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I want to say thank you for your honest, thought-provoking, knowledgeable articles. You have opened my mind to new ideas, encouraged me to ask questions and to do more extensive research about what is happening in the state of Arkansas.

I was guilty of being politically apathetic until I lost my job and was disabled four years ago, which is when I started reading the Arkansas Times. I am so thankful you chose the career you did, so people like me won’t be so ignorant of what is going on in the world around me. This has enabled me to make better decisions when I vote and to know when I am being lied to. I hate people lying to me.

You and your reporters give such current, detailed information about complex issues, such as the convoluted Medicaid mess. You show me how state issues, organizations and politicians can harm my present and future life. I’m limited in my access to people and events. I don’t get out of the house a lot. Plus, there is just too much information to keep up with. You keep up with current events for me. Your writing is clear and to the point. People make better decisions when they have access to accurate information. Sometimes our state politicians and government agencies cover up the truth and mislead the public. I like the way David Ramsey gives such detailed explanations about the medical insurance plans that are changing in Arkansas and who will benefit or will be harmed from the change. I need to know that. I get upset when I can’t get honest answers from government agencies.

One of your best, recent issues was about the backlog in the Arkansas foster care program. I was shocked that we have 4,300 kids in foster care. Until I read the article, I had no idea. You explained what part of the agency was understaffed and that applications to be a foster parent were not being processed quickly enough. Your newspaper did extensive research to make people understand what was causing the backlog.

This one-horse town needs your newspaper. Watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” I love you and your reporters for what you have done to protect the state of Arkansas. Don’t give up.

Shirl Standridge Sherwood

The GOP is no longer functioning as a true political party. Attempts at government shutdowns, politically motivated witch hunts and attempts to completely hand this country over to the billionaire class are the rule of the day. And the latest GOP fiasco, the booting out of the leading candidate for House speaker because he did something the GOP has a hard time doing these days, simply telling the truth.

What’s really sad about all this

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is that most Arkansans will continue to support the GOP. Why? Because the GOP claims to be the party of God. All a political party has to do these days is claim to be anti-homosexual and anti-abortion and many Arkies will stampede to the polls to give their support.

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Watch out for StingRays C-SPAN recently aired a congressional panel hearing on homeland security threats. The three areas of concern were border security and cyber and infrastructure threats.

Sadly, the congressmen chose to spend most of their time brown-nosing representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). None asked the really hard questions, like how these three agencies justified the unconstitutional use of StingRays, formerly a military technology, now used widely by state and local law enforcement groups against the domestic population.

With StingRays, they can listen in on any cell phone conversation without having to get a court order.

In active mode, a StingRay can disrupt and incapacitate a cell phone. It effectively allows law enforcement to worm its way around the Fourth Amendment.

The temptation to use this device for purposes other than homeland security or for catching criminals is just too great. It makes George Orwell’s Big Brother pale in comparison. And it makes me wonder, just who is being protected with its use, the people or the corporate/ political status quo?

I have no doubt that Arkansas state and local law enforcement groups use StingRays. To what extent is anyone’s guess.

I found FBI Director James Comey’s testimony chilling. The FBI’s chief function in homeland security seems to be punishment, emphasizing lengthy prison terms for kids caught trying to join terrorist groups.

Comey’s seeming compassion for “lost souls” and “unmoored individuals” sounded like so many crocodile tears to me. He seemed more interested in protecting corporate interests than the general population.

No one talked about the estrangement of American Muslim communities from general society. No one talked about the ongoing social isolation and political demobilization of our youth through things like Facebook, Twitter and the latest virtual reality games. These are symptoms of an unraveling society and are proving to be fertile grounds for the creation of lone wolf mentalities.

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“Look, these are trying times for our nation. It’s important to have a steady hand on the helm during times like this. ... And as you know the speaker doesn’t have to be a member of the House. So, therefore: Vice President Cheney for speaker.”

— U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, explaining to Politico with a straight face why Dick Cheney should be the next speaker of the House. Republican congressman Kevin McCarthy — the presumptive heir to the speakership after John Boehner leaves the position — dropped out of the running last week.

which time he oversaw the implementation of the private option, Arkansas’s expansion of Medicaid.

Who’s to replace him? Running the sprawling bureaucracy of DHS — which handles everything from foster care to food stamps — is among the hardest jobs in the state. Gov. Asa Hutchinson will need someone who’s at once a technocratic wizard, a capable manager, a shrewd political operator and a willing punching bag for irony-challenged legislators looking to beat up on Big Government.

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Judge Griffen halts executions Last Friday, Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen stayed the scheduled executions of eight men on Arkansas’s Death Row, pending a hearing on their request for an injunction. Two of the inmates were set to die on Oct. 21. The eight have filed suit to stop their executions because the state, under a law passed earlier this year, refuses to provide information about the drug cocktail to be used in lethal injections.

Griffen’s order allows the inmates their day in court, explaining that “immediate and irreparable injury will result to Plaintiffs absent a temporary restraining order enjoining Defendants from executing Plaintiffs as scheduled.”

Well, that’s hard to argue with.

Now hiring: DHS director Arkansas Department of Human Services Director John Selig will leave his position at the end of the year, the agency announced last week. Selig has been running DHS for a decade. He was appointed by Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, then served for eight years under Democrat Mike Beebe, during 6

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LOUD AND PROUD: Athena Sinclair walks on Third Street with the Triniti Nightclub float in the Little Rock Pride Parade Sunday, Oct. 11.

1982 all over again?

State Rep. John Walker (D-Little Rock), the civil rights attorney who has crusaded for decades for racial equity in local public education, filed a federal suit last week seeking to reverse the takeover of the Little Rock School District by the state in January. It’s been less than two years since the LRSD reached a final legal settlement with the state in the desegregation suit originally brought

by Walker in 1982.

The 71-page complaint argues that the ousting of a democratically elected (and majority black) LRSD board was

the result of a conspiracy “rooted in racial considerations.” To argue his case, Walker has included pages and pages of exhibits, including emails that seem to show some within the (mostly white) Little Rock business community lobbying members of the state Board of Education for takeover long in advance of the decision. The suit also says the state has done little to address academic deficiencies in the LRSD since the takeover, which after all was motivated by low test scores.

Don’t stroll in Dover A federal jury last week declined

to award damages to a Dover family that sued local and state law enforcement over a 2011 incident in which Eva Robinson and her son, Matthew, were accosted by an officer while walking their dog near their home. Read the details of the case online, but suffice it to say that before the encounter was over, Matthew (then 16) had been tased multiple time and he and his mother were both arrested, for no crime other than being resistant to the cops.

While the jury deliberated last week, a jittery attorney for one of the defendants — Pope County Deputy Sheriff Kristopher Stevens — made the bad call to reach an 11th-hour settlement with the plaintiff’s lawyer, for $225,000. About 30 minutes later, the jury returned its verdict siding with the defendants and awarding no damages. Too late: The settlement is still binding. The Robinsons at least will get $225,000 for their troubles.

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found myself Saturday in a nest of youthful Bernie Sanders fans explaining why I preferred Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nominating race.

The occasion was a birthday party at my house for Shem Ngwiri, a 25-year-old Clinton School of Public Service student from Malawi. Shem’s father works on the Clinton Foundation’s agricultural project in Malawi, meant to improve the lot of small farmers with sustainable soybean production. My daughter got to know him during her work on the Clinton Foundation agricultural and health (anti-HIV) projects in Malawi and we’re pleased to have the chance to return his hospitality.

Shem’s a sunny, bright young man who hopes to work in community organizations and maybe find a future in politics in his home country. He hopes fervently to meet the namesake of his graduate

school to ask for advice. About 30 of his classmates joined us for barbecue and birthday cake. What MAX an impressive lot BRANTLEY they were — hailmaxbrantley@arktimes.com ing from places as diverse as Pine Bluff, Wyoming and Italy.

I didn’t systematically sample the opinion of all of them, but I got engaged with several, after the Razorback game went south, in a discussion of politics.

I heard strong enthusiasm among the young people for 74-year-old Bernie Sanders and some surprise that I didn’t wholly share the enthusiasm.

It was pragmatism at work, I said. It is impossible for me to believe — once the Republican machine got done with him, for sure — that the U.S. would elect a socialist as president. Sanders’ brand

Tea party a roadblock to new highway tax

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ere’s a funny story about the changing times. In the fall of 1965, Gov. Orval Faubus asked legislators at a special session to raise the gasoline tax a penny and a half and the diesel tax 2 cents a gallon to improve roads. It was a cinch because roads were so popular that legislators always lined up supermajorities for motor-fuel taxes or any other tax to fix roads.

But Rep. John Harberson, who represented poor Howard County, voted no. He distrusted the Faubus machine with all that money to build political roads. The next year he headed a delegation of local worthies asking the Highway Commission to widen a highway at Nashville.

The commission chairman, Wayne Hampton, interrupted him.

“Just a minute, Mr. Harberson,” he barked.

“You said you didn’t need any highway work in ERNEST Howard County.”

DUMAS Harberson protested that he had never said that.

“Oh yes, Mr. Harberson,” the chairman replied. “I have the roll call right here. It says ‘Harberson — no.’ ” The delegation was wasting the commission’s time, Hampton said. The word got back home and the voters turned Harberson out of office for a man who proved to be a more reliable vote for taxes for roads and schools.

Today, that would never happen.

Americans for Prosperity, the billionaire Koch brothers’ main

of socialism is fine by me, by the way. If government can subsidize the wealthy, I don’t see why it can’t have a simple and efficient single-payer health insurance system for everyone, rich and poor.

I couldn’t help but feel a bit of irony in defending Hillary Clinton — beginning with her work ethic, intellect and backbone — to a group of students committed to public service and learning how to do it at a school that owes its existence to Bill Clinton’s presidency. But I admired their idealism, a road many have been down before.

Remember Eugene McCarthy and his anti-war candidacy in 1968 that undid Lyndon Johnson? New Hampshire looms as a similarly punishing experience for Hillary Clinton almost half a century later.

I bitterly recall Florida in 2000, when committed idealists stuck with Ralph Nader in numbers sufficient to provide the margin that defeated Al Gore (along with suspect ballot counting).

The Republican-manufactured email controversy threatens Clinton more than youthful idealism, of course.

But whatever reluctance I heard Saturday night about backing Clinton had little to do with email servers. It was

more about enthusiasm for Sanders.

Clinton’s evolution on some core progressive issues — or flip-flopping if you prefer — drew more comments. Sanders frames this as a “consistency” problem for Hillary. Sanders has shown a recognition of political realities himself lately. No advocate of gun control, he’s recently said past pro-gun votes might be due for reconsideration.

And he’s emphasizing that he’s not a socialist, but a “Democratic socialist,” in the manner of Denmark and Sweden, places with universal health care, free college education and high wages.

Several young Clinton Schoolers clearly had the burn for the Yankee all the same. I don’t, but I confessed to being influenced by years of both some personal association and Clinton’s work as teacher, mother, first lady, lawyer, senator and secretary of state. I said, too, that I had felt a similar distance from the young people’s flavor of the day in 2008, Barack Obama.

Funny that many of the idealists of 2008 have cooled on a man who has more than lived up to the presidency, in part because of tough decisions to put philosophical purity aside at times for pragmatism.

political-funding arm, claimed to have run a poll this summer showing most Arkansans would vote against their legislator if he or she voted for a gasoline tax. That apparently goes for any tax. The Kochs, who have invested heavily in the legislature and other state offices, oppose all taxes and government activity — unless it benefits their enterprises, like the huge taxpayer subsidy last year for the Blytheville steel mill in which they are big investors.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has a task force that is supposed to tell him by winter how to pay for the highway and bridge work that is idled by flat or shrinking state and federal motor-fuel tax receipts and city and county road and street aid. Its members have met and studied and consulted and despaired.

They and the governor face a seemingly impossible political dilemma. A sizable number of Republican lawmakers, the so-called tea-party faction, took a blood oath never to vote for a tax, and all the other Republicans and a few Democrats fear Koch-financed candidates if they vote for a tax or for any government program that could help the poor or that could be linked to President Obama.

Until a while ago, say 2009 (some would say 2001), the Republican Party’s take on taxes was that they were an irksome necessity, the price of civilization. Though a distinct minority holds it, the controlling philosophy now is that government is evil and taxation its method of inflicting ruin upon society.

Hutchinson is no one’s biggovernment liberal, but he is finding governing hard under that confinement.

It is still a minority of the party in Washington as well as Little Rock, but its scorched-earth dedication holds the national party in thrall. It threatens to shut down half the legislative branch in Washington to get a leadership that will do its bidding and hold the country’s fiscal order in ransom.

Hutchinson’s situation is not so dire because his party controls the entire executive branch, both legislative houses and, some say, the new Supreme Court. He has been adept at staving off a confrontation with tea partiers over fiscal matters until next year and throwing them a few crumbs, like signing unconstitutional abortion bills, throwing a monkey wrench into the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and stopping payments to Planned CONTINUED ON PAGE 42 www.arktimes.com

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Certitude of the kind recently expressed by former Arkansas governor and putative presidential candidate Mike Huckabee: “The race for speaker of the House is not about Kevin McCarthy, it’s about burning the corrupt Washington political machine to the ground and rebuilding our country.”

Even granting that Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, was speaking metaphorically, his voice is that of a fanatic or a child. During the 1960s of legend and song, only the crackpot leftists of the SDS and the Progressive Labor Party talked about setting fires. Now it’s old white codgers listening to Mark Levin and shaking their fists at Fox News.

Huckabee’s not a “conservative” at all, except in the changed meaning of the term brought about by the Freedom Caucus, Chicken Little Brigade or whatever they’re calling themselves this week. (He’s also not a real presidential candidate. Huckabee has no more chance of being nominated than your humble, obedient servant here, who rarely leaves the farm. Like several GOP candidates, what he’s really about is peddling his dreadful ghost-written books.) Presumably Huckabee himself knows all that, if his gullible followers do not.

But let GOP-oriented New York Times columnist David Brooks explain: “Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic, hyperbolic and imbalanced. Public figures are prisoners of their own prose styles, and Republicans from Newt Gingrich through Ben Carson have become addicted to a crisis mentality. Civilization was always on the brink of collapse. Every setback, like the passage of Obamacare, became the ruination of the republic. Comparisons to Nazi Germany became a staple.”

It was bad enough under President

Clinton, a moderate Southerner.

But the election of Barack Hussein Obama, a black man with GENE a multicultural LYONS background and a funny name, drove the Chicken Little Brigade clear around the bend. The willingness of publicity-seekers like Donald Trump to traffic in conspiracy theories about Obama’s birthplace and religion did the rest.

“Obama created the Tea Party,” a Republican lobbyist told The Nation’s William Grieder. “We told people that Obama was a dangerous socialist who was going to wreck America and he had to be stopped, when really we knew he was a moderate Democrat, not all that radical … . But they believed us.”

The “Freedom Caucus” not only can’t govern, they don’t appear to believe in governance. Hence 58 futile votes to repeal Obamacare, show votes that accomplished absolutely nothing in real political terms. “This hell-no caucus — the degree of purity that they’re looking for doesn’t exist,” former Senate GOP leader Trent Lott of Mississippi told the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty.

“I’m sure they’re nice people, but Washington is not a place where you can come in off the street and make it work.”

A Mississippi Republican, Trent Lott, but not “conservative” enough for the Chicken Little Brigade! But then Lott accepts political reality: Obamacare repeal can’t pass in the Senate, and even if it did, President Obama — re-elected in 2012 by more than 5 million votes — would veto it.

See, that’s what we were all supposed to have learned in ninth-grade civics: That the whole point of having three branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial — is to prevent the concentration of power and to make change incremental and compromise essential.

As former Rep. Barney Frank puts it in a thoughtful essay in Politico, “we are at any given time governed by the results of the past three elections. The House of Representatives in Washington today contains only people elected in 2014, but they share power with a president elected in 2012, and senators CONTINUED ON PAGE 57

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he only reason the second half of Arkansas’s annual, futile tussle with Alabama was so disheartening was because the first half had afforded our beloved little underdogs so many favorable oddities.

Bama had a productive half on the surface but two bad interceptions, a slew of penalties that were finally, correctly called, and two shanked field goals by another one of those unsteady Crimson Tide kickers left the eighth-ranked hosts with only three points at the break. And the Razorbacks actually made Alabama pay for all those mistakes, albeit only in one short burst. Brandon Allen’s short touchdown pass to Drew Morgan on a well-designed goal line play after the second pick had the Hogs up 7-3, feeling peppy, with 30 minutes left at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The second half was, in truth, a virtual mirror image statistically but the Tide cleaned up all the errors quickly, and accordingly ended up outscoring Arkansas 24-7 after halftime, winning 27-14 thanks to an 81-yard touchdown throw from Jacob Coker to Calvin Ridley late in the third period and two subsequent scores that were largely facilitated by what we’ll simply call “Razorgaffes.” Allen threw one interception that probably rated as his worst toss all season — back foot, double coverage, so on and so forth — but the air really went out of the tires when Bret Bielema either panicked or got inexcusably cute with a poorly designed fake punt. Both led to short fields for a foe that scarcely needs them, and that essentially squelched the momentum Arkansas had gained by putting the Tide in tough starting field position much of the night.

