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From the web In response to the May 11 cover story, “The real transgender crisis in Arkansas: health care,” on the gender clinic at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: This is an excellent article. I find it ironic that the UAMS offers this but University of Arkansas insurance does not cover any form of gender dysphoria. Teri Dawn Wright

President Trump’s proposed budget cuts of $1.7 trillion that would reduce food stamps, health care accessibility, Social Security disability benefits and more: Well, when Arkansas Trumpers turn into whiny little bitches because Trump’s budget and other bad stuff are hurting their families, MAYBE THEY’LL WAKE the FU!! They are 100 percent not changing their view that Trump the faux billionaire cares for them. Why, every deal he’s made is for them ... unless you

read 5 minutes and find out Trump’s deals are for himself and the rest of the super 1 percent. If Trump stays in the White House/Mar-a-lago for two more weeks or two more years, three-fourths of his time will be spent enriching his family and that other fourth will go to enriching fellow 1 percenters. Do the math: none for us. No time will be spent on the rest of us no matter how we voted or how red our state is. He’s not in office to work for the 99 percent, just to feed ’em bullshit at an amazing rate and giggle

I do not have an original birth certificate. I was adopted 47 years ago from South Korea. I was found and put in an orphanage. This is typical of most people adopted around that time. If I were trans, then I would have been figuratively screwed up the butt by the conservatives in our legislature. SouthMeetsSouth In reponse to the May 11 reporter, “The biking news,” about a grant to design a bike trail from Little Rock to Hot Springs: This is an exciting project for cyclists. I would also like to see a study on the feasibility of a commuting bike path along I-630. There are already pieces, i.e., a path from John Barrow Road to Rodney Parham and a path in the median of Chenal. If we want to encourage bike commuting, this would be a more convenient (although less scenic) route than the River Trail and more accessible to biking from home for many in West Little Rock. Tomato Dave

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Hey MAGA-hatters, Drumpf’s proposed budget will: Gut your health-care, MAGA-hatter: Seth Rich! Impose deep cuts on Medicare, MAGA-hatter: Clinton Foundation! Allow states to limit Medicaid enrollment, MAGA-hatter: Private email server! Cut food stamps to over 40 million people, MAGA-hatter: Sandy Hook fake! Cut meals on wheels for impoverished, shut-in elderly: Birth certificate! Roll-back student loan protections, MAGA-hatter: CNN fake news! Slash public health funding and infectious disease research, MAGAhatter: Gun grabbers! Boost an already bloated “defense” budget, MAGA-hatter: Mur-ica First! tsallenarng The sky is falling, the sky is falling. When are y’all going to start dealing in fact? Not false news. Not maybe. Solid verifiable facts. What bullshit. Razorblade Keep lying to us, Razor. It helps us verify where you keep your head and it helps us understand the denier’s mindset. Even a bad example serves as a lesson to us all. And, by the way, do you need an extra jar of Vaseline? Jake da Snake In response to an Arkansas Blog post about Sen. Tom Cotton’s appearances in Iowa and his denial he’s not running for president in 2020:

If you ever doubt that President Trump’s rhetoric and the whole MAGA mystique is about anything other than ensuring that white males maintain their supremacy, all you have to do is watch this video. AnnaHarrisonTerry I am ENTITLED to that seat. Unfortunately there are way too many people in this country — Arkansas has more than its fair share — who will defend this asshat’s entitlement. Vanessa

when he sees they’re taking the bait. It’s sad, not Trump sad, but the real sad, hard sad, human sad ahead of us. Deathbyinches

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It is grounds for despair among thinking folks that someone like Cotton can be taken seriously as a potential presidential candidate, three years out. Of course, if he’s running now, that means he doesn’t think that he’ll be running against Trump or Pence. The real grounds for despair are not Cotton, nor Trump, nor Pence, but that a substantial plurality of the American electorate still approve of them. We don’t need a voter ID law, we need a voter IQ law. It is now time for my only religious ritual, thanking whatever gods that be for the invention of Scotch. Silverback66

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Tweet of the week “We’ve got to stop blaming people who can’t afford health care — that’s my personal belief and policy belief. #RepublicansForMedicareForAll” — Robb Ryerse (@robb2018), pastor of Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville. Ryerse announced he would challenge U.S. Rep. Steve Womack of Rogers in the Republican primary. Ryerse calls himself an Eisenhower Republican. His announcement said he wanted to “help lead the party back to their roots of responsible stewardship, personal liberty and equal opportunity for all — qualities he finds lacking in today’s Republican leadership.”

Court feud Bickering between the Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals broke into public view last week. It began with what was an otherwise routine post-conviction petition for appeal by a prisoner before the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals opinion included an explanation that jurisdiction for such cases previously had been held exclusively by the Supreme Court, which even has a separate staff dedicated to that kind of work. The work got dumped on the Court of Appeals, said an opinion signed by six of them, without a formal rule change and little more notice than a footnote in another case. The Supreme Court — fresh off an appearance seeking an 11 percent pay raise from the commission that sets state public official pay — was NOT happy. The court called in Court of Appeals Chief Judge Rita Gruber for what a source told one columnist was a “woodshedding.” The Supreme Court also issued a news release about factual errors in the Court of Appeals opinion. It included a huffy remark that the Supreme Court was sure the Court of 6

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Appeals, with its 12 judges and 28 lawyers, could handle the added work. The public friction underscored long-running stories about differences on court staff, workload, judicial ethics rules and, most of all, money. The Supreme Court is not happy the Court of Appeals makes only $5,000 less per judge than the state’s highest court and its members also qualify for mileage allowances because they must maintain residences in home districts. Thus the Supreme Court request for an 11 percent pay raise, while suggesting only 2 percent for other judges. Arkansas, one of the poorest states in the U.S., already pays its Supreme Court the 29th highest pay in the country. The injudicious behavior seemed unlikely to help win sympathy for the Supreme Court, judging by public comments.

Jerry Jones and ethics The Arkansas Ethics Commission voted 3-2 last week to find that Dallas Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones had unintentionally violated a state ethics law in giving $300,000 worth of free trips to Cowboy games to North Little Rock

police officers. Jones will get a letter to that effect. State law prohibits gifts to public employees for performance of work. Little Rock blogger Russ Racop filed the ethics complaint. Jones appeared before the commission and, in what Racop described as emotional remarks, said he didn’t view the gifts as a reward for police work but to send a positive message about the work police do outside their normal jobs. Jones’ lawyer, Catherine Dolan, a Cowboy staffer who previously practiced in Little Rock, also argued that Jones believed the North Little Rock City Council resolution declaring the gifts official compensation made them proper. Racop pointed out that the arrangements for the free tickets, hotel and travel costs were made before the Council resolution was adopted. The Council resolution came after Racop raised questions about the propriety of the gift. The letter to Jones, as the giver of an improper gift, was the only action possible under the law. A recipient may receive an official letter of warning on a first offense. Jones had refused a negotiated settlement offer like the

one given to North Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police President Michael Gibbons. Jones said he didn’t want to settle because he didn’t think he’d done wrong. When Gibbons settled, the document acknowledged a law violation, but said Gibbons had “good cause” to believe it was allowable. Gibbons didn’t get a warning letter. Jones received the same presumption of good cause. Racop said he didn’t intend to “get police officers in trouble. I didn’t even try to stop them from going to the game. It was just the rule of law, something that shouldn’t be given.” It developed in the hearing that Gibbons had talked to Dolan, a former prosecutor in Pulaski County, at a Cowboys game and her introduction of Gibbons to Jones put the gift in motion. A total of 120 of 178 officers, along with various friends and family, took trips at a cost estimated to be at least $300,000.

A new low The unemployment rate in Arkansas dropped in April to another record low, 3.5 percent, down from 3.6 percent in March. The labor force rose by almost 7,000 employed.

OPINION

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ome started humming “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” last Friday as a flatbed trailer hauled the recumbent statue of Robert E. Lee from its former place of honor in a traffic circle on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans to storage along with three other dismantled monuments to the Confederacy. There goes the Robert E. Lee. But the sentiment that built the monument? It’s far from gone. The Louisiana legislature, meeting a few miles down the highway, was at work on legislation to prevent removal of any other war-related sculpture in the future. It took a couple of pitched legislative battles for Arkansas to stop having a state holiday for Robert E. Lee. He still gets a special day. But remove the Confederate statuary from the Capitol grounds — one for Confederate soldiers, the other for the women of the Confederacy? Difficult to imagine. Mitch Landrieu, the mayor who led

New Orleans. Landrieu said the monuments were erected — just as monuments were erected and a Lee holiday enacted in Arkansas — “as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause. This ‘cult’ had one goal — through monuments the removal effort, and through other means — to rewrite is white, but, yes, he history to hide the truth, which is that represents a majorthe Confederacy was on the wrong side ity black city. He of humanity.” was elected because The truth isn’t lost on all — particuhe and his family larly black Arkansans such as Rep. Fred MAX have always had a Love, whose district includes the ConfedBRANTLEY good relationship erate statues in Little Rock erected with no maxbrantley@arktimes.com with that unique thought of black people in mind. He fought city’s gumbo of cultures. Still, he says he to end the Lee holiday and sees the Capitol had been blind to the statues he drove past statues through a different lens. The Arkansas statues perpetuate hisdaily. People like renowned jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis helped him see the mon- toric misunderstanding. Arkansas was a uments through the eyes of black parents frontier state with divided loyalties, not trying to explain them to their children. a unilateral defender of Dixie, such as Google Landrieu’s speech at the conclu- Mississippi or Alabama. Many of those sion of removal of the statues. It explains who wave the battle flag today don’t realhow the monuments are not really about ize this. history, but a dishonest history by omission. The National Historic Register applicaThey depict, he said, “a fictional, sanitized tion on the Confederate soldiers’ monuConfederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring ment makes clear the sentiments behind the enslavement, and the terror that it actu- its erection 40 years after the end of the ally stood for.” You see no monuments to Civil War. lynching, slave blocks and slave ships in State and private contributions

