strikes yet again.

MAGA! tsallenarng This is not a health care bill. This is a naked tax cut for millionaires, wearing health care as pasties.

Silverback66 Okay, I’ve got a few questions for our fairly new daddy, Sen. Tom Cotton.

Did he and wife Anna personally cover the medical bills, sans insurance, from her two pregnancies? What about the health issues I understand the youngest suffered after birth? How about ongoing pediatric coverage for both children?

What!? You mean we the people provided coverage for these events?

Why? Are they better than a couple of my neighbors whose jobs provide (1) minimal insurance or (2) no insurance?

How about the single pregnant daughter of a friend? What? She shouldn’t have gotten pregnant? Well, she did. So now what?

OK, I’ve been remiss in not pillorying the other 12 senators, so feel free to ask the rest of ’em similar questions.

If, however, you tend to breathe fire as I did upon reading of the Alaskan senator’s abortion/vacation comments, you might want to have a couple of coolheaded assistants beside you when you accost the fools.

Just for your protection against legal action, you understand. I really don’t care what happens to them. May they all go grizzly hunting with dud ammo.

Doigotta From the web in response to the May 5 Arkansas Blog post, “Judge Griffen responds to judicial disciplinary complaint”: The Supreme Court had better be careful if they take on the Hon. Wendell. There are only seven of them, so they are outnumbered.

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

MESSAGE TO FRENCH HILL: People opposed to the congressman’s vote in support of a House bill to repeal Obamacare’s benefits protested Monday at his Little Rock office.

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On Thursday, the same day that Governor Hutchinson signed legislation approving changes to the state’s Medicaid expansion program, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the American Health Care Act, a plan that does not offer protections for people with preexisting conditions, phases out the Medicaid expansion, defunds Planned Parenthood and provides a massive tax cut for the wealthy. It would leave millions of Americans without insurance.

In Arkansas, Hutchinson’s bid to move 60,000 people off Medicaid expansion would eventually be moot; the AHCA would spell the end altogether of Arkansas Works, the state’s unique version of Medicaid expansion. It would also enact hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to the state’s traditional Medicaid program, which would affect the elderly in nursing homes, low-income children, very poor parents, the blind, the disabled and more. All four Arkansas congressmen, U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, French Hill, Bruce Westerman and Steve Womack, voted for the AHCA. Sen. Tom Cotton is 6

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one of 13 white Republican men who will write the Senate’s version of the repealand-replace bill, which is expected to be substantially different than the House’s.

House one step closer to impeachment process In a special session of the Arkansas Legislature that concluded last week, the House approved, 73-13, a rule change that sets up a procedure for impeachment proceedings. The legislature has not impeached anyone since the adoption of the 1874 Arkansas Constitution.

House Speaker Jeremy Gillam (R-Judsonia), who initiated the rule change, said he’d looked into a need for impeachment proceedings years ago, when legislators got in trouble with the law. The matters were eventually resolved in the courts.

He said he took responsibility for not moving ahead then with establishing a procedure in the rules. He referred to “recent conversations” in the Senate that highlighted the deficiency in the rules.

That would be a demand by Sen. Trent Garner (R-El Dorado) that the House impeach Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen after he ruled on a case

involving a drug used in the state’s death penalty protocol and joined a death penalty protest outside the Governor’s Mansion. Despite the rule change and noise

by Garner, there appears to be no effort afoot to move forward with impeachment of Griffen, who is under investigation by the state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission.

Gone for good Tony Alamo, the former Arkansas evangelist serving a federal prison sentence in North Carolina, died at age 82.

He was sentenced in 2009 on charges he took underage girls across state lines for sex, including a 9-year-old.

After his conversion to Christianity, Alamo (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman) established a headquarters in Crawford County. His cult-like ministry was controversial from the start, with a history dogged by lawsuits and controversies over tax evasion and theft of the body of his late wife, Susan, along with mistreatment of followers in various business schemes. He wanted the body of his wife because he claimed she would be resurrected.

Juvenile injustice

The U.S. government has indicted three more people for mistreatment of juveniles held in a facility in Batesville.

A news release from the U.S. attorney said Will Ray, 26; Thomas Farris, 47; and Jason Benton, 42, former officers at the White River Juvenile Detention Center, had been charged with conspiring to assault inmates.

On April 26, two former supervisors at the center — Capt. Peggy Kendrick and Lt. Dennis Fuller — pleaded guilty to conspiring to assault inmates.

They’ll be sentenced later. Kendrick also pleaded guilty to assaulting a 16-year-old girl with pepper spray and falsifying a report about it.

In the new seven-count indictment, the defendants are also charged with using pepper spray on juveniles and then, rather than decontaminating them, shutting them in their cells to “let them cook.”

Justice Department officials said the excessive force was unconstitutional and “particularly reprehensible” when used against juveniles who were not resisting.

OPINION

French Hill’s photo op

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he U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a health care bill that only the blind, dumb or dishonest could call good for any but the wealthy. For its many flaws, it has been hailed as a ticket to congressional gains for the Democratic Party. Two things:

1. Yes. There’s campaign fodder there.

The bill is a gift to the wealthy in tax cuts financed by loss or hurtful reduction in health coverage for 24 million people, particularly older, poorer and sicker Americans.

2. If 2016 proved anything, it proved the danger of political assumptions. Transparently awful stuff — suggesting that a war hero was a coward; bragging about sexual assault; serial lying; Russian alliances — doesn’t necessarily disqualify a candidate. A New York Times analysis said Democrats believe every House district is in play, particularly those

where President Trump didn’t run strongly.

The analysis looked at districts where Trump MAX received less than BRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com 55 percent of the vote as potential pickups if the current Republican congressman/woman voted for the health bill.

Such districts include the 2nd District of Arkansas.

The 2nd District doesn’t strike me as a great fit, however. Pulaski County, the most populous, still votes Democratic.

But the surrounding counties are trending deeply and reflexively red. Still, 2nd District Republican Rep. French Hill, a starchy banker whose main concern in voting to repeal Obamacare seemed to be concern for profits of insurance companies (for whom his wife, coincidentally, lobbies),

McCain is right

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ho knew that the crusty old warmonger Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was both an earnest and eloquent defender of human rights, a cause that is in what we hope is only a momentary decline here and around the world?

There he was Monday, writing in the failing New York Times and rebuking the Trump administration for writing off human rights, the defining American value for 235 years. The president’s foreign policy chief, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, had last week alerted the world that henceforth the United States will overlook things like torture and deprivation in depraved countries if we can get something for the United States in the bargain, whether it is with Russia, China, Turkey or Saudi Arabia. As McCain framed the Trump message to the oppressed of the earth: “If you happen to be in the way of our forging relationships with your oppressors that could serve our security and economic interests, good luck — you’re on your own.” The Jimmy Carter doctrine — how you treat your own people determines how we will treat you — is no more.

Actually, there is no more honest paladin of human rights than McCain, grandson of Arkansans, because he expe-

rienced mankind at its worst, after an anti-aircraft missile shot him down over North Vietnam. He suffered a ERNEST broken leg and two DUMAS broken arms, and then during 5 1/2 years of captivity at the depraved prison known as the Hanoi Hilton he was tortured and had his chest and a foot crushed by rifle butts and bayonets, all of which Donald Trump said made him a loser unworthy of honor. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney wanted to justify torture in Iraq, Guantanamo and secret prisons, McCain protested that it violated a national value that had been sacred since Gen. Washington barred torture after watching British troops savage screaming captives across the Hudson River after the battle of Brooklyn Heights.

Torture doesn’t work, McCain said, but it would make no difference if it did.

McCain probably didn’t study Mill, Bentham and Locke at the Naval Academy or pay much attention, since he finished 790th of 795 in his senior class, but in the Times piece he evinced a good grasp of the philosophy.

“America didn’t invent human rights,”

ONE FOR THE SCRAPBOOK: French Hill with the president after passage of devastating health bill.

isn’t exactly Joe the Plumber. out politically with a less awful piece of The House vote got the Arkansas Dem- legislation. ocratic network (such as it remains) chatStill, the spectacle of House Repubtering. I’m reasonably sure Democratic licans loading what one writer called state Rep. Clark Tucker of Little Rock, to “party buses” to roll over to the White name one, got lots of encouragement. But House to yuk it up about a vote that could it’s an uphill climb, even for a gifted politi- devastate millions of sick people was cian, and the prize is perpetual commut- an ill-conceived photo opportunity. But ing and money grubbing to work in a dys- Congressman Hill did his duty. He even functional branch of government. Also, the got caught in the act.

Say cheese, French!

Senate may yet bail the House Republicans

McCain wrote, because they have always existed from the creation. “Nations, cultures and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.” Mill or Bentham never said it better.

Human rights go beyond our relations with foreign governments and their denial of liberties that we take for granted.

The story of America, the liberal democratic tradition, is the long arc of history where we gradually give life to the ringing phrases on human rights in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the 13th and 14th amendments, by extending their protections first to slaves, then to their descendants, and to women, immigrants from every culture and race, the disabled, gays, lesbians and other gender minorities. The Supreme Court and sometimes Congress have slowly and sometimes grudgingly given life to the soaring words.

In his private thoughtful moments, I’m sure McCain comes to the defense of other individual rights recognized sometimes by his own party’s leaders, like human rights evangelists Teddy Roosevelt, Robert La Follette and for inspired moments Richard Nixon, but that are now under threat — the right to medical care for life-threatening sickness or injuries, the right of every person to a safe God-given environment and working conditions, the right of individual protection from venal commerce.

It was the 20th century’s contribution

to the tradition that Congress and often state governments recognized all those rights, even if they did not perfect them: the protections from child labor and other scourges of the workplace, the minimum wage, worker association, safe foods and drugs, Nixon’s life-saving clean air and water laws, and more.

In the ’80s, a new philosophy was born, or at least began to flourish: that corporations had rights, too, and that they were ascendant, even when they clashed with individual rights. Corporations had better PR, so that now a good part of the country, including the working poor, are convinced that the Environmental Protection Agency is a socialist plot to destroy great American industries and put coal and oil field workers out of a job, all in the service of a Chinese communist plan to falsely convince people that the planet is warming and weather catastrophes are coming.

Trump’s EPA and Interior Department chiefs last month began firing scientists on the staffs and advisory boards and replacing them with industry lobbyists and dismantling restrictions on the dumping of coal ash in streams and on power-plant emissions.

We’re waiting for John McCain to have another John Stuart Mill moment.

Of course, Mill didn’t have to contend with the wealth and power of the Koch brothers.

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ometimes, the most important things that happen at the ballpark are only tangentially related to the games themselves. I speak as one who hasn’t missed a televised Boston Red Sox game this season, and may not between now and October. Win or lose, I’m in it for the stories.

To me, baseball season resembles an epic narrative — think “Don Quixote” or the seagoing novels of Patrick O’Brian — filled with an ever-evolving cast of characters and events. Although I’ve never lived in Boston, I’ve followed the Red Sox off and on since 1953, the year Ted Williams returned to Fenway Park after his second tour of duty as a Marine pilot.

To me, they were the un-Yankees.

Enough said. I think Williams’ prickly independence appealed to me, too.

So does that of Adam Jones, the Baltimore center fielder whose refusal to submit to racist taunts from the Fenway Park bleachers led to last week’s dramatic events.

To the dismay of Red Sox fans, Jones had a great day in the field May 1, making game-saving catches on balls some center fielders wouldn’t have reached. For this he got pelted with bags of peanuts and called a “nigger” by some drunken ape in Section 35.

Do I know the guy was drunk? No, he was never identified. Nor did anybody complain to Fenway ushers, perhaps signifying that he was a belligerent drunk as well. (On Boston sports radio, some took this as evidence that the slur never happened.) The guy who threw the peanuts was identified and removed from the ballpark.

Talking to reporters, Jones said that heckling and booing were part of the game, but that “the N-word” was taking it too far. Where he grew up (San Diego), Jones added, racial slurs were fighting words, but a professional athlete can’t confront every bigot he encounters. “It’s unfortunate that people need to resort to those type of epithets to degrade another human being,” Jones said.