It wasn’t an “#uncommon” Arkansas-Alabama game, to be truthful, inasmuch as it may have still beaten the bejesus out of those 52-0 losses suffered in 2012-13. The Hogs had no semblance of a rushing attack. The Tide shifted momentum with a big play. Once the gravity of the game changed, Arkansas was helpless to try recovering it. This has been, with occasional exception, the script for this annual rivalry game, which is neither a true rivalry nor very much

of a game in most years. Nick Saban is, I can only surmise, still supremely pissed off about BEAU the Miracle on WILCOX Markham, and had I known what he was going to do to us after that 2002 fluke (he’s a combined 11-0 against Arkansas in his latest two seasons at LSU and nine thus far in Tuscaloosa), I would probably have never drunk that much bourbon in the River Market after Matt Jones hit Decori Birmingham in the corner of War Memorial Stadium’s south end zone.

Bama is utterly flawed, too. This Crimson Tide defense is quick, instinctive and deep, but the quarterback play is undeniably average and even Derrick Henry is capable of being hemmed in. The kicking game is terribly suspect. Ridley looks like a star in the making, but he’s not surrounded by a terrific receiving cadre so he may be getting heavy double coverage come November.

But Alabama’s warts hardly compare to Arkansas’s tumors. This Hog team fought valiantly again, as it did last year, but really got unsettled when Coker’s score started coursing electricity back through the 101,000-plus in the seats. And without receivers or speed to the edge, Allen couldn’t muster a lot until he hit Dominique Reed for a sharp touchdown strike late in the fourth quarter. Here is a senior quarterback who gets a reasonable amount of protection — the line struggles badly to run-block, but fares better at creating a pocket — having mediocre completion percentages because his alleged top-tier tight end disappears in big games and because his running backs aren’t even asked to be involved in the passing game.

Dan Enos may share Jim Chaney’s desire for balance, but he’s also resembling his predecessor in another way that is far from desirable. The offense lacks pizzazz and relies upon power even when that power is negated.

Alex Collins and Rawleigh Williams III went from a combined 254 rushing yards against Tennessee to only 36 on 17 total carries, not one of which

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Love is history

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otoring down 16th Street after dropping Junior off into the great rush and whirl of Central High School at 8:30 a.m., The Observer saw the young couple there by a car parked along the concrete wall of the stadium, both in jackets and school backpacks, her arms laced around his neck, in the warm embrace of a long and lingering kiss. Is there anything more beautiful or fragile than young love, or what passes for love when you’re that age? Not in the book of Yours Truly.

The Observer, on the other hand, is an old poot. We’ve been with Spouse for 20 years now, married for 18, one kid, a mortgage, one cat, and a car note. And we can tell you that love, for us, is history. Not history as in “gone” or “nonexistent.” Not in the way some leatherjacketed hood in a terrible movie might growl “You’re history” over his .45 before blasting a quivering victim to Kingdom Come. No, we mean real history. Births and deaths. Comings and goings. Weddings and funerals. Sickness and health.

Joy and remorse. Argument and understanding. Turtles and dogs. Busted washing machines. Plugged toilets. Kids with dookie in their hair. Great meals, great canoodlin’, great drives, cold beer, warm nights, pleasant mornings, good coffee.

Hot peppers. Slow dances. Holding her hair back while she puked. Hangovers.

Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” and U2’s “With or Without You.” Ray Charles singing “Georgia on My Mind” and Nirvana covering Leadbelly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” Books we have known.

The fact that she still wants to hold her husband’s hand at least once a day. Long hours sitting by campfires in the dark, staring into the flames and saying nothing, just happy to be in the presence of one another.

Doing the terrible pinwheel on the rim of oblivion, as all long relationships must at least once — and some do multiple times — before the end. These are the stitches that embroider an old poot’s love, young friends. History.

We thought of all this when we saw you there, youngsters, so full of love. Just so you know, it’s probably not going to

last, and probably shouldn’t. We instantly feel sorry for anybody who says they married their high school sweetheart, just because the world is so damn big and high school is so very small. But you never know. We will say, however, that we once were where you are now, though time has brought us to an even better place. Still, everybody has to start somewhere.

IT’S FAIR TIME! THE OBSERVER loves the Arkansas State Fair, another whirl of humanity, full of folks yearning to breathe free — or as free as one can in a place with $7 corndogs — full of light and sound and opportunities to be separated from your cares and folding cash. The Observer loves going out to the State Fair to people watch, to cow, pig, goat and hen watch, to eat and drink things we shouldn’t, to hear the carnies bark, to visit the Tent of Wonders, to pay our three bucks to see The Giant Horse! ALIVE! We’re not much on riding the rides, but The Observer has been hooked on the experience of being there since we were but a lad, strolling the Hall of Industry, collecting enough free pamphlets, pens, bumper-stickers, keychains and informative literature to stuff a mattress while munching on a caramel apple as big as a baby’s noggin. Those, my friends, were the days.

Sure, it’s not the same anymore. Not the same as the year when, at 12, The Observer ran around all day with friends from school, found somebody’s roll of $60 on the Midway, used those pennies from heaven to eat our weight in junk food, and was stopped by a kindly old woman who beckoned, made me lean in, cupped her hand to my ear, and whispered: “Honey, your fly is unzipped.”

So, not the same. Maybe for the best.

Like a wise man once said, you can’t go home again. Still, the fair provides a fair substitute for that feeling, even now.

So, come on. Toss the rings! Three for a dollar! Pay your money and take your chances, fella. Don’t you want something nice for your girl there? Ain’t she worth a buck to ya? What are you afraid of? Don’t you know you can’t win if you don’t play?

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Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) winged himself recently, rhetorically speaking.

He unloaded one of his poor-me tirades — titled “The High Cost of Public Service” — on Facebook about how the evil liberals keep going after him for doing the Lord’s work. This passage caught our eye: “In fact it was a same-sex marriage advocate who accosted me and tried to argue with me at Lowes who then decided to concoct a bit of a story to get himself attention recently.

Funny enough, that person has just announced his candidacy for the Faulkner County Quorum Court — seems he wasn’t just wanting to ask a question after all, he was preparing to launch his liberal political career and saw an opportunity to get some press by accosting me. Now that he has publicly announced his candidacy to replace Rep. Damon Edwards on the Quorum Court, I am free to state that I definitely oppose Lance White being elected to the office of Justice of the Peace. Any man who will come up in a hostile manner to another elected official and start an argument to get himself attention is not running for the right reasons — he is definitely not cut out to be a ‘justice of the Peace.’ His obvious support of same-sex marriage also doesn’t square with the values of Faulkner County and I encourage anyone living in JP District 12 to vote for Lance White’s opponent.

I never had met Mr. White before, but I have had a few people that know him tell me that he definitely is a liberal and was likely looking for an argument and that is why he approached me. I certainly hope the good people of Faulkner County get informed about that seat on the Quorum Court and elect a good person who wants to focus on Faulkner County business and represent the conservative viewpoint.

Too bad Damon Edwards isn’t going to continue serving.”

You’ll remember our previous reporting on Rapert’s encounter in a Lowe’s parking lot with Lance White, who tried to ask him a question about the duties of a clerk in issuing marriage licenses (not to a same-sex couple necessarily). Rapert announced to the world later on Twitter that he’d been carrying — was “armed&ready” for those who ask him questions he doesn’t like. That spun off into subsequent accounts of

Conservative twists to private option Some Stephen Group’s ideas would require federal OK.

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edicaid expansion through the private option should continue, a consultant hired by the state’s Health Reform Legislative Task Force recommended last week, but could be altered in a way more palatable to Republicans in the legislature.

The nearly 500-page report from The Stephen Group (TSG) suggested policy tweaks to encourage CONSULTANTS: John Stephen of The Stephen better health practices for benefi- Group meets with legislative task force. ciaries and push unemployed beneficiaries to look for jobs. These changes, policy for two years and create the task which could include imposing premiums force to look for solutions going forward. on very poor beneficiaries and a punitive To continue in 2017 and beyond, the prisix-month coverage “lockout” on those vate option needs the support of threewho fail to pay, may be necessary to gather fourths of the legislature, a tough slog given support from the private option’s conserthat most of the state’s legislators are rabid vative critics in the legislature. However, Obamacare haters. they risk adding layers of administrative Many of TSG’s recommendations for complexity and creating additional hurdles the future of the private option seemed and barriers that could threaten access to geared toward GOP lawmakers who might care for beneficiaries. be skeptical of the policy. Some legislaThe private option uses Medicaid funds tors expressed concerns or ideas regardavailable via the federal Affordable Care ing “personal responsibility” and “a ladder of opportunity,” TSG’s managing partner Act to purchase private health insurance for John Stephen said. more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans.

The policy is set to save the state more than TSG even had a rebranding suggestion, $400 million between 2017 and 2021, TSG calling for its proposed tweaked version of the private option to be dubbed the Tranfound in its report. Over the same 20172021 period, TSG also projected that the sitional Health Insurance Program (or private option would add $3.2 billion to the T-HIP). Whatever it’s called (we’ll stick with “the private option” for this article state GDP, support more than 6,000 jobs, and save hospitals $1.1 billion in uncombecause there are enough acronyms in pensated care. health policy as it is), the framework keeps the Obamacare-funded coverage expanDespite these benefits, the fact that the policy is funded by the ACA (better known sion in place. as Obamacare) has made the private option The most significant recommended change from TSG would be a carrot-anda consistent source of controversy in the legislature. With Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s stick approach attempting to push benbacking, the legislature agreed to fund the eficiaries toward certain practices for

wellness and preventative care, as well as job training programs for those who are unemployed or underemployed. Beneficiaries would sign a membership agreement that would require the beneficiary to visit a primary care physician within six months of signing and to comply with follow-up instructions. For those who work less than 20 hours a week, the membership agreement would also require participation in job training or work referral programs (note that this “work encouragement” would not require beneficiaries to have a job in order to keep coverage, which the federal government has been clear it will not allow).

The carrot would be dental and vision benefits, which currently are not offered under the private option.

TSG suggests adding them, but only for beneficiaries who comply with the membership agreement. The stick? If beneficiaries fail to comply, they would be assessed monthly premiums. TSG is vague on just how much these premiums would be, but they would likely be in the $5 to $20 range. And if beneficiaries fail to pay premiums they’re assessed, they would not only be kicked off of coverage, but subject to a punitive six-month “lockout” period — they would not be able to reapply and restore coverage.

Other recommendations from TSG: Assess $20 co-payments for use of the ER in nonemergencies. Failure to pay would be subject to the six-month lockout mentioned above.

Create a Wellness Report Card for each beneficiary, which would track critical health factors, like primary care physician visits, flu shots, etc.

Improve the eligibility verification and redetermination processes.

An asset test that would impose a monthly premium of $100 or more for beneficiaries with a house worth more than $200,000 or cash-equivalent assets of $50,000 or more.

End the Healthcare Independence Account program. This program, newly implemented this year, established what are essentially Health Savings Accounts for beneficiaries, but attracted little participation. TSG’s take: “Acknowledge when things don’t work.”

Establish publicly available health scorecards and rating systems to analyze how well the private option (and the insurance carriers) are doing in terms of BRIAN CHILSON

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INSIDER, CONT. Rapert’s fevered complaints to State Police about the imagined dangers he faces as a crusader.

You may remember that Rapert has insisted that, though his threatening Tweet was posted shortly after his encounter with Lance White, that it wasn’t about Lance White. It was about somebody else. Who? He hasn’t been willing or able to say. (Lowe’s must be one dangerous parking lot for Rapert.)

Given the vigor with which Rapert has pounded Lance White, that must have been one really bad character who really was the person Rapert was “armed&ready” to take out at Lowe’s.

So terrible that Rapert won’t — or is afraid — to identify. But surely it’s not fear. Because he is, after all, “armed&ready.”

Surviving spouse in gay marriage case dies

The Dallas Voice brings news of the death of Jay Hoskins-Stone, who won a landmark court case to be listed on the Texas death certificate of his spouse, Arkansas native James Stone-Hoskins.

The request for equity took a court battle in which the attorney general of Texas was asked to show why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for refusing to recognize the couple’s New Mexico marriage license after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibited state bans on same-sex marriage.

We’ve written about the couple before, particularly the unfriendly treatment Jay encountered when his spouse died. He was denied use of a rural church in Baxter County and given a “sympathy” card that included anti-gay messages.

We had been planning to talk more with Jay, who wrote to the Times last week, saying in part: “I had to relocate our grave from Baxter County back to Conroe where I now reside. I have one hell of a story to tell about the phone calls that led to it, how my caregiver was accosted by a man wearing a large Bowie knife preventing him from entering my truck when he was at Lowe’s in Mountain Home, that he wanted to know why he had that “faggot’s” headstone in the back of the truck.

My caregiver said he was of no relation and was transporting it to its final resting place.” www.arktimes.com

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LITTLE ROCK AND NORTH LITTLE ROCK

MEET YOU THERE Times readers pick the state’s best bars and beers.

Bar White Water Tavern Finalists: Big Orange Midtown, The Hillcrest Fountain, The Pantry, Sway

Bartender Jarrod Johnson (Big Orange) Finalists: David Burnette (South on Main), Kevin Creasy (White Water Tavern), David Timberlake (The Pantry), Veo Tyson (SO RestaurantBar)

Best bar for live music White Water Tavern Finalists: Afterthought Bistro and Bar, Revolution, South on Main, Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack

New bar Heights Taco & Tamale Co. Finalists: 109 & Co., Another Round Pub, Raduno Brick Oven and Barroom

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ew this year for the Arkansas Times’ annual survey of booze and bars: We asked our readers to weigh in on watering holes and breweries beyond Little Rock and North Little Rock. What do they like? Just as the Times’ faithful do in Central Arkansas, where the White Water Tavern is once again the readers’ choice for best bar, readers like spots with a lot of history and character. Maxine’s, the storied Hot Springs music venue, took the win for best bar out in the state; Fayetteville’s George’s Majestic Lounge and the Arlington Hotel bar won in other categories.

But it’s a new tradition — or maybe an old tradition revived — in which the Times’ Lindsey Millar is interested: the craft cocktail scene that’s taken hold in a handful of Little Rock bars, including 109 and Co. Meanwhile, wine has returned to Little Italy, near Roland. Leslie Peacock profiles An Enchanted Evening Winery.

Finally, since this is a survey of Central Arkansas bars and booze, what better place than to preview the Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival coming to Argenta Oct. 23? There’ll be 50 breweries and more than 250 beers there. Try to read ahead and not get thirsty.

SO Restaurant-Bar Finalists: By the Glass, Cache Restaurant, Crush Wine Bar, Zin Urban Wine and Beer Bar

Sports bar Dugan’s Pub Finalists: Buffalo Wild Wings, The Hillcrest Fountain, The Tavern Sports Grill, West End Smokehouse and Tavern

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Spirited Craft cocktail culture takes hold in Little Rock.

BY LINDSEY MILLAR

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hese days it’s not uncommon to find a cocktail chilled by a racquet ball-sized, sculpted ice cube at a Little Rock bar. Nor is it unusual to see lists on cocktail menus that highlight local ingredients or syrups or bitters made in-house. On the heels of the local food and craft beer movements booming in Central Arkansas, the craft cocktail scene has become the latest rage. It’s now rare for a mid- to high-end local restaurant to open without a cocktail menu that suggests a fair amount of artistry.

But at the root of the trend is something an earlier generation would appreciate: classic cocktails made properly.

That’s the formula at 109 & Co., a nearly 1-year-old downtown bar.

“Without sounding too corny, we try to make classic cocktails cool again,” owner Michael Peace says. What’s that mean? “Using really good ingredients,” Peace says. “If you’re using citrus, have it fresh; not using sweet and sour; not using the cranberry mixer stuff you’d buy in Kroger; knowing when to shake versus stir; paying attention to presentation; not filling a cocktail glass up with a bunch of little ice cubes; using good whiskey; making sure sweet vermouth is cold.”

Yellow Rocket Concepts, the restaurant group behind Big Orange, Heights Taco & Tamale, Local Lime, Lost Forty and ZAZA, follows a similar philosophy. It recently rolled out new cock-

PEACE OFFERING: 109 & Co.’s bar manager George Thompson skillfully assembles “cool” cocktails.

tail menus, or soon will, at Big Orange, HT&T and Local Lime. All of the syrups the restaurants use to mix cocktails are made in-house. The ice machines they use were chosen because they make larger ice cubes — one-and-a-quarterinch squared — than most, which are thought to dilute cocktails more slowly.