Real reform

rkansas voters, once perversely tion’s sacred guarskeptical of complicated ballot antees, the right of issues like constitutional amend- every person to a ments, have become almost comical Pol- full remedy when lyannas, ratifying the most shocking laws. they are wronged. I’m not referring to marijuana legaliza- Business has often ERNEST tion. Last year, the presumptively conserva- sought protection DUMAS tive electorate changed the Constitution to from this guarantee allow politicians to raise and donate your and from families who get hurt or killed taxes, any amount of them, to big corpora- and want to sue, calling it “tort reform.” tions or any outfit that claims to be interNow comes the Arkansas Bar Associaested in development and jobs. Utter the tion with a counter proposal that would word “jobs” with any harebrained idea and restore the constitutional balance of powit will fly, sight unseen. Attaching the word ers, save the jury system and erect barri“reform” to any proposition is magical, too. ers to the corruption in the legislative and Two years earlier, voters — unsuspect- judicial branches that has surfaced recently ingly, I figured — scrapped Arkansas’s pop- — the purchase of judicial seats, judicial ular term limits on legislators, which was bribery and the hidden pork-barrel spendhidden in a mundane-sounding amend- ing of your taxes by legislators. ment. Lawmakers were amazed but gleeful But the sweeping bar proposal, writ— and emboldened. If people will approve ten largely by an old ethics reformer from this stuff, they must have reasoned, let’s the heyday of Common Cause, has to be go for broke. approved by two-thirds of the bar’s House All this is preface to a coming battle of Delegates next month or it will be just over preserving basic constitutional doc- another citizen initiative without the orgatrines. After heavy corporate lobbying, the nization and wherewithal to get on the legislature put a constitutional amend- ballot. The legislature has made it nearly ment on the 2018 ballot that would further impossible for citizen groups to get amendconcentrate power in the legislature at ments or initiated acts on the ballot, leaving the expense of the executive and judicial citizen lawmaking to corporate interests. branches and weaken one of the ConstituThe key to the legislature’s amend-

ment is the phrase “tort reform.” People mostly don’t know what it means but they think it’s supposed to keep trial lawyers from making much money representing injured people and their families. The legislature passed a law a dozen years ago to sharply limit what juries could award to people who are injured or killed owing to negligence or fraud. Twice the Arkansas Supreme Court said the Constitution did not permit the legislature to do that. The framers wrote that every person was entitled to a full remedy for injuries or wrongs and he should obtain it “freely and without purchase; completely and without denial; promptly and without delay.” Not so fast, the legislature said. Its amendment sharply limits what a jury can award in punitive damages and for things like pain, suffering and death. The nursing home industry alone has spent fortunes on such proposals, along with bushels of money to judges and judicial candidates to sway them on injury suits. One judge is going to jail after admitting that he slashed a jury’s verdict for the family of a dead woman owing to large campaign gifts from the operator of the nursing home where she was abused. The chamber of commerce says companies won’t move to Arkansas owing to jury verdicts, although the governor brags he’s setting records luring them to Arkansas. The legislature’s amendment also lifts the Supreme Court’s power to set the rules

financed the sculpture (by a Frenchman). The drive was championed by an Arkansas Gazette editor and Confederate veteran. On the day of unveiling, the Gazette wrote of a parade that included “the remnants of the greatest army the world has ever seen.” (Second greatest, maybe?) A band played “Dixie.” The legislator who sponsored the funding proclaimed the state had “no excuses to make, no apologies to offer.” He said the statue was a testimonial of “our unconditional and unqualified endorsement” of the Confederacy. Gov. Jeff Davis called the statue an altar “to the cause we each know was right, the cause of the Confederacy.” Featured orator Col. A.S. Morgan said the Confederate cause “is neither a lost cause, nor will the Confederate soldier be forgotten.” Mitch Landrieu chose to remember that other people were involved in the Civil War. He said, “The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.” Breathes there a white Arkansas politician who’d call for removal of shrines here and utter such words in defense?

for litigation and hands it to — who else? — the legislature. It is like the Supreme Court grabbing the power to write the parliamentary rules by which the legislature operates. Here is what the countering bar amendment would do: The Supreme Court would continue to fix its own rules of procedure. It would protect the sanctity of the jury system and the right to a certain remedy for wrongs. It would end the scheme where legislators each year divide tens of millions of dollars in taxes among themselves and pass it out to local outfits that can help their re-election, without any audit or accountability. (An investigation of the scheme in a couple of counties is about to send a couple of legislators and their cronies to jail.) It would give the governor a strong veto power over bad legislation — a power given to the president and the governors of nearly all the other states but taken away in 1874 by Arkansas Democrats to restrain reform-minded Republican governors. It would restore final rule-making power in executive agencies to the executive branch, which was wrested away by the legislature. It would require divulging the sources of millions of dollars of “dark money” funneled into campaigns, especially races for the courts, and require the state Ethics Commission to set limits and force disclosure of campaign funding. The ballot won’t mention the word, but that is the literal definition of reform.

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ack in 2000, I interviewed Rev. Jerry Falwell on camera in connection with a documentary film of the book “The Hunting of the President,” which Joe Conason and I wrote. It took place at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va. We were surprised he agreed to speak with us, as an entire chapter of the book dealt with “The Clinton Chronicles,” a bizarre video Falwell promoted on his syndicated TV program “The Old Time Gospel Hour.” A near-delusional concatenation of preposterous falsehoods and conspiracy theories, the video presented the thenpresident (and his wife) as an embezzler, drug smuggler and serial killer. Supposedly, Bill Clinton routinely had his political rivals murdered, which in a small state like Arkansas, you’d think local reporters might have noticed. Alas, to many voters, the real world give-and-take of democratic politics isn’t exciting enough. They require End Times melodrama: salvation vs. damnation, good vs. evil. Your candidate’s a savior; his opponent’s satanic. Anyway, when Falwell brought his road show to Arkansas, the pastor of Little Rock’s largest Baptist church denied him its pulpit. He explained that by promoting a scurrilous video filled with falsehoods about the Clintons and many other Arkansans, the portly televangelist had violated the Ninth Commandment against bearing false witness. So I asked Falwell, on camera, if the Ninth Commandment was more or less important, theologically speaking, than the Sixth Commandment forbidding adultery. Somewhat to his credit, he acknowledged that they were the same. Falwell added that he’d had no idea how many of the video’s crackpot claims were true, but that the American people deserved to hear them. At $40 a pop, including $3 for shipping and handling. And with that, the interview ended. Falwell suddenly had somewhere else he needed to be. Ancient history, I know. Pre-Fox News, pre-Breitbart, pre-internet even. I mean, VHS videotapes. Who even remembers what those were? But one thing that hasn’t changed over the ensuing decades is the seeming need of a substantial proportion of the American electorate to believe that Democrats named Clinton are satanic killers. Hence the reappearance, after all these years, of yet another make-believe murder tale — this one championed by Fox

News, Breitbart and online conspiracy sites, with a substantial boost from WikiLeaks and Russian state GENE news media. LYONS Oh, and Newt Gingrich. Because it wouldn’t be serious hoax without Newt. Also because, believe it or not, defending the honor of wrongly accused Kremlin intelligence agencies appears to be the whole point. The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel documented Gingrich’s recent appearance on “Fox and Friends,” where the former House speaker breathlessly announced that “it wasn’t the Russians” that leaked thousands of embarrassing Democratic National Committee emails to WikiLeaks. No, it was supposedly a young DNC staffer named Seth Rich, who was shot to death on a Washington street at 4 a.m. in what D.C. police think was a botched robbery attempt last July. Russian “fake news” operatives went right to work, charging that “a top American Democratic Party staffer preparing to testify against Hillary Clinton was assassinated this past Sunday during a secret meeting in Washington, D.C., he believed he was having with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, but who turned out, instead, to be a ‘hit team’ — and who, in turn, were captured yesterday after a running gun battle with U.S. federal police forces just blocks from the White House.” Whoever wrote that has seen far too many spy thrillers, where epic car chases and gun battles take place in picturesque parts of major cities all the time. Of course, Jason Bourne rarely sticks around to read the newspapers. But if you’re the kind of person who believes that such things are possible … . Well, you’re either a gullible hayseed who also believes that Hillary Clinton ran a child-molesting ring at a Washington pizza joint while simultaneously conducting a presidential campaign … or else you’re a Kremlin imagineer whose only knowledge of American life derives from Clint Eastwood movies. For the record, apart from Seth Rich’s tragic death, there’s zero evidence for a single alleged “fact” supporting this absurd fable. No leaked emails, no pending testimony, no hit team, no nothing. It’s sheer make-believe. The victim’s bereaved parents have repeatedly begged these cruel hoaxers to stop besmirching their son’s memory.

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s soon as I saw the Notre Dame graduates walking out of their own commencement ceremony as Vice President Mike Pence began to speak, I thought, “Oh no, here we go again.” Sure, enough, the online comment sections erupted with the same types of criticism heard earlier this month when Bethune-Cookman graduates turned around and booed when Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos began to speak: The students are disrespectful; their parents raised them wrong, they are special snowflakes who need a safe space; and even a few about the students needing a “whoopin’.” These commenters have it all wrong. This is not about respect and sensitivity and bad parenting. It is about young men and women standing up and speaking out. Pence and DeVos themselves support policies or have been complicit (t here’s the word of the year) while others support policies that directly harm those who traditionally have had little say in government. It is the same argument I made after Sen. Tom Cotton’s town hall when people lost their minds that those in the audience would dare boo or question him. As many would like to argue, Cotton was not the guest. He and other elected officials who show up to meet with constituents aren’t doing us a favor. We have to get that idea out of our heads. The quicker the better. I saw a graphic online earlier this week that said something about elected officials not being our leaders. I couldn’t agree more. Sure, we look to them to inspire us at times and take the lead in difficult situations. But they are not our leaders per se. They are elected to wield our power. Lately, it feels as if their power reigns supreme. The world is upside down. I’m not sure how we got to this point. Is it because so many of us,

especially in the South, were taught every Sunday that as Christ is the head of the church, man AUTUMN is the head of TOLBERT woman? Do we as a people collectively feel as if we need strong leaders? There was much talk of authoritarianism and voting patterns this past election. It seems odd that so many of those who have spent so much time preaching against big government now criticize young people, women, people of color, disability advocates, LGBTQ individuals, and immigrants as disrespectful when they dare speak out. Would it be different if instead of actions or words, they spoke out with money? Maybe. This week I took a look at some of the recent financial disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission. I felt sick. Now, I’m just mad. I’m not naive. I know there is big money in politics, but to see that Reps. Steve Womack, Bruce Westerman and French Hill all received donations from Speaker Paul Ryan’s Prosperity Action PAC in the same month as the first scheduled vote on Ryan’s draconian health care bill just about sent me over the edge. Don’t even get me started on the donors to Ryan’s PAC ( hint: They will likely benefit from the tax cuts and increased health care costs). I don’t know how to turn the world right side up. Maybe someday we will see our elected officials as the public servants they really are and begin to elect people who aren’t just looking for power (hint: Cotton) and begin to consistently elect those who truly have a servant’s heart. Then maybe they will listen to real voices and not just big donors.

It seems odd that so many of those who have spent so much time preaching against big government now criticize young people, women, people of color, disability advocates, LGBTQ individuals, and immigrants as disrespectful when they dare speak out. Would it be different if instead of actions or words, they spoke out with money?