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Which may have been laying it on a little thick, to be frank. Even given Boston’s decidedly mixed history — the Red Sox were among the last teams to sign black players in the 1950s — hardly anybody thinks that bigotry is the norm in a city that all but deified Red Sox slugger David Ortiz.

One drunk does not a city make, a point made forcefully by Red Sox African-American outfielder Chris Young: “If you do that,” he told the Globe’s Alex Speier, “you’re doing the same thing that every prejudiced person out there does, which is judge one person of a certain ethnicity, color, religion, race, whatever it may be, and generalizing everybody from that. … You can’t say something about a fan and tie that to an entire city.”

Right fielder Mookie Betts took to social media, urging fans to “literally stand up” for Jones. And so when the Baltimore center fielder came to bat in the first inning on Tuesday night, they did. Sitting in front of the TV halfway across the country, I had a pretty good idea what was coming. I called my wife, the coach’s daughter, in to watch.

As Jones walked to the plate, a few fans behind the dugouts stood up and cheered. Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale, normally a very fast worker, deliberately stepped off the mound to let a long ovation build.

“I wanted to show him the respect he’s earned and that he deserves,” Sale said later. “We have a great fan base here. I don’t want a few idiots to mess that up. I think Fenway came together, the Boston fans came together, and did the right thing today, plain and simple.”

Then Sale unceremoniously struck Jones out.

Next Sale delivered another message: He unleashed a wicked 99-mph fastball behind Orioles slugger Manny Machado’s knees, the central figure in an escalating (and dangerous) beanball war between the two teams, as if to say, “Keep screwing around, and the next one won’t miss.”

No mercy

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’ve been thinking a lot about mercy I believe health care is these days. As a child, growing up a right. If God in a conservative church, mercy, at bestowed upon least in my memory, wasn’t often adus, as state Sen. dressed. We had several preachers over Trent Ga rner the years, so I’m sure it was the SunAUTUMN (R-El Dorado) day topic from time to time, but what TOLBERT recently argued, stands out in my memory the most are the fire and brimstone sermons and the the right to carry warnings of an angry God. If he was a gun everywhere, including to football worked up enough, a certain preacher games and the college dormitory, then we had for much of my youth would surely we have the right to have our ills stomp his feet and shake his fists at us tended. However, I understand this isn’t as he warned us of eternity in hell. I was the law and isn’t what everyone believes. confused as to how hell could be both Many think health care is a privilege, a lake of fire and a bottomless pit. Unand we get what we can afford. If that’s controverted, however, was that there the case, isn’t it merciful to provide it would be much weeping and gnashing to those who cannot afford it? I’m talking really provide it. Preventative care. of teeth. And that we all were probably headed that way if we didn’t stop our Affordable medication. Immediate mensinning right then and there. tal health and addiction treatment. Not The church I now attend starts each merely acute care at an emergency room. service with a version of the Kyrie eleiI argue that last week’s vote is the son, a call to the Lord for mercy. It also equivalent of U.S. Reps. Steve Womack, serves as a reminder for French Hill, Bruce Wesus to incorporate mercy I wonder if terman and Rick Crawinto our lives. Mercy the Arkansas ford holding our mediisn’t just a Christian cation in their clenched ideal. The idea is found Legislature and hands and telling us if in just about every single congressional we worked harder, we world religion and, honcould afford it. Layestly, many of my athe- delegation need ers of government and ist and agnostic friends to incorporate a health providers cannot seem to understand and absolve them from the practice the concept of reminder of mercy intended results of this mercy better than many into their day-tobill. Our state officials of my Christian friends. don’t get a pass on this Probably because they day itinerary. either. Several of them haven’t been corrupted sure do like to trot out by the cherry-picked Bible verses so (and tweet out) Bible verses supportmany use to justify vengeance as a supeing capital punishment, public prayer rior concept. They don’t need a religious in schools, Ten Commandment displays and legalizing discrimination text to tell them to be good and kind to each other. It just feels right and human against LGBTQ individuals. Where are to want to look out for others. the verses about helping the poor and I’m not one to mix government and immigrant communities? Where are the religion, but it looks like that’s where verses about truthfulness? Where are we are headed after President Trump’s the verses about compassion? Where “religous liberty” executive order, so are the calls for mercy?

I wonder if the Arkansas Legislature Look around. Many of our neighbors and congressional delegation need to are already in a bottomless pit of sufincorporate a reminder of mercy into fering from the criminalization of povtheir day-to-day itinerary. At least then erty and addiction, devastating immiwe might get a thoughtful reflection gration policies, and lack of affordable food and housing. Now our state faces and consideration of the effects of the cuts to Medicaid, potentially unaffordhealth care bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last week. able medication and insurance for those Instead, we get singing and celebratwith pre-existing conditions, and the ing while seniors, parents of disabled loss of emergency care due to the inevichildren, those with chronic illnesses, table closing of rural hospitals. Things and women wonder who these men will only get worse for too many Arkanreally represent. It doesn’t feel like it sans. Indeed, Lord, have mercy. Because is any of us. our elected officials sure don’t.

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awleigh Williams spent roughly a year and a half in Arkansas Razorback garb. During his 20 active games, he amassed 1,860 yards from scrimmage, racked up eight 100yard rushing outings, amassed 13 total touchdowns, and even accounted for a 14th by tossing a nifty little 1-yarder on a fourth-down gimmick play in a win at Mississippi State last fall.

That game in Starkville was the one that validated the coaching staff’s building confidence in the soft-spoken Dallas product’s return from a harrowing neck injury in the four-overtime marathon win against Auburn a year earlier. He darted 72 yards for an easy six on the second snap and had nearly rolled up 200 yards by halftime. It was the banner showing in a surprising sophomore year full of them, one that seemed so unlikely after a couple of Tigers laid him out near the sideline in mid-October 2015.

With the Red-White scrimmage shelved this spring due to downpours in the area, Williams took an innocentlooking hit in the indoor, light-hitting drills and went prone again. The practice facility was hushed, but even if there had been 40,000-plus in the stands on a sunny day at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, the sickening quiet would have prevailed there, too. It isn’t just that Williams was down again, mostly motionless, but that it had such a seemingly innocuous way about it. He took a pop, went down, didn’t get up, and the entire coaching staff and Williams’ mother hastily made their way toward him.

You knew it was over then, even if you didn’t want to accept it. Williams was extraordinarily durable during his All-SEC campaign of 2016, averaging just shy of 20 carries per outing and never logging less than 12 in a game despite all the well-founded concerns about his health and the presence of true freshman sensation Devwah Whaley threatening Williams’ sudden status as bell cow. He took some decent licks over the 13-game slate and never looked worse for wear. It was easy to feel that false assurance that he was going to not only fully bounce back from that first scare, but that the whole achingly uncomfortable scene couldn’t and wouldn’t ever repeat itself.

Then you remember that neck injuries are another animal altogether. Madre Hill wrecked his knees so badly that he missed

two whole years before re-emerging as a vital backfield cog on the 1998 team, even if he ended up sharing BEAU carries with Chrys WILCOX Chukwuma. In early 2000, Cedric Cobbs’ shoulder took a season-ending blow against Alabama, and he spent the next two years battling ailments and disciplinary issues before closing out his checkered career in style with a 1,000-yard 2003 season. Darren McFadden and Peyton Hillis withstood all manner of contact in the mid-2000s, missed some totes here and there, but always ended up back on the field when it mattered. Jonathan Williams’ foot robbed him of his entire final campaign but he got drafted and finds himself healthy and ready to compete for carries in Buffalo this fall.

Those guys were never, to be fair, in the kind of danger that Williams always entertained every time he touched the ball after that fateful hit against Auburn.

Knee and leg issues be damned, Hill and Cobbs weren’t going to face the risk of paralysis when they went back onto the field.

That makes Williams’ effective retirement by way of a well-penned personal note, posted this week at arkansasrazorbacks.com, even more poignant. A 20-year-old man with professional aspirations had to put that dream to rest today, publicly and painfully, for an entire state and region to digest. He’s going to spend this fall watching Whaley and others carry the ball in his stead.

For as tragic as that may initially strike you, consider this: That same 20-yearold faced his mortality, athletically and otherwise, and met it with aplomb and dignity. There have been people twice his age or greater who actively, aggressively dumbed down the Arkansas Legislature since Williams stepped foot on the Fayetteville campus by firing off incendiary Tweets, pontificating and grandstanding on YouTube, pawning off orphaned kids to be sexually assaulted, or committing outright criminal fraud.

Now is not a time to lament a young football star’s premature exit from the sport. It’s a day to celebrate a man showing perspective, humility and grace in a state that often seems bereft of it.

Thank you, Mr. Williams.

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that there are likely more than a few members of the Arkansas Legislature who would be hunky-munky-dory with the Christo-fascist good ol’ boys club depicted in the show. All the libtard snowflakes silenced and pushed underground? The King James Bible literally replacing the code of secular law (buttressed, no doubt, by a granite copy of the Ten Commandments on the lawn of the state Capitol, just in case some didn’t get the message)?

Uppity women stripped of their jobs and bank accounts, reduced to nameless baby incubators, kitchen help or the ornamental wives of the Marlboro Men who run the country with their vision of God at their side? If you’re of a Leviticus mindset, what’s not to love?

It ain’t quite “The Handmaid’s Tale” around here yet, but damned if it doesn’t feel like it would only take another 9/11 and one God-haunted phone call between Pat Robertson and a pants-pissingly terrified El Presidente Naranja to get us there. At one point in the show, a character whose only reason for existence is to receive and grow the seed of a stranger inside her body says — resignedly, almost offhandedly — that in her previous life, she was once a professor of cellular biology and happily married to a woman. It’s a moment that’s real and close enough to make a thinking person’s blood run cold with icy possibility.

Scary show, kids. Scarier than any horror flick The Observer has caught at the cinema in the past 10 years, anyway.

Then again, America is kind of a scary place these days, as we wind our way through this 4-year spook house. Movies, books and TV are where society works out our fears and anxieties. And when reality makes “House of Cards” look like “Joanie Loves Chachi,” you’ve gotta go very, very dark to try and exorcise our collective demons.

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Based on the 1985 book by Margaret Atwood, it’s the story of a woman living in a nightmare America where religious zealots have seized control of the government, suspended the Constitution and installed an authoritarian, isolationist theocracy. The few women who are still fertile have been forced into life as Handmaids, red-clad slaves who exist only to bear children for the leaders.

It’s terrifying stuff, bucko, the plot salted heavily and knowingly with dog whistles to our current permaanxiety about the unknowable future, which seems to hang over the head of every citizen of The Divided States of Trumpmurica like a 10-ton chunk of jagged concrete at the end of a fraying rope. Who, after all, has any idea where the hell we’ll all be this time next year?

On our way to a wave election that will put Congress in the hands of saner, kinder and less complicit heads, let’s hope. A boy can dream, can’t he?

Spouse, who has been a female citizen of this country since the days when men routinely received raucous huzzahs and backslapping for behavior toward women that would land them up in the jailhouse in 2017, can’t watch “The Handmaid’s Tale,” if that tells you anything. She can’t even listen to her Dear Husband describe the basic storylines over the dinner table, waving us on with the tines of her fork to less troubling topics whenever we bring it up. It’s a measure of the age we find ourselves in that dystopian fantasy feels too close for comfort to 21st century reality. That’s especially so for folks who aren’t white heterosexual middle-class penis pilots like Yours Truly. Recently, Spouse agreed without a hint of a smile when Her Loving Man joked darkly

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he Southwest Trail, a biking and hiking trail that would link Pulaski, Saline and Garland counties, has been pedaling in low gear since local cycling enthusiasts came up with the idea in 2013. They got some good news recently: According to Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde, the Federal Lands Access Program of the Department of Transportation will provide money to hire engineers to design a 58-mile route, mostly on abandoned railroad beds.

The announcement from the DOT is not official; Hyde learned that the counties’ grant application, for $3.5 million, would be awarded at a recent conference. He’s waiting for official word, so the exact sum the counties will receive is not yet known. But Hyde is confident the money is coming, and the Southwest Trail — named for an early 19th century network of routes connecting the St. Louis area to northeast Texas — is closer to reality.