And at Big Orange Midtown, there is always at least one cocktail that has been aged up to a year in a 5-liter barrel.

“Since so many spirits are barrel-

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aged, why not throw in a whole cocktail?” Yellow Rocket Concepts beverage director Brett Bassett said. “You put anything in a barrel for a period of time, it’s going to change color, flavor and tannins. We’ve now started layering barrels, putting a Negroni [gin, vermouth and Campari] in one and then a Vieux Carre [rye whiskey, Cognac, vermouth, Benedictine liqueur and bitters] in the same barrel after the Negroni comes out.”

Many of Yellow Rocket’s cocktails came from old cocktail books, but now that its customers have embraced craft cocktails, there’s room for experimentation, Bassett said.

“People are so comfortable, it’s a trust thing. Not just us, it’s everywhere — South on Main, 109 & Co., The Pantry and others. People know what to expect.

Even if they’ve never heard of the ingredients. People trust that you’re going to make something delicious.”

Bassett’s new menus, especially the one for Big Orange, incorporate ingredients that are newly available in this market. “Distributors are taking notice” of the craft cocktail scene taking hold, “and are giving us stuff that other, bigger markets have had,” he said. For example, one of his new creations, Big Orange’s Old Brothers cocktail, includes Byrrh Quinquina, a French aperitif made from bark from the South American cinchona tree.

Of course, as with any new cultural movement that involves somewhat esoteric elements and relatively high prices, the craft cocktail scene has its dissenters.

“If you’re pushing boundaries in a market that’s not used to it, you’re going to have people who make fun of passion in any sense,” Bassett acknowledged.

“We completely embrace the nerddom or weirdness that’s associated with craft cocktails.” To wit, he said he was working on putting citrus or spirits in ice and making craft Jello shots.

As for the price point, Peace had a ready answer: “A cocktail at 109 might cost you $10 or $11. Of course, 33 percent of that is tax. But I think most of our customers know that a cocktail here equals about three if you go to other bars. It’s priced higher, but you get bang for the buck.”

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Wine returns to Little Italy With An Enchanting Evening.

spectacular view of Pinnacle Mountain and surrounding hills, cooled by a gentle breeze through tall pines. The deck is just off a large yurt where the winery offers wine tastings from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

And how is the wine? “It’s great!”

Wendy Quaid said. “Most people enjoy it.

It doesn’t taste like Arkansas wine because we don’t use any muscadine in any of our wine.” Quoting longtime Arkansas winemaker Paul Post, she said, “A little bit of muscadine makes the whole thing muscadine.”

Since getting all their permits — federal and state Alcohol Beverage Control in 2013 and state Health Department in 2014 — the Quaids have bottled 840 gallons of wine (one gallon makes five bottles), she estimates. The whites they age only about six months — “until they taste

grapes crushed by Doug Hausler of Keels Creek Winery outside of Eureka Springs and a pinot supplier in Oregon. They offer eight wines — dry, semi-sweet and sweet and a fortified dessert wine.

“The winery just kind of … seemed like a natural fit” with the property, Wendy Quaid said. She was sitting on a large deck overlooking the river valley, with a

good” — and the reds a couple of years.

They have chosen to only sell in Arkansas, which exempts them from a requirement to put the exact alcohol content on the bottles (it varies from 12 to 13 percent) and having to make labels indicating the varietal and year. The bottles have two labels — one with the name of the winery and the required warning about alcohol

(the kind of wine is on a tag around the neck of the bottle) and one that is a decorative square for a customized label for weddings and such.

The winery is 30 minutes out of town (at least), along a curvy two-lane road (with Wye on the west and Roland on the east). Does it get many visitors?

And if they imbibe too generously, can they sleep on the floor? “We do have a futon,” Quaid said, gesturing to a gathering place in the yurt, but only kidding.

They don’t get many visitors really, she said, though those who do come always return. Instead, the extended family, who lives nearby, and friends come by a lot.

“Friends will come and bring a pizza,” Wendy Quaid said, and they’ll enjoy the deck. Sometimes they have bottling parties.

People who do want to drop by are welcome to bring their own nosh and sit at the tables on the deck and enjoy the unspoiled view. Quaid — who said she’s the entrepreneur in the family — said one day the couple might want to operate an Italian restaurant on the property, and if they add places to stay, they’re thinking treehouses.

There is a cabin for rent on the property, one whose view includes not just Pinnacle but Lake Maumelle. It is a honeymoon cabin — occupancy limited to two — complete with hot tub and chocolate fondue, and Quaid said the same couple has rented it for Valentine’s Day seven years running. It’s just a few hundred feet from the Quaids’ home. On terraces down the hill the Quaids host around 70 weddings a year.

The winery’s offerings include a

ENCHANTING: The winery yurt, overseen by Wendy Quaid, and the view from the deck.

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uring Prohibition, if you wanted a bottle of wine (or perhaps some hooch), Little Italy in western Pulaski County was the place to go.

The tradition continues: If you want a bottle of wine on a dry Arkansas Sunday, you can get one at An Enchanting Evening Winery. Only now it is legal, thanks to the small farm permit held by Roger and Wendy Quaid for their winery on state Highway 300.

The Quaids moved from downtown Little Rock to their 25 wooded and hilly acres in Little Italy in 2002. They planted an acre of grapes — Traminette, Chamborcin, Vidal and Noiret — there in 2010. But the couple, who besides having fulltime jobs in town also host weddings on the property, quickly learned that unlike the Italian Americans who settled this area in the early 20th century, “we aren’t farmers.” They still make wine, with juice from

sweet red, Savant; a sweet Riesling; a semi-sweet Traminette; a semi-sweet rose blend; a semi-sweet Chambourcin (Quaid’s favorite); a Pinot Gris and a Pinot Noir, and a fortified dessert wine. Bottles range from $12 to $18 (or $24 for the fortified wine) and wine by the glass ranges from $4 to $8. Call 501-330-2182 for more information.

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CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL PREVIEW. Dozens of breweries, over 250 beers, coming up.

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top me if you’ve heard this before, but the Arkansas craft beer business sure is booming.

We’ve gone from having just a handful of local breweries to more than 20 in just a few years, with several more in various stages of planning. At the same time, local distributors are seeking out and bringing in great, established national breweries and some up-and-coming regional gems to our stores and bars.

It’s almost too much to keep up with. But fortunately for you there’s an easy way to get up to speed with what’s happening in the Arkansas beer world, and that’s to attend the Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival Friday, Oct. 23, at the Argenta Farmers Market Plaza. Tickets are $40 at the door or $35 in advance online at arktimes.com/craftbeer15.

A ticket lets you sample however many of the 250 beers available you want, hear live music from Fayetteville

bluegrass outfit Arkansauce and eat food from Arkansas Ale House, Cafe Bossa Nova, Doe’s Eat Place, Old Chicago Pizza, Raduno Pizza, Skinny J’s, Taziki’s Mediterranean Grill, Whole Hog Cafe North Little Rock and Zaffino Italian Restaurant. Sponsor Edward’s Food Giant will be grilling hundreds of bratwurst sausages.

Here are quick previews of the participating breweries:

Arkansas Breweries Apple Blossom Brewing Co. Named after the Arkansas state flower, Fayetteville’s Apple Blossom Brewing Co. has been carving out a good reputation for itself with quality core beers and some tasty experimental brews. Its 8,500-square-foot, 250-seat

brewpub is the largest in the state. Lucky for you Apple Blossom will be bringing its beer to us, serving Polka Party Oktoberfest and The Trouble With Tripels.

Blood Eagle Brewing After a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, Central Arkansas’s Blood Eagle Brewing is getting permits and looking for a future home to serve its Viking-themed beer lineup. Try its Two Ravens Black Rye IPA, Culling Cream Ale, Gozer Sour Ale, Flying Wheel West Coast IPA and a farmhouse white ale at the festival to get a taste of what this brewery-in-planning hopes to have in store in 2016.

Brick Oven Brewing Co. Relatively new to the Central Arkansas

area, Brick Oven Brewing Co. has been in production for around two and a half years at Brick Oven Pizza in Paragould and has its beers served at several Brick Oven Pizza locations across the state as well as The Purple Onion in Cabot and Old Chicago in North Little Rock. Ryan Alan took over as head brewer back at the beginning of summer; the brewery has been looking to expand operations. You can meet Alan himself and try his Ein Bier Bitte Oktoberfest, Imperial IPA, Hazelnut Schwarz Ale and intense sounding El Diablo’s Inferno, a Mexican chocolate milk stout brewed with jalapeños and cocoa nib.

Bubba Brews Brewing Co. Located in Bonnerdale (Hot Spring County), BBBC has recently started getting its beers out to bars and restaurants in Little Rock and Hot Springs. You’ll www.arktimes.com

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USING ITS COMMON SENSE: Stone’s Throw will bring its Common Sense California Common and Shamus Stout to the festival.

know you’ve found it at the festival when you see the conspicuous Bubba’s Brew Wagon, with taps of tasty liquids right on the side.

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Core Brewing Co. It’s been yet another huge year for Springdale’s Core Brewing.

Earlier this year, the brewery did a total rebranding of its product and now has stand-alone brewpubs in Rogers, Springdale and Fort Smith. If that doesn’t sound like enough to keep busy, Core recently announced a deal to get in 64 Walmart stores in Northwest Arkansas, Fort Smith, Little Rock and southwestern Missouri. You won’t have to fight the Walmart crowd to sample its Behemoth Pilsner, Leg Hound Lager,

Easy Livin’ IPA, Barney’s Red 2xIPA, Arkansas Red, Oatmeal Stout, Hazelnut Brown and Waterfall Wheat.

Damgoode Brews When Damgoode Pies opened its River Market location earlier this year in what was the home of Boscos brewpub, it also got Josh Quattlebaum, formerly of Boscos, to head brewing operations. After updating some equipment he was already familiar with, Quattlebaum quickly started turning out solid brews.

Damgoode will bring its Damgoode Pale, Arkansas Amber and Dark Cide cider.

Diamond Bear Arkansas’s oldest brewery, now in its 15th year of production, Diamond Bear tapped the foun-

A R K A N S A S T I M E S C R A F T B E E R F E S T I VA L Here’s your scorecard for the Oct. 23 event.

BATTERED BOAR BREWING CO. (6)

❏ Polka Party Oktoberfest ___________________ ❏ The Trouble with Tripels ___________________

❏ Chuck’s Pumpkin Ale ______________________ ❏ Coconut Cream Stout _____________________ ❏ Dante’s Porter ___________________________ ❏ Lion’s Tooth Floret ________________________

BLOOD EAGLE BREWING (2)

BAYOU TECHE BREWING (5)

APPLE BLOSSOM BREWING CO. (2 ON MAP)

❏ Culling Cream Ale _________________________ ❏ Farmhouse White Ale _ ____________________ ❏ Flying Wheel West Coast IPA _______________ ❏ Gozer Sour Ale ___________________________ ❏ Two Ravens Black Rye IPA _________________

BRICK OVEN BREWING (1)

❏ Acadie Biere de Garde _____________________ ❏ Bierre Noir Schwarzbier ___________________ ❏ Pale APA ________________________________ ❏ Strawberry Alarm Hop _____________________

BOULEVARD BREWING CO. (8)

❏ Ein Bier Bitte Oktoberfest __________________ ❏ El Diablo’s Inferno ________________________ ❏ Hazelnut Schwarz Ale _____________________ ❏ Imperial IPA ______________________________

❏ The Calling IPA ___________________________ ❏ Heavy Lifting IPA _________________________ ❏ Rye-On-Rye _____________________________ ❏ Tank 7 _ _________________________________ ❏ Unfiltered Wheat _________________________

BUBBA BREWS BREWING COMPANY (9)

CHARLEVILLE BREWING (3)

❏ Amber ___________________________________ ❏ Dirty Blonde _ ____________________________ ❏ Great White ______________________________ ❏ Mog’s Ol’ Red ____________________________ ❏ Oatmeal Stout ____________________________ ❏ Sandbar Pils _____________________________ ❏ Scooter Trash ____________________________ ❏ Skullcrusher _____________________________ ❏ Southern Rok ____________________________

CORE BREWING (1)

❏ Half-Wit Wheat _ _________________________ ❏ Hoptimistic IPA __________________________ ❏ Late Night Karate Kicks Coffee Stout _ ______ ❏ Oktoberfest ______________________________ ❏ Tornado Alley Amber ______________________ ❏ Witch’s Brew’mmm Pumpkin _______________

CHOC BREWING (6)

❏ Gose ____________________________________ ❏ Krebs Red _______________________________

❏ Bombshell Blonde _ _______________________ ❏ Buried Hatchet Stout _____________________ ❏ Pine Belt Pale Ale _________________________ ❏ Walloon Grissette ________________________

SPOETZL BREWERY (SHINER) (8)

❏ Shiner Octoberfest _ ______________________ ❏ Shiner Bock ______________________________ ❏ Shiner White Wing Belgian White ___________ ❏ Shiner Wicked Ram IPA ___________________

NEW BELGIUM BREWING CO. (7)

❏ California Lager __________________________ ❏ Christmas _ ______________________________ ❏ IPA _ ____________________________________ ❏ Whinter Wheat ___________________________

❏ 1554 Black Lager _________________________ ❏ Abbey ___________________________________ ❏ Accumulation White IPA ___________________ ❏ Slow Ride ________________________________

BOSTON BEER CO. (SAMUEL ADAMS) (8)

NORTH COAST BREWING CO. (7)

❏ Boston Lager _ ___________________________ ❏ Downtime Pils ____________________________ ❏ Rebel Rouser _ ___________________________ ❏ White Christmas __________________________

BRICK BY BRICK (6)

❏ Bosun’s Mustache ________________________ ❏ Eel Legs _________________________________ ❏ Running Dune ____________________________ ❏ Shark’s Coffee Pot ________________________ ❏ Unknown Shore __________________________

DAMGOODE (2)

❏ Cooperstown Ale _________________________ ❏ Game of Thrones Take the Black Stout ______ ❏ Game of Thrones Iron Throne ______________ ❏ Grains of Truth Belgian Pale Ale ____________ ❏ Rosetta Ale ______________________________

LAZY MAGNOLIA (4)

CARSON’S BREWERY (6)

DIAMOND BEAR (2)

❏ Dogtown Brown __________________________ ❏ Oatmeal Stout ____________________________ ❏ Pale Ale _________________________________ ❏ Paradise Porter _ _________________________ ❏ Presidential IPA __________________________ ❏ Southern Blonde _ ________________________ ❏ Two-Term Double IPA _____________________

FOSSIL COVE (2)

❏ TBD ____________________________________

LEAP OF FAITH BREWING (1)

❏ Ridge’s Rye IPA _ _________________________ ❏ Righteous Indignation _ ___________________

LOST FORTY BREWING (1)

❏ The Hunter Oktoberfest ___________________ ❏ Izard Chocolate Milk Stout ________________ ❏ Love Honey Bock _________________________ ❏ Nighty Night _____________________________

STONE’S THROW BREWING (1)

❏ Common Sense California Common _ _______ ❏ Shamus Stout _ __________________________

SUPERIOR BATHHOUSE BREWERY (9)

❏ Golden Stout _____________________________ ❏ Pumpernickel Porter _____________________ ❏ Scottish Ale ______________________________

MOODY BREWS (2)

❏ Cuban Pull ______________________________ ❏ Dunbar Garden Wild Ale with Pluots _ _______

VINO’S PIZZA PUB BREWERY (1)

❏ Barrel-Aged Weizenbock __________________ ❏ ESB _____________________________________

REGIONAL BREWERIES ABITA BREWING (8)

❏ Amber ___________________________________ ❏ Oktoberfest ______________________________ ❏ Purple Haze _____________________________ ❏ Wrought Iron IPA _________________________

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❏ Jefferson Stout _ _________________________ ❏ Lazy Saison ______________________________ ❏ Southern Hop’spitality _ ___________________ ❏ Southern Pecan __________________________

MARSHALL BREWING CO. (5)

❏ Atlas IPA _ _______________________________ ❏ Oktoberfest Lager ________________________ ❏ Old Pavilion Pilsner _______________________ ❏ Sundown Wheat __________________________

MOTHER’S BREWING CO. (3)

❏ Chocolate Thunder _ ______________________ ❏ Oktoberfest ______________________________ ❏ Spiffy Britches Belgian-Style IPA ___________ ❏ Towhead American Blonde _ _______________

O’FALLON BREWERY (7)

❏ 5 Day IPA ________________________________ ❏ Hemp Hop Rye ___________________________ ❏ Pumpkin Vanilla Porter ____________________ ❏ Wheach _________________________________ ❏ Zeke’s Pale Ale ___________________________