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ave Van Horn’s mastery has never been truly questioned, but the lost season of 2016 did cause a lot of consternation for diehard Arkansas Razorback baseball fans. How does a seemingly talented squad collapse so hard? It wasn’t just that the team flamed out with a 13-game losing skid to end the year, or that the 7-23 SEC record was the worst a Van Horn-coached team had posted by a full six games. There was a sense during those May sweeps that some players were mailing it in — we won’t use the dreaded “q”-word — once the postseason dreams had died. For this reason, what the coaching staff has done in 2017 constitutes a minor miracle and it likely represents the best work of Van Horn’s accomplished tenure. After whitewashing Texas A&M 8-0 on Saturday in College Station, the Hogs coast into the SEC Tournament with a 39-15 overall mark that rates as secondbest among league teams, and the 18-11 conference record slots them in fourth for the tourney in Hoover, Ala., which regrettably and historically is not the program’s favorite place. But you would be foolish to overlook the Hogs in this field for a lot of reasons. After the Razorbacks’ 2016 campaign featured six series in which they were swept, that didn’t happen once this spring. Ole Miss came closest to the feat, trying to steal three at Baum when the Hogs were slightly reeling, but a comeback in the finale salvaged one and likely steadied the team over the balance of the slate. One potential series win was lost to weather when the Hogs forged a two-game split with Tennessee but they claimed two of three against the Aggies and a fairly strong Vanderbilt squad. This is a team built on muscle and aggression, which is a bit of a risk as you venture closer to June and teams are putting their best arms on the bump, but there’s no doubting that the power nucleus of Chad Spanberger, Grant Koch and Dominic Fletcher can carry the team if contact is being made consistently. On the pitching side of things, despite some lulls in May, Blaine Knight’s six-inning turn in the series clincher against the Aggies proved he is still the prohibitive ace of a staff that has overcome the losses of Keaton McKinney and Isaiah Campbell to grind out all those wins by simply outworking their foes. The Hog hurlers

are just four whiffs shy of leading the league in that category, which is suggestive of the fearlessness that new BEAU pitching coach WILCOX Wes Johnson has instilled in the likes of Knight, Trevor Stephan and spot starter Kacey Murphy. Behind them is a defense that has some soft spots (Carson Shaddy’s move to second base has been an adventure) but still committed the third-fewest errors in the league, with a respectable 43 boots over 55 games. And that’s sort of how this team has gotten to this point: You don’t look at the lineup or the rotation and find yourself awestruck, but the whole group is fairly reliable and cohesive, which is a welcome sight following last season’s disappointment. Knight leads the team with seven wins, but that barely registers him among the Top 10 in the SEC. Shortstop Jax Biggers is the only hitter among the Top 20 in batting average, but six others in the lineup are hitting between .287 and .303, and even Eric Cole has surged late in the year after a fairly terrible first month. The Hogs are not adept at stealing bases (24 in 39 attempts, ranking next to last among SEC teams), which might suggest they’re laden with bulky basecloggers, but they’ve also hit into the fewest double plays. In short, it’s the kind of team that does not beat itself, which bodes well for what hopefully will be a lengthy run into June. Van Horn probably did not figure this team had a legitimate shot at being his fifth in 15 years at the helm to reach Omaha, but the reality is that this is one of his deepest and most disciplined teams. It has been uttered by commentators much of the year: There are no holes in the batting order, and the pitching staff is rich with live arms, particularly now that Dominic Taccolini has possibly rediscovered his command. There’s no singular, Andrew Benintendi- or Dallas Keuchel-level talent in place, but that almost makes this team more dangerous to an outsider that might find itself in Fayetteville for a potential regional there. If Arkansas hosts and gets immediate momentum, then this could be a longer and more entertaining ride than anyone anticipated three months ago.

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he Observer likes making resolutions at New Year’s. We don’t manage to keep any of them other than the one we always start with — “Stay Above Ground” — but we do like making them. Gives us something to aspire to, and at this point in our life, we need all the aspiration we can get. Summer is coming on quickly, the cool nights bleeding into 85-degree days. Before you know it, it’ll be so gatdamn hot that wienerdogs will warp in the noonday sun, the skyscapers downtown will wilt perceptibly toward the shadiest horizon, and President Trump will be asking Russkie prostitutes to pee on him not out of any sort of fetishy weirdness, but simply for the cooling effect. The winter was too mild to kill off the hordes of ticks, so our weather elbow and the Farmer’s Almanac we keep by the john is telling us it’s gonna be a hot one. This summer, we’re gonna get to the lake more, to drink in both nature’s beauty and the incalculable glory of a drunk dude in American flag swim trunks saying, “Welp, time to go to the bathroom!” before wading into the water up to his waist and then standing there for 30 seconds while he returns his Pabst to whence it came, the look on his face like he had a stroke while simultaneously discovering fire. We Observed that one on the beach at DeGray Lake last year, friends and neighbors. We gave it a few weeks before venturing back into the water, but still think of him every time another swimming area is closed due to E. coli. This summer, we’re gonna sell a kidney to get one of those Yeti coolers, the cooler that already weighs a ton before you put the ice and beer and hot dogs in it, and which costs so much that it would literally be cheaper to buy a refrigerator and a generator to power it, then lash the whole thing to the mast of your party barge with ratchet straps. Yeah, the fridge route might look weird, but it’s no muss, no fuss, and

no questions from your friends about why you’re dumb enough to pay $1,299 (no, that’s not a typo, that’s what the top-of-the-line Yeti costs) for a spaceage super-cooler when ice is like, two bucks a bag. Our advice: Just admit that wanting a Yeti is the bro-quivalent of women lusting after a Hermes Birkin bag. In both cases, there’s no possible way the thing could actually be worth what it’s selling for, which means what you’re actually buying is the opportunity to conspicuously display how much you can afford to spend on something utterly pointless. This summer, we’re gonna hit up the Cajun Sno place in Hillcrest more, if the asshats who recently vandalized the place and forced it to shutter for a few days can secure gainful employment and quit making life demonstrably worse for the rest of us. Frozen water doused with sticky syrup can’t be good for The Observer, but damned if it ain’t fine on a summer night, us spooning it up in the heat with Spouse nearby, joggers and bikers zipping past sugary temptation, folks out walking their dogs in the dusk, kids dancing from foot to foot on the plank stoop of the sno-cone trailer while they wait for their Ninja Turtle or Rainbow or Wedding Cake to emerge from the window. We need more of that this summer. Most of all this summer, we’re just going to remember to remember more, to breathe more and to smell more: the yellow waft of the August heat in high grass; happy dogs emerging from ponds and lakes and kiddie pools out on the lawn; the smell of hot asphalt; the smell of fresh-cut watermelon on a picnic table; the smell of the rare rainstorm on warm ground, a smell so distinct and beautiful that it actually has a name: petrichor. May you find your share of petrichor this summer, my friend. It’s gonna be hot. But it’s gonna be a good one. We can feel it in our winter-weary bones.

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onsidering that Little Rock’s Stephanie Zhao was almost certainly the most accomplished Arkansas high school student this year, perhaps it makes sense that, when asked to name her proudest accomplishment, she pointed to a college achievement. In the summer before her senior year at Pulaski Academy, she made an A in organic chemistry, a course feared by pre-med majors everywhere, at Harvard. She was the lone high school student in the summer session class. She said her older classmates in organic chemistry “were like, ‘Why are you doing this to yourself?’ I guess I like a challenge,” she told them. Even among the cream of the crop of high school seniors that have made up the annual Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team over the last 23 years, Stephanie’s cumulative academic achievements stand out (a clerical error left her off the list of All-Stars in April). She received perfect scores on the three major exams used in college admissions, the ACT, SAT and PSAT. She graduated with a 4.7 grade point average after taking every upper level English, Chinese, French, math, science and social science offered at PA. She is a Presidential Scholar, one of two in Arkansas and one of 161 nationally chosen by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars for academic achievement and leadership. She received the $5,000 Stephens Award and was a National Merit Finalist. Pulaski Academy counselor Cheryl Watts said she was always reluctant to describe any student as “perfect.” But with Stephanie, who graduated from 12

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PA last week, “everything she does is pretty darn near,” Watts said. “She is her own competition. She’s always questioning, researching, refining, analyzing. She uses herself to measure success.” Stephanie, an only child, is the daughter of Drs. Ling Gao and Haibo Zhao, who are both researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. (Her father, Dr. Zhao, recently published research on bones that could lead to new treatments for osteoporosis and other diseases. Her mother, Dr. Gao, a dermatologist, recently received a four-yea r $791,000 grant to research a potential new therapy for a rare skin cancer that is becoming more prevalent.) “I like to say that science is the fourth member of my family,” Stephanie said. “Growing up, that LIKES A CHALLENGE: Stephanie Zhao said that’s why she took an organic chemistry course at would be the conversation Harvard University in the summer before her senior year at Pulaski Academy. at the dinner table. We’d talk about their research. Now, I hear stuff at school that I’d heard at the dinner table, and where she plans to major in chemistry, one of her favorite things about high think, ‘Wow, that’s cool, I heard about biochemistry or biology. school. The club, which she led as “A lot of math and science people that at home.’ ” president in her senior year, “forces tend to only be math and science peoyou to go out in the community and Stephanie has worked with her mother in her lab for the past couple of ple,” Watts said. “But Stephanie’s not get active.” Her primary outreach, as years, even earning a co-author credit like that. She has a compelling curiospart of Amnesty International, came for research published in the journal ity about a wide variety of interests.” in volunteering at Dorcas House, a Stephanie calls her experience in Oncotarget. She’ll continue to pursue Little Rock domestic violence shelter. a pre-med path at Harvard in the fall, the PA Amnesty International Club She tutored clients who were work-

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ing toward their GED and gave free piano lessons. She also performed a solo piano recital at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral to raise money for Dorcas House. She raised $6,000. Volunteering at Dorcas House “changed” Stephanie, she said. “I’ve never had to deal with anything close to what those women and children have had to deal with.” The experience inspired her to write her 70-page senior thesis on domestic violence — the causes, characteristics and history of it. She carried that sense of duty with her during her summer school experiences at Harvard in 2015 (when she took general chemistry) and 2016 and volunteered at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. While she was taking the notoriously difficult organic chemistry class, the only free time she had available to volunteer at the shelter was the overnight shift on Saturday (“insane,” her mom says of her chosen schedule). “I went in at the end of the dinner shift and helped clean up. That was nice because I could talk to the guests. I liked getting to know them and their stories,” Stephanie said. Stephanie said her English and history teachers at Pulaski Academy helped improve her research and writing, particularly William Topich, head of the social sciences department, who Stephanie cited as her most influential teacher in her Presidential Scholar recognition. Topich led her thesis class and encouraged Stephanie to submit to the Concord Review, a quarterly review that publishes excellent academic research papers of high school students. Her history of the Opium Wars is featured in the latest edition. She’s submitted another on Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring.” Amid endless studying and volunteering, Stephanie does do normal teenage things. She reads, watches TV and movies, plays the piano and hangs out with friends. But she says her real extracurricular achievement is playing cards. Her games of choice? Nerts and Egyptian Rat Slap.

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The health of a hospital The Medicaid expansion helped Baxter County Regional Medical Center survive and thrive, but a federal repeal bill threatens to imperil it and its patients. BY DAVID RAMSEY ARKANSAS NONPROFIT NEWS NETWORK

hen Arkansas expanded Medicaid in 2014, Mike Haynes signed up for health insurance for the first time in his adult life. “Before that, I really couldn’t afford it,” he said. “One income in the state of Ar-

kansas is very tough when you’re raising two children. I did it, but I couldn’t afford fringe benefits, so to speak. I had to feed my kids and put clothes on them.” Haynes, 63, is a real estate agent in Mountain Home. His children are

grown now, but things remain tight. “We’re eating bologna, not steak,” he said. His wife has multiple sclerosis and can no longer work (she qualifies for the traditional Medicaid program through her disability benefits), and Haynes’ income fluctuates dramatically with the housing market. In 2014, “paychecks were few and far between,” he said, and he signed up for coverage under the state’s Medicaid expansion, which offers coverage to Arkansans who make less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level (that’s $16,400 for an individual or $33,600 for a family of four). A year later, his wife encouraged him to go in for a routine physical, and he ended up being diagnosed with prostate cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “It was an eye-opener, extremely scary,” Haynes said. “All of a sudden your whole world changes.”