The FLAP grant funds routes that connect federal landmarks. In the case of the three counties’ application, that is from Central High School to Hot Springs National Park. Pulaski County is well on its way, thanks to former Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines’ decision to buy up abandoned railroad lines in unincorporated areas.

The trail becomes problematic in Saline and Garland counties, where the rail right of ways are in private hands. In Saline County alone, County Judge Jeff Arey said, there are around 66 parcels with 30 different owners.

However, thanks to biking enthusiasts there, Saline County has also received a total of $1.3 million in Transportation Alternatives Program grants to

GOOD NEWS FOR CENTRAL ARKANSAS CYCLISTS: The Southwest Trail is one pedal closer to realization, thanks to engineering grant.

restore the abandoned 1891 Old River Bridge over the Saline River for bike and pedestrian traffic.

Meanwhile, Metroplan hopes to launch a bike share program this year for Little Rock and North Little Rock and has put out a request for proposals from private businesses to operate the program. The first phase of the project would ask the bike share provider to put between 50 and 150 bikes at 15 to 30 stations. The RFP states that “Depending on the level of private support generated, Metroplan, CLR [City of Little Rock] and NLR intend to have little or no financial obligation in the Phase One launch,” which would be the first three years of the program.

The RFP asks that the bike service provider propose fees, including reduced rates for low-income riders, and create a park-and-ride opportunity within the “focal area,” which will include the River Cities Center and areas of high density employment, parking and attractions. There is a May 18 deadline for RFPs. John Landosky, Little Rock’s BikePed coordinator, said the city is “reaching out” to businesses to support the bike share program in exchange for

branding opportunities. He said such programs have been successful in 140 communities.

Little Rock briefly had a bike share program, but the bikes were free and seldom returned. The bike share program envisioned now would require a fee to ride, like City Bikes in New York and elsewhere.

Little Rock still has some railroad bed that it is negotiating to buy from Union Pacific for the Southwest Trail, or whatever it will finally be called. A task force of residents from the three counties working on standards, such as width, signage, trailheads and sight lines, for the multiuse trail will also consider a name for the trail.

Little Rock’s segment of the Southwest Trail would be mostly on paved streets. The trail would pass through Interstate Park and on to Hilaro Springs, and would use boardwalks through the bottoms in the swampy areas of South Little Rock.

A 2015 study of the Southwest Trail corridor and its potential economic impact by the Alta Planning and Design firm out of Bentonville estimated a 65-mile trail would cost $33.3 million.

In Saline County, the trail would go

through Benton on a route roughly parallel to U.S. Highway 70. The Garland County portion, from Lonsdale to downtown Hot Springs, will probably be west of the Highway 70 corridor, along old state Highway 188 below Lake Hamilton, Hyde said, though that is far afield of the optimum route as originally conceived by the Alta study.

Hyde, who happens to be a cyclist himself, said the trail would be a perfect fit for a future TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant for construction.

Architect and cyclist Mason Ellis and others came up with the idea to create a trail to Hot Springs on abandoned railbed. “I am thrilled,” Ellis said of the news of the FLAP grant. “It would be such a great amenity to have for the whole region.” Ellis is a member of the bike task force.

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1) The Arkansas Legislature put rules in place to impeach a judge last week. Which of the following real Arkansas judges committed an offense that apparently rises to the level of judicial misconduct that merited establishing impeachment rules in the eyes of the legislature?

A) The judge who blew through a DWI checkpoint near Clarksville in January, then led State Police on a short, liquored-up chase before a trooper was forced to ram his car into the judge’s truck to end the pursuit.

B) The judge who, investigators say, spent years taking lewd photos of defendants who appeared in his court, and recruited some of the poorest and most desperate of them as paid sexual and sadomasochistic partners.

C) The judge who took a bribe in exchange for reducing a nursing home negligence verdict from $5.2 million to $1 million.

D) The judge who, on his own time and completely within the 1st Amendment’s protection of free speech, lay on a cot in front of the Governor’s Mansion while antideath-penalty protesters held signs nearby.

2) Arkansas cult leader Tony Alamo, who was convicted in 2009 of taking underage girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex, died in federal prison May 4. Which of the following were real incidents in his life?

A) Preached that UFOs were messengers from God. B) Ordered members of his church — who turned over the vast majority of their earnings to Alamo such that some had to dumpster-dive for food — to flush their toilets only every two or three days.

C) Refused to bury the embalmed body of his wife, Susan Alamo, for six months after she died of cancer in April 1982, believing she would be resurrected by prayer.

D) Told an Associated Press reporter in 2008 just before he was arrested on charges of child molestation: “Consent is puberty.”

E) Designed the studded, black leather jacket seen on the cover of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” album.

F) All of the above.

3) The Southwest Times-Record of Fort Smith recently published an expose on a bit of city business that Fort Smith would have probably wished to keep secret. What was it?

A) That at least six of the people on the 10-seat City Council are actually realistic cardboard cutouts.

B) That the city of Fort Smith is actually a figment of the colorful imagination of local eccentric Phineas Merkin IV. C) That, for months, bins full of recyclable materials put to the curb every week by residents had been taken to the local dump.

D) That the administrator of the Fort Smith dog pound took bribes in exchange for allowing shipments of contraband squeaky toys to pass through security.

4) The National Book Foundation recently announced that Little Rock native Alvin Irby is the winner of its Innovations in Reading Prize, which includes a $10,000 award. What does Irby plan to do with the money?

A) Buy members of the Arkansas Legislature some fifth-grade reading level books on law, math, the Bill of Rights, science and ethics. Because, damn.

B) Fund reading spaces for children in Little Rock barbershops.

C) Help bankroll a live-action film version of “Goodnight Moon,” with the red balloon to be played by James Franco.

D) Have an airplane circle the White House for three hours towing a banner that says: “READ A BOOK, WILL YA?” 5) In what will surely make for an epic “hold my beer and watch this” story some day, investigators say three inebriated men partying in Little Rock’s River Market district recently stole something rather unusual.

What was it?

A) A police horse.

B) Governor Hutchinson’s boxer shorts.

C) A live, 3-foot alligator, which they allegedly gator-napped after smashing a case at the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center.

D) A box full of Alcoholics Anonymous 1-Month Sobriety chips.

Answers: D, F, C, B, C

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DR. JANET CATHEY: Her work with transgender patients is, she says, the “most rewarding” of her career.

The real transgender crisis:

H E A LT H C A R E Finally, the doctor is in.

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hile Arkansas lawmakers were wringing their hands this past legislative session over what to do about genitalia sightings in bathroom stalls — a nonexistent problem that, had the legislation passed, would have required bearded, buff men to use the ladies’ room — doctors, medical students and activists were working to address a real problem: the dearth of health care for transgender individuals.

Nonscientific ideas about gender crowded out reason, as Republican state lawmakers like Sens. Linda Collins-Smith of Pocahontas and Gary Stubblefield of Branch and Reps. Bob Ballinger of Berryville, Mickey Gates of Hot Springs and Greg Standridge of Russellville promoted bills that would have required Arkansans to wear their original birth certificates around their necks and thrown people in jail if their nudity offended. Their actions, thankfully, were stopped by a businessminded Governor Hutchinson. But Hutchinson only stanched the flow of hurt that such ignorance surely set loose, the sort of bullying that drives 45 percent of transgender teenagers to attempt suicide.

Had legislators gotten their heads out of the stalls, they could have acted to help, rather than further marginalize, their fellow Arkansans. They could have changed state Medicaid rules that disallow reimbursement for hormone therapies. They could have appropriated funds to run the Department of Health’s suicide hotline. Or they could

have talked to physicians who would have helped them understand that transgendered people are not freaks, no more likely to prey on people than, say, redheads or Razorback fans.

ROWAN RODGERS, 27, is one of those burly, bearded guys that, had Collins-Smith’s bathroom bill passed, requiring folks to show original birth certificates at the bathroom door, would have been coming to a girls’ powder room near you. The Heber Springs man, born with the genital attributes of a woman but who as a toddler asked for boys’ underwear on a shopping trip with his father, praised Little Rock gynecologist Dr. Janet Cathey for making his life, and that of his fiance and two kids, better. “She’s a one of a kind,” he said.

Cathey, along with Drs. Sara Tariq and Sam Jackson are a few of the physicians working to provide better health care for transmen and transwomen, both in clinics and the classroom, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Cathey, an obstetrician/gynecologist, sees transgender patients in clinic one morning a week at UAMS. It’s work she said is the most rewarding of her life. She’s been treating transgender patients for most of her 30-year career, providing hormone therapy to transmen who, in the days before social media, learned of her willingness to help by word of mouth. It started shortly after she opened her practice, when a caller inquired if she’d provide testosterone

to a woman, “and I thought, ‘Why not?’ ” It grew from there.

“I get tearful thinking about it,” Cathey said. Her transgender patients “are the most appreciative patient population you could ever have. When you put someone on hormones, and they come in two months later for follow-up, and they say, ‘I’ve just had the best two months of my life … .’ ” That she feels bonded to her patients is obvious: She does tear up while she’s talking about them.

In 2009, Cathey injured her spine in an automobile accident and had to sell her practice. That left her transgender patients hanging. As she recuperated, she knew she didn’t want to retire. “I thought maybe I could do a gender clinic.

I knew there was a need,” she said. But how could she afford to set up a new practice?

Serendipitously, she ran into Dr. Curtis Lowery, chairman of UAMS’ department of obstetrics and gynecology. He asked her to help oversee the medical college’s residents’ clinic, and she agreed.

Cathey wasn’t the only doctor who saw a need for a gender clinic. A year into her work at UAMS, she was approached by mental health professionals about setting up a gender clinic.

With the same determination it took to get back on her feet again — she walks now with the help of braces and a cane — she went to Lowery and told him that’s what she and another OB/GYN wanted to do. “He said, ‘Just don’t lose a lot of

money.’ ” The administration allotted her two spots for gender patients. “I said, ‘Y’all just wait.’ ” There is now a four-month waiting list to be seen in the gender clinic: The two spots for appointments have stretched to a morning’s worth of appointments. She and Dr. Mary Racher “make about 60 patient contacts” a month. “We’ve seen, between the two of us, probably around 300 patients,” genetic females transitioning to males and genetic males transitioning to female, in the past two and a half years, Cathey said. Men get estrogen and androgen blockers. Women get testosterone. Transmen — the term for a genetically female person who is transitioning to male — can schedule hysterectomies and breast reduction surgery.

What does she think about legislative attempts to pass a bathroom bill?

“I promise you have peed next to a transperson plenty of times.”

RODGERS HAS BEEN a patient of Cathey’s since 2015. “I was very depressed when I went in there,” he said. “She knew it.”

But his hormone therapy lifted “a huge weight off my shoulders. When I took testosterone … [changes in my] energy level, my voice, it was like injecting life into myself. That’s the best way I can explain it. It was definitely lifechanging.”

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THOUGH SOME ARKANSAS legislators believe that men are men and women are women and never the twain shall meet, medicine knows that human gender is on a continuum.

As Arkansas Children’s Hospital endocrinologist Dr. Michele Hutchison explained it, there are several kinds of gender. There is chromosomal gender: one X and one Y for males and two Xs for females. There is hormonal gender: For example, boys born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome are born looking and identifying as female because their bodies don’t respond to testosterone. Boys with Reifenstein Syndrome —partial androgen insensitivity — may be born with either male or female genitalia and may identify as either male or female. There is something called testosterone transfer in fraternal twins, when the testosterone of the male fetus is transferred to the female fetus and makes the female masculine in genital and brain structure, etc. There is physiological gender: Whether there is a penis or a vagina. There is emotional gender: Whether you feel like a boy or a girl.

“It’s a complex system that goes into creating a child,” Hutchison said.

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having periods. “I was like, ‘wow.’ ” The relief and happiness that Rodgers experienced after the start of hormone therapy is common, though the reasons why have not been well studied. “There is something neurochemically going on,” Jackson, the Psychiatric Research Institute resident, said. It may be that the hormones resolve the emotional conflict that transpeople experience. Hormones “change the brain so it becomes correct. … It confirms to me that biologically, there is something there, activating the brain and the right receptors, [telling the brain] yes, this is the correct hormone situation I am supposed to be in.”