PINEY RIVER BREWING CO. (6)

❏ Black Walnut Wheat ______________________ ❏ Bronzeback Pale Ale ______________________ ❏ Old Tom Porter ___________________________ ❏ Sweet Potato Ale _________________________

PUBLIC HOUSE BREWING COMPANY (7)

❏ Hefe ____________________________________ ❏ IPA _ ____________________________________ ❏ Red’s Cream Ale __________________________ ❏ Stout ____________________________________

THE SAINT LOUIS BREWERY (SCHLAFLY) (4)

❏ Pale Ale _________________________________ ❏ Kolsch _ _________________________________ ❏ Dry Hopped APA _ ________________________ ❏ Oktoberfest ______________________________ ❏ Pumpkin Ale _____________________________ ❏ Tasmanian IPA ___________________________

SOUTHERN PROHIBITION BREWING (3)

❏ Jack The Sipper __________________________ ❏ Lazarus _________________________________ ❏ Mississippi Fire Ant _______________________ ❏ Suzy B __________________________________

SOUTHERN STAR BREWING (3)

LAGUNITAS BREWING COMPANY (5)

ANCHOR BREWING CO. (8)

❏ Elevator Wheat ___________________________ ❏ F5 IPA __________________________________ ❏ Horny Toad Blonde _______________________ ❏ Oktoberfest ______________________________

❏ Arkansas Amber __________________________ ❏ Dark Cider _______________________________ ❏ Pale _____________________________________

❏ Green Bullet _ ____________________________ ❏ Soul Style IPA ____________________________ ❏ Citra Session IPA _________________________

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BREWERIES

PRAIRIE ARTISAN ALES (6) COOP ALE WORKS (5)

GREEN FLASH BREWING CO. (6)

❏ A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale _______________ ❏ Brown Shugga’ ___________________________ ❏ Daytime Fractional IPA ____________________ ❏ IPA _ ____________________________________ ❏ Pils _____________________________________

❏ Arkansas Red ____________________________ ❏ Barney’s Red 2xIPA _______________________ ❏ Behemoth Pilsner _________________________ ❏ Easy Livin’ IPA _ __________________________ ❏ Hazelnut Brown __________________________ ❏ Leg Hound Lager _________________________ ❏ Oatmeal Stout ____________________________ ❏ Waterfall Wheat __________________________

❏ Brett C __________________________________ ❏ Prairie Bomb _____________________________

❏ Honker’s Ale _____________________________ ❏ IPA _ ____________________________________

BREWERY OMMEGANG (8)

❏ Brown Cow ______________________________ ❏ Eville Wheat _ ____________________________ ❏ Harlot Honey Blonde ______________________ ❏ Red Dawn _ ______________________________

CLOWN SHOES BEER (3)

❏ Brown Angel _____________________________ ❏ Chocolate Sombrero ______________________ ❏ Clementine _ _____________________________ ❏ Galactica IPA _ ___________________________ ❏ Hoppy Feet ______________________________ ❏ Muffin Top ______________________________ ❏ Space Cake ______________________________ ❏ Tramp Stamp _ ___________________________

CRAFT BREWING ALLIANCE (4)

❏ KCCO Gold Lager _________________________ ❏ Kona Longboard Lager ____________________ ❏ Kona Big Wave Golden Ale _________________ ❏ Ommission Pale Ale _______________________

❏ Le Merle Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale _______ ❏ Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout ________ ❏ Prankster ________________________________ ❏ Puck Saison _ ____________________________ ❏ Scrimshaw Pilsner North Coast Stellar IPA ___

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY (5)

❏ Dale’s Pale Ale _ __________________________ ❏ IPA _ ____________________________________ ❏ Mama’s Little Yella Pils ____________________ ❏ Old Chub ________________________________ ❏ Pinner IPA _ _____________________________

ROGUE ALES (7)

❏ Allegro Coffee Porter ______________________ ❏ Chocolate Stout __________________________ ❏ Dead Guy ________________________________ ❏ Farms Pumpkin Savior ____________________ ❏ Mocha Porter ____________________________

SHOCK TOP (4)

❏ Belgian White ____________________________ ❏ Honeycrisp Apple Wheat _ _________________ ❏ Pretzel Wheat ____________________________ ❏ Pumpkin Wheat __________________________ ❏ Raspberry Wheat _________________________

SIERRA NEVADA (8)

❏ Hop Hunter IPA _ _________________________ ❏ Nooner Pilsner ___________________________ ❏ Pale Ale _________________________________

SIXPOINT BREWERY (3)

❏ Bengali __________________________________ ❏ The Crisp ________________________________ ❏ Resin IPA ________________________________ ❏ Sweet Action _____________________________

SUMMIT BREWING COMPANY (3)

CRAZY MOUNTAIN BREWING CO. (5)

❏ Horseshoes & Hand Grenades _ ____________ ❏ Lawyers, Guns & Money ___________________

❏ Hopvale Organic Ale _ _____________________ ❏ Oktoberfest ______________________________ ❏ Pilsner __________________________________ ❏ Saga IPA _ _______________________________ ❏ Unchained Release No. 20 Sticke Ale _______

THE DUDES’ BREWING COMPANY (7)

TALLGRASS BREWING COMPANY (4)

❏ Blood Orange Amber ______________________ ❏ California IPA ____________________________ ❏ Grandma’s Pecan English-style brown ______ ❏ Pig Sooie Pilsner _ ________________________ ❏ Surfrider Pale Ale _________________________ ❏ South Bay Session ________________________

FINCH’S BEER CO. (3)

❏ Chimera IPA _ ____________________________ ❏ Hardcore Chimera ________________________ ❏ Secret Stache Stout _ _____________________

FOUNDERS BREWING CO. (4)

❏ All Day IPA _______________________________ ❏ Black IPA ________________________________ ❏ Centennial IPA ___________________________ ❏ Dirty Bastard _____________________________ ❏ Kentucky Breakfast Stout _ ________________ ❏ Porter ___________________________________

GOOSE ISLAND BEER CO. (4)

❏ 312 Urban Wheat _________________________ ❏ 312 Urban Pale Ale ________________________ ❏ Autumn Ale ______________________________ ❏ Bourbon County Stout _ ___________________

❏ 8-Bit Pale Ale ____________________________ ❏ 16-Bit Double Pale Ale _____________________ ❏ Big RICC _________________________________ ❏ Buffalo Sweat Oatmeal Cream Stout ________ ❏ Ethos IPA ________________________________ ❏ Velvet Rooster _ __________________________ ❏ Zombie Monkie Porter _ ___________________

TOMMYKNOCKER BREWERY (5)

❏ IPA and A Half __ __________________________ ❏ Jack Whacker Wheat _____________________ ❏ Maple Nut Brown _________________________ ❏ Small Patch Pumpkin Harvest ______________

TRAVELER BEER COMPANY (8)

❏ Grapefruit Shandy ________________________ ❏ Illusive __________________________________ ❏ Jack-O _ ________________________________ ❏ Pumpkin Shandy _________________________

VICTORY BREWING COMPANY (5)

❏ Dirtwolf Double IPA _______________________ ❏ Golden Monkey _ _________________________ ❏ HopDevil IPA _____________________________ ❏ Prima Pils _ ______________________________

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Argenta Farmers Market Grounds 6th & Main Street, Downtown North Little Rock

Buy Tickets Early — Admission is Limited

$35 early purchase — $40 at the door

FOOD (Included in ticket price.)

From Arkansas Ale House (2), Cafe Bossa Nova (3), Doe’s Eat Place (4), Edward’s Food Giant (10), Old Chicago Pizza (5), Raduno Pizza (1), Skinny J’s (6), Taziki’s Mediterranean Grill (7), Whole Hog Cafe North Little Rock (12) and Zaffino Italian Restaurant (8). Water Buffalo, a brewing and gardening supply store in Little Rock, will also be selling kits for making beer, wine and cheese and growing mushrooms (11).

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October 23 - 6 to 9 p.m.

The Argenta Downtown Council, founded in 2007 by local business and property owners, is committed to providing an environment for economic development to occur and to support the local businesses in the Argenta Arts District. The organization is recognized as a leader, advocate and resource in assuring that downtown is a safe, clean, green and vital place. The Public Safety Ambassador Program assists in creating a secure,

well-managed and welcoming environment to everyone who visits Argenta.

The Clean Team Ambassador program helps provide a clean, well-managed and welcoming environment to property owners, residents, guests and visitors of Argenta. The Green Team Ambassador program is responsible for improving the landscaping and annual color in the downtown area. One hundred and forty flower pots, 40 hanging baskets and 35 colorful beds are seasonally planted

along Argenta’s unique streetscape. The Argenta Downtown Council and its members support sustainability through the Argenta Farmers Market. The ADC contributes facilities and funding to promote and grow the healthy local foods market.

In the last five years there has been over $200 million in new or announced private and public investment, events have increased 200 percent, restaurant taxes increased 36 percent and hotel taxes increased 58 percent.

CHEERS TO YOU, ARKANSAS. THANKS FOR TAKING OUR BEERS TO HEART AND HONORING US AS YOUR TOAST OF THE TOWN BEST NATIONAL BREW.

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Gay bar Sway Finalists: 610 Center, Discovery, Triniti Nightclub

Dive bar

Patio or deck for drinking Cajun’s Wharf Finalists: Ciao Baci, The Hillcrest Fountain, Leo’s Greek Castle, U.S. Pizza (Hillcrest)

White Water Tavern

Coldest beer

Finalists: The Hillcrest Fountain, Midtown Billiards, Pizza D’Action, Town Pump,

U.S. Pizza

Hotel bar

Finalists: The Hillcrest Fountain, Pizza Cafe, The Tavern Sports Grill, Twin Peaks

Capital Bar and Grill

Cocktail list

Finalists: Marriott Lobby Bar, One Eleven, Table 28

Capital Bar and Grill

Neighborhood bar The Hillcrest Fountain Finalists: Afterthought Bistro and Bar, Ciao Baci, Dugan’s Pub, South on Main

Bar for pool, darts, shuffleboard or other games The Hillcrest Fountain Finalists: Joubert’s Tavern, Town Pump, Zack’s Place, West End Smokehouse and Tavern

Bloody Mary Capital Bar and Grill Finalists: Big Orange Midtown, Dugan’s Pub, SO Restaurant-Bar, South on Main

Diamond Bear Two Term Double IPA

Colonial Wines and Spirits

Finalists: Blue Canoe Razorback RyePA, Lost Forty Rockhound Imperial IPA, Moody Brews Hal Seas Over Imperial IPA, Vino’s Pinnacle IPA

Finalists: 107 Liquor, Legacy Wine & Spirits, O’Looney’s Wine and Liquor, Sullivant’s Liquor

Locally brewed stout

Lost Forty

Stone’s Throw Shamus Stout

Brewpub Finalists: Damgoode Pies (River Market), Diamond Bear Ale House, Vino’s

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Celebrating our 40th Anniversary all month. Specials offered through Oct. Check our FB page daily to see anniversary specials.

Martini 109 & Co. Finalists: Capital Bar and Grill, Ciao Baci, The Pantry, Ristorante Capeo

Local brewery

The Pantry

Lost Forty

Finalists: Capital Bar and Grill, Big Orange, Reno’s Argenta Cafe, South on Main

Finalists: Blue Canoe Brewing Co., Diamond Bear Brewing Co., Moody Brews, Stone’s Throw Brewing

Happy hour

National brew

The Pantry

Boulevard Brewing Co.

Finalists: Big Orange Midtown, The Hillcrest Fountain, South on Main, Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack

Finalists: Founders, Green Flash Brewing Co., Mother’s Brewing Co., Summit Brewing Co.

Drinking brunch

Locally brewed pale ale

Finalists: Afterthought Bistro and Bar, Loca Luna, SO Restaurant-Bar, YaYa’s Euro Bistro

Liquor store

Finalists: 109 & Co., Big Orange Midtown, Kemuri Japanese Restaurant, South on Main

Bar for food

U.S. Pizza (Hillcrest)

Locally brewed IPA

Lost Forty Pale Ale Finalists: Blue Canoe 4X4 Pale Ale, Damgoode Pale Ale, Diamond Bear Pale Ale, Stone’s Throw Bernoulli’s Belgian Pale Ale

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CURRENT PROFESSIONAL TEAMS Arkansas Ale House Country Club of Arkansas Midtown Billiards SO Restaurant-Bar Clinton Presidential Center Simply the Best Catering (Brian Kearns, Winner in 2013)

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DOORS OPEN AT 5:00 AND FOOD IS SERVED AT 6:30!

BEER & WINE GARDEN

Gated festival area selling beer & wine ($5 each).

Loblolly ice cream will be for sale.

Ticket holders will cast all the votes via “Tokens” Three tokens will be provided to all ticket holders, additional tokens are available for sale Three Winners will be chosen: PEOPLE’s CHOICE FOR Best Professional Team, Best Amateur Team and the Best Amateur “No Butts About It” Team.

WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING:

AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL TEAMS Deadline to enter: October 30

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the Central Arkansas beer scene with wildly popular beers available at what seems like every restaurant, bar, liquor store and even Kroger around the area. It will share one of its staples, Love Honey Bock, as well as The Hunter Oktoberfest, Izard Chocolate Milk Stout and the wonderful three-barrel-aged (aged in bourbon, rye whiskey and Cabernet barrels), 9.8 percent ABV imperial stout Nighty Night.

Moody Brews Former Vino’s brewmaster Josiah Moody launched Moody Brews last year with an already proven recipe for success (see Evil Twin and Prairie Ales). He’s “gypsy brewing” — brewing and bottling his new beers at another brewery, Choc Brewing Co. in Krebs, Okla. He’s spent a lot of time this past year creating and crafting beer at the Damgoode Brews location, such as a wonderful beer he named for his daughter, Aria’s Bier, a petite saison with orange peel and hibiscus flowers.

Try that one as well as a locally crafted Dunbar Garden Wild Ale with Pluots and Cuban Pull, aged in Rocktown Whiskey barrels.

Stone’s Throw Brewing It’s hard to believe that Little Rock’s Stone’s Throw opened in 2013 as something of a pioneer in Central Arkansas’s booming craft beer scene. This year Stone’s Throw expanded the brew house (again), added an outdoor seating area/beer garden and threw an anniversary block party for the ages. Stone’s Throw is bringing its Common Sense California Common and Shamus Stout to the festival.

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Superior Bathhouse Brewery Since opening in 2013 on Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Superior Bathhouse Brewery only sold beer from other breweries until this past year when it became the country’s first brewery inside a national park. While that’s unique, it’s not even the best part: Superior makes its beer with thermal hot spring water that is pumped into the bathhouse at nearly 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Meet owner and co-brewer Rose Schweikhart and try some of her Scottish Ale, Pumpernickel Porter and clear (yes, clear) Golden Stout at her booth.

Vino’s Pizza Pub Brewery An Arkansas institution for over 20 years, Vino’s continues to make quality beer. Nobody else can lay claim to over two decades of beer making and selling in this state, and Vino’s is also one of only two breweries in the state with multiple Great American Beer Festival awards. Stop by its table and try the Barrel-Aged Weizenbock and ESB.

Regional breweries Abita Brewing Co. Located in Abita Springs, La., just 30 miles north of the Big Easy, Abita (est. 1986) brews 130,000 barrels (and 5,000 barrels of delicious root beer) per year.

Abita is sold in 46 states and Puerto Rico and is the 15th largest craft brewery in the country. You can try the brewery’s flagship Amber, award-winning Oktoberfest, Purple Haze (a lager brewed with real raspberries), one of the Harvest series beers and Wrought Iron IPA at the festival.

Battered Boar Brewing Co. New to Arkansas this year, Battered Boar of Edmond, Okla., is another in the line of good breweries from the Sooner state to enter the Arkansas market. Brewmaster Mike Sandefur will be on hand to share and discuss his Coconut Cream Stout, Chuck’s Pumpkin Ale, Dante’s Porter and Lion’s Tooth Floret, an American Farmhouse Ale brewed with dandelions.

Bayou Teche If you like Cajun food, then Bayou Teche just may be your new favorite brewery. The Arnaudville, La., brewery crafts beers that complement the cuisine and lifestyle of Cajuns and Creoles. It’s come a long way from its 2009 start in an old railway car.

Stop by and try Acadie Biere de Garde, Bierre Pale APA, Bierre Noir Schwarzbier and Strawberry Alarm Hop. Boulevard Brewing Co. Central Arkansas beer lovers are already very familiar with Boulevard Brewing Co. out of Kansas City, Mo., as it was one of our original craft breweries in the area when the craft beer movement took hold. The brewery has

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expanded many times over the years.