The doctor told him that if he hadn’t come in, he had two years left to live. Now, he’s in remission after a dozen sessions of chemotherapy. “I can’t stress enough how much it meant to me to have coverage,” Haynes said. “I knew I wasn’t going to lose my house and everything else.” Before getting coverage, Haynes had always avoided going to the doctor because he assumed he wouldn’t be able to pay the medical bills, and he said he would never have gone in the first place without health insurance. “Two things saved my life: Obamacare and my wife,” Haynes said. “That’s the truth.” Haynes has been able to get his treatment at Mountain Home’s Baxter Regional Medical Center, recently named one of the top 100 rural and community hospitals in the nation by the National Rural Health Association. arktimes.com MAY 25, 2017

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The Medicaid expansion has been just as vital to Arkansas’s rural hospitals as it has been to patients like Haynes, said Ron Peterson, Baxter Regional’s CEO. The reduction in uncompensated care has led to a $4.2 million annual positive impact for the hospital, Peterson said. “The expansion meant the difference between us running in the red vs. running in the black,” he said. Arkansas is one of 31 states — few in the South — that expanded Medicaid eligibility to low-income adults like Haynes as part of the Affordable Care Act. The state used a unique approach known as the private option — later rebranded “Arkansas Works” — which uses Medicaid funds to purchase private health insurance for the newly eligible population. The federal government pays for most of the costs through funds made available by the ACA. The ACA’s crafters essentially made a deal with hospitals: The ACA cut Medi16

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care reimbursements, but the reduction in uncompensated care through the Medicaid expansion helped offset some of those cuts. Without that offsetting boost, some of the state’s smaller rural hospitals might not be able to survive. A hospital like Baxter — the fifth most Medicare-reliant hospital in the nation, according to Moody’s, thanks to the community’s significant proportion of retirees — would be forced to make dramatic cuts in services without the Medicaid offset. “The expansion of Medicaid through Arkansas Works is one of the key components that’s been able to help us through the change in the ACA,” Peterson said. “Not just Baxter, but it helps all of rural Arkansas.” The political future of the Medicaid expansion, however, remains dicey. State Sen. Scott Flippo, a Republican who represents the area, campaigned on ending the program and has voted multiple times for unsuccessful attempts to

defund it in the Arkansas legislature. Meanwhile, the American Health Care Act, the bill backed by President Trump and passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month, would end the ACA’s enhanced funding for new and returning enrollees beginning in 2020, effectively ending the Medicaid expansion program. Trump won Baxter County with 74 percent of the vote. Peterson said that he was hopeful that the AHCA proposal would be amended further, but as it stands, the phase-out of the Medicaid expansion “would be devastating to our hospital, and I think it would be extremely bad news for all rural hospitals.” It can be a challenge to explain the value of Medicaid expansion amid the always thorny politics of the national health care debate, Peterson said. “I think that people in Mountain Home really appreciate the hospital and appreciate the services that are provided

here,” he said, pointing to significant giving from the community to the Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation and the more than 500 volunteers who give more than 80,000 hours of their time every year. “They want to see this hospital succeed. I just don’t think they see the tie and the connection with the Medicaid expansion.” Baxter Regional is by far the largest employer in the community, employing 1,600 individuals; its payroll is more than $70 million. Outside of the hospital, opportunities for professionals are few and far between, Dan Greer, a network analyst at Baxter Regional, said. Greer has worked at Baxter Regional for nine years; before that, he worked at the Baxter Bulletin, but lost that job after the newspaper was downsized. “If it wasn’t for the hospital being here, I would have been gone,” he said. If the Medicaid expansion ended, Peterson said, “You’re looking at eas-

ily 200-300 jobs eliminated out of the community. That may not sound dramatic, but it’s dramatic in a community of our size.” Baxter Regional’s mission is to remain independent and as comprehensive as possible, Peterson said, both of which would also be threatened if the hospital took a financial hit from the elimination of Medicaid expansion. “We believe that having that local input and that local control helps us be more community-driven and make sure we’re meeting the needs of the community,” he said. “And we try to provide urban medicine in a rural setting. Just because you live in a rural area should not mean you should not have access to quality care.” Baxter Regional offers cardiac surgery, comprehensive oncology services and 30 different specialties; this summer, the hospital will start offering neurosurgery. As a Level III trauma center, the hospital has the resources to provide care for most traumatic injuries. “You can’t measure the value on that,” said Dr. Brad Shultz, a physician in the emergency room, where the hospital sees 30,000 patients a year. “The sick, aged population we have, if we didn’t have the specialists, we couldn’t buy enough ambulances to keep them all transferred.” That transport itself can be a dangerous part of medical care. “Every time they’re exposed to a new health care setting, it’s adding risk to their situation,” Gerald Cantrell, the hospital’s paramedic director, said. In nonemergency situations, meanwhile, a multiplehour drive may discourage patients from seeking the care they need. “We’re fairly isolated,” Peterson said.

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“The next hospital that has all the types of services that we have is at least two hours away.” The hospital has invested in technology to deliver high-quality care to its isolated community. In its intensive care unit, the hospital has an “electronic ICU” that provides 24-7 access to intensive care specialists in St. Louis. Its radiology department was one of the first in the state to use 3D tomosynthesis for mammography, which is more accurate and leads to fewer call backs, and the first in the nation to develop a mobile 3D tomosynthesis unit in a custom-made RV that offers screenings in the community. “It allows us to take the mammography out to where the patient is, and helps us get to even more remote areas than Mountain Home,” Peterson said. “We’re going to the rural community and bringing that technology to them.” The STEMI program (STEMI is the medical shorthand for a severe heart attack) has a coordinated system in place to communicate between paramedics and the hospital to deliver care as quickly as possible — and crucially, Baxter Regional has the cath labs (diagnostic imaging equipment necessary for the optiminal treatment of a heart attack) and specialists to provide an immediate intervention. “A lot of your smaller rural hospitals won’t have cath labs,” Peterson said; they can offer only less effective clotbusting drugs. “If we weren’t the size hospital that we are and started cutting back, you could see people having a heart attack, getting a drug, and being shipped off and not getting that intervention for three to five hours when they need to be getting it right away.” “Arkansas has the highest mortality

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rates nationwide for death from heart attack,” Dr. Kim Foxworthy, the STEMI coordinator, said. “Our statewide mortality rates would definitely be higher if we did not have the technology and facility here. People are just not going to make it.” Just as important, Peterson said, was the hospital’s commitment to outreach. He cited the community paramedic program, which offers direct services to high-needs patients in their homes, and four on-site Community Health Education and Support Houses, which offer services for patients and their families for diabetes, cancer, aging and women’s health. Without the Medicaid expansion, Peterson said, the hospital would be forced to make difficult — and potentially life-threatening — choices about what services to cut. That would impact everyone who relies on Baxter Regional, not just those covered by the Medicaid expansion. Servicing a remote community in the Ozarks with a population that isn’t growing, it’s unclear how the hospital would make up the funding gap if expansion goes away. “The numbers do not add up,” Peterson said. “Unless you want to abandon people who live in rural America.” Haynes, the cancer survivor who got coverage thanks to the Medicaid expansion, said he remembers years ago having to drive more than two hours to Springfield, Mo., to get to a hospital with an incubator when his daughter was born. “That’s a thing of the past,” he said. “I received outstanding care here. It’s a tremendous service to the community.” Haynes voted in the presidential race for the first time last November and,

like most of his neighbors, he voted for Trump. “I felt like we were going to be in the same position no matter what Hillary did, we needed some improvements, and I really just wanted a guy that wasn’t involved in politics,” Haynes said. He said he has been watching the progress of the AHCA with concern, particularly when the Congressional Budget Office found in March that an earlier version of the bill would lead to 24 million fewer people being covered (the CBO is set to issue a new score for the amended version of the AHCA this week). “I guess I was naive because when he spoke ‘change,’ in my mind, I thought ‘even better,’ ” he said. “And then as it moved along and 24 million people weren’t going to get coverage, I thought, ‘What’s going on? Am I one of the 24 million?’ ” After he wasn’t able to work for a year and half because of the cancer, Haynes has just started back at his job. “It’ll get better — the economy is getting better, I’m getting better, so I’m very positive about the future,” he said. Haynes said he’s still grateful for President Obama. “I’d vote for the man tomorrow,” Haynes said. “I don’t play politics. But the man did a lot for me, period. Without Obamacare, I wouldn’t be sitting here. How would you feel?” This story was supported by the nonprofit Economic Hardship Reporting Project, part of an initiative to foster journalism about inequality in the South and the Heartland, and is also courtesy of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

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ARKANSAS POLICYMAKERS: Governor Hutchinson (above) wants the federal government to approve changes to the state’s Medicaid program that remove 60,000 from the rolls. Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton is part of a group of senators reworking the American Health Care Act.

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ealth care policy impacts millions of Americans, including the more than 300,000 Arkansans currently covered by the state’s Medicaid expansion program. The details, however, can get confusing quickly. It’s hard enough to keep track of all the names — private option, Arkansas Works, Medicaid expansion, Obamacare, ACA, AHCA. On top of that, it seems like every month lawmakers propose to shift the policy ground beneath our feet. The Arkansas legislature met in a special session earlier this month to approve Governor Hutchinson’s plan to alter the state’s Medicaid expansion, adding work requirements and cutting eligibility. That plan now awaits approval from the federal government. The same day the governor signed that bill into law, the U.S. House passed the American Health Care Act, which would completely undercut the governor’s proposal and threaten the very existence of Medicaid expansion in Arkansas. It’s now in the Senate, awaiting a vote. The Medicaid expansion helped cut the state’s uninsured rate in half. What would the proposed changes coming from the governor and Republicans in Congress mean for those who rely on that coverage? Let’s take a look. What is the Medicaid expansion? What is Arkansas Works? The Affordable Care Act (often called Obamacare) provided funding to cover low-income adults under the Medicaid program. This expansion of Medicaid covers people who make less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level — that’s $16,400 for an individual or $33,600 for a family of four. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that states could choose whether or not they wanted to accept the Medicaid expansion. Arkansas decided to move forward, but with a twist: The state obtained a special waiver from the federal government to use Medicaid funds to purchase private health insurance for the Medicaid expansion population, a policy that became known as the private option. Later, when Hutchinson became governor and continued the policy, he rebranded it as Arkansas Works. Whatever name it goes by — Medicaid expansion, private option, Arkansas Works — the program covers more than 300,000 Arkansans, with most of the costs covered by the federal government through the ACA. How will Hutchinson’s proposed alterations to the Medicaid expansion change who is eligible? Hutchinson, with the legislature’s

backing, is seeking permission from the federal government to limit eligibility for Arkansas Works to households at or below the federal poverty line (that’s $11,880 for an individual or $24,300 for a family of four). That would mean that current beneficiaries who make between 100-138 percent of the FPL — more than 60,000 of the state’s working poor — would be removed from the program. Assuming the ACA remains in place, what options will those cut from coverage under the governor’s plan have for health insurance? Most of the 60,000 people who would lose Arkansas Works coverage would be eligible for the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace, often called the exchange, where they can buy subsidized health insurance. The ACA provides income-based premium tax credits and cost-sharing reduction subsidies that keep premiums, co-pays and deductibles relatively low. Others will not be able to get subsidized coverage on the exchange, because their employer offers them health insurance (the state Department of Human Services estimates this applies to 20 percent of the beneficiaries in the 100-138 FPL group). If that employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) meets two tests — it’s considered “affordable” under the law and meets a “minimum value” standard in terms of coverage — then they are barred from getting the premium credits and cost-sharing reductions that would make coverage on the exchange affordable for them. Those who fall into this category would typically face higher costs and receive less generous coverage if they switch to ESI. Will the working poor have to pay more under the governor’s plan? The governor has claimed that the 60,000 people being removed from the Medicaid rolls “will not lose access to coverage” and would get “the same level of financial support that they have now.” In fact, those beneficiaries will pay more than they do today — sometimes much more — and coverage will be skimpier for many. Under the terms of its Arkansas Works agreement with the federal government, the state is allowed to charge beneficiaries who make between 100138 percent of the FPL premiums up to 2 percent of their household income. However, currently, the state charges a flat rate of $13 per month. On the exchange, premiums for plans equivalent to Arkansas Works

are designed to be equal to 2 percent of household income (because of the federal subsidies, that’s what this group will have to pay for premiums regardless of whether the unsubsidized premium that insurance companies charge for the plan goes up or down). That’s significantly more than $13 per month. An individual right at the poverty line would have to pay up to $20 a month in premiums. An individual who makes 138 percent of the FPL would have to pay up to $27 per month. Meanwhile, larger family sizes will have larger incomes in

order to fall in the 100-138 FPL range. So a single mother of three, for example, who is right at the poverty line, would be on the hook for $40 per month premiums on the exchange; if she was at 138 percent of the FPL, she would be on the hook for $56 per month premiums. For those who have to move to ESI plans, the premium increase will be even more dramatic. For an ESI plan to be deemed affordable, premiums cannot exceed 9.69 percent of household income. That means that a plan could have premiums nearly five times what