The hormones alter mood so much, Cathey said, that her patients can quit taking their antidepressants. “I’ve seen kids come in on SSRis (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and Abilify (an antipsychotic). They come in and they won’t make eye contact. In two or three months [after hormone therapy], they’re animated. It’s too much to think it’s not biological. They’re getting relief.”

They’re getting what they need, she said.

children and trans adults differ physiologically from non-trans persons, though the research “is in its infancy.”

Male and female brains differ in structure, chemistry and how information is processed. One study, a small brain imaging project, showed that the brains of transgender children acted like the brains of the sex with which the children identified — transmale brains looked male, transfemale brains looked female. “Of course, behavior and experience shape brain anatomy, so it is impossible to say if these subtle differences are inborn,” she said.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital, which has physicians on staff who address such things as ambiguous genitalia, is looking into creating a gender clinic, Hutchison said. Health care — especially mental health care, given the high attempted suicide rate — for children who identify

ROWAN RODGERS: His one regret is not telling his girlfriend sooner that he was transgender.

with a gender their bodies don’t reflect would be a good thing, she believes.

“The hospital treats children with diabetes, and adrenal issues and hyperthyroidism [for example]. We’re so good at it now. It’s a fantastic hospital. We’re so good at those things that we don’t lose kids. This is an area where we could quite literally save some lives,” Hutchinson said. “I have goose bumps” thinking about it, she said. She said clinics in Seattle, Los Angeles and Boston offer a model to look at.

BEFORE SHE TRANSITIONED, Michelle Palumbo moved to Salem (Fulton County) with her wife and four chil-

dren. She showed up with long hair, wearing earrings. Folks just attributed that to the fact that she was from New York.

But Palumbo had for a lifetime struggled with feelings of being a woman in a man’s body. She was a cross-dresser, and her wife was OK with that.

In 2008, after her third heart attack and after doctors told her she could die at any time, Palumbo made up her mind to transition. Because she had been a bench chemist, she made her own estrogen, a fact that she said made Cathey’s jaw drop when she finally went to her for proper medication two years ago. “If there is an angel on this earth,” it’s Cathey, Palumbo said.

“We are not freaks,” said Palumbo, 64. She considers people who think so “religious extremists”; by contrast, the member of Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church considers herself a “religious evangelical.” Palumbo also described herself as “ticked off” at the legislature, where she testified on various anti-transgender bills in the last session.

Palumbo moved to Little Rock in September after someone she’d confided in spread the word of her transition. (She’d been binding her breasts.)

Her high school daughter was getting teased at school; kids were asking, “What’s between your father’s legs?”

Palumbo said. Her wife stopped her from raising hell at the high school, and asked her to move out. The couple is now divorcing, though Palumbo said of her wife, “there’s no better person on earth.”

Palumbo is of the same generation as many of the legislators who don’t understand that there is such a thing as transgender identification. In fact, 30 years ago, she decided to go through conversion therapy. “I wanted to be a man,” she said, and her wife at the time had grown tired of Palumbo’s “internal battle of identity.” Palumbo said she would buy women’s clothes and wear them, and then decide to “purge that, be a man, then the cycle would start all over again.”

The psychiatrist Palumbo went to told her she could “cure her,” and prescribed more sex. After a year and a half, Palumbo realized there was no cure.

She researched transgender issues.

“I’m not a freak. I’m not nuts.”

Also because of her age, she believes,

DR. TARIQ, ASSISTANT dean for undergraduate education at UAMS’ College of Medicine, teaches the practice of medicine, a three-year course, to students in their second year: how to be compassionate, effective and “savvy.”

About seven or eight years ago, she introduced LGBT care into the course curriculum.

Not surprisingly, the LGBT community is underserved. “The patients are very vulnerable, and not just because they have to take their clothes off and let us poke around,” Tariq said. They are called on to reveal information about themselves that they have never told anyone else. She teaches her students “the most irresponsible thing you can do is ignore them.”

Many of UAMS’ medical students have never been knowingly exposed to members of the LGBT community. As part of the curriculum, Tariq brings in a panel of LGBT folks — most recently, two transgender persons, a lesbian and a gay man.

which he said was the largest in Southern California.

“I am a story-driven person,” Jackson said. “I really liked hearing the patients’ stories. … It just blew my mind.” The experience left him with a passion for working with the trans community, and when he returned, Tariq asked him to share his experiences with her students.

“We’ve done an OK job of talking about LGBT health in the past,” Jackson said. “We learn how to interview patients, take a sexual history and not be judgmental. It becomes a rote process … and makes it easier for you to ask [questions] in a nonjudgmental way.”

Now, Jackson is medical director for a clinic for transgender youths, the Rainbow Clinic, which meets quarterly at UAMS’ student-staffed 12th Street Health and Wellness Center. Lucie’s Place, a shelter for homeless LGBT youth, partners with UAMS for the Rainbow Center. Jackson also hopes to work with Cathey’s clinic to provide psychiatric care.

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Palumbo is less militant than younger people about getting pronouns right.

When a nurse who was looking down while Palumbo was signing in at the doctor’s office and, hearing her voice, addressed Palumbo as sir, the nurse became flustered and apologetic.

Palumbo told her not to worry. “I was upset because she was upset,” Palumbo said, laughing. (Palumbo’s voice is not generally deep, but on occasion it can change.)

Medical settings can be problematic, though not always because providers are uncomfortable with transgender people. Palumbo said her medical chart includes information that she is transgender, and at a recent appointment, the nurse who called her in for a heart procedure had a “stone cold” look on her face. Palumbo told her if she had a problem with her gender identity, she’d like to have another nurse, “but if you misgender me [use the wrong pronoun], I’m not going to be upset. Boom! Big smile.”

And another thing about coming out as an older person: “You have more guilt,” Palumbo said, wistfully. “You’ve made relationships with more people.

When you’re young, it’s not like that.”

“You can’t hold people responsible for what they don’t understand.”

One of the panelists told the assembled students that when he walks into a doctor’s office he looks around for signs that the clinic is friendly to gay people.

Even “as a brown woman in the South, that would never occur to me,” Tariq said. The panelists gave examples of bad treatment: Doctors referring them to psychiatrists, not to deal with depression, but because they believe them to be mentally ill. Doctors making no eye contact. Doctors referring them to other doctors because they are uncomfortable treating them. (Palumbo recounted the experience of a transgender friend who was upbraided by a doctor for coming in: “There are children here!” he was told, as if he were a pederast.)

Many transgender people choose to keep their body phenotype, espe-

MICHELLE PALUMBO: Had to leave her family and farm to protect her teenaged daughter from further teasing.

cially since surgery is both expensive and sometimes risky. That means pap smears and mammograms for transmen, prostate exams for transwomen.

It also means mammograms for transwomen, since estrogen stimulates real breast tissue. “My motive,” Tariq said, is to teach her students “to leave their biases at the door.”

Part of Tariq’s curriculum was contributed by Sam Jackson. In his fourth year of medical school, Jackson did a rotation in primary care for LGBT patients at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. There, he worked with the hospital’s transgender support group,

CATHEY HAS HEARD the stories, too.

She recited what a transmale told her: “I remember one of my earliest memories was I got out of Pull-Ups and was going to Walmart to get real underwear, and we go in the girls’ department and my mother picks out pink panties.

And I said, I want boy underwear.” An 18-year-old told her, “It wasn’t that I wanted to be a boy. It was that I knew I was a boy.” That patient’s mother told Cathey that as a child, every picture he drew of himself was as a boy, never as a girl.

“One patient who was transfemale said she was coming home from first grade and her mother asked, ‘How was your day?’ And the patient said, ‘This girl had on a pink dress and a pink bow and could I get a pink bow?’ And the mother said, ‘No, that’s not how God made you, you’re a boy.”

An older patient told Cathey that in her 30s she’d learned you could buy hormones over the counter in Mexico, and, as Cathey related, “I went over and picked out the highest dose of Premarin I could. It was like magic. The second time, the border patrol started questioning me.” She was too intimidated to continue. “Those were the best six months of my life,” the patient told Cathey.

“It really gets you,” Cathey said.

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Nobody would choose to be transgender. Palumbo said the same. “No guy would decide to be a woman. … Who would give up male privilege?”

DATING ALSO PRESENTS new issues for some transgender people, and they seek Cathey’s advice. When do they tell people they’re interested in about their transgender situation? “I don’t talk about my genitals on a first date,” Cathy said she tells them, “and you don’t have to, either.” She also tells them not to reveal anything at their

apartment or their friend’s.

One of Cathey’s patients, a transwoman, told her she’d come out to her parents as gay last Christmas, and was thinking of telling them she was transgender this Christmas. “So last year, they had a gay son and this year they have a heterosexual daughter?”

Cathey asked.

Rowan Rodgers, who’s been with his girlfriend for seven years, first as a lesbian woman, waited a couple of years before he told her he was transgender.

“I didn’t know how she’d react. We

have two children, and it’s just when you live in a world where you don’t know how people are going to take things … . You hear about people disowning their children. It’s just bad. If I have one regret, it’s not telling her sooner.

“At first, there were a lot of questions. It was a lot she had to take in.

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and so smart and the most accepting of a lot of people who I thought were my friends. They said, ‘You’re my dad and I love you.’ ” His parents, Rodgers said, “are a different story.” They call him by his “dead name,” which is what transgender people call the names given them at birth. “They tell me their daughter is dead.” Rodgers has tried to keep the relationship going. “So when they call and want to talk, I’m there. When they tell me they hate me, I turn the other cheek.”

CARING FOR THE transgender community has also required that Cathey become a social worker of sorts. She’s made her nurse a notary to help with legal documents, and helps her patients navigate the process of changing birth certificates, which requires a name change and a letter from a physician.

One of those persons she’s helped changed a birth certificate was Rodgers. “I was lucky,” Rodgers said. “I got a very nice lady” at the health department’s vital records office. Now, Rodgers always keeps his birth certificate with him. “I’m always scared I’m going to be hassled.”

Cathey and her patients have struggled with Medicaid, and Cathey is fearful the current political situation will make things harder for her transgender patients, many of whom rely on Medicaid because of the barriers to work that an anti-transgender society presents.

Medicaid will cover top surgery — mastectomy — once a transman has begun to transition and the sex on his birth certificate has been corrected, because at that point, the condition is considered gynecomastia — male breasts. But it wouldn’t pay for Rodgers’ testosterone.

“Reassignment surgery male to female,” Cathey estimated, “is about $50,000, but that’s nothing compared to a total hip replacement.” She hears people complain their insurance shouldn’t have to pay for gender reassignment. To them she would say, “Well, you know what, I don’t want to pay for your hip surgery.”

Rodgers has found a pharmacy in Heber Springs that charges him a reasonable price for testosterone. He’s also had top surgery and a hysterectomy.

“Right now, I’m not planning to have any other surgery. I’m fine. The breasts bothered me and having a period every month.”

Rodgers is looking forward to summer. “This is the first year I get to go out and swim. That’s a beautiful thing.”

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he music of Cherry Hill, Arkansas, native Bob Dorough will not sit still. The funky educational tunes he penned for “Schoolhouse Rock!” came to life with 1976 Bicentennial-era animation, shrill pennywhistles, explosion sounds and fact-filled interludes, and his studio albums sizzled with swing and forward momentum — music made for clinking glasses and twirling around with a raucous friend or two. So, it caught me a little off guard when I walked into The Afterthought in 2011 to hear the legend and found a roomful of people frozen in their chairs, eyes and ears fixed unwaveringly on Dorough at the piano. Even at his age — he’s 93 now — the hipster gestures and quips and laughs easily, his mind kept sharp from decades of playing bebop rhythms and complex chord modulations. He’ll perform at 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, in the Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater as part of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Arkansas Sounds series with the polished Ted Ludwig Trio as his backing band.

You said once that you wanted to be Igor Stravinsky, but instead, you’re “just Bob Dorough.” I, for one, am glad you’re not Igor Stravinsky, but that said, what is it about his work that made you say this?