Today, it’s the largest craft brewer in the Midwest, cranking out over 600,000 barrels a year. In 2013, Boulevard was acquired by Duvel Moortgat Brewery and while terms of the

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deal were not disclosed, industry analysts estimate the sale price exceeded $100 million. Boulevard will be pouring Tank 7, The Calling IPA, Unfiltered Wheat, Rye-On-Rye and Heavy Lifting IPA.

Charleville What started as a winery in Sainte Genevieve, Mo., has branched into a nice-sized brewery operation with a

new brew house situated in the hills just south of St. Louis, along with the winery and a refurbished 1860s log cabin that serves as a two-room bed and breakfast. It’s a bit hard to find, but, trust me, it’s well worth a visit. You won’t

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Krebs Brewing Co. A new brewing system has given Oklahoma’s Krebs Brewing a jump in capacity, which has allowed them to produce more of its own beer as well as more for Prairie Artisan Ales, which it brews on contract. Look for Choc Krebs Red, Choc Gose, Prairie Brett C and Prairie Bomb, an amazing imperial stout aged on Nordaggio’s espresso beans, chocolate, vanilla beans and ancho chile peppers.

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Coop Ale Works Oklahoma City has become a hotspot in the Midwest for craft beer in the last few years and Coop Ale Works, which opened in 2009, was one of the frontrunners in that movement. It’s been trying to get on Arkansas shelves for about a year but was selling so much beer in Oklahoma it’s only recently been able to make the jump and land in Arkansas. Look for the brewery’s popular F5 IPA, Elevator Wheat, Oktoberfest and Horny Toad Blonde.

Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. Lazy Magnolia is Mississippi’s first package brewery since Prohibition. It’s been available in Arkansas for several years now and has a good footprint throughout the South with a nice lineup of what could be called “Southern style” beers.

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an earthy, faintly sweet character, and Southern Pecan is a nut-brown ale made with whole roasted pecans. What’s more Southern than pecans and sweet potatoes? Look for the Southern Pecan, Lazy Saison, Southern Hop’spitality and Jefferson Stout at their booth.

Marshall Brewing Co. Marshall became Tulsa’s first production craft microbrewery since the 1940s when it began operations in spring 2008. Brewmaster/founder Eric Marshall is a fourth-generation Tulsan who apprenticed in multiple breweries throughout Germany and served as a brewer at the Victory Brewing Co. before starting his own brewery. Marshall will pour Sundown Wheat, Oktoberfest Lager, Atlas IPA and Old Pavillion Pilsner.

Mother’s Brewing Co. At last year’s festival, Mother’s out of Springfield, Mo., had just arrived in Central Arkansas. A year later I’ve become so familiar with its wonderful beers, it feels like an old friend. Stop by and meet owner Jeff Schrag and try his Towhead American Blonde, Oktoberfest, Chocolate Thunder porter and Spiffy Britches Belgian-Style IPA. O’Fallon The motto of this small craft brewery northwest of St. Louis is, “We love beer.” I like that. It’s straightforward and right to the point, which goes right along with many of its beers. A change in local distributors had it out of the area for a short bit, but it’s recently reappeared, so you might need to make up for lost time. Try the 5 Day IPA, Zeke’s Pale Ale, Pumpkin Vanilla Porter, Hemp Hop Rye and Wheach, a delicious wheat/peach brew, at the festival.

Piney River Brewing Co. You know what I like about Piney River? Just about everything. I like that Joleen and Brian Durham founded Piney River Brewing Co. on their farm in southcentral Missouri in 2010, after making beer on the kitchen stove and fermenting it in the basement of their 100-year-old farmhouse. I like that they revived a 70-year-old barn hewn from oak trees harvested off

the farm and use it for their brewery and taproom. I like that when you visit there, you leave feeling like family. Oh, and I also like that their beers are fantastic and have won medals at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup in the last couple of years. They’ll pour Black Walnut Wheat, Old Tom Porter, Bronzeback Pale Ale and Sweet Potato Ale. Public House Public House Brewery of Rolla, Mo., is another new addition to Arkansas, having only arrived last month. If you haven’t had its beers yet, you’ll have the perfect opportunity to taste what it’s about as it will be pouring its Stout, Hefe, IPA and Red’s Cream Ale. The Saint Louis Brewery The Saint Louis Brewery was incorporated in 1989

by Dan Kopman and Tom Schlafly with a goal to create quality local microbrew beer. Their brand, Schlafly Beer, has grown into a monster in the St. Louis area and surrounding states and is now St. Louis’ largest locally owned independent brewery and puts out about 50 unique styles of beer. It’s been in our state for a bit and has more quality beers in its portfolio than the St. Louis Cardinals have World Series rings (that’s a lot). Look for Pale Ale, Kolsch, Dry Hopped APA, Tasmanian IPA, Oktoberfest and Pumpkin Ale, which is one of the best pumpkin beers going at the festival.

Spoetzl B r e w e r y Located in Shiner, Texas, Spoetzl was founded way back in 1909, and is the oldest independent brewery in Texas and the fifth-largest craft brewery in America, based on 2014 beer sales volume. It produces the popular line of Shiner Beers, including the flagship fivetime Great American Beer Festival medal-winning Shiner Bock, a beer that many people claim as their “gateway beer” into craft beer (including me). Spoetzl will pour that classic beer plus its White Wing Belgian White, Octoberfest and either Ruby Redbird or possibly the new Wicked Ram IPA, Spoetzl’s first-ever IPA.

Southern Prohibition The only brewery in Hattiesburg, Miss., is aiming to get its beer on our shelves soon. In spring, it celebrated its second anniversary and only recently opened a new taproom just down the road from the University of Southern Mississippi’s campus. Get some samples of Suzy B Dirty Blonde Ale, Mississippi Fire Ant Imperial Red Ale, Lazarus Abbey Quad and Jack The Sipper ESB. Southern Star Brewing Co. Southern Star was founded in July 2007 in Conroe, Texas, and was the first craft brewery in Texas to provide canned craft beers to consumers. Southern Star is moving into a new, larger brewery soon that founder Dave Fougeron, former head brewer of Houston-based Saint Arnold Brewing Co., hopes will not only expand capacity but also attract more visitors for tours, special events and, perhaps at some future date, overnight stays in an adjacent bed-and-breakfast.

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borrowed from friends and family to start the operation in 1984, brewing the first batch in his kitchen. In the 40 years since, the brewery has grown to now sell over 2.5 million barrels of more than 50 different beers per a year. It’ll be pouring the granddaddy of craft beers, Boston Lager, plus Rebel Rouser double IPA, White Christmas and Downtime Pils.

Brick by Brick This brewery is so brandspanking-new to our state I just don’t know a whole lot about it yet, other than it’s based in Lithuania and the beers have interesting names. But what better time to learn about a brewery than sampling their beers at a festival? Look for their Bosun’s Mustache, Eel Legs, Running Dune, Shark’s Coffee Pot and Unknown Shore at their table.

Carson’s New to Arkansas this year, Carson’s Brewery of Evansville, Ind., opened its 20-barrel brew house in 2013 and has already added some hardware to its trophy case. In 2014 it brought home a gold medal from the GABF for American-style wheat beer with its Red Dawn. Try this beer, plus Eville Wheat, Harlot Honey Blonde and Brown Cow Brown Ale while you chat with founder Jason Carson.

Anchor Brewing Co. Today’s craft beer craze owes a lot to San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Co., one of the original craft breweries. Founded in 1896, Anchor Steam derives its unusual name from the 19th century when “steam” was a nickname for beer brewed on the West Coast under primitive conditions and without ice. Today, Anchor Steam has trademarked “steam” as the singular process and taste of its flagship brand. The brewery will serve its namesake Steam along with Anchor IPA, Whinter Wheat, California Lager and Anchor Christmas.

Clown Shoes Making its Arkansas debut at the festival will be Clown Shoes Beer, whose mission is “to produce beer without pretension while being free and a little crazy.” Based in Ipswich, Mass., its beer is brewed in the same city as Mercury Brewing Co. (Ipswich Ale Brewery). If the names and labels are any indication of what we can expect, this brewery is going to be a lot of fun to have around.

It’s pouring samples of Clementine witbier, Galactica IPA, Hoppy Feet, Tramp Stamp Belgian IPA, Muffin Top hoppy Belgian-style tripel, Brown Angel double brown ale, Space Cake double IPA and Chocolate Sombrero, a Mexicanstyle chocolate stout.

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Redhook Brewery, established in Seattle in 1981, and Widmer Brothers Brewing, established in Portland, Ore., in 1984.

Kona Brewing Co., Hawaii’s oldest and largest craft brewery established in 1994, was the third legacy brewer to join the Alliance in 2008. It has also developed Omission Beer, established in 2012 and already the No. 1 beer in the glutenfree beer category. The Alliance is pouring Kona Longboard Lager, Kona Big Wave Golden Ale, KCCO Gold Lager and gluten-free Omission Pale Ale at the festival.

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Crazy Mountain This brewery hails from ski resort heaven Vail Valley in beer-rich Colorado where it claims to be “basically loving life in the beautiful Rocky Mountains.” Sounds like a tough gig. It’ll be bringing some of that mountain love with it, so look for Horseshoes & Hand Grenades ESB and intense 10 percent ABV, 80 IBU barley wine Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Dude’s Brew With a motto like, “Happy Dudes make great brews, and great brews make people happy,” I think it’s safe to expect this new entry to the state to bring its laid-back California vibe with it in liquid form. It won’t be quite like hanging out on the beach while you’re drinking it, but stop by to try Blood Orange Amber, California IPA, Grandma’s Pecan English-style Brown, Surfrider Pale Ale,

South Bay Session and a special draft tap of Pig Sooie Pilsner.

Finch’s Chicago-based Finch’s is another brewery leading the canned beer revolution with a whole line of pint cans available on local shelves. With an expanded facility established in 2013 and plans for a new brewery and tasting room by 2016, Finch’s is on pace to be one of the largest microbreweries

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Things couldn’t be farther from the truth in the three years since, in my experience. It seems deep pockets have given Goose Island brewers space to grow the brewery’s more experimental lines of beer, while the quality of its staples hasn’t suffered in the least. The brewery will be pouring an impressive lineup, including Honker’s Ale, 312 Urban Wheat, 312 Urban Pale Ale, Autumn Ale, Goose Island IPA and the incredible Bourbon County Stout.

Green Flash Headquartered in the Mira Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, Green Flash was founded in 2002, and its beers have garnered 11 medals at the Great American Beer Festival, including a gold this year for Le Freak. Green Flash’s focus is on very hop-forward beers, which the West Coast is known for delivering. You’ll get to try some of Green Flash’s hop-forward beers, including the hop monster Green Bullet triple IPA, Soul Style IPA and Citra Session IPA. Lagunitas Another new arrival to Arkansas this year, Lagunitas is the fifth-highestselling craft brewery in the U.S., as of 2014, and has breweries in two cities, Petaluma, Calif., and Chicago. It is on pace to produce more than 800,000 barrels of beer in 2015. In September, it announced that Heineken International would acquire a 50 percent stake in the company to help it expand its operations globally.

Stop by its table and try its fantastic IPA, A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale, Pils, Daytime Fractional IPA and Brown Shugga’ American strong ale.

New Belgium Brewing Co. New Belgium was opened in Fort Collins, Colo., in 1991 and is now the fourth-largest craft brewery in the country based on volume of beer sales. Now with a second production facility in the works in Asheville, N.C., scheduled to open in November, New Belgium will soon become even bigger with a much easier coast-to-coast reach. Along the way it’s

won 28 medals at the Great American Beer Festival and its flagship Fat Tire has become one of the most recognizable craft beers in the country. At the festival it’ll be pouring Slow Ride, Accumulation white IPA, Abbey, 1554 black lager and some beers from its Folly Pack.

North Coast Another pioneer in the craft beer movement, North Coast Brewing Co. opened in 1988 as a local brewpub in the historic town of Fort Bragg, located on California’s Mendocino coast. Under the leadership of brewmaster Mark Ruedrich, North Coast has developed a strong reputation for quality, having won more than 70 awards in national and international competitions. Look for Le Merle Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale, Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, Prankster, Scrimshaw Pilsner, Stellar IPA and Puck Saison.

Ommegang Brewery Ommegang, located on a 136-acre farmstead in Cooperstown, N.Y., is regarded by many as the most beautiful brewery in America. The company opened in 1997 to brew fine Belgianstyle craft beers, now distributed in 45 states. Look for Game of Thrones Take The Black Stout, Game Of Thrones Iron Throne, Grains of Truth Belgian Pale Ale, Cooperstown Ale and its new Rosetta Ale, which is matured on cherries.

Oskar Blues Another brewery new to the state, the Lyons, Colo., brewery is one of the pioneers of craft beer in cans. In 2012, it expanded and established another brewery in Brevard, N.C., and is now the 24th-largest craft brewery in the United States.

Stop by and try Dale’s Pale Ale, IPA, Mama’s Little Yella Pils, Pinner IPA and Old Chub.

Rogue Ales Another early pioneer for American craft beer, Rogue Ales was founded in Oregon in 1988 by three Nike executives. All it’s done since then is win 29 medals at the Great American Beer Festival and rank as the 32nd-largest craft brewery in the country. It’s known for a large and unique variety of beers. It’ll be pouring its classic Rogue Dead Guy, Chocolate Stout,

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Shock Top Another brewery under the Anheuser-Busch InBev umbrella, Shock Top is focused on making sessionable, spicy wheat-style beers.

Shock Top’s original beer, a traditional Belgian-style wheat ale, started collecting medals back in 2006, and quite a few offshoots with different fruit twists have come along since then. You’ll get a chance to try Belgian White, Raspberry Wheat, Honeycrisp Apple Wheat, Pretzel Wheat and Pumpkin Wheat.

S i e r r a Nevada Brewing Co. Since its humble beginnings in Chico, Calif., back in 1979, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is considered one of the earliest and most influential breweries. It helped spawn the craft beer movement in the country and has established its Pale Ale as one of the most iconic craft beers in American history. The nation’s third-largest craft brewery, it cranks out about 800,000 barrels a year from its two locations in California and North Carolina. It will be pouring its Pale Ale plus Hop Hunter IPA and Nooner Pilsner.

Sixpoint Brewery Brooklyn’s Sixpoint Brewery arrived in Arkansas earlier this year with the motto “Beer is Culture” and a portfolio of unique beers, often blurring the style guidelines followed by many breweries. With slim cans that look more like energy drinks, the com-

pany makes sure it stands out on the shelf as much as its flavors stand out on your palate. Try Bengali IPA, The Crisp Pilsner, Resin IPA and Sweet Action at the festival.

Summit Brewing Co. Summit, of Saint Paul, Minn., was founded in 1986 in an old auto parts warehouse and now ranks 28th on the list of biggest American craft breweries. It’s been in Arkansas for over a year now and many of its beers are mainstays at local establishments with a lineup of regular beers that are true to style. In addition, creativity in the form of seasonals and its Unchained Series also keeps fresh ideas flowing from the brewery to the area. It’s pouring its Saga IPA, Pilsner, Oktoberfest, Hopvale Organic Ale and Unchained Release No. 20 Sticke Ale, a limited release sticke alt Dusseldorf-style ale.

Tallgrass Brewing Co. Tallgrass is based in Manhattan, Kan., a town nestled in the Flint Hills and surrounded by the Tallgrass Prairie. In 2010 it began packaging its beers exclusively in cans instead of bottles. The beers brewed by Tallgrass are now sold in cans and on tap in 14 states, mostly in the Midwest, and the brewery just moved into a new, larger facility across town. At the festival, you can try the Buffalo Sweat Oatmeal Cream Stout, Zombie Monkie Porter, Ethos IPA, 16-Bit Double Pale Ale, Velvet Rooster, 8-Bit Pale Ale and Big RICC, a 10.5 percent ABV Russian imperial stout with coffee.

Tommyknocker Brewery What’s about two-feet tall, grizzled, lives underground, wears miners garb, commits random mischief and knocks on mine

walls to warn of caveins? Tommyknockers, of course, according to Welsh folklore. So it only makes sense that Tommyknocker Brewery is nestled in the beautiful mining town of Idaho Springs, Colo., 30 miles west of Denver. The brewery has won 17 medals at the Great American Beer Festival alone through the years.

Tommyknocker will pour Small Patch Pumpkin Harvest Ale, IPA and A Half, Maple Nut Brown and Jack Whacker Wheat.

Traveler Beer Co. The Traveler Beer Co. began with a phone call between Alan Newman, founder of Magic Hat Brewing, and Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer Co. That conversation begat the Alchemy and Science project, which then produced the Traveler Beer Co. Launched within the last year, it’s now already available in all 50 states with a focus on lighter, flavorful craft shandies in this world of big beers. Look for the Jack-O Traveler Pumpkin Shandy and Illusive Traveler Grapefruit Shandy at the festival.