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someone was paying under the 2 percent max allowable under Arkansas Works (and even more than that compared to the flat $13 premiums that the program is imposing this year). Under the Medicaid rules in the Arkansas Works waiver, an individual living at the poverty line could be charged no more than $20 monthly; the most that a single mother of three could be charged is $40. But if those same beneficiaries get insurance through a plan at work, they could face employee-contribution premiums of up to $95 or $195, respectively, and would then not be allowed to shop on the exchange. They would have to find a way to pay those premiums or go without health insurance. What happens if people don’t pay premiums? If people are unable to pay their premiums under Arkansas Works, they don’t lose their coverage; they incur a debt to the state, which likely isn’t collectible unless the individual has a state tax refund from which to withhold. On the other hand, if people are unable to pay their premiums on the exchange, they’ll be booted off of coverage and become uninsured for the remainder of the year. These premiums are relatively small, but this is a population with almost no disposable income. Forty dollars a month may not sound like a lot, but for a family of four at the poverty line, that could be the difference in getting enough groceries to go around. Currently, only 25 percent of these beneficiaries are paying the $13 premiums each month. If they struggle to keep up with premiums on the exchange, they’ll end up without coverage. Will the working poor get the same level of coverage under the governor’s plan? Those who are sent to the exchange will get plans that have a similar amount of coverage to the plans on Arkansas Works, though that coverage may take different forms (for example, they might have deductibles, whereas Arkansas Works only has co-pays). However, there is one key difference, which will lead to many having to pay more out of pocket on the exchange plans. Under Arkansas Works, Medicaid rules impose a strict limit on the total amount that beneficiaries can be charged between premiums and cost-sharing (it cannot exceed 5 percent of monthly or quarterly income). There is no such rule on the exchange, and while there are outof-pocket limits, the total amount that beneficiaries have to pay could exceed arktimes.com MAY 25, 2017

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IN ADDITION TO CUTTING ELIGIBILITY, THE GOVERNOR’S PROPOSAL WOULD INSTITUTE WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR ARKANSAS WORKS BENEFICIARIES. The Obama administration did not allow work requirements for Medicaid because it said such requirements were not consistent with the purpose of the program, which is to increase access to health care. The Trump administration has signaled that it is receptive to the idea of work requirements, so Hutchinson is trying again with the request. The details of the work-requirement program still need to be worked out between the state’s Department of Human Services and the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but here is the outline of the governor’s plan, according to DHS: In order to continue receiving coverage, beneficiaries must work 20 hours per week or 80 hours per month. If they are not working, they have to participate in job training programs (or potentially certain approved volunteer activities). Beneficiaries must be in compliance for nine months out of the year. Otherwise, they will be kicked off of coverage and locked out of the program for the remainder of the year. People aged 18-49 will be subject to the work requirement, and those older than 50 will be exempt. The following groups will also be eligible for exemptions: Those deemed “medically frail” — the 10 percent of Arkansas Works beneficiaries who have the most intensive medical needs. Those caring for an incapacitated person. Those caring for dependent children in the home. People receiving unemployment benefits. Those participating in a drug or alcohol addiction treatment program. Full-time students. Pregnant women. DHS projects that around half of Arkansas Works beneficiaries would be eligible for an exemption.

5 percent of income. For example, consider an individual who makes $12,500 a year: If she was being charged premiums at 2 percent of her income, the most that she could be charged in cost-sharing under Arkansas Works on a monthly basis is $35. Over the course of the year, that would work out to $360. If that same individual was on the exchange, the available plans average nearly twice that, $660.94, as an out-of-pocket maximum — and that’s only over the course of the year, with no protections for monthly/quarterly charges. Things look much worse for those who are routed to ESI plans instead of the exchange. For a work-sponsored plan to meet the “minimum value” test, it only has to cover 60 percent of average expected costs, as opposed to 94 percent under Arkansas Works. That could mean $5,000 deductibles or $7,000 outof-pocket maximums, expenses that many people in this population could not realistically afford to pay. Will the governor’s plan increase the uninsured rate in the state? Almost certainly, yes. Many will not be able to afford the premiums or the cost-sharing and will have no choice but to go without coverage. Others may struggle to successfully navigate the system and find their way to coverage alternatives in the first place. Moving this population from Medicaid to other coverage is not as easy as flipping a switch. Sixty thousand people will receive a sudden letter that their coverage has been cancelled; many of them have no experience purchasing private health insurance. The transition would require a massive outreach and education effort and excellent communication. The Hutchinson administration has often faced criticism for its failures at such outreach, including a botched eligibility renewal process in 2015 that led to tens of thousands of eligible beneficiaries losing coverage. In similar transitions in other states, even with much more extensive outreach efforts than Arkansas has ever done, attrition was significant as people inevitably got lost in the shuffle and ended up with gaps in coverage. “Our greatest concern is that tens of thousands of Arkansans will become uninsured because they are no longer eligible for Arkansas Works, unable to afford other coverage, or simply fall through the cracks because of the constant policy changes,” Marquita Little, of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said. (Arkansas Advocates for

Children and Familes have provided donations to the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network.) What happens if Donald Trump and the Republican Congress repeal the ACA and replace it with the American Health Care Act (AHCA)? The AHCA would completely unravel Arkansas Works, as well as Hutchinson’s plan for Arkansas Works 2.0. The Medicaid expansion would be completely phased out, eliminating the enhanced federal funding for new and returning enrollees starting in 2020. Without that funding, Arkansas could not realistically continue to offer Medicaid coverage for the population of lowincome Arkansans reliant on Arkansas Works under current law, now numbering more than 300,000 beneficiaries. Forget about Arkansas Works 2.0; Arkansas Works itself would be dead. Hutchinson said that he hopes the enhanced match rate for Medicaid expansion will be saved now that the AHCA is in the Senate. But even if it is, the AHCA would still completely undermine Hutchinson’s plan for the 100-138 FPL population because of the way it changes the subsidies on the exchanges. Hutchinson’s plan presupposes that the 100-138 FPL population can rely on those subsidies. The ACA offers tax credits that ensure that the amount people are charged for premiums on the exchange will not exceed 2 percent of income; the AHCA has no such limit and its tax credits aren’t based on income. The Arkansas Works beneficiaries that Hutchinson aims to send to the exchange would find themselves faced with premiums that most of them could not possibly afford if the AHCA passed in its current form. Premiums would be even higher for older people in this population because the AHCA would also allow insurance companies to charge higher amounts based on age than the ACA does. Under the AHCA, regardless of how poor the consumer was, the Congressional Budget Office found that the average monthly premium faced by an individual who is 21 years old would be $120; at 40 years old, $200; at 64 years old, $1,216. Hutchinson acknowledged this problem. “The governor would like to see the AHCA’s tax credits increase for the lower income populations to account for this issue and ensure there are affordable coverage options available outside of Medicaid,” his spokesman J.R. Davis said. In addition to drastically lowering the premium tax credits available to poorer and older Arkansans, the AHCA would also altogether eliminate the ACA’s cost-

sharing reductions, which offer cost protections from co-pays and deductibles to low-income consumers. Under current law, people in the 100-138 FPL range can sign up for plans that cover 94 percent of the average cost of medical expenses; under the AHCA, those same plans would only cover 70 percent. Under the ACA, someone who was sent to the exchange as part of Hutchinson’s plan would face an average deductible across eligible plans of $246 and an average out-of-pocket maximum of $661. Under the AHCA, costsharing would skyrocket, with deduct-

ibles for those same plans ranging from around $1,500 to $3,500 and the out-ofpocket maximum ranging from around $3,600 to $7,150. What other impacts would the AHCA have on Arkansas health care? In addition to eliminating the Medicaid expansion and increasing costs on the exchange for poorer, sicker and older Arkansans, the AHCA would also enact hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to the state’s traditional Medicaid program (the program that existed before the

ACA’s expansion), covering the elderly in nursing homes, low-income children, very poor parents, the blind, the disabled and other vulnerable populations. Such cuts would put additional burdens on the state budget or force the state to cut services or eligibility for traditional Medicaid. This analysis is courtesy of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

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OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY JAMES M. ALEXANDER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University Women’s Health Center Freeway Medical Tower, 7th Fl 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-526-7425 NANCY R. ANDREWS COLLINS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University Women’s Health Center Freeway Medical Tower, 7th Fl 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-296-1800 ALEXANDER F. BURNETT University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Gynecology Cancer Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000 ANDREW A. COLE Conway Ob-Gyn 2519 College Ave Conway, AR 72034 501-327-6547 EVERETT F. MAGANN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University Women’s Health Center Freeway Medical Tower, 7th Fl 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-296-1800 STEPHEN RAY MARKS 3343 Springhill Dr, Ste 1005 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-758-9251 HEATHER OWENS CHI St. Vincent Women’s Clinic 500 S University Ave, Ste 815 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-552-5550 PAUL J. WENDEL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences University Women’s Health Center Freeway Medical Tower, 7th Fl 5800 W 10th St Little Rock, AR 72204 501-296-1800 OPHTHALMOLOGY J. DAVID BRADFORD Retina Specialists of Arkansas 5 Saint Vincent Cir, Ste 201 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-978-5500 WADE BROCK Arkansas Oculoplastic Surgery 9800 Baptist Health Dr, Ste 500 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-223-2244

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JOHN SPOLLEN Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center Mental Health Clinic 2200 Fort Roots Dr North Little Rock, AR 72114 501-257-3131 PULMONARY MEDICINE LARRY G. JOHNSON University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Pulmonary Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1400 RADIATION ONCOLOGY MICHAEL L. TALBERT CARTI Baptist Division of Radiation Oncology 9500 Kanis Rd, Ste 150 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-312-1733