I was studying all kinds of music — classical before I studied jazz, even — and I’ve just admired Stravinsky. He had a great work ethic. A lot of people laughed at him. They used to say he had manuscript paper on the wall, and he would get up in the morning and start in the east wall and fill up a page, then go to the north wall, do another page, west wall. Come hell or high water, he was gonna do his pages. And then he had lunch. (Laughs).

Could you tell me about your middle name, Lrod? I understand your aunt suggested it, and it’s pretty unusual.

Yes, it is. I never got old enough to ask her about it, I think she died when I was young, but my mother said, “She said that’s the way it’s spelled.’” I had to be careful in high school because if they found out, they’d kid me. They’d say, “Eeeehhhhlllll-Rod!” I could’ve been a rock star if I’d stuck with Lrod and gone to Nashville instead of New York.

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‘Electricity, Electricity’ A Q&A with Bob Dorough.

BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE

‘NO MORE, NO LESS’: Jazz pianist and “Schoolhouse Rock!” mastermind Bob Dorough performs Friday with the Ted Ludwig Trio as part of the Arkansas Sounds series, 7 p.m., Ron Robinson Theater, $5-$15.

Your cadence on the “Schoolhouse Rock!” stuff is a little straighter, rhythmically, less lilting and less wandering. Was that a conscious effort on your part, since you were writing for children?

The beats were 2/4, even eighth notes.

In jazz, everything’s triplets, and the gentleman wanted me to write “Multiplication Rock,” like rock ’n’ roll music. Even though it wasn’t real rock, I was sticking to a simplified up-and-down rhythm instead of my style in jazz, which is more of a swing style. It was a different music and a different beat, so I sang it that way.

I couldn’t take too many liberties — every song had to be three minutes! No more, no less.

You took a lot more freedom with your own stuff, like “This Is a Recording of Pop Art Songs by Bob Dorough.”

You recite “found lyrics” verbatim from a draft card notice, a weather report, a recipe for apple pie and the definition of the word “love” from “Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, la la la la la.”

As far as inspiration, it was another person that brought the idea to me. ...

Andy Warhol was on his mind, I think.

Even Picasso would pick up a piece of driftwood and after a few minutes, it would become art.

A lot of people may not know that you spent some time acting. Did you ever think of that as a possibility for a second career, or was it just for fun? Or for a paycheck?

Well, I lived in L.A. for a while, and I did my kind of singing. You know, mostly all alone, just piano and voice in a little club or coffeehouse. A lot of actors would come by and listen to me. Eventually, they might say something like, “Do you have an agent?” And I’d say, “No, no, no, I don’t have an agent.” They sent me on a couple of readings, where you read and if they like you, they’ll hire you. I got in an episode of “Have Gun, Will Travel.” with Richard Boone, and I played a bad man with James Coburn, who was a pal of mine. ... Later on, Tommy Wolf begged me to be in his new musical with Fran Landesman called “A Walk on the Wild

Side,” based on a Nelson Algren novel. I always say it was typecasting; I played an ignorant teenager in Texas.

Songs like “Three Is a Magic Number,” and “Electricity, Electricity” are credited with introducing generations of kids, myself included, to important concepts like multiplication, science and grammar, and is definitely considered sort of a success story in terms of getting kids to “eat their spinach.”

How do you feel about the political climate — the prospect of cutting government funding for PBS, for example, or Obama’s “Let Girls Learn” programs.

Well, that’s terrible. Of course, I didn’t vote for Donald Trump, and I’m watching more news lately than I ever have in my life, just trying to see what the hell is going on. I deplore most of the moves he makes. Of course, there’s not too much I can do about it personally at my age now.

So, I keep hoping something will happen and he’ll disappear.

In an interview with NPR in 2013, you mentioned a song you wrote for “Schoolhouse Rock!” that was never picked up, called “Grammar’s Not Your Grandma, It’s Your Grammar.”

What was it about?

It was about the words that you might meet in grammar class, you know. Like, “Syntax doesn’t mean send money to the government. It’s your syntax. You know the order of the words!” I wrote several songs, Stephanie, that they never bought.

I had one on the square. [sings] I made little boxes one by one/I used one square and it was fun Made little boxes two by two/four squares and I was through Made little boxes three by three/Nine squares filled it up nicely ...well, it goes on and on.

You should release them on an album!

Bob Dorough’s B-sides.

“Songs They Didn’t Buy.”

Visit arkansassounds.org to purchase tickets to see Bob Dorough in concert 7 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Ron Robinson Theater, $15 for people 13 and older and discounted to $5 (Dorough’s idea) for kids 12 and under.

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A&E NEWS AS ARTS ORGANIZATIONS and performance venues finalized plans for their 201718 seasons, concert announcements rolled in this week. Here are a few highlights to mark on your calendars: Riverfest announced the lineup for its Sunday, June 4, festivities, the culmination of the festival’s 40th anniversary. Along with the fireworks display, two stages will host staggered performances from Amasa Hines, 7:30 p.m.; Morris Day and The Time, 7:15 p.m.; Here Come the Mummies, 5:45 p.m.; Andy Frasco and the U.N., 5:30 p.m.; Big Piph & Tomorrow Maybe, 4:30 p.m., The Hip Abduction, 4:15 p.m. and more. The two-day music festival kicks off Friday, June 2, and features performances from Wiz Khalifa, Cold War Kids, Justin Moore, Seratones, Cage the Elephant and locals The Wildflower Revue, Dazz & Brie, Runaway Planet, DeFrance and more. See riverfestarkansas.com for details and tickets.

Verizon Arena announced Chris Stapleton’s return to Little Rock on Nov. 16 for the “All American Road Show,” featuring Marty Stuart and Brent Cobb, as well as a muchanticipated drop-in from Janet Jackson on Sept. 16 for her “State of the World” tour. See verizonarena.com for tickets and details.

Hank Williams Jr. gives a concert at the Walmart AMP in Rogers, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 15. Tickets go on sale May 12 at amptickets.com.

The Oxford American magazine announced the lineup for its 13-concert season at South on Main, which includes Rodney Crowell, Aug. 26; The Secret Sisters, Sept. 21; Fantastic Negrito, Nov. 9; jazz trombonist Steve Turre’s Latin Jazz All-Stars, Dec. 7; Birds of Chicago, May 10, 2018; and more. See metrotix.com or call 800-293-5949 for tickets.

The Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville announced its “West Street Live” series lineup, including the Hot Club of Cowtown, Sept. 28; Joe Ely, Oct. 19; and Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame) March 31, 2018. Call 479-443-5600 or go to waltonartscenter.org/west-street-FY18/ for tickets.

The Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center at the University of Arkansas will cap off its season with a one-man multimedia celebration of the life of Woody Guthrie Saturday, May 5, called “Hard Travelin’ with Woody.” See faulkner.uark. edu for tickets and details.

Food Network star Alton Brown takes his “Eat Your Science” tour to the Robinson Center Performance Hall on Nov. 18. See ticketmaster.com for tickets.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘MR. BLUE SKY’: With a jewel of a soundtrack, stunning eye candy and an all-star cast, James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” sets a high bar for summer blockbuster contenders.

Star power ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ goes lighter, brighter.

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ames Gunn, the director and writer of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” waits only as long as the opening credits sequence to announce he’s playing for keeps. We find the Guardians — Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax and Rocket — bracing on a floating neon platform on some distant planet for an attack from a gnarly space monster. They bicker over whether it’s worth the effort for Rocket to set up a stereo system to play music while they fight. (Quill, for once, says no to tunes; Rocket, just trying to do something nice, is of course fiddling with the equipment.) New to the mix is Baby Groot, the adorable toddler version of the hulking tree-hero who was nearly obliterated at the end of the first film. Anyway, a giant flailing octopus shark blob arrives, the Guardians all charge in to attack and Baby Groot hooks up the tunes: ELO’s upbeat-to-

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the-point-of-high 1978 rock hit “Mr. Blue Sky.” For the rest of the virtuoso sequence, the frame stays with Baby Groot, blithely grooving along as credits flicker past unnoticed and the space monster’s tentacles pummel the rest of the heroes.

The first “Guardians” arrived in 2014 as an antidote to superhero films that had become tendentious even within the relatively cheery Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then, DC’s offerings disappointed by tilting toward the relentlessly grim (hopes are somewhat higher for “Wonder Woman,” arriving in a few weeks) and “Deadpool” became an unlikely $800 million worldwide smash by going even sillier, snottier and naughtier.

This installment of “Guardians” manages to hit just about every tone on the spectrum, with grisly space deaths and a surprising amount of killing set

against Looney Tunes-style physical comedy and a barrage of quips. It does just about everything you could ask from a brash, sprawling comics adventure movie. There won’t be a better crowd-pleasing blockbuster all summer.

Again we get Chris Pratt as Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, a human and smalltime interplanetary hustler who somehow tumbled into the big leagues when he bumbled into the ferocious and aloof Gamora (Zoe Saldana, ever in green- or blue-face); a maniacal genius cyborg wisecracking raccoon in Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper, who is having a blast); and Drax, a hyper-literal and definitely on-thespectrum alien warrior (Dave Bautista, wrestler turned comedy genius). Vin Diesel on helium is your show-stealing Baby Groot, again saying only, “I am Groot.” You also get strong turns from Michael Rooker as the blue-roguewith-a-heart-of-gold Yondu; Karen Gillan as Gamora’s estranged hate-fueled, partial-cyborg sister Nebula; and Pom Klementieff as Mantis, a gentle empath creature who works for Star-Lord’s dad. Oh, right, we get to meet his dad!

It’s Kurt Russell, and he’s some sort of demigod with great hair and shifty intentions. He also has big thoughts

on the deeper metaphors of “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl),” which he thinks might be Earth’s finest-ever musical work. This movie is ridiculous, and ridiculously well cast.

Only in hindsight do you realize there’s not just a whole ton of plot at work here. Every action is predicated on family drama (Quill vs. Rocket, Gamora vs. Nebula, Quill vs. his dad, Yondu vs. his crew of space pirates) that spills into greater conflict. Dazzling special effects and kickass ’70s classic rock soundtrack aside (including possibly the best-ever use of Fleetwood Mac in a film). Whether you cotton to a tongue-in-cheek comic-book space romp depends wholly on whether you dig the dialogue and the characters.

This is sci-fi minus the sci-, after all, “Star Trek” that did whippits instead of sitting through physics. On this count, better than any other films of Marvel or DC or, hell, even recent-vintage “Star Wars,” the Guardians films have built out likable, distinct characters you want to spend time with. They’re so delightfully daft and so fully imagined that you just want to wind them up and watch them fend off aliens while cracking wise and rocking out to the same music your parents made out to in a back seat, once upon a time.

ALSO IN THE ARTS, CONT. “ROUGH NIGHT AT THE REMO ROOM.” The Main Thing’s two-act musical comedy. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., through June 17. $24. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse.

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“FRANKENSTEIN.” A studio production of Mary Shelley’s tragedy from the Arkansas Arts Center’s Children’s Theatre. 7 p.m. Wed.-Thu., 7 p.m. Sat.-Sun., through May 14. $8-$10. Arkansas Arts Center, 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000.

“RAPUNZEL.” Keith Smith’s Children’s Theatre adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. 7 p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. Sat.Sun., through May 14. $10-$12.50. Arkansas Arts Center, 501 E. 9th St. 501372-4000.

“LIFE IS SHORT.” Community Theater of Little Rock’s production of a collection of short plays from Craig Pospisil. 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun., through May 21. $14-$16. 320 W. 7th St. 501-4102283.

“THE DINGDONG.” Mark Shanahan’s adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s French farce “Le Dindon.” A TheatreSquared production. 7:30 p.m.

Wed.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sat.-Sun., through June 4. $15-$45. Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.

“IN THE BLOOD.” The Weekend Theater’s production of Suzan Lori-Parks’ adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun., through May 21. $12-$16.

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ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “56th Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition,” May 16-July 23; “Drawing on History: National Drawing Invitational Retrospective,” works from the permanent collection, through Sept. 24. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Jonesboro: “2017 Senior Exhibition,” Bradbury Museum, through May 12.

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ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff: “Rhythm, Rhymes and Young Artists of the Delta,” through July 8; “Resilience,” printmaking by Emma Amos, Vivian Browne, Camille Billops, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Samella Lewis, and Rosalind Jeffries, through July 8. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 1-4 p.m.