Victory B r e w i n g Founded in 1996 in Downingtown, Pa., Victory Brewing’s 2014 annual production was slightly over 125,000 barrels, landing it at No. 29 among American craft breweries in sales volume. It’s now in 34 states and has a rapidly growing international distribution as well. It was welcomed to our state earlier this year and will be serving up its HopDevil IPA, Dirtwolf Double IPA, Golden Monkey BelgianStyle Tripel and Prima Pils.

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And it’s that frustration that probably causes more grumbling about Bret Bielema at this point than anything else. The team is clearly in better shape in a global analysis than it has been in a good bit, but still 2-4 overall, 1-2 in the SEC, and unusually punchless against higher-level competition. Even the shutouts of LSU and Ole Miss last fall were built upon modest performances by the biggest but by no means best offensive linemen in the free world. The Rebels, in fact, managed to outgain the Hogs despite being on the receiving end of a 30-0

score. Bielema is 3-16 in conference games, and arguably the best offensive performances by his teams in that ugly stretch have occurred in losses (namely, three games against Texas A&M, a pretty fine shootout in Baton Rouge in 2013, and a furious but ultimately meaningless comeback effort against Georgia last year). The team just doesn’t score much, and right now, this league does place a premium on points.

A week off could help from a health and wellness standpoint.

Keon Hatcher and Jared Cornelius may not be coming back against Auburn on Oct. 24, or even against Tennessee-Martin the following weekend, but it is a window of time where those two receivers can perhaps accelerate their recovery, and it is a part of the schedule that may give the team a legitimate shot at evening up its overall and league records. Auburn has struggled mightily and is ripe for an overdue whipping; but then again, it is way past time for Arkansas to level somebody, anybody with style. Winning ugly, after all, only is appealing when you are also winning often.

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oot beer can be hit or miss. Let’s all just agree to start from here: Most of the stuff you’ll find in your local grocery store in blow-molded plastic bottles qualifies as a “miss.”

One surprising place that you can get a flavorful, complicated root beer, however, is at North Little Rock’s temple of non-root-derived beers, Diamond Bear Brewery. Its Big Rock Root Beer is excellent stuff — spicy, earthy, with lovely foam and chock-full of pure cane sugar. If childhood has a flavor, that’s probably it.

The good news for those who have struggled to find Diamond Bear root beer on tap locally is that the brew will

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be available in bottles in nearly every place Diamond Bear beers are sold by the end of the year. Even better news for grownup fans of their root beer is that Diamond Bear is currently working on the formula for a “hard” version, promising similar flavor and an adult beverage kick.

Jesse Melton is the brewmaster at Diamond Bear. When he started, he was actually below the age when he could legally drink the beer he was brewing. Instead, he tried to drink the bottom out of the root beer supply. He drank gallons of it, to the point he almost burned himself out on the sugary concoction.

“We actually started out doing it as just something to have when parents brought their children in, or so adults who didn’t drink beer would have another option when they were at the brewery,” Melton said. “Through the years, it has really picked up. It never really picked up enough for us to go into bottles until now.”

Melton said the brewery’s nonalcoholic root beer will be in bottles at major local retailers such as Walmart, Kroger and Whole Foods within a month and a half to three months. He said the hope is that bars and restaurants that were previously reluctant to dedicate a tap to a nonalcoholic drink will also be willing to keep a few cases of Big Rock Root Beer on hand.

For the past three months, Melton’s been working on his hard root beer formulation to lend alcohol content to the flavor fans love, blending a concentrated batch of beer with the Bear’s signature root beer recipe. Diamond Bear served its third experimental batch at

the brewery last Friday, and the critics were kind. The flavor, he said, is slightly different from the nonalcoholic root beer, but was “spot on” and delicious. He said the process for getting the formula right has been tricky.

“You don’t want it to taste like beer,” he said. “When people think of a hard root beer, they want it to taste like root beer, but with an alcoholic kick.”

Melton said that between formulation and the process of getting a label approved by the government, it could be between four to six months before you can actually buy Diamond Bear’s hard root beer, with the product being released first on tap, then in bottles. He said the brewery hopes to release the product within the next six months.

For now, it’s all about getting the recipe exactly right.

“We’ve got to be sure we’ve got the formula,” he said. “We don’t want to almost get there, release it, and have everybody be like, ‘ehhhhh … .’ We want to have it right.”

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Arkansas’s constitution is no help, particularly the Futrell amendment, unique among all the states, which allows as few as nine of the state’s 135 lawmakers to block most spending bills and taxes.

Hutchinson must get around that hurdle to keep the Medicaid expansion for 250,000 people and the state budget in the black and also to get a highway program.

(He could convert fuel excise taxes into a sales tax and pass it with a simple majority, giving highways a highly elastic revenue source.)

Moving the 2016 primaries and filing periods up to accommodate Mike Huckabee’s presidential hopes may also help Hutchinson. With the filing deadline for office past, a few relieved Republicans at a special session or the regular fiscal session this winter might vote for his cosmetically doctored Obamacare program and gasoline and diesel taxes for the highway program that he needs.

Everyone, including tea partiers, wants a highway program but would prefer that someone else pay for it. A few of them want to take taxes from schools, state health programs and the prisons and give it to highways, but Hutchinson is trying to scrape up funds to avert financial crises

in those programs.

The state got a bonanza with Obama’s stimulus program in 2009, which pumped more than $400 million into highway work all across the state, including $150 million for the giant Interstates 430-630 interchange in west Little Rock, where soaring flyover lanes are now speeding 100,000 vehicles a day through the old bottleneck. But the tea partiers in the U.S. House are turning off the federal spigot, too.

The only solution to the highway crisis is the same one the legislature has turned to since 1921: fuel taxes. People who use the roads — motorists and commercial interests like shippers and the transportation industry — should pay for them.

Unless you drive a gas-guzzling clunker you are paying fewer taxes for highways than you were 20 years ago, even after Mike Huckabee’s string of gas-tax hikes in 1999. Republicans and Democrats alike hopped cheerfully on his big tax and bond program. So did the public. Bill Clinton raised gas taxes four times. The last time, he vetoed a nickela-gallon increase because he thought 4 cents was enough. Legislators overrode his veto by a landslide and not one got beat for it.

Those were the days.

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Require health insurance companies to offer education about the “appropriate and proper use of health care,” in part to steer people away from excessive emergency room visits.

Improve care coordination for the medically frail.

Use existing programs to fund premium assistance to employees offered employer-sponsored coverage, so they are more likely to get insurance from their job instead of moving to the private option.

Offer employer support. Give a onetime payment of $1,000 to businesses that offer employer-sponsored insurance and hire people who are currently private option beneficiaries.

Eliminate 90-day retroactive eligibility. Right now, people are covered for health services incurred in the threemonth period prior to signing up. TSG suggests eliminating that benefit, so coverage would start at signup.

Many of TSG’s recommendations would require the federal government to approve waivers of Medicaid rules in order to implement. Still, TSG argued that the recommendations were doable under the current presidential administration, categorizing them as “in the box solutions.”

Joan Alker, executive director of

Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families and an expert on Medicaid waivers, said that some of TSG’s suggestions could face tough scrutiny from the feds. The work encouragement tied to premiums, the six-month lockout and the asset test could be tough asks, she said — as well as the fact that the overall system could kick people below the poverty line off insurance.

That said, TSG’s recommendations generally “are in the ballpark of the kinds of things [the feds] have been negotiating,” Alker said.

In addition to these “in the box” solutions, TSG also suggested more radical “out of the box” ideas, proposals that the Obama administration would surely reject, but that a future Republican administration might entertain. These included work requirements (mandating that beneficiaries work at least 20 hours a week in order to stay on the program); sliding scale premiums imposed on beneficiaries (as opposed to premiums imposed only on those who don’t follow the membership agreement); and a limit to how long someone can remain covered by the program (a maximum in the range of two to five years, after which the beneficiary would be kicked off of coverage).

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lot of people work out withapersonaltrainer, but very few abandon a career to do it full time.

Kameelah Harris is one of those people, trading life as a chemical engineer to indulge a passion for health and fitness.

“I started working out with a personal trainer while I was an engineer with a local Fortune 500 company and I absolutely loved it; I fell in love with it so much that I started training my friends,” she said.

“The more I did it, the more I thought, ‘This is so much fun.’ Eventually I decided I could do this for a living.”

Though she looks every inch the part now, Harris isn’t a former jock who relied on old training habits to get into shape.

While never overweight, she was a decided outlier in her athletic family.

“I was in band,” she said. “Yeah, I was first- or second-chair clarinet. I was not athletic at all.”

Those days far behind her, Harris still draws on her nonathletic upbringing in her professional life.

“I can completely understand what it’s like because I had no idea what I was doing when I started with my trainer,” she said.

“When people walk into a gym for the first time, it’s very intimidating; you have no idea what it means to do a bench press or how much weight to add. No one tells you that.

“I wanted to make sure the regular everybody somebody can come in and feel comfortable working out, that it’s not intimidating and that it can be fun.”

Harris opened WOW FitnessinLittleRockin2009, and in 2012 she expanded on her vision, launching the WOW Foundation.

The nonprofit group brings exercise classes and health instruction to kids in schools and the wider community.

“We do a lot of afterschool programs and make fitness fun,” she said. “We do a fitness demonstration, we talk to them about nutrition, and at the end, hopefully they gain an appreciation for fitness and take that back home.

“There’s a real need. Even though my fees are very affordable, many still can’t afford personal training. So, my whole goal is to give this knowledge away because a healthy lifestyle should be free. And that’s why we started the foundation.”

Harris’ energy and quick wit make her an engaging evangelist for healthy living.

But even though she preaches fun and advocates cheat days as a means to stay on track, working her clients is serious business and she suffers no foolish excuses in the process.

“Most of my clients will say, ‘Oh, you don’t know what it’s like to be fat,’ ” she said. “I tell them when I got pregnant the challenge that I gave myself was to get my body back in shape within a specified amount of time. I thought, I can’t blame the kid for the 50 pounds I gained, and that’s what I tell them, you know? Your baby’s 6, that’s not baby weight. Don’t blame your baby for making you big.”

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ashiondesignerJamilehKamran was just 6 years old when she discovered her life’s work, cutting out fabric for her dolls. By 13, she was taking classes on fabric and design and obsessively practicing her art.

“I was born with the passion for color and design, so the rest just naturally followed,” she said. “I took courses, but more than anything it was a combination of practice and passion that fueled my desire to succeed in fashion design.”

By 1978, she emigrated from her native Iran to pursue her dream full time. Her break came when she met Hillary Rodham Clinton, then first lady of Arkansas, at a runway show in Little Rock.

“Hillary was one of my very first clients,” she said. “I designed for her throughout the years when she was the first lady of Arkansas up through the presidential inauguration in 1993.”

Designing for one of the country’s most recognizable women drove a flood a business her way, including lawyers, judges, business owners and politicians.

Kamran became known for the quality of her work and the individuality she brought to each piece.

“That’s what my inspiration is, the needs of my client,”she said. “It wasn’t any nationality or anything like that. It was where my client is, what they really need, what can make them stand out and how can they enjoy and use the piece they’re investing in over many years.

“My fabrics were, 90 percent probably, European fabric. I would buy other designers’ couture fabrics, like Oscar de la Renta, when I was traveling and I put my own designs on them. So the fabrication was high, the imagination was high, the workmanship was high, everything, to make this one complete fantastic outfit.”

Even as her design business grew, she had a desire to share her knowledge with a wider audience. In 2007 she released two books, “The Art of Couture” and “The Art of Design,” and opened Arkansas’s first

school of fashion design, Jamileh Kamran School of Fashion.

“I really push my students to the edge; sometimes I feel like I’m making them very angry, but the result is good. The results are fantastic,” she said. “I just try to help them feed and fulfill their creative ideas.

The more that they do, well, it’s just like poetry. The more you write or like a painting, the more you paint, the better your hand gets and the better your imagination gets.”

Now known as Arkansas Fashion School, the institution has grown from three students to more than 30, including two who were presenters at this year’s New York Fashion Week.

“It’s a great satisfaction to see my students become successful, like when a mother sees her children succeed,”she said.

“I teach my students to dream as high as they can and I strive to motivate and help them to reach that goal. That’s what drives me to build the Arkansas Fashion School into the best in the country, a place that fulfills all types of creativity, fashion and art.

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o say that Mary Bray Kelley grew up in the family business is something of an understatement.

“Well, yes, it’s been in my back yard ever since I was born,” she said.

“It was hard to have not grown up with it. It was right there, all my life.”

That business, Bray Sheet Metal, grew from the small shop in the family’s back yard to a business that today employs more than 40 people and, led by Kelley since 1990, is in its third generation of family ownership.

“Right after my son was born, I decided to come in and help my father and uncle to run the company the best I could,” Kelley said. “The secretary they had was quite elderly and not in good health. That was 1967.”

Even in that blue-collar setting, no one batted an eye at a woman in a secretarial role, but as time passed and she gained more responsibility, Kelley became more of an anomaly. She found learning the ins and outs of the business came with overcoming some narrow thinking along the way.

“There were some people in the industry who were tough to deal with,” she said.

“One general contractor really had a hard time accepting my responsibilities in the company. As years went on it worked out that we were all able to get along and respect one another. I just steadfastly stayed in there with them.”

Inside the company’s four walls, Kelley earned respect by showing it to her workers. Even today, she marvels at the craftsmanship and care her employees put into their work.

“The men that work here are meticulous about what they do, and I admire that so much, I really do,” she said. “I respect each and every one of them because they’re hardworking people, it goes without saying. And I respect what they know and how they work and what they do, and we couldn’t make it without them.

“It doesn’t matter who the leader is, I think it’s who you trust to come in here

and do the job and do it right. That’s what keeps us going.”

Kelley has worked hard to ensure the long-term viability of the company, so far with great results. She was recognized by the National Association of Women Business Owners with the 2006 Woman Pioneer Award and is also a trustee for Sheet Metal Workers Local 36.

She’s also helped ensure the continued family presence through her son, Woody Simmons, who is the firm’s vice president.

Though she never campaigned for him to come back to the business, it gives her satisfaction to know the fourth generation is at the ready.

“It’s exciting to see a new generation.

They have new ideas, good ideas, and it is exciting to see they’re interested,” she said. “You worry that maybe people will just think of this as being a back yard sheet-metal shop, but that’s not the case.

People really admire what these men and women do here. And it’s encouraging and exciting because it’s growing, and for that reason I’m so relieved, so grateful.”

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Blann-Anderson CEO CARRIES ON SISTER’S LEGACY OF BEAUTY, POSITIVITY

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ike a lot of entrepreneurs, Kimberlyn “Kimmie” BlannAnderson has big dreams for the family business, LcB Nail Lacquer.

But unlike other executives, she’s not just talking about growing the bottom line. She’s also on a mission to honor her late sister, LaKhiva Blann, in the process.

“The whole message of LcB Nail Lacquer, for me, is to empower women,” Blann-Anderson said.

“That’s the main thing. That’s what LaKhiva started and what she was bringing to the public. She wanted to empower women, she wanted to inspire them. Whatever you want to be in life, be it.”

Everything about the small company speaks of overcoming obstacles through the power of positive thinking, starting with its product catalog. Such names as Tar Baby and Pie Face only seem unusual until one hears their backstory: Growing up, LaKhiva endured these harsh names — as well as some flattering ones — in response to her dark skin tone. Years later, she channeled those experiences into her company.

“It could have been a real negative on her life and bring a person’s self-esteem down, and when you have low self-esteem it brings your whole demeanor down,” Blann-Anderson said. “That didn’t happen to my sister. She was always positive.”

After LaKhiva’s untimely death in 2012, Blann-Anderson found herself with the responsibility for furthering the company’s message as she worked to expand its distribution. Working out of her west Little Rock home and facing much larger competitors, she’s nonetheless committed to the challenge.

“Regardless, you have to strive for what you believe in. That was her motto and it’s mine,” she said, simply. “I feel like I was charged to carry out that duty to make sure that women hear her voice and really hear what else LcB Nail Lacquer stands for.”

Blann-Anderson’s path in business has been no less daunting than her sister’s.

With little to no corporate experience to speak of, she’s learned by doing through perseverance and hard work. Fortunately, she said, trends in the beauty industry are starting to turn in her favor.

“One of the advantages that LcB has is, in 2015 many companies are looking for minority-owned business women,” she said. “I’m actually working with a major distributor currently who deals with stores all over the country and that’s one of the things that got me in the door. They were looking for minority women who had their own business.”

Despite enormous competitors and dealing with grief over the loss of her sister, Blann-Anderson is as determined as ever to bring her company’s product to the masses. After all, she said, the company is in a wider business than just producing quality, chemical-free products that make women look great on the outside.