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C. WILLIAM DEATON Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 STEVE A. DUNNAGAN Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 EREN ERDEM Baptist Health Neurology Arkansas Baptist Medical Towers 1, Ste 250 9601 Baptist Health Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-0421 JONATHAN F. FRAVEL Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 JEROME J. GEHL Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 DANNA F. GREAR Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 STEVEN E. HARMS Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 KEDAR JAMBHEKAR University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-603-1595 CHARLES ALBERT JAMES Arkansas Children’s Hospital Department of 1 Children’s Way Little Rock, AR 72202 501-364-1175 AARON L. JANOS Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

KELLY A. JOHNSON Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 PHILIP J. KENNEY University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6901 DON L. KUSENBERGER Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 W. JEAN MATCHETT Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

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CHRISTIE B. PHELAN Northwest Breast Imaging Center at Willow Creek 5501 Willow Creek Dr, Ste 103 Springdale, AR 72762 479-750-6660

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KEVIN L. POPE Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) The Breast Center 55 W Sunbridge Dr Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-442-6266 JOHN P. SCURLOCK Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914 RAJESH SETHI Radiology Associates (RAPA) Doctors Bldg, Ste 101 500 S University Ave Little Rock, AR 72205 501-664-3914

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THOMAS M. KOVALESKI Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000 CUMMINS LUE Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic 10001 Lile Dr Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-8000 SURGERY GARY W. BARONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Solid Organ Transplant Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 3rd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-320-7023 CHRIS M. CATE The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 JOHN B. CONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000 DARRYL W. ECKES Cooper Clinic Surgery Center of Excellence 7001 Rogers Ave, Ste 501 Fort Smith, AR 72903 479-274-5100 WAYNE A. HUDEC Ozark Surgical Associates 3017 Bob Younkin Dr, Ste 101 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-521-1484 JOHN C. JONES The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 MAURICIO MORENO University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 6th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

RONALD ROBERTSON University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Surgery Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 4th Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-6086 T. MICHAEL STANTON Surgical Associates of Conway 525 Western Ave, Ste 203 Conway, AR 72034 501-327-4828 WILLIAM EVERETT TUCKER The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 EMRE VURAL University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 6th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8000 JOHN W. WEBB CHI St. Vincent Surgery Clinic Medical Office Bldg, Ste 201 1 Mercy Ln Hot Springs, AR 71913 501-609-2229 SURGICAL ONCOLOGY J. RALPH BROADWATER, JR. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Surgery Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-8211 MICHAEL J. CROSS Breast Treatment Associates 1792 E Joyce Blvd, Ste 1 Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-582-1000 JERRI SUZANNE FANT Breast Health Clinics of Arkansas 3401 Springhill Dr, Ste 470 North Little Rock, AR 72117 501-955-9466 RONDA S. HENRY-TILLMAN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200

JOHN C. JONES The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, Ste 501 9500 Kanis Rd Little Rock, AR 72205 501-227-9080 V. SUZANNE KLIMBERG University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 2nd Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200 KENT C. WESTBROOK University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Surgical Oncology Clinic 4018 W Capitol Ave, 7th Fl Little Rock, AR 72205 501-296-1200 THORACIC SURGERY FRANK MICHAEL BAUER III CHI St. Vincent Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic 5 Saint Vincent Cir, Ste 501 Little Rock, AR 72205 501-666-2894 JAMES S. COUNCE Cardiovascular Surgical Clinic 3276 N North Hills Blvd Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-587-1114 ROBERT C. JAGGERS Cardiovascular Surgical Clinic 3276 N North Hills Blvd Fayetteville, AR 72703 479-587-1114 H. GARETH TOBLER University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Outpatient Center Bldg, 2nd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-686-7884 VASCULAR SURGERY GARY W. BARONE University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Solid Organ Transplant Clinic Outpatient Center Bldg, 3rd Fl 4110 Outpatient Cir Little Rock, AR 72205 501-320-7023 MOHAMMED M. MOURSI University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 4301 W Markham St Little Rock, AR 72205 501-257-6917

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LIFE LINES, CONT. Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on a Grand Jette,” and de Chirico’s “The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street.” Bailin likes to say that while other artists shed their influences, he likes to invite them in, and by the time he’s finished “it’s a party”; one of the celebrants, no doubt, is his good friend Sammy Peters, an abstract artist who uses red-striped cloth in many of his works, like the red marks running atop “Passover.” Van Gogh comes to the party in “Cup.” Bailin’s mother drank coffee every morning; in the photograph that is the basis for the drawing, she is knit-

ting while Bailin and his sister play. “As I was drawing this, I remembered the cup in the Arts Center’s Van Gogh drawing called ‘Man with Spade,’ ” a cup that Van Gogh rendered with a more delicate line than the man. Bailin said his own fascination with that cup was a reflection of how his father would “come to obsess on an object or an image.” The face of Bailin’s mother, who died in the mid-1990s, is the most defined part of the drawing “Cup.” Asked about that, the artist said perhaps he could not bring himself to

ALSO IN THE ARTS erase her image. He fixed her image before erasing the rest. Faded figures crowd the drawing “World’s Fair,” the only unlayered part a sketch of man on a horse, a reference to a needlepoint pillow Bailin’s mother stitched. It could be read as a horse on a merry-go-round, and that’s OK with Bailin. That is the nature of perception, and perception is altered with memory. In the end, as Bailin writes in his artist’s statement, “Only ghosts are left.” The show closes Saturday, May 27, at the gallery, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.

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ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “56th Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition,” through 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. ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff: “Color in Space: The Art of Justin Bryant,” through Sept. 9; “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. 870536-3375. BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Historic Bridges of Arkansas,” photographs by Maxine Payne; “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: Exhibits 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: “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. 479-418-5700. 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.: “K. Nelson Harper: Lasting Impressions,” art of the letterpress, opens with reception 5-7 p.m. June 1, $5 nonmembers, show through Sept. 3; “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. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479784-2787. 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, self-guided Wednesday through Sunday, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. (Galleries free.) 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): “The Great War,” Arkansas in World War I, through June 12; “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.: “Human Plus,” low and hightech tools that extend human abilities, May 27-Sept. 10; also interactive science exhibits. 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.: “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. 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. SMALLER VENUES 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. BARRY THOMAS FINE ART & STUDIO, 711 Main St., NLR: Paintings by Thomas. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 3492383. BOSWELL-MOUROT, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “The Erasings,” charcoals by David Bailin. 664-0030. CANTRELL GALLERY, 8205 Cantrell Road: “Arkansas: From the Tops to the Bottoms,” paintings by Daniel Coston, 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: “Faces by Chalino,” work by Luis “Chalino” Atilano. COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “Phenomenal Anomaly Amily,” paintings by Amily Miori. 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 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd. Works by Byron Taylor, Sean Sapp (Sulac), through July 8. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996. 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: New paintings by Sandy Fleming Newberg, sculpture by Amy HillImler. 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, through May. 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 27, by appointment only. 680-3763. 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.: “Go West, Young Man!,” paintings by Louis Beck, through June, drawing for free giclee 7 p.m. June 15. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 660-4006. LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St., NLR: “We’re Not Telling You Everything: Words and Images from the Wichita Mountains,” photographs by Don House and Sabine Schmidt with poems by Sy Hoahwah, through June 9. 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. 762-0840. 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: 20-year retrospective of the work of printmaker Neal Harrington, through June 24. Noon-5 p.m. Mon., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 225-6257. 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, 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: “Nightflyers,” paintings and drawings by Greg Lahti and Robert Bean. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Sat. 379-9101.

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. Mon-Sat., 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. 479968-9369. 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. 479-621-1154. 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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THURSDAY 5/25

DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN ARKANSAS, 1874-1893

Noon. Old State House Museum. Free.

If the results of the 2016 presidential election have done nothing else, they have ensured that phrases like “voter suppression” and “gerrymandering districts” will remain on the tongues of pundits and politicians daily, even in a nonelection year. For a good primer, check out “Give Us the Ballot: The Mod-

ern Struggle For Voting Rights In America,” Ari Berman’s 2015 book on voter fraud and voter suppression, its title taken from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Give Us the Ballot” speech. The subject matter of the book resurfaced in the news last week for a couple of reasons: One, President Trump launched, by way of executive order, what he’s calling the Election Integrity Commission, the policy correlate to his claim that he lost the popular vote because

“millions of people” voted illegally. Two, that executive order was issued on the cusp of the 60th anniversary of MLK’s rousing speech. When MLK delivered those words in 1957, Arkansas was one of five states that had yet to fully abolish the poll tax, a fee that voting rights advocates and civil rights activists had long argued placed an unnecessary roadblock in voter’s paths, a burden that fell primarily on poor people and people of color. For this lecture, Marie

Williams, who teaches American history at Arkansas Tech University and Arkansas history at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, talks about the political climate surrounding the post-Reconstruction era in Arkansas and how policies like the poll tax and Jim Crow laws impacted voter turnout. Soft drinks and water will be provided, and if you can’t make it, check the video of the lecture on the museum’s YouTube channel afterward.

THURSDAY 5/25

POTLUCK & POISON IVY

6 p.m. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse. $100.

BUNNY HOP: The daredevils at Southern BMX Stunt Show return for Patio on Park Hill this Thursday evening.

THURSDAY 5/25

PATIO ON PARK HILL

5 p.m-9 p.m. Lakehill Shopping Center. Free-$1.

South Main and Hillcrest don’t have a duopoly on block parties, do they? Park Hill Business & Merchants Association don’t think so, so they’re throwing one in Dogtown, and it’s one that’s been growing steadily since its inception five years back. Back then, they’d often set up a DJ, but thanks to Dogtown Sound being right there on the premises, there’s now a stage with live music all night. Caleb 48

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Velasquez is up first; he’s a 2016 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase finalist with a honeyed voice, 5 p.m.; then the Gil Franklin Band, a seasoned blues rock outfit with some mean slide guitar licks, 6:15 p.m.; the ever-effervescent Dazz & Brie, winners of the 2017 Showcase, 7:15 p.m.; capped off by a set from peacelovin’ baritone Brian Nahlen and his band, 8:15 p.m. Joe Darr will be playing in the beer garden, and for those who don’t do brewskis, there will be wine and margaritas for sale, too. They’re

bringing back the Southern BMX Stunt Show this time around, and, assuming those sky-high bunny hops and ramp stunts don’t make you queasy, it’ll be a good time to try a new food truck or two. Count Porkula, Hawgz Blues Cafe, The Popcorn Spot, Repicci’s Italian Ice, Tommy’s Grill and Cypress Knee Food will be out in force. There’s free parking in the lot at Park Hill Baptist Church (C Street and JFK Boulevard), with a trolley running between that spot and Patio on Park Hill from 4:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Paula Martin — a 2017 inductee to the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame and the former host of the “Tales from the South” radio program — is back in the business of live storytelling. “Tales” ran from 2005 to 2016, and featured the music of Mark Simpson interspersed between scripted stories from a host of people known for Southern storytelling: notably, Kevin Brockmeier, P. Allen Smith, Natalie Canerday, Judge Reinhold and Graham Gordy. Taking inspiration from projects like the New York-based podcast “The Moth,” all stories on Potluck & Poison Ivy must be true (if embellished) and told live and unscripted by “everyday people,” Martin told us this week. “Not that we might not have the occasional famous person on the show, but reconnecting with each other — actually sharing a personal story, and having an audience listen without helping or injecting our own opinion — that’s the core unifying theme.” Storytellers for Thursday’s event include Kevin Kresse, Tyler Thompson and Susan Elder. Unlike “Tales from the South,” in which the broadcast utilized the music during intros and outros, the music for PAPI will be part and parcel of the show. For the series’ first two events, the house band will feature Heather Smith, an actress and jazz-inspired vocalist who penned an album of originals in 2015, “Stay Away Love.” Admission is $100 for this launch event, which includes dinner and the show (a cash bar is available) and benefits the ACANSA Arts Festival this fall. Future PAPI events will also include dinner, and admission will be $35. You can keep an eye out for those — or pitch your own story — at potluckandpoisonivy.org.