Sat. 870-536-3375.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Historic Bridges of Arkansas,” photographs by Maxine Payne and Robert Scoggin, opens with reception 5-8 p.m. May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night; “The American Red Cross in Arkansas,” artifacts covering 100 years, through July 1; “Bruce Jackson: Cummins Prison Farm,” photographs, West Gallery, through May 27, “The American Dream Deferred: Japanese American Incarceration in WWII Arkansas,” objects from the internment camps, Concordia Gallery, through June 24. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Ex-

hibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement.

9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: “Xtreme Bugs,” animatronic insects, through July 23; permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 adults, $8 seniors, retired military and college students, $6 youth 6-17, free to active military and children under 6.

CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way, Bentonville: “Spotlight Talk” by Jose Diaz, curator of the Andy Warhol Museum, 7-8 p.m. May 18, free, register online; “Roy Lichtenstein in Focus,” five large works, through July; “Pioneering Directors of African Cinema,” movies, through May 29; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479418-5700.

ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “Take Your Purse With You: The Reimagined Work of Katherine Strause,” paintings, through Aug. 27; “What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags,” permanent exhibit.

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sun. $10, $8 for students, seniors and military. 916-9022.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Gloria Garfinkel: Vibrancy of Form,” etchings, painted aluminum and oil on canvas, through June 18; “Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad,” through May 28.

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FRIDAY 5/12

BIG DAM HORNS

8 p.m. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse, Argenta. $5.

The Big Dam Horns, a winds and percussion collective formed in 2012 by students at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, is especially skilled at luring wallflowers onto the dance floor. If you’ve ever heard the Horns at a wedding reception or a festival, you’ve seen this in action. Sam and Dave purists shove their too-cool-for-school attitudes into their pockets and pipe in on “Hold on! I’m comin’!” People discover they know more words

to The Ides of March’s “Vehicle” than they thought. People discover their moms and aunties know the words to Ginuwine’s “Pony.” The Big Dam Horns is a party band that can actually throw a party, and it will do just that at The Joint this Friday night. Atlanta’s Sweetwater Brewery wages a “tap takeover,” featuring the brewery’s Sweetwater Blue, a blueberry wheat; a pineapple IPA called “Goin’ Coastal”; and the second release from the brewery’s small-batch Hatchery Series, a Mexican lager brewed with El Dorado hops. SS

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‘IN THE BLOOD’ FRYERS FORD BRIDGE: Maxine Payne’s photograph of the 1890 bridge in Conway County is part of the “Bridges of Arkansas” show at the Butler Center Galleries.

FRIDAY 5/12

2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT

5-8 p.m. Downtown galleries.

Free.

Possibly the most diverse 2nd Friday Art Night ever is nigh: Jugglers. Photographs of historic icons.

Images on paper made with the artist’s own cotton. Porcelain snuggled up to concrete. Sewing. Prints.

The Historic Arkansas Museum opens “Traces Remain,” an exhibition by installation artist/ceramist Dawn Holder and painter/papermaker Melissa Cowper-Smith, and “Portraits of Friends” by Dani Ives, while serving up Superior Bathhouse Brewery beer and live music. The Old State House is hosting Arkansas Circus Arts — with aerialists, stilt walkers, acrobats and the aforementioned jugglers — and the Butler Center Galleries

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open an exhibition of photographs, “Historic Bridges of Arkansas,” by Maxine Payne. There will be music

by BantuNauts Raydio there, too.

The Cox Creative Center features oil paintings by Amily Miori in a show called “Phenomenal Anomaly Amily,” and the Arkansas Capital Corp. hosts the Arkansas Society of Printmakers show “Print Make!”

McLeod Fine Art is showing “Just the Way Things Are,” figurative drawings and paintings by Jeremy Couch. Those who like to wield scissors will want to head over to Bella Vita (523 S. Louisiana St.) for a “Cut & Stitch Workshop” with Erin Lorenzen (register @bitly.com/ erinlorenzen). That’s a lot to cram into three hours, so start promptly at 5 p.m. Get a lift on the rubberwheeled trolley for free. LNP

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7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 2:30 p.m.

Sun. The Weekend Theater. $12$16.

In an essay called “Possession,” playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog”) gives a sort of artist statement. “Since history is a recorded or remembered event, theatre, for me, is the perfect place to ‘make’ history,” she wrote. “That is, because so much of African-American history has been unrecorded, disremembered, washed out, one of my tasks as a playwright is to — through literature and the special strange relationship between theatre and real life — locate the ancestral burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones sing, write it down.”

Presumably, that was her guiding light with “In the Blood,” a take on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” set in New York, where our Hester Prynne — now “Hester, La Negrita” — is a mother of five trying to raise her children under a bridge.

Parks doesn’t sugarcoat the effects of poverty, racism and misogyny on Hester’s declining prospects — the play was originally titled “Fucking A” and calls for the word “SLUT” to appear scrawled across the play’s backdrop or floor, an insult meant

for Hester, but lost on her because she can’t read. She’d probably balk, though, at the implication that the play is bound to a single message about social justice or problematic notions about upward mobility in contemporary America. “It’s insulting when people say my plays are about what it’s about to be black — as if that’s all we think about, as if our life is about that,” she said in an interview with Alisa Solomon.

“My life is not about race. It’s about being alive. … Why does everyone think that white artists make art and black artists make statements?”

The Weekend Theater’s production of the play stars Shamber Uzah as Hester; Braxton O. Johnson as both Hester’s oldest son, Jabber, and her former lover, Chilli; Chad Fulmer as Reverend D. and Baby; Zelenka Hurts Gibson as The Welfare Lady and Bully; Aaron Harris as The Doctor and Trouble; and Charmaine Foster as Amiga Gringa and Beauty.

In partnership with The Weekend Theater, Three Fold Dumplings at 215 Center St. offers a pre-theater, prix fixe meal of two noodle bowls, a dumpling bowl, choice of slaw, a bag of sesame balls and two drinks for $29.79 to patrons who can show their same-day ticket stub. SS

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THURSDAY 5/11 Central Arkansas Rescue Effort for Animals (CARE) hosts “Paws on the Runway: Haute Dog” at Next Level Events, 6 p.m., $65-$100. The Old State House Museum hosts Arkie Pub Trivia at Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m., free.

The Loony Bin introduces “Tales from the Mouth,” a local comedy showcase with comics riffing on pre-assigned topics like this week’s “Rage and Karma,” 7:30 p.m., $10. Christine DeMeo plays an acoustic show at The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. The Arkansas Travelers take on the Springfield Cardinals at Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 5:30 p.m. Sat., 2:10 p.m. Sun., $7-$13. Two teams of comedians face off for The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse’s Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., $5. Nerd Eye Blind takes the stage at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5.

FRIDAY 5/12

BRAND NEW KNIFE: Bubblegum-punk rockers Shonen Knife stop at Low Key Arts in Hot Springs as part of the 36-year-old trio’s 2017 USA Ramen Adventure Tour.

FRIDAY 5/12

SHONEN KNIFE

8 p.m. Low Key Arts. $12-$15.

“Let’s all get up and dance to a song. It gets you feelin’ very nice.

You can have a strange hair cut.

There’ll be something different in your life.” Shonen Knife is back, and the trio’s three members are wearing shiny silver Pantsuits of the Future and encouraging you to “jump into a new world, challenge yourself, yeah, yeah.” They are also, in the spirit of their 2017 U.S. Ramen Adventure Tour, taking some of their down time to review ramen in the cities they visit. (Fingers crossed they try the $5.55 ramen bowl at Coby’s

in the Arkansas Heart Hospital — maybe it’ll inspire them to come back here soon.) The band, which famously inspired Kurt Cobain to sign it on as Nirvana’s opening act after hearing it in L.A. in 1991, has made it its business to celebrate the cheerier things in life with songs about mushroom hunting, cats, rockets, popcorn, rubber bands, imagined battles between a cobra and a mongoose, cotton candy clouds, paper clips, mayonnaise addictions and neon zebras. It does it with solid pop, Shangri-La-style backup vocals and a firm belief that happy music is punk rock, as founding member Naoko Yamano told Orange

County Weekly: “I’d like to be different from other bands. Doing [things] different is rock, isn’t it? ... I want people to be happy through our music. That’s why I write songs about our favorite things, like food or animals.”

Naoko and her sister, Atsuko, have been part of the band’s lineup since 1981, and they’re joined by a new drummer, Risa Kawano. This concert, opened by a set from St. Louis’ Bruiser Queen, benefits Garland County students traveling to Hanamaki, Japan, Hot Springs’ Sister City, as part of the Sister City Educational Exchange. SS

SATURDAY 5/13

QUAPAW QUARTER ASSOCIATION CANDLELIGHT TOUR AND DINNER

4:30 p.m. tour, 6:45 p.m. dinner, Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. $125.

The QQA’s 53rd Spring Tour of Homes, the preservation organization’s spring fundraiser, opens six historic homes, all west of Broadway, to the public this year: the Redding House (1716 S. Gaines St.),

the Theo Sanders House (1907 S. Gaines), the Samuel Scull House (2300 State St.), the Xenophon Overton Pindall House (2000 Arch St.), the Martin-Tunnah-Fulk House (1910 Arch St.) and the Hemingway House (1720 Arch St.). A couple stops will have champagne and appetizers, as will the Turner Mann House domicile of Chuck Cliett and Jay Barth at 1711 Center St., next to the Governor’s Mansion. The dinner includes a silent auction of works

by Little Rock artist John Kushmaul; Cliett and Barth will host an afterparty “digestif.”

Dinner dress is business casual or cocktail party, but the QQA asks that ladies leave the high heels at home to protect the floors of the historic homes. (Maybe you can whip them out just for the event at the mansion, which has surely supported a heel or two.) Buy tickets at Eventbrite or call 371-0075, ext. 4, for more information. LNP

Cantrell Gallery hosts a reception for the exhibition “Arkansas: From the Tops to the Bottoms,” works by Daniel Coston, 5 p.m. Richard Johnson plays the happy hour at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, followed by Ramona & The Soul Rhythms, 9 p.m., $5. St. Joseph’s Farm celebrates its spring planting with “Lettuce Grow,” a fundraiser featuring food from Matt Bell, a book signing with gardener Janet Carson and art from Kevin Kresse, V.L. Cox, Jennifer Wilson, Steven Rockwell and others, 6 p.m., $50. Jeff Coleman plays the happy hour at EJ’s Eats and Drinks, 6 p.m., free. Vino’s hosts an early Friday night show with Sabine Valley, Zombie Birdhouse and Wild Yam, 7 p.m., $7.

Club 27 in the River Market district hosts “Bailamos with Village Montessori,” an evening of salsa to benefit the school, with food from The Southern Gourmasian, 7 p.m., $40-$80. Paul Hooper entertains at The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. Adam Faucett fills the space at The Undercroft at Christ Episcopal Church with some powerful vocals, 8 p.m., $10. Tyler Kinchen and The Right Pieces perform for the 15th annual Empty Bowls event, a benefit for the Arkansas Foodbank, at the Statehouse Convention Center, 7 p.m., $125. Daniel Bennett plays a solo acoustic show at The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. The Cadillac Three take their raucous country rock to the Revolution Room, with opening sets from Sam Riggs and Hannah Dasher, 8:30 p.m., $20. DuWayne Burnside (North Mississippi Allstars, Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys) performs at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10.

Kevin Kerby takes his time-honored rock outfit Mulehead to South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. Tulsa punk rockers The Shame take the stage at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $6.

SATURDAY 5/13

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TACOS & TIANGUIS

6 p.m. The Bernice Garden. Free.

TO MAKE IS TO BE HUMAN: The Bryant Middle School Robotics Teams are among the vendors at this year’s North Little Rock Mini Maker Faire, to be held on the North Shore Riverwalk.