“I always want to carry the mission of what LaKhiva stood for; I want to empower women and I want to inspire them,” she said. “Women in this generation need that, and my goal is to become a stronger company and get our message of positivity along with our product out nationally and internationally. I want to make it global.”

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ighteen years have gone by since Rhea Lana Riner had her first consignment sale — that one in her living room, held to cover the costs of the cute kids’ clothing she loved but couldn’t reasonably afford.

“My husband had just left the corporate world and his engineering career to work for a small nonprofit organization,” said Riner, who had three young children at the time. “We were excited about this new journey for our family, but it meant that our salary took a nosedive.”

She had always enjoyed searching for secondhand treasures but was wholly unimpressed by the consignment stores and garage sales she had seen.

“My original goal was just to create this special shopping experience for my friends and I, where we could buy and sell each other’s children’s clothing,” she said. “But each sale got larger and larger, gradually adding more rooms of our house and our garage. We eventually started renting empty retail locations around town. My goal has always been to create an exceptional consignment experience where moms feel special and we’re able to add value to the lives of families.”

Now, Rhea Lana’s has 80 franchises and holds sales in 24 states, including Arkansas.

She saved money and read“Franchising for Dummies” before offering franchises in 2008, around the time her children began heading to college.

“I enjoy guiding my franchise owners along the way to success,” she said. “It’s tough to be a business owner, and I like partnering with them to overcome the challenges and obstacles on their path to success. They are growing and changing personally along the way, their capacity is increasing, and it’s really fun to watch them grow into leaders impacting their communities.”

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couldn’t normally afford. Many families are purchasing clothing for an entire season for their children, or they are purchasing Christmas and birthday presents to tuck away until the right time.”

Her career has required her to stretch outside her comfort zone on occasion, like when she was invited to appear before a state Senate committee as well as a federal

Senate panel in Washington, D.C., over the past year.

“These were the scariest moments of my life,” she says. “I’m naturally quiet and introverted. But through these challenging experiences, I’m learning to be a national voice for small-business owners and I’m grateful for the opportunity to represent women in business.”

She has much advice to share with up-and-coming entrepreneurs, like “keep persevering past the obstacles,” and “it’s so important to always do the right thing.”

She’s used the Golden Rule “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, as a guiding principle.

“When this principle is applied in business, even the toughest managerial problems quickly become unraveled and creative solutions are discovered,”she said.“I believe that women are passionate, incredibly loyal and sacrificial for the things and the people they believe in. We’re team players and team builders. We want to leave a legacy and impact the next generation coming behind us. As a woman, I find great joy through investing in others and watching them grow and succeed.”

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oga studios, like other small businesses, reflect the values and personalities of their owners, often attracting a largely like-minded clientele in the process. In Stacey Faught’s case, that couldn’t be truer. Her studio, Blue Yoga Nyla, attracts newcomers and advanced practitioners alike for a variety of reasons, but particularly those who seek healing from the ancient approach to well being.

“I have a great deal of respect for my friends that own other studios around town,” she said. “We all have something different, and definitely for me, I deal with a lot of walking wounded.

And that’s my thing, that’s who I want to attract.

“People are hurting and that’s what brings people to my class. For whatever reason, they have heard about or know my backstory and they know that I deal with depression and anxiety or know my training is in trauma and grief. The people who are supposed to be in my studio find their way there.”

You wouldn’t know to look at her now, but Faught was once indistinguishable from the people she seeks to help through her business.

Self-described as chronically ill for a period in her late teens and early 20s, she endured a series of surgeries and accompanying bouts of depression.

“I had basically sat in a big chair for about two years,” she said. “But yoga was one thing that I could do, and literally one day I just opened the phone book and found the yoga studio and started going.”

The restorative benefits she felt from yoga hooked her immediately and put her on the path to becoming an instructor in 2001 and opening her studio in 2010.

“People come to yoga for so many different reasons, particularly coming into my space,”she said.“Sometimes somebody just making the decision to walk into a new

room and new space, to do something new with people they don’t know, can be incredibly intimidating.

“When people walk into our space, we’re very warm, people greet them by name, and if they’re new, someone comes up and speaks to them. We try to dispel as much intimidation as possible.

Faught said this approach helps to immediately bridge the many misconceptions about yoga while fostering the highly personal relationship each student has with

the activity. Where one sees it simply as stress relief, another sees it as weight loss, while another sees it as spirituality, and still others in some combination.

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“I’m asking you for a six-week commitment and I’m asking you for a 12-week commitment because at the end of six weeks, you’re not going to know all that it’s doing, but you’re going to know it’s doing some great things.”

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assandra Benning is living a dream she once only read about.

Benning, owner of The Floating Lotus Yoga Studio and Day Spa in Little Rock, had graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Central Arkansas in 1998 when she began looking for a form of exercise that suited her. Her research led her to yoga, so she bought a book on the topic and tried it out at home. She liked it, and soon added studio classes to her routine.

“I loved how relaxed I felt, but also how strong I felt,”Benning said.“The local studio I attended encouraged me to find my voice and get certified to teach yoga to others.”

That was the gentle nudge she needed to share her passion.

“I still love yoga after 20 years of practice and I still love teaching, especially when a new student starts to grow in their own practice,” Benning said. “It is seeing that new love or accomplishment through their eyes that I fall in love over and over again with yoga.”

She was working at a department store cosmetics counter when she first started practicing yoga, and later moved into the restaurant industry.

“It helped pay the bills while I taught several yoga classes a week. I guess you could say my career was yoga with restaurant support,” said Benning, whose longstanding personal interest in skin care soon prompted her to earn an aesthetician’s license.

Once licensed, she began spending her days working in a day spa and her evenings teaching yoga in gyms and hospitals around central Arkansas.

“I wanted to combine the two pursuits in a concept new to Little Rock,” she said.

“Yoga is great for mental, physical and emotional well being, but you also can nourish your body in other ways, such as massages and facials.”

She summoned all her courage and struck out to open The Floating Lotus, initially in a tiny 600-square-foot space with three classes a week.

“But over a few months, that changed,”

Benning said.“I started adding more classes and a couple of teachers. Eventually we outgrew the 600-SF space and had to move to a 1,600-SF space. When this happened I added a massage room and another aesthetics person.”

Now, Benning offers spa services three days a week and teaches four yoga classes a week.

Growing the company slowly was key, she said.

“That may sound like I am not willing to take a risk, but starting a business is itself risky. There is no guarantee that the business you started will be profitable. I started in a small space with low overhead, and once things began to grow a year and a half later I felt confident I could make that move. This slow progression has always kept me from overextending the business and has allowed me to continue to provide the quality of service and maintain the feeling of a supportive, quiet oasis that our clients have come to expect.”

While The Floating Lotus may be a quiet oasis, that doesn’t mean it lacks energy.

“Yes, I have fun. We all do!” Benning said. “Been known to do a few cartwheels at the studio. Stand on my head! I have a few yoga students and a few spa clients that are family. We share our thoughts, feelings and sometimes very intimate aspects of our lives. We cry, we laugh, we comfort one another. It’s all about nurturing, and that’s what I strive for at The Floating Lotus.”

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LOZANO-YANCY CONNECTS HISPANICS WITH COMMUNITY

aura Lozano-Yancy says she’s not a journalist or writer, though technically she is both.

“I’ve been in the right place at the right time,” said Lozano-Yancy, president of Hola! Media Group, a bilingual multimedia company based in Little Rock and publisher of Hola! Arkansas. “That’s my life story.”

She’s the Texas-born daughter of a Colombian mother and a Mexican father, and she grew up clutching passports and catching flights between her family’s homelands.

Lozano-Yancy arrived in Little Rock more than 20 years ago after graduating from college in Mississippi with a major in business administration and a minor in economics as well as an emphasis in international business.

“I was one of the first Hispanic people in the community,” she said, meaning that the Hispanic and Latin American population was nowhere near what it is today.

She started her own business, Cross Cultural Consulting Group, a diversity consulting business that allowed her to work with business leaders to promote health and education, and she has been involved in workshops on health, education, diversity and disparity throughout Arkansas.

Lozano-Yancy noticed while doing contract work for the U.S. Census Bureau in 1999 and 2000 that she was able to buy advertising from Hispanic media outlets in other states to publicize the importance of the 2000 Census.

“But there was no Hispanic media in Arkansas at that time,” she said. “I thought, ‘There’s an opportunity here.’”

So, Lozano-Yancy founded Hola!

Arkansas in October 2000. Today, her company publishes digitally and in print, and it also broadcasts two Telemundo television stations, providing bilingual news and entertainment coverage across the state — bilingual because she wants to stay current with the younger population,

made up largely of American-born, Englishspeaking residents of Hispanic heritage.

“I have become Arkansas’s Hispanic market and community expert,” she said.

“We are helping clients and stakeholders understand the importance of investing in the great opportunity that the Hispanic marketplace presents. Fifty-seven percent of the top 500 advertisers today allocate less than 1 percent of their budgets to targeting Hispanics, despite that the market is the fastest-growing multicultural segment in the U.S. We pride ourselves in being the ultimate source for information and cultural connection for Hispanics and Latinos in Arkansas regardless of their English proficiency.”

Lozano-Yancy’s role in the community extends well beyond news provider of current events, however. She is still contacted regularly by community and business leaders who want to reach out to the growing and changing Hispanic population that is so profoundly affecting the economic bottom line around the state.

“We didn’t choose to go after the Hispanic market — we are the Hispanic market,” she said. “It took me many years to realize the impact of printing. Our words carry enormous weight. Because of that, we are very responsible and selective.

Because we distribute in the school district, we don’t accept advertising like alcohol, or any offensive graphics. Our rewards are the weekly messages from across the state, from teachers that use Hola! Arkansas in their classroom to people that we inspired because of the quality of our print.”

Lozano-Yancy likes her role of putting people in contact with one another.

“I can say, ‘Oh, let me connect you, somebody just called me,’” she said. “It’s a big responsibility, but at the same time it’s a blessing to see people grow and progress.

I’m just who I am. I enjoy doing what I do.

I’m in the people business. I enjoy putting the Arkansas community together.”

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Arts Entertainment AND

BACK TO SCHOOL

Rep takes on ‘Putnam County Spelling Bee.’

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hen you walk into the Arkansas Repertory Theatre to see “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” you’ll find yourself immersed in a re-creation of your middle school. You’ll recall all the sights and sounds of awkward adolescence and that feeling of growing up while still being a kid. You’ll even have a chance to sign up for the spelling bee as you let go and release your inner middle school student.

The play sets an eclectic group of sixth-graders against each other in hilariously ruthless competition for the prized trophy and the chance to be enshrined among the glorious halls of spelling bee champions.

“It’s one of the funniest nights of theater that you’ll see, but it has a lot of heart to it,” said Tommy Martinez, who plays Chip, a contestant in the bee. “So much is unexpected and written so well; it’s unlike anything else you’ve seen.”

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to impress her gay fathers.

To shake things up a bit, four audience members from each performance will join the cast of Rep veterans and talented newcomers onstage. “Every show will be unique because of the audience participation, and it adds a great element of improv comedy to the show,” said Lauren Dadap, who plays Marcy Park, another contestant.

Audience members can sign up in the lobby before the show starts to participate in the spelling bee. “It’s a lot of fun for the audience members because you don’t know if you’ll get easy words or really tough ones, or who turns out to be a great speller,” Martinez says.

The play is an extended one-act with a quick pace and even quicker wits.

“It cuts sort of like a TV show, sometimes skipping back and forward in time, and it really keeps you on your toes,” Dadap says.

“It’s different in that there’s really no antagonist in this play,” said Correy West, who plays Mitch Mahoney, the “Official Comfort Counselor” who gives a juice box and words of encouragement to whomever gets eliminated. “There’s some stake that you have in each one of the kids, and

JOIN THE SHOW: The Rep will welcome members of the audience onstage during its run of “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

you’ll find yourself rooting for each of them.”

“Putnam County” is a relatively new musical, earning several Tony nominations and a few wins in 2005, and it’s a favorite among actors because of the improvisational elements.

“Every actor who knows this show really wants to do it,” West says.

“Having the audience in the play gives the actors a lot of room to play with, and you never know who’s going to be eliminated.”

While some of the humor is aimed more at grownups than young children, parents should feel comfortable bringing their middle-school-age kids to the play, where they’ll likely relate the play to some of their own experiences. Think of it as a soft PG-13.

“There’s a lot of healing messages in the show that will be good for kids to see. You can see the pressure and expectations going into this, and the effects of bullying and competition on the characters, but they end up having positive interactions with each

other,” Dadap says.

“We learn a lot about the kids’ families and who they are, where they come from. Everybody will relate to one of the kids on stage, or they will recognize someone that they know, whether it’s the dreamer, the outcast, or the overachiever,” West says.

“Things aren’t always what they seem, though. You think you know someone, but then you’ll find something deeper.”

The Rep is decking out the theater and lobby to look like a middle school gymnasium. Check out some of the contests on Facebook; the theater is asking folks to submit their best middle school yearbook photos and stories from participating in bees when they were in school.

Performances begin Friday, Oct. 16, and end Sunday, Nov. 8. Special events include a panel discussion at the Clinton School for Public Service at noon Thursday, Oct. 15, and “pay your age night” on Sunday, Oct. 18. A sign interpreter will be in the house Wednesday, Oct. 28.

A&E NEWS

DAWN HOLDER, WHOSE CERAMIC installation “Landscape” was exhibited in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; Dayton Castleman, who has exhibited sculpture in Chicago and Northwest Arkansas; and Joe Ford, a 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in the Humanities and 3D Visualization Institute, have won the Arkansas Arts Council’s Individual Fellowship Awards in the sculpture/installation category.

The $4,000 fellowships are meant to give the artists’ breathing room to create and develop their work.

Other winners include Jennifer Gerber and Hardin Young, screenwriting; and Karen Castleman and Marisa Kirby, choreography. Read the biographies of all the winners on our entertainment blog, Rock Candy.

BRENT AND CRAIG RENAUD HAVE a new documentary out on the New York Times website, “Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis,” in which they follow Central American teenagers fleeing violence in Honduras and Guatemala and attempting to enter Mexico and the U.S. It’s immersive, first-person reporting — fascinating and important. Watch it at nytimes.com/video, or on Rock Candy.

CONWAY NOVELIST MARK SPITZER, an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and editor-in-chief of the Toad Suck Review, releases his new book this week, “Garapaima: A Monster Fish Novel,” featuring “a heartbroken illusionist, a magical Native American songstress, a burly shape-shifting poet-professor, a stoner security guard techno hero, a hair-dyed tween up on every LGBT issue, [and] an all-knowing talking turtle. Not to mention a 154-yearold monster catfish.” Writer JoeAnn Hart said that in the book, “Spitzer combines the existential struggles of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ with the eco-consciousness of ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ and the youthful energy of ‘The Hunger Games.’ ”

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THE TO-DO

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BY WILL STEPHENSON

THURSDAY 10/15

‘LAURA’

7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $5 (cash only).

This month’s Arkansas Times Film Series screening is Otto Preminger’s classic film noir “Laura,” a 1944 murder mystery starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb. Dreamlike, debonair and deeply strange, the film has persisted in the public imagination as a glamorous Hollywood chamber piece that nevertheless has dark and weird, rough edges, a portrait of seduction and obsession that is itself seductive and obsessive. It’s also funny and, of course, tragic. As Roger Ebert once put it, it achieves “a kind of perfection in its balance between low motives and high style.”

THURSDAY 10/15

WARREN G

9 p.m. Juanita’s. $25.

Warren G is one of those crucial linking mechanisms in the evolution of pop, a figure whose significance is aesthetic, sure, but also practical, situational — things would be different now without him. He came up as one-third of a rap group you probably haven’t heard of, 213, with two other people you probably have heard of, Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg (voice of a thousand rap hooks). At a bachelor party one night in 1991, Warren played their demo tape for a small crowd that included his step-brother, Dr. Dre. You see where I’m going with this.

Having poached his brother’s friends, Dre introduced G-Funk to the American public the following year with “The Chronic,” and Warren followed him a couple of years later with his single “Regulate,” which hit No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Spin Magazine wrote that year, “He’s a romantic, in love with soft sound,” and this is yet another aspect of his contribution to music: He was the type of person to whom it made irrefutable sense to build a West Coast rap anthem on a sample of Michael McDonalds’ muchloathed “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near).” His music is warm and stoned and slow and brilliant. As he once put it: Mount up.

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GODMOTHER: Arkansas Sounds presents “Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe” at the Ron Robinson Theater at 7 p.m. Friday, free.

FRIDAY 10/16

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE TRIBUTE

7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. Free.