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THURSDAY 5/25

CHRISTI VEST

GIVE THEM SHELTER: Musician and LGBT rights advocate Doomstress Alexis brings her band to Little Rock for a show at the White Water Tavern benefiting Lucie’s Place’s work with homeless LGBT young adults.

CosmOcean takes its party mix to the stage at Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. It’s the monthly Indie Music Night at Revolution Room, featuring sets from Miki Gaynor, RobZion, Dusa, Bennee’ Lyrix, Fleezilini and more, 9:30 p.m. World Series of Comedy host Joe Lowers brings his stand-up to the Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., $8-$12. Rev. Britt Skarda gives a talk titled “Behind the Theme: Representation of Jesus as a Clown Figure” as a precursor to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s production of “Godspell,” 6 p.m., The Rep, free. Garrison Keillor, author and former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” gives a talk at Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker Hall in Fayetteville on his “Just Passing Through” tour, 7 p.m., $35-$55. The Arkansas Travelers take on the Midland Rockhounds at Dickey-Stephens Park, 7:10 p.m., $7-$13. Down They Fall, Elements, Abuzayed the Free and Voodoo Child share a bill at The Cavern in Russellville, 8 p.m., $3 suggested donation. Museum of Discovery makes “messes in the name of science” for Messtival After Dark, 6 p.m., $5.

FRIDAY 5/26 THURSDAY 5/25

‘DOOMED TO DRAG’ BENEFIT FOR LUCIE’S PLACE

9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

Hey, here’s something that might make Little Rock’s LGBT community/local metalheads alike jealous of Houston. In 2013, then-mayor Annise Parker signed a proclamation declaring July 5 “Alexis Hollada Day.” Hollada is better known as Doomstress Alexis, bassist and lead singer for the band Doomstress, who decided to commemorate the day by launching a benefit show for Houston’s LGBT homeless youth shelter, Montrose

Grace Place. “I’m a transgender woman in the metal scene in Houston, Texas, down here in the Southern Bible belt,” she told blogger Stephanie V. Cantu in 2015. “The metal community and the community in general here in Houston has been very supportive. Regionally, as well. ... So having all that support and feedback has really pushed me to be more active in numerous communities here in town.” Vocally, she echoes techniques she heard on her older brother’s Iron Maiden and Judas Priest records — and later, David Byron of Uriah Heep and Mlny Parsonz of Royal Thunder. Alexis has made a name for herself as bassist for Project Armageddon,

and worked as a model for photographer Gary Watson’s narrative photo exhibit, “Dear Lieutenant Governor, We’re Just People,” created in response to efforts to introduce “bathroom bill” legislature in Texas. The model, activist and frontwoman makes her first appearance in Little Rock for the benefit of our own LGBT homeless youth shelter, Lucie’s Place. Doomstress is joined by Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass, Iron Tongue (my band, full disclosure), The Cunts and drag artists from the House of Extra, including Greta Garbage, Priscilla Rock, Tom Cotton and more.

FRIDAY 5/26

LISTEN SISTER

9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern. $5.

It’d be a huge mistake to underemphasize bass guitarist Liz Johnson’s imprint on Listen Sister’s debut album, “Baby Wait” — she’s responsible for the well-placed “Surfer Rosa”-esque background vocals on the record as well as its surreal album cover, featuring what looks like a nun from the movie “The Bells of St. Mary’s” with a giant ear in lieu of Ingrid Bergman’s face. That said,

this project is the brainchild of visual artist, guitarist and songwriter Sulac, who was eager to resume making music with Johnson after the birth of her child and the dissolution of their former band, The Winston Family Orchestra. Thanks to Jordan Trotter’s sound engineering, the super-catchy pop riffs are easy on the ears but nevertheless weird. Dead simple pop hooks are bookended by moody piano vignettes like Trotter’s intro to “The Night You Didn’t Want Any French Fries,” and the increas-

ingly creepy background noises on the album’s opener sound as if the band’s on the verge of being consumed by that wall-warping electricity monster from “Stranger Things.” “I wanted to have fun with it,” Sulac told us last week. “I don’t agree with the idea that you have to sound live the way you sound recorded. They can be two separate entities. And Jordan was the best of co-pilots.” The album gets an official release with this show, opened with a set from a fellow partner in pith, Kevin Kerby.

Spotlight Studios hosts “35mm: A Musical Exhibition” at The Studio Theatre, with music by Ryan Scott Oliver and photos by Matt Murphy, 7:30 p.m., $15-$20. The Arkansas Travelers take on the Frisco RoughRiders, 7:10 p.m. Fri., 6:10 p.m. Sat., 2:10 p.m. Sun., $7-$13 Fri.-Sat., $10 for the whole family on Family Sunday. Rockabilly trio The 58 Delrays take the stage at Four Quarter Bar, Argenta, with Follow the Buzzards, 10 p.m. Core Public House in Argenta hosts a show from poetry duo Half Sestina 811 and musical performances from Jay Abbott From Cabot and The Dossier, 9 p.m. Flux Festivals brings the Zebbler Encanti Experience’s psychedelic bass beats to the Rev Room, with Sixis, 9 p.m., $10-$15. Michael Leonard Witham kicks off Memorial Day with a happy hour set at E.J.’s Eats & Drinks, 6 p.m., free. Self-described “weirdgrass” ensemble The Wolves of Chernobyl perform at King’s Live Music in Conway, with an opening set from Tai Nishiuchi, 8:30 p.m., $5. Elsewhere in Conway, Lypstyck Hand Grenade performs at TC’s Midtown Grill, 9 p.m. Moxie plays at Oaklawn’s Silks Bar & Grill all weekend long, Hot Springs, 10 p.m. Fri.-Sun., free. Canvas rocks at Thirst N’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., $5. Hidden Acres Farm, 411 Sims Hollow Road, Russellville, hosts Harmony in the Hollow, featuring performances from The Squarshers, Magnolia Brown, Dangerous Idiots, Youth Pastor, Jamie Lou and The Hullabaloo and more, through Sunday, $30. Secondhand Cannons perform at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9 p.m., free. Ride a Rock Region Metro Bus around town for Ditch the Keys Week’s Ride Transit for Free Day.

SATURDAY 5/27 A long-awaited EtsyFest comes to the Hillcrest Historic District, featuring over 75 craft vendors between Spruce and Walnut streets,

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LIVERFEST

7 p.m. Cadron Creek Outfitters, Greenbrier. $10.

It’s a good week for doom rockers. From 7 p.m. Friday til “late as hell,” the organizers say, fans of heavy music

will stake a claim on a spot out at Cadron Creek Outfitters for Liverfest. Friday’s performers include Crankbait, Sumokem, Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass, Tempus Terra, Apothecary and Colour Design with an after-show

side tent featuring performances from Attagirl, Jeremiah James Baker and more. Saturday’s lineup starts at 2 p.m. and includes Hexxus, Deadbird, Seahag, Copsodomy, Mainland Divide, Napalm Christ, Abandon the Artifice

and more. There’s a creek where campers can swim and fish, and lots of room to set up a cookout or play frisbee and disc golf. Even outdoors, some of these bands can turn it up to 11, so pack a pair of ear plugs.

any power to intervene in state affairs of its members, its goals of improving the standard of living for African peoples was often more ambitious than it was equipped to handle. Still, it was a pretty big deal. The symbolism of nearly three dozen African governments coming together and uniting behind liberation movements was a strong assertion of independence from the vestiges of African colonialism, and initiatives like the Lagos Plan of Action (1980) and The Abuja Treaty (1991) paved the way for the mission statement of the African Union: “An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena.” To commem-

orate the day — now called Africa Day — Little Rock’s African and African-connected community will come together to celebrate African culture. Event chair Benito Lubazibwa has invited a long list of vendors and artists to gather under the dome at Bernice Garden, including Korto Momolu, who will lead a fashion and dance show with her Outloud Artistry collective, the Mabelvale Elementary African Drum & Groove Ensemble, Tanzanian singer Erica Lulakwa, poet Chris James and DJ Charles Ray of BantuNauts Radio on KABF-FM, 88.3. There will be food from the Tennesseebased Ethiopian Restaurant & Coffee, and items such as hand-painted earrings from Tresses Au Naturel; Zulu-inspired

beaded necklaces from Shamim Okolloh; art from Jatzo Design; eyewear and hats from Alluring Elements; Kwetu Fashion by Tanzanian fashion designer Missy Temeke; Kenya-made children’s clothing from Mimi Mwafrika; soaps, hand cremes and facials from Perfectly Posh Skincare Products; hair butter, African Black Soap, sage mist and wood art from FloEssence Naturals; and more. In between live performances, organizers will pump Bongo flava and other African music from artists like Diamond Platnumz, and they’ll have a kids zone on site for the little ones. The event organizers stress that people of all faiths are welcome.

SATURDAY 5/27

AFRICA DAY FEST

11 a.m. The Bernice Garden. Free.

In an article from May 25, 1963 titled “African states unite against white rule,” the BBC described the conclusion of a summit in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, marking the beginning of the Organisation of African Unity. “Its primary aim will be to ‘decolonise’ the remaining bastions of white rule in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Mozambique and Angola,” the article noted. “It plans to support African ‘freedom fighters’ with finance, arms, volunteers and training bases and to close off their airspace to colonial forces.” The Organisation was no silver bullet; since, by design, it didn’t have armed forces or

FRIDAY 5/26

ZZ TOP

8 p.m. Robinson Center. $58-$200.

‘CHEAP SUNGLASSES’: Texas rock pioneers ZZ Top bring the “same three guys, same three chords” to Robinson Center Friday night.

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They are bad and they are nationwide. ZZ Top, the nearly 50-year-old Texas trio that guitarist and vocalist Billy Gibbons has alternately called “same three guys, same three chords” and an exercise in “spankin’ the plank,” are stopping off at Robinson Center on their “Tonnage” tour, and they are bringing their beards (except for the lone shaven band member, whose last name is, hilariously, Beard). Even through the band’s fur guitar-and-synth-soaked ’80s phase that gave us “Legs” and “Sharp Dressed Man,” the band is a lesson in economy, churning out rock radio staples like “Tush” and “La Grange” with little more than a few well-timed stage moves, immovable rhythm and Gibbons’ barrelhouse boogie arrangements. Speaking of “La Grange” and “Tush,” Top’s evidently been playing the pair of hits as an encore, so if you don’t hear ’em at first, holler, holler again.

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If you’re a person whose knowledge of the John Barrow Road area is limited to Sims BBQ and Baptist Health, consider joining forces with the Urban League of Central Arkansas Young Professionals group for this cleanup day. They’ll be sprucing up Union Park at the corner of 36th and Walker streets, and they’ll have water on hand for volunteers. The mem-

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bers of ULCAYP encourage all to dress for warm weather, and to either register online at the event’s Eventbrite page or to arrive at 9:45 a.m. for sign-in. ULCAYP’s cleanup event is part of a larger initiative to impact housing, health care, education and jobs in underserved urban communities and to, as the nonprofit states on its website, “empower future leaders, develop more qualified professionals of color, and serve the community that we call home.”