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For those in the Central Arkansas immigrant community, the volunteers at El Zocalo Immigrant Resource Center meet needs that social services programs are often too overextended or ill-equipped to do. They connect clients with English language classes at Dee Brown Public Library and elsewhere,

hold workshops on nutrition and wellness and household finances, operate a pantry for those who need immediate access to food or household supplies and answer a hotline to connect callers with legal resources. El Zocalo means “town square” and tianguis (pronounced ti-AN-geese) means “open-air market” in Spanish. For this tianguis, there will be crafts like jewelry and handbags as

well as henna tattoos and art for a family-friendly day in the garden. You’ll be able to sample some of what El Zocalo co-founder and director Kelsey Lam says always “steals the show” — the food. Taco plates will be available for around $10, with tamales and sweets to try. All proceeds go to support El Zocalo’s programs and the clients the nonprofit serves. SS

MINI MAKER FAIRE

10 a.m. North Shore Riverwalk. Free.

Dubbed “The Greatest Show [& Tell] On Earth” by its Bay Area creators, the Mini Maker Faire is essentially a show & tell — a chance for inventive types to show other people what they do and why they care about it, whether that’s an Android app or a jar of fermented kohlrabi. To make is to be human, the Faire’s ethos goes. As Maker Movement crusader and former “Mythbusters” star Adam Savage states eloquently on the Faire’s website: “Humans do two things that make us unique from all other animals; we use tools and we tell stories. And when you make something, you’re doing both at once.” As a satellite to the three flagship Maker Faires in Chicago, the Bay Area and New York City, North Little Rock’s creative convening is happening on the North Shore Riverwalk and, so far, includes an open source video game called “Coldest: Absolute Zero”; Rock City Thumps, a guy who makes audio speakers and equipment out of things like guitars and suitcases; Viva Vegan, a 100 percent vegan Mexican kitchen; Sock Monster Problems, Christina Massingill’s sock creature creations; a build area with loose Legos from ArkLUG, the Arkansas Lego Users Group; a 3D printer pen station from NWA3D; an interactive robotics display from the Bryant Middle School Robotics Teams; a giant version of the game Settlers of Catan; and food and beverages from The WunderBus, Blackhound B-B-Q, Fork in the Road, Kona Ice, Bragg’s Big Bites, Flyway Brewing Co., Loblolly Creamery, Katmandu Momo, Diamond Bear Brewery and Stone’s Throw Brewery. Everything is organized into different “worlds” — “Tech World,” “Education World,” “Flying World,” “Awesome World,” “Beer World” — for easy perusing. Check the full lineup at northlittlerock.makerfaire. com. SS 26

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‘IT’S CALLED A DANCE FLOOR’: Lucie’s Place screens the 2016 documentary “Strike a Pose,” which follows the lives of the dancers from Madonna’s 1990 “Blond Ambition” Tour.

SATURDAY 5/13

‘STRIKE A POSE’

6:30 p.m. The Public Theatre. $15.

In a late ’80s audition announcement from the DeMann Entertainment Co., a call was made for dancers to accompany Madonna on her 1990 “Blond Ambition” tour, famously chronicled in the documentary “Truth or Dare.” “Open audition for FIERCE male dancers,” it read, “who know the meaning of TROOP STYLE, BEAT BOY and VOGUE. Wimps and Wanna-Bes need not apply!” This movie, “Strike a Pose” (2016), is about the seven

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dancers who made the cut: Kevin Stea, Carlton Wilborn, Luis Xtravaganza Camacho, Jose Gutierez Xtravaganza, Salim Gauwloos, Oliver S Crumes III and Gabriel Trupin.

The film, directed by Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan, premiered last year at the Berlin International Film Festival. It follows six of those seven men through the 25 years that have elapsed since the tour. (Trupin died in 1995 of complications from AIDS and is represented in the movie by his mother, Sue.) No doubt because of legal chaos surrounding the release of “Truth or Dare” (Trupin begged Madonna not to use a scene

in which he kisses Gauwloos on a dare, and sued her when the scene made it into the film), Madonna is present only in archival footage.

This story’s about the troupe and their struggle to maintain balance in their personal lives as suddenly famous gay men (except Crumes III, who’s straight) during the postReagan, AIDS-epidemic era. The screening will benefit Lucie’s Place, a nonprofit that provides shelter and resources for LGBTQ young adults in Central Arkansas, and is sponsored by Stone’s Throw Brewing and the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. SS

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Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 film inserted the phrases “flux capacitor” and “Great Scott!” into the popular lexicon, made the DeLorean the most coveted ride of 1985, and managed to become a family favorite despite some occasional profanity and a plot that hinged on a nearOedipal pretext. Along with it, the grandiose score from Alan Silvestri (“Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and “Forrest Gump”) raced through the heads of kids atop Schwinns everywhere, helping them mentally transform their bikes into renegade time machines. The Arkansas Sym-

phony Orchestra is playing that score in its entirety, live and in synch with a screening of the film, which will be projected behind the orchestra on a highdefinition screen in the Robinson Center Performance Hall. Silvestri’s added 20 minutes of new music especially for these live orchestral performances, and notes his excitement about his score’s revival in a quote excerpted on the ASO’s program notes: “Unlike Doc Brown, I could never have dreamed that I would have the opportunity to set the time circuits back to 1985 and have the chance to relive the excitement of the arrival of ‘Back To The Future.’ ” SS

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Buh Jones plays for the pre-party crowd at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, followedPRINT

by Shannon Boshears, 9 p.m., $5. AmyJo Savannah gives an intimate concert at The Preserved Moose, 8 p.m., donations. Vocalist Bijoux pays homage to some influential divas with “Bijoux: A Salute to Queens,” 9 p.m., South on Main, $15. Shangela (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”) sits in on the judge’s panel for the season finale of Club Sway’s “Fresh Fish” competition, $27-$63. For the Fallen Dreams of Lansing, Mich., Varials of Philadelphia and Deadships of Chicago join locals Census and All Is At An End for a show at Vino’s, 8 p.m., $13. The Foul Play Cabaret burlesque troupe tantalizes at The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., $10. Lypstyck Hand Grenade performs at Thirst N’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., $5. CosmOcean takes its theatrical rock set to Dugan’s Pub, with an opening set from Just Cuz, 9 p.m., free. Austin guitarist and songwriter Ian Moore returns to Little Rock for a show at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. Fort Worth psychedelic group Spoonfed Tribe brings its visually enhanced show to Stickyz, with Motherfunkship, 9 p.m., $7. Tragikly White brings dance tunes to the floor at the Rev Room, 9:30 p.m., $10.

SUNDAY 5/14 Stone’s Throw Brewing hosts a Mother’s Day Vinyl Brunch, with food from SoGo Bistro, 11 a.m. ArkansasStaged holds a special Mother’s Day reading of George Brant’s “Grounded” at 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville, 7 p.m., $5 suggested donation. R&B singer Slim (of 112) headlines the Little Rock Jam Session at Stickyz, 8 p.m., $25. Amber Bullock, Nicky Parrish and Crissy P join forces for “Ladies’ Night Out” at South on Main, 9 p.m., $20.

LAST SEVEN DAYS: The next film in the Arkansas Times Film Series is David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.”

TUESDAY 5/16

‘TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME’ 7 p.m. Riverdale 10 Cinema. $8.50.

Some things are probably better left to the imagination: what happens to a compact disc when you microwave it for 10 seconds (looks cool, smells awful), what McCall’s recipe for Ham and Bananas Hollandaise tastes like, what might happen if Obamacare were replaced by Trump’s American Health Care Act. For many fans of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks,” this list would also include the events of the last seven days of Laura Palmer’s life, as detailed in the 1992 prequel to the television series. The film got Lynch booed at Cannes and elicited critical commentary like “It’s not the worst movie ever made.

It just seems to be,” from Vincent Canby of The New York Times. In an interview

with Jurgen Muller, Lynch confessed his reasons for making it. “I couldn’t get myself to leave the world of Twin Peaks,” he said. “I was in love with the character of Laura Palmer and her contradictions: radiant on the surface but dying inside. I wanted to see her live, move and talk.” Perceptions have changed, though, and “Fire Walk With Me” has come to be appreciated for its memorable imagery and composer Angelo Badalamenti’s score, as well as for the all-or-nothing performances Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise turned in. If you’ve been catching up on or revisiting Lynch’s original series on Netflix lately in anticipation of the show’s return on Showtime, this is required viewing. “Fire Walk With Me” is the next movie in the Arkansas Times Film Series, curated by Film Quotes Film and in partnership with Riverdale 10 Cinema. SS

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MONDAY 5/15 The White Water Tavern hosts “Party Like a Progressive,” a benefit for women running for public office in Arkansas, 5:30 p.m., $10. The Ron Robinson Theater hosts two screenings of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” 6 p.m. Mon.-Tue., free, registration required. The Arkansas Travelers take on the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, 7:10 p.m. Mon.-Thu., $7-$13.

WEDNESDAY 5/17 The Ron Robinson Theater screens “The Lego Movie,” 6 p.m., free, registration required. Robb McCormick plays a free show at Dizzy’s Gypsy Bistro, 6 p.m. Irish music quartet Celtic Woman make a stop at the Robinson Center Performance Hall, 7 p.m., $29-$69. Songwriter Mark Currey is the next act in South on Main’s Sessions series, curated this month by Bryan Frazier, 8 p.m., $10. Fort Worth rockers The Unlikely Candidates perform at Stickyz, 8 p.m., $8$10. The queen of New Orleans bounce music, Big Freedia, lands at the Rev Room, 9 p.m., $15-$18.

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DISTRICT FARE, 2807 Kavanaugh Blvd., the new venture in Hillcrest

by Tomas Bohm of The Pantry fame, received its beer and wine licenses Monday and has begun daily service 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

The eatery, which replaced H.A.M. (Hillcrest Artisan Meats), offers seven sandwiches, including a cheese panini for children, and is adding a District Turkey sandwich, with inhouse smoked bird. Manager Gary Dillon said the charcuterie “will be the last thing we implement,” since the dry-cured meats will have to get OKs from the Department of Health.

When that’s ready, District Fare will offer such meats as capicola (smoked pork shoulder), saucisson sec (thick, dry sausages), chorizo, gravlax salmon and bresaola (dried beef). There will be at least three wines on tap and prosecco splits.

ZIN WINE BAR has pushed back the opening of its second location, in the Market Street Shopping Center off Rodney Parham Road, to mid-June, co-owner Troy Deal said this week. Deal and Zin co-founder Michael Puckett have a third investor in the new Zin, Jeffrey Owen.

The new location will be about half again as large as the Zin at 300 River Market Ave. It will have the same sharp, chic atmosphere, wines and menu. Deal said the West Little Rock location appealed because of “new energy” in and near the shopping center, including the Starbucks at the north end and Petit & Keet opening in the former 1620 Restaurant/1620 Savoy. The new wine bar will have a party room that can seat from 20 to 35 people.

FREDDY’S FROZEN CUSTARD & Steakburgers has broken ground at the corner of Chenal Parkway and South Bowman Road, the chain said.

The new Freddy’s will seat 100 folks in a 2,800-square-foot restaurant and patio, and will open in late summer. It will be the second Freddy’s in the area; the first is expected to open later this month at 4305 E. McCain Blvd. in North Little Rock.

Freddy’s at Chenal will also feature a drive-through window. The menu includes steakburgers, hot dogs, french fries and frozen custard.

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Find Hideaway An Oklahoma pizza legend comes to Arkansas.

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entral Arkansas is awash in pizza. Good pizza and bad pizza (if such a thing can be said to truly exist), big pizza and personal pizza, pizza you’d swear came out of a Red Baron box and artisan pizza swimming in rare cheeses and heirloom herbs lovingly grown on somebody’s windowsill, serenaded 24/7 by a string quartet. It’s a crowded market with some truly outstanding players, so a new combatant is always accompanied by the biggest question of all: In an area where you could go a long way toward walking across the Big Dam Bridge using the pies of different pizza joints as stepping stones, do we really need another?

That’s what was largely on this reviewer’s mind as we pulled up to North Little Rock’s Hideaway Pizza, a snazzy looking place on U.S. Highway 67/167 just north of McCain Mall.

It’s the latest outlet of a small Oklahoma-based chain founded in Stillwater in 1957 (the North Little Rock location is, in fact, its first storefront outside of the Sooner State). Given that Hideaway has been in business 60 years, we figured it must be doing something right.