Of all of Arkansas’s musical exports, none is more culturally significant or ineffably cool than Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the daughter of itinerant cotton-pickers and evangelicals who clawed her way first to gospel

stardom and, later, to secular legend as the godmother of rock ’n’ roll. She played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, made fans out of Elvis, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, went from fame to obscurity more than once, and played for crowds all over the world up until the 1970s, when she died of a stroke and was buried in an unmarked grave. The

list of black female guitarists who achieved popular, enduring success is short — grimly so, to a degree that puts Tharpe’s remarkable achievements in sharp focus. Friday night, concert series Arkansas Sounds will present a tribute to Tharpe that includes a screening of the documentary “The Godmother of Rock and Roll,” followed by a tribute concert.

That Rock, a music showcase and benefit for KABF-FM, 88.3, hosted by the radio show “Girls!” Another reason is that the music will be great. The lineup features Hot Springs’ post-punk band Ghost Bones, winners of the 2015 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase; Little Rock’s Spero, fronted by Correne Spero of Northern

State, Lucky Bitch and Paperwork; and Bad Match, who will use the occasion to launch its new, five-song “Mad Batch” EP, coming soon from Max Recordings (and available now on iTunes and Bandcamp).

It’s a bracing record, full of wry, smart, achingly raw retro-rock, as you will see for yourself Friday night.

FRIDAY 10/16

GIRLS THAT ROCK: BAD MATCH, SPERO, GHOST BONES 9:30 p.m. White Water Tavern. $5.

Because community radio is essential to the artistic life of a city, and because our music scene is disproportionately, embarrassingly male, there are more than enough good civic reasons to go to Girls

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THURSDAY 10/15

SATURDAY 10/17

SATURDAY 10/17

JACKSON BROWNE

HARVESTFEST

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Among other things, Jackson Browne has been an L.A. icon, Gregg Allman’s roommate, a Greenwich Village fixture, a member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (which he must have joined when he was about 14), a sideman for Tim Buckley and Nico and Glenn Frey, one of the most successful and era-defining songwriters of the ’70s. He was the son of a journalist. He’s an anti-nuclear activist. His longtime professional relationship with Warren Zevon has been described as “fractious.” His songs have been featured in “Taxi Driver” and “Miami Vice,” covered by everyone from The Byrds to Compton rapper Ab-Soul, parodied on “The Simpsons.” He once sued John McCain. He dated Daryl Hannah. He’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His son was in “Hackers.”

Noon. Hillcrest. Free.

Even for those of us who don’t live in Hillcrest — who watch the neighborhood from a distance with a mixture of envy and suspicion — HarvestFest stands as one of the year’s most fun and purely gratifying afternoons, a genuinely great neighborhood street festival of the sort I imagine larger cities take for granted. A handful of the Times’ favorite bands will be

there; The Uh Huhs (1:30 p.m.), Bombay Harambee (2:45 p.m.), That Arkansas Weather (3 p.m.), Marvin Berry (4 pm.), Frontier Circus (5:15 p.m.), Bad Match (6:45 p.m.), Mulehead (8:15 p.m.), and many more. In the morning, there will be a farmers market, a pancake breakfast and a bird walk, and the afternoon will be crowded with food trucks, local vendors and periodic trips to the conveniently located Hillcrest Liquor and Fine Wines.

SATURDAY 10/17

TRAVIS PORTER

9 p.m. Discovery Nightclub.

Years before Rae Sremmurd or Migos, the teenage Atlanta rap group to watch was Travis Porter, icons of the swag-surfing generation, who invigorated strip clubs and high school gyms alike. The trio made wild, weird, forward-thinking party rap, carrying the torch for Kriss Kross with anthems like “All the Way Turnt Up” and “Go Shorty Go” and “Bring It Back” and “Make It Rain,” songs full of humor and bright vibes built

on icy, stilted, impossibly danceable beats.

They once accidentally inspired a (surprisingly destructive) riot in my hometown in Georgia, for no other reason than that they were awesome. Due to their confusing name (constantly mistaken for a single person) and industry entropy (they signed to Jive Records several years ago), the rappers of Travis Porter haven’t become the mega-stars we may once have expected. But that’s good news for Little Rock, because it means we get to see them.

The 24th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival continues this week with screenings, panels and parties in downtown Hot Springs through Sunday, Oct. 18, $7.50-$250. The team behind the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s new production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” present a panel discussion at the Clinton School for Public Service’s Sturgis Hall, noon.

The Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau launches its new “Locally Labeled” campaign highlighting local craft breweries, distilleries and wineries with a kickoff event at the River Market pavilions featuring a performance by one of the state’s best bands, Amasa Hines, 5:30 p.m., free. Comedian Jersey is at the Loony Bin at 7:30 p.m., $7 (and at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $10). Fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken performs at The Joint at 7:30 p.m., $20. Memphis singer-songwriters Amy LaVere and Will Sexton return to the White Water Tavern at 9:30 p.m., $7.

FRIDAY 10/16 MC Lars, self-proclaimed “postpunk laptop rap” pioneer, performs at Stickyz with Koo Koo Kanga Roo, 9:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. Seventies rock favorites Grand Funk Railroad, who immortalized seedy Little Rock in their biggest hit, “We’re an American Band,” perform at the Arkansas State Fair at 8 p.m., $15.

SATURDAY 10/17

BEHIND THE MAGNOLIA CURTAIN: Tav Falco’s Panther Burns (featuring the great Mike Watt on bass) plays at Stickyz at 8 p.m. Monday, $15.

MONDAY 10/19

TAV FALCO’S PANTHER BURNS 8 p.m. Stickyz. $15.

Tav Falco was born on a farm in rural Arkansas and today lives in Vienna, where he writes books, directs films and records music with the cult art-rock band Panther Burns, a group he started in Memphis with Big Star’s Alex Chilton in the late 1970s. Aside from being a sort of Southern post-punk Zelig — collaborating with The Cramps, legend-

ary photographer William Eggleston, producer Jim Dickinson, appearing in the iconic no-wave film “Downtown 81,” etc. — Falco is a vital and perceptive culture-historian of Arkansas and the surrounding regions. His new art film, “Urania Descending,” inspired by German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, is partly set in Arkansas, and his recent book, “Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death,” is one of the most freeform and radical works of creative non-

fiction about the area I’ve ever read. His music, too, inhabits old styles — rockabilly, country blues, punk — in wild and vividly original ways. “It’s something apart from sheer revivalism,” he told me in an interview published last week (read more at arktimes.com). “Some people say it’s a deconstruction. And there is that gradient in what I do. But it’s more a matter of living and breathing those earlier forms in today’s world, and then expressing something.”

Studio Ghibli’s Academy Awardnominated “The Tale of Princess Kaguya” screens at Ron Robinson Theater at 2 p.m., $5. Chili Fights in the Heights, the year’s biggest and most competitive chili cook-off, returns to the Heights at 2 p.m., $5. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performs Dvorkak’s Symphony No. 8 at the Maumelle Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. (and at 3 p.m. Sunday), $19$58. Josh Oppenheimer’s acclaimed documentary “The Look of Silence,” produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, screens at the Ron Robinson Theater, 8 p.m., $5. Nashville anti-folk duo Birdcloud plays at Juanita’s at 10 p.m., $5. Colour Design plays at Vino’s with Lifer and Terminus, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 10/20 Cult-ish and uplifting indie rock band The Polyphonic Spree plays at Stickyz with Telegraph Canyon, 8:30 p.m., $20. Alt-country icons Drive-By Truckers play at Revolution with Brent Best, 8:30 p.m., $25. www.arktimes.com

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

THURSDAY, OCT. 15

MUSIC

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $7. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Teja Gerken. The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Warren G. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $25. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

COMEDY

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

EVENTS

Antique/Boutique Walk. Shopping and live entertainment. Downtown Hot Springs, third Thursday of every month, 4 p.m., free. 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs.

Arkansas State Fair. Featuring Naughty by Nature, Grand Funk Railroad, Styx, Eddie Money, Montgomery Gentry and more. Arkansas State Fairgrounds, through Oct. 18, $15. 2600 Howard St. 501-372-8341 ext. 8206. www.arkansasstatefair.com. #ArkiePubTrivia. Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m. 402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154.

Locally Labelled Kick Off. River Market pavilions. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www. rivermarket.info.

FILM

24th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Arlington Hotel, through Oct. 18, $7.50-$250.

239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-7771. www.hsdfi.org.

“Laura.” Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

LECTURES

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a panel discussion. Sturgis Hall, noon.1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

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UNFORGETTABLE: Josh Oppenheimer’s acclaimed documentary “The Look of Silence,” produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, screens at the Ron Robinson Theater, 8 p.m. Saturday, $5. The Chicago Reader called it “wrenching and unforgettable” and the Los Angeles Times called it “a documentary that will make a difference in the world.”

Arkansas History Commission’s Brian Irby. Old State House Museum, noon. 300 W. Markham St. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

POETRY

POETluck. Literary salon and potluck. The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, third Thursday of every month, 6 p.m. 515 Spring St., Eureka Springs.

479-253-7444.

BENEFITS

2015 W.O.W.apalooza. A fundraiser for Women’s Own Worth (W.O.W). Governor’s Mansion, 6 p.m., $50. 1800 Center St. 501-377-1121.

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

MUSIC

4Him. Geyer Springs Baptist Church, 7 p.m., $25. 12400 Interstate 30. 501-455-3474. www. gsfbc.org.

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

Girls That Rock: Spero, Ghost Bones, Bad Match (EP release). A benefit for KABF-FM, 88.3 show “Girls!” White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com.

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

MC Lars, Koo Koo Kanga Roo. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

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

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

Tragikly White. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

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

COMEDY

“Lou Tells a Bog One.” An original production

by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Jersey. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10.

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

DANCE

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

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

EVENTS

Arkansas State Fair. See Oct. 15.

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

800 Scott St. Sister Rosetta Tharpe Tribute. A screening of “The Godmother of Rock and Roll” and a tribute Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

FILM

24th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Arlington Hotel, through Oct. 18, $7.50-$250.

239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-7771. www.hsdfi.org.

LECTURES

“Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family.” A talk by Anne-Marie Slaughter. Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-6835200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

SATURDAY, OCT. 17

MUSIC

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. Maumelle High School, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 18, 3 p.m., $19-$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501-851-5350.

Benefit Show for the Central Arkansas New Agrarian Society. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m.

2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Birdcloud. Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $5. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Colour Design, Lifer, Terminus. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rusted Root.

Revolution, 8 p.m., $20 adv., $25 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

Jackson Browne. Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $32-

$72. 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. 479-4435600. www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com.

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

501-492-9802.

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

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

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

Travis Porter. Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. www.latenightdisco. com.

COMEDY

“Lou Tells a Bog One.” An original production

by The Main Thing. The Joint, 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

JJersey. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. www.loonybincomedy.com.

EVENTS

5th Annual Pooches & Pumpkins. The Good Earth Garden Center, 11 a.m. 15601 Cantrell Road. 501-868-4666. www.thegoodearthgarden.com.

Arkansas State Fair. See Oct. 15.

Chili Fights in the Heights 2015. The Heights, 2 p.m., $5. The Heights.

Corner Store Country Run 5K. War Memorial Stadium, 8:30 a.m., $40. 1 Stadium Drive. 501663-0775.

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

HarvestFest in Hillcrest. Featuring vendors, food trucks and performances by Mulehead, Bad Match, Frontier Cirucs, Marvin Berry, Bombay Harambee, The Uh Huhs and more. Hillcrest, noon. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants. com.

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

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

Little Rock Downtown Navigators Tour. Starts at La Petite Roche Plaza. 4 p.m., free.

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

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

FILM

24th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Arlington Hotel, through Oct. 18, $7.50-$250.

239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-7771. www.hsdfi.org.

“The Look of Silence.” Ron Robinson Theater, 8 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals. lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

“Tales of Princess Kaguya.” Ron Robinson Theater, 2 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

SUNDAY, OCT. 18

MUSIC

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra; Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. Maumelle High School, 3 p.m., $19-$58. 100 Victory Drive. 501-851-5350.

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

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

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

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

EVENTS

www.sonnywilliamssteakroom.com.

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

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

The Polyphonic Spree, Telegraph Canyon.

Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $20. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www. stickyz.com.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

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

Arkansas State Fair. See Oct. 15.

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

Biketoberfest 2015. River Market pavilions, noon.

400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

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

FILM

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

MONDAY, OCT. 19

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

24th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Arlington Hotel. $7.50-$250. 239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-7771. www.hsdfi.org.

MUSIC

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

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

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

Tav Falco’s Panther Burns (with Mike Watt).

Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $15. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www. stickyz.com.

LECTURES

“Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South.” A talk by University of Mississippi professor Eric Thomas Weber. Sturgis Hall, noon.

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

BENEFITS

Arkansas Chamber Singers: “Beer and Cheer.”

Stone’s Throw Brewing, 6:30 p.m., $50. 402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154.

Governor’s Culinary Challenge. Benefit for the Thea Foundation’s scholarship awards is chaired

by Peter Brave of Brave New Restaurant and features eight chefs, two mixologists, 10 personalities and jazz by Dr. Danny Fletcher. Capital Hotel, 6:30 p.m., $100. 111 W. Markham St. 501374-7474. www.governorsculinarychallenge.com.

TUESDAY, OCT. 20

MUSIC

Drive-By Truckers, Brent Best. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $25. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

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

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

COMEDY DANCE

EVENTS FILM

“The First Boys of Spring.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals. lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21

MUSIC

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

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

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

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

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, GT. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www. whitewatertavern.com.

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

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

Opera in the Rock. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free.

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

COMEDY

Jerrod Harris. The Loony Bin, Oct. 21-24, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 23-24, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. www. loonybincomedy.com.

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

DANCE

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

streets. 501-350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.

EVENTS

“Requiem: Death, Deception and Stories of the Afterlife.” A Halloween-themed performance by the magician Paul Prater. 109 & Co., through Oct. 28: 7 p.m., $10 adv., $13 day of.

109 Main St. 501-374-3710. https://www.facebook.com/109Co.

FILM

“Back to the Future II.” Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals. lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

LECTURES

“America Needs Talent: Attracting, Educating & Developing the 21st Century Workforce.”

A talk by Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation. Sturgis Hall, noon.

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

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

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

ARTS

THEATER

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through Nov. 8: Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Wed.-Sun., 7 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $30$65. 601 Main St. 501-378-0405. www.therep.org.

“Arsenic & Old Lace.” Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, through Nov. 7: Tue.-Sat., 6 p.m., $25-$35. 6323 Col. Glenn Road. 501-562-3131. murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.

“Water By The Spoonful.” Walton Arts Center, through Nov. 8: Wed.-Fri., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 2 p.m.; Sun., 7:30 p.m., $15-$40. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art,” 93 works by 72 artists from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Oct. 16-Jan. 17, lecture by E. Carmen Ramos and reception, 6 p.m. Oct. 15 (member opening), screening of episode 1 of “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History,” 2 p.m. Oct. 18, followed by discussion led by Dr. Kristin Dutcher Mann of UALR; Architecture and Design Network screening of “Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey,” followed by panel discussion with Dr. Ethel Goodstein-Murphree of the UA Fay Jones School of Architecture, Arts Center curator Brian Lang and architectural photographer Tim Hursley, reception 5:30 p.m., screening and panel discussion 6 p.m. Oct. 20; 3rd annual “Fountain Fest,” fundraiser, 5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 22, $40; A Little Poetry: The Art of Alonzo Ford,” through Oct. 25. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sun. 372-4000.

GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Pressure,” printmaking by Nora Messenger, Christian Brown, Kristin Karr, Amery Sandford, Slade Bishop, Alli Thompson, Jack Sims, Emily Brown and Jennifer Perren, opening reception

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MOVIE REVIEW

From the pioneering collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Our America T H E L AT I N O P R E S E N C E I N A M E R I C A N A R T

Nuestra América L A P R ES E N C I A L AT I N A E N E L A R T E ES TA D O U N I D E N S E

October 16, 2015 – January 17, 2016 Free Admission Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support for the exhibition has

ROLLING ON THE RIVER: Gamblers (Ryan Reynolds, left, and Ben Mendelsohn) try their luck as the travel down the Mississippi.

Bet on ‘Mississippi Grind’ Acting from Mendelsohn and Reynolds stands out.

been provided by Altria Group, the Honorable Aida M. Alvarez, Judah Best, The James F. Dicke Family Endowment, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Tania and Tom Evans, Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, The Michael A. and the Honorable Marilyn Logsdon Mennello Endowment, Henry R. Muñoz III, Wells Fargo and Zions Bank. Additional significant support was provided by The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Support for “Treasures to Go,” the museum’s traveling exhibition program, comes from The C.F. Foundation, Atlanta.

Our America is sponsored in Arkansas by (at time of printing):

Donna and Mack McLarty The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston Consulate of Mexico in Little Rock Alan DuBois Contemporary Craft Fund

501 East Ninth