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11 a.m., free. jUSt (pronounced Just-Us) hosts PRINT children’s reading time and community activities for Books & Bagels at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library, 10 a.m., 4800 W. 10th St., free. DeFrance brings its Southern rock to Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. The Federalis and Keeper Keeper give an intimate show at Dogtown Sound, NLR, 7 p.m. Jazz pop artist Jay Teeth returns from a six-year sabbatical in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland to perform for the Argenta Reading Series High School Writing Contest at Argenta United Methodist Church, 421 Main St., NLR, 6:30 p.m., free. Pharaoh’s Hookah Lounge hosts an evening of Afro beats with DJ Troy G for “A Night in Africa!”, 10 p.m., 8819 Arch St., $10. Space4Lease and Helen Kelter Skelter share a bill at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, 9 p.m., $5. Bluesman Greg Binns entertains for happy hour at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, followed by Canvas, 9 p.m., $5. The Rodney Block Collective, Bijoux, DJ AJB Showtime, Keith Glason, Playa Mook and more entertain for “Pure: The All White Affair,” 9 p.m., Revolution, $15-$25, white attire encouraged but not required. Lubbock, Texas, honky-tonkers The Beaumonts join a bill with cult favorites The Hickoids and our own Frontier Circus at the White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. Ewell and Paul Grass roll out the tunes in the Disco-Tech at Discovery Nightclub, with G-Force in the lobby, 9 p.m., $10. Bluesman Husky Burnette plays a concert at King’s Live Music, with Edward Briggler, 8:30 p.m., $5. Self-described “rag tag bunch of corn-pone squarshin’ grass pickers” The Squarshers return to Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m. Rip Van Shizzle rips it up at Thirst N’ Howl, 8:30 p.m., $5. Bill “Bluesboy Jag” Jagitsch brings his “blues from the ’20s to the ’80s” set to Hawgz Blues Cafe, 5524 JFK Blvd., NLR, 7:30 p.m., free.

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SUNDAY 5/28

‘FARMERS MARKET CHRONICLES’: Memphis reggae outfit Chinese Connection Dub Embassy gives a concert at Stickyz Saturday night.

SATURDAY 5/27

CHINESE CONNECTION DUB EMBASSY

9 p.m. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack. $6.

You can learn most of what you need to know about Chinese Connection Dub Embassy’s sound from two video clips: the band’s take on A-Ha’s “Take On Me” and a clip from Live from Memphis called “60 Seconds with Chinese Connection Dub Embassy.” Backed by a melodica and singing sans microphone in front of a bongo drum instead of his signature bass guitar, frontman Omar Higgins’ vocal finesse elevates tunes like

“Heavy Meditation” and mashups of Bob Marley’s “Forever Loving Jah” with Johnny Clarke’s “Moving On to Zion:” “Every day people, are going to Canada/And every day people, are going to America/And every day people, are going to England/And no one is going to Africa/Yes we want to go, to Zion/ Yes we’re moving out of Babylon.” The Memphis quintet’s mission, as stated on its Bandcamp page, is “to motivate and encourage the people of Memphis to think more and stop reacting to Babylon’s strongholds. This group’s force will only move through Jah guidance and that’s what we stand for.”

Ying Yang Twins, the Atlanta hip-hop duo that made waves on Lil’ Jon’s “Get Low,” lands at the Rev Room for “Crunk Sunday: Ying Yang in This Thang,” 8 p.m., $20. Fox & Hound hosts a Totally! 80s Party, 5 p.m.

MONDAY 5/29 Knoxville, Tenn., alt-metal band 10 Years gives a concert at Rev Room with Black Map and Switchbach, 7:30 p.m., $15-$18. Fuzz Queen, from Washington, D.C., shares a bill with Dog Prison and White7 at The Cavern, 9 p.m., donations.

TUESDAY 5/30 Cajun’s Wharf holds a comedy night featuring music from Gavin Le’nard on the deck, 7 p.m., free. Swimwear and beach towel donations for Our House clients are collected at U.S. Pizza in Hillcrest for Lost Forty’s Project Swim Patio Pool Party, 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 5/31 The Legendary Shack Shakers raise the roof on the legendary White Water, with an opening set from Adam Faucett, 9 p.m.

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CAFE BOSSA NOVA, the go-to spot for yucca-flour cheese bread and owner Rosalia Monroe’s other authentic dishes, has added a dining room in the former Aztec Sun Tanning Salon next door. Artist Brianna Peterson has begun work on a mural of scenes in Rio de Janeiro — including the Christ, which Eureka Springs ripped off — on the wall of the new space, which has seven tables and two booths and will be where Bossa Nova’s live bands play for First Thursday nights, manager Caio Luz said. The room will be open when Bossa Nova is fully staffed, Luz said, which for now means Thursday night, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Also new at Bossa Nova: $5 caipirinhas — the Brazilian margarita — during Happy Hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Luz said the drink and wine menus will be added to soon, as well. BARK BAR IS straining at the leash, shooting for a mid-June opening, coowner Elizabeth Michael says. She and business partner Kara Fowler have decided on a menu: 10 kinds of gourmet hot dogs to woof down, including the Dijon Bichon and, she said blushing through the phone, the Red Rocket, a spicier hot dog. There will also be a tofu dog and a Bahn Mi dog, and for the gluten-free cynophilist, dogs will come wrapped in lettuce. Michael and Fowler have been advised to keep it simple, and they are. The bar, opening at 1201 S. Spring St., has also gotten its provisional permit from the Alcohol Beverage Control Board to serve alcohol, and Michael said she’s hoping to partner with a local brewery to come up with a Bark Bar Beer (ask for more than one, and you’ll start sounding like your dog, she said). Bark Bar really is for the dogs: There will be a double-gated entrance to the bar and both indoor and outdoor play areas (with an upstairs area for small dogs). The outdoor play area, in the lot next to the bar, will, of course, be fenced and will include a bone-shaped pool and an agility course as well as rocks placed strategically among the turf to keep things green. Dogs will be members of the bar — either for a day, a month or a year — which is really just a way for Bark Bar to keep records on Fido’s shots and meet regulations required of boarding facilities, though the bar will not board animals. Fowler has been handling the hiring, and Michael said “tons of people” want to work at the bar. All kinds of folks have been applying, including those who ask, “I don’t have to pick up dog poop, do I?” Michael said. Well, doggone it, you might. 52

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PROSCIUTTO ON CIABATTINI: Pesto, arugula, tomato and mozzarella accompany the charcuterie.

Fairing well Tomas Bohm continues successful run with District Fare.

here was reason to expect District Fare to be fabulous: primarily that it was the third Tomas Bohm enterprise. In 2009, when Bohm opened The Pantry in the former home of Alouette’s and Gypsy’s Grill in West Little Rock, we were instant fans and remember being pleasantly surprised to learn that Bohm and company made their bratwurst in-house. No big deal, he told us. Everyone in his native Czechoslovakia makes his own sausages. We also remember being worried, and telling Bohm so, when we learned of his plans to open The Pantry Crest in Hillcrest, because we thought Bohm couldn’t be in two places at once. His warm presence makes the Pantry even more special. He works a room as gracefully and unobtrusively as anyone ever has. But our fears were unfounded. The Pantry Crest has rocked it from the day it opened in 2014. Bohm is just getting going at District Fare. But the place is already hit-

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ting on all cylinders. And much like at either Pantry, much of the draw is the meat — served on sandwiches and packaged to take out. Of the meats at District Fare, all but the prosciutto are created by Bohm and crew in the kitchen at The Pantry. But Michael Qandah, District Fare’s “salumist,” tells us they’re about to embark on their first leg, so in a year to 18 months we can feast on District Fare’s own prosciutto. (The internet tells us “salumist is the term for makers of high-end charcuterie and sausages.”) Nine a la carte sandwiches are featured at District Fare, all $9.95 except the two-cheese melt, which is $7.95. It features a melted, gooey, stringy combination of Swiss and mozzarella, with prominent grill marks on the thick country white bread. We could have used a bit more butter on the bread, but otherwise, no complaints with this high-end grilled cheese. The ABLT features three slices of the fabulous house-made bacon (more on

that in a bit), with a generous helping of avocado and roasted garlic aioli adding a nice boost to the traditional BLT ingredients. The Cuban is not pressed, like most are, but it’s still a delight — well-seasoned pork, ham and just the right ratio of pickles and Dijon to bring it all together. We weren’t quite as high on the prosciutto sandwich because the puffy “ciabattini” halves between which the meat, pesto, arugula, mozzarella and tomato rest overwhelmed those ingredients. Folks used to Jason’s Deli type sandwiches will quickly note that the quantity of meat on District Fare sandwiches doesn’t compare. The prosciutto sandwich highlights that most clearly, but the others feature what is a proper amount of meat to create the intended taste profile. It’s just not as much as most are used to. We took out-of-town friends and our sandwiches to Knoop Park and consumed them (the sandwiches, not the friends) at the point overlooking downtown. For dessert, we had District Fare’s rich shortbread cookies that featured a modest schmear of Nutella ($1 each). It was a wholly pleasant experience that got only pleasanter the next day when we cracked into the four other items we’d purchased.

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Not only did Bohm move into Denis Seyer’s old spot in West LR, he now sells Seyer’s amazing lobster bisque by the quart ($25). It is just as luscious, creamy and just-seafoody-enough as we remember it from the Alouette’s days. We also took home a small jar of the same pate served at the Pantry ($5) and found it creamy, well-herbed and not too livery, even though it’s basically chicken liver cut with butter. We ordered four slices of the District Fare bacon ($13 a pound; $3.77 for our four slices), and it is absolutely the best bacon we’ve ever eaten. We’re huge fans of Wright’s, preferring it over Petit Jean, but District Fare takes bacon to a whole new level — very smoky, very salty, very substantial. It’s not so much that it’s thick: It’s just meaty and wonderful. Same with the smoked turkey — best ever. It’s smoky and tender and worth the $12-a-pound price tag. Besides tasting great, District Fare looks great, too. The core feature is the expanse of shiny glass curved-front deli cases that anchor the east side of the long, narrow space. But the potentially cold and industrial vibe of the glass and metal is warmed up by the wood floors, shelves and clever L-shaped two-person tables along the wall. The walls themselves are a sophisticated dark gray,

which helps makes the space feel different from a typical big-city deli. Also un-deli-like, the lighting is understated: Recessed lights provide a dim glow, and task lighting is provided only where it’s needed, such as over each table and in the staff’s work space behind the cases. We get the feeling they’d like you to sit a while. And there are plenty of places to do just that. In addition to the two-tops up front, there is a banquette and table in the back, and a bar-height counter with stools facing the Kroger parking lot. Those beautiful wood shelves in the front hold a tasty variety of locally produced treats such as the aforementioned lobster bisque and pate as well as custom-made cutting boards and District Fare T-shirts.

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Quick bite Even if you’re just popping into District Fare for a sandwich, consider taking something home for later — whether that’s Denis Seyer’s legendary lobster bisque or a half-pound of turkey or bacon. Hours 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Other info Beer and wine. Credit cards accepted.

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