From the big spread of appetizers, salads, pasta offerings and sandwiches, we started off with an order of fried mushrooms ($7.95), which the menu said were world famous. For pizza, it was a harder choice, given that Hideaway offers over 25 varieties, plus a “build your own” option.

Not looking for too much adventure on our first outing, we went with what appeared to be the flagship supreme: The Xtreme ($14.45 small, $18.25 medium, $23.25 large), which features pepperoni, two kinds of sausage, Canadian bacon, mushrooms, black and green olives, bell peppers, Follow Eat Arkansas on Twitter: @EatArkansas

red onions and jalapenos, served on either a hand-tossed or thin crust.

I’ve got a love-hate relationship with fried mushrooms, which sometimes come cooked to the point of lifelessness or a soggy, greasy mess.

Such is the lot of a starter menu staple.

The mushrooms at Hideaway, however, were a standout from our mixed history with deep-fried fungi: a big mounded bowl full of perfectly seasoned and cooked ’shrooms. Though fried mushrooms can often veer toward the salty, these were spot-on good, and paired with dipping bowls of ranch and Hideaway’s sweet marinara. The order could have easily served as a hearty and filling vegetarian entree if one desired — though Hideaway also offers five veggie pizza offerings, if you’re into that.

Around the time we were finishing up wrecking the bowl of fried mushrooms, our pizza arrived. Bigger than we expected for the price, it sure looked great as it came to the table: a colorful, bountiful mix of toppings on a crust that had risen at the edges as it browned. It turned out to be almost as good as it looked. The crust was crispy outside and chewy inside, and while not quite as yeasty or sweet as we tend to like, it was topped with more of that sweet marinara and loads of fresh toppings. We might tell the kitchen to hold the overly salty green olives next time, but different strokes for different folks.

Our friend, meanwhile, eschewed the pizza and ordered an Italian sub ($8.95). Big enough to require twofisted handling, the sandwich was piled with Genoa salami, ham, pepperoni, banana peppers, black olives, red onion, melted cheddar and mozzarella, all topped with a creamy Italian dressing and baked to the point

A BARGAIN: The Xtreme pizza is loaded with sausages, pepperoni, olives, bell peppers, red onions and jalapenos.

of melting the cheese. Our pal pronounced it very tasty.

As if that wasn’t enough, another pal insisted on trying the appropriately named Warm Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie ($4.25), which was, in fact, a warm giant chocolate chip cookie. Fresh-baked, drizzled with chocolate sauce and paired with a scoop of delicious vanilla bean gelato,

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it stunned her inner chocoholic to the point that she would not respond to human speech until she finished eating it.

Overall, Hideaway probably isn’t going to rank in anybody’s top five in the local pizza market, though it might round out a top 10, depending on what you consider delicious. If you’re a fan of the round meal, you should definitely stop in and see what you think. Great pizza, like beauty, is so often in the eye of the beholder. Or, in this case, the palate. And with a complicated crust and loads of fresh ingredients, Hideaway definitely aspires to greatness.

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QUICK BITE A rarity for Little Rock as far as we can tell, the dessert menu at Hideaway features a hard root beer float made with its vanilla bean gelato and Coney Island Brewing Co. Hard Root Beer.

HOURS 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Traces Remain,” installation by Dawn Holder and works on paper by Melissa Cowper-Smith; “Portraits of Friends” by Dani Ives; “The Great War: Arkansas in World War I,” study gallery; “All of Arkansas: Arkansas Made, County by County”; “A Diamond in the Rough: 75 Years of Historic Arkansas Museum.” Ticketed tours of renovated and replicated 19th century structures from original city, guided Monday and Tuesday on the hour, selfguided Wednesday through Sunday, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. (Galleries free.) Open 5-9 p.m.

May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, 503 E. 9th St. (MacArthur Park): “Waging Modern Warfare”; “Gen. Wesley Clark”; “Vietnam, America’s Conflict”; “Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602.

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: Permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 683-3593.

MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, 500 President Clinton Ave.: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 ages 13 and older, $8 ages 1-12, free to members and children under 1. 396-7050.

OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham St.: Arkansas Circus Arts performers, 5-8 p.m. May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night; “6th Annual Seersucker Social,” 6-8 p.m. May 18, $50; “Cabinet of Curiosities: Treasures from the University of Arkansas Museum Collection”; “True Faith, True Light: The Devotional Art of Ed Stilley,” musical instruments, through 2017; “First Families: Mingling of Politics and Culture” permanent exhibit including first ladies’ gowns. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. 324-9685.

SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St., El Dorado: “Silent Interludes,” paintings and drawings by Maria Botti Villegas, through May. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 870-862-5474.

TOLTEC MOUNDS STATE PARK, U.S. Hwy. 165, England: Major prehistoric Indian site with visitors’ center and museum. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., closed Mon. $4 for adults, $3 for ages 6-12, $14 for family. 961-9442.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “MA Thesis Exhibition,” works

by Matt TerAvest, Manes/Pappas Gallery; “From the Studio: UA Little Rock Art Students” and “A Sense of Place: Paintings by Chancellor Andrew Rogerson,” highlights of the student competitive and 12 paintings by Rogerson, through May, Gallery I; “BFA Senior Exhibition,” through May 25. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 569-8977.

WALTON ARTS CENTER, Fayetteville: “Glacial Shifts, Changing Perspectives,” large-scale paintings and photographs documenting glacial melt by Diane Burko, through September, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays, noon-4 p.m. Sat. 479-443-5600.

RETAIL GALLERIES ARGENTA GALLERY, 413 N. Main St.: “FACES: Paintings by Stephano,” through May 15. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat. 258-8991.

ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP., 200 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “Print Make!”

Exhibition the Arkansas Society of Printmakers. 5-8 p.m. May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. 374-9247.

ARTISTS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 610 Central Ave., Hot Springs: Sheliah Halderman, landscapes and florals; Amaryllis J. Ball, expressionist paintings. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. Sun. 623-6401.

BELLA VITA, 523 S. Louisiana St.: “Cut and Stitch Workshop,” with Erin Lorenzen, 5-8 p.m. May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. Register @bitly.com/erinlorenzen.

BOSWELL-MOUROT, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Erasing Drawings,” charcoals

by David Bailin, reception 6-9 p.m.

May 13. 664-0030.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8205 Cantrell Road: “Arkansas: From the Tops to the Bottoms,” paintings by Daniel Coston, opens with reception 5-8 p.m. May 12, show through July 1. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

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

CORE BREWERY, 411 Main St., NLR: “Downtown Throw Down,” fighting-themed work by members of the Latino Project, through May 13.

COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “Phenomenal Anomaly Amily,” paintings by Amily Miori, opens with reception 5-8 p.m. May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. 918-3093.

DRAWL GALLERY, 5208 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Work by regional and Arkansas artists. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.4 p.m. Sat. 240-7446.

GALLERY 221, 2nd and Center Sts.: Work by William McNamara, Tyler Arnold, Amy Edgington, EMILE, Kimberly Kwee, Greg Lahti, Sean LeCrone, Mary Ann Stafford, Cedric Watson, C.B. Williams, Gino Hollander, Siri Hollander and jewelry by Rae Ann Bayless. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sat. 801-0211.

GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: New work by Jason Blanchard, Matthew Castellano, Everett Gee and Jay King.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave., Hot Springs: Paintings by Sandy Fleming Newberg, Sue Norton Kent and others, sculpture by Amy Hill-Imler. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 318-4278.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., North Little Rock: “Spring Exhibition,” including works by Alan Gerson, Jed Jackson, Dale Nichols. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

GOOD WEATHER GALLERY, 4400 Edgemere St., NLR: “Citrus on Pico,” work by Amy Garofano, through May 20, by appointment only. 680-3763.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “With Feeling,” works on paper and wood by Louise Madumbwa, through May 20; “Beyond Magic: Black Women Artists Master Non-Traditional Media,” through May 20. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822.

JUSTUS FINE ART GALLERY, 827 A Central Ave., Hot Springs: “Place Holders,” work by Beverly Buys, Virmarie DePoyster, Randall M. Good, Matthew Hasty, Dolores Justus, Laura Raborn, Gary Simmons, Rebecca Thompson and Emily Wood, through May. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wed.-Sat. 321-2335.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Backyard Birds,” paintings

by Louis Beck, also student art show. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fri.-Sat. 225-6257.

LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “Twenty,” works

by Neal Harrington and Tammy Harrington, through May 12. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. 687-1061.

LEGACY FINE ART, 804 Central Ave., Hot Springs: Blown glass chandeliers

by Ed Pennington, paintings by Carole Katchen. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri. 7620840.

LOCAL COLOUR GALLERY, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Artists collective. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 265-0422.

M2 GALLERY, Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center, 11525 Cantrell Road: “M2-X,” 10-year anniversary exhibit of works by gallery artists Jason Twiggy Lott, Neal Harrington, Steve Adair, Robin Tucker, Catherine Nugent, Lisa Krannichfeld, Ike Garlington, Matt Coburn, Cathy Burns, V.L. Cox and others. 944-7155.

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

MATT McLEOD FINE ART, 108 W. 6th St.: “Just the Way Things Are,” figurative drawings and paintings of Jeremy Couch,” opens with reception 5-8 p.m.

May 11, also open 5-8 p.m. May 12, 2nd Friday Art Night, show through June 29.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sat. 725-8508.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Outside the Lines,” graphic work by Nikki Dawes, Kirk Montgomery, Dusty Higgins and Ron Wolfe, through May. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 379-9101.

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

MUSEUM OF AUTOMOBILES, Petit Jean Mountain: Permanent exhibition of more than 50 cars from 1904-1967 depicting the evolution of the automobile. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days. 501-727-5427.

MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, 202 SW O St., Bentonville: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 479-273-2456.

PLANTATION AGRICULTURE MUSEUM, Scott, U.S. Hwy. 165 and state Hwy. 161: Permanent exhibits on historic agriculture. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. $4 adults, $3 children. 961-1409.

POTTS INN, 25 E. Ash St., Pottsville: Preserved 1850s stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route, with period furnishings, log structures, hat museum, doll museum, doctor’s office, antique farm equipment. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wed.-Sat. $5 adults, $2 students, 5 and under free. 479-968-9369.

ROGERS HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 322 S. 2nd St.: “On Fields Far Away: Our Community During the Great War,” through Sept. 23. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 479621-1154.

SCOTT PLANTATION SETTLEMENT, Scott: 1840s log cabin, one-room school house, tenant houses, smokehouse and artifacts on plantation life.

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 351-0300. www. scottconnections.org.

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Our hogs are a cross between Large Black and Berkshire, old 19th century breeds. They are raised on our pasture and forage in the forest that adjoins our fields. They are never confined like industrial hogs. We do not use any kind of routine antibiotics. Our hogs live ARKANSAS GRASS were FED LAMB like they meant to.

PRICE LIST FRESH RAW HAM $7 lb.

PORK LOIN $8 lb

HAM BREAKFAST STEAKS $7 lb

BREAKFAST SAUSAGE $9 lb

We offer first quality one-year-old lamb raised on our farm in North Pulaski County. Our meat is free of steroids or any other chemicals. The only time we use antibiotics is if the animal has been injured which is extremely rare. All meat is USDA inspected.

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You can pick up your meat at our farm off Hwy 107 in North Pulaski County (about 25 miles north of downtown Little Rock) or we can meet you in downtown Little Rock weekdays.

All meat is aged and then frozen.

PORK STEAKS $10 lb PRICE LIST: RIB ROAST TESTICLES contains about eight ribs (lamb chops) $17 lb.

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WHOLE LEG OF LAMBPORK BUTTS TANNED SHEEPSKINS, $10 lb SHOULDER (about 4 to 5 lbs) $12 lb.

(bone in, cook this slow, like a pot roast. Meat falls off the bone). $11 lb.

HEARTS, LIVERS, KIDNEYS, $5 lb

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(Our sheepskins are tanned in a Quaker Town, Pa. tannery that has specialized in sheepskins for generations.)

PORK TENDERLOIN BONELESS LOIN $12 lb TENDERLOIN $8 lb

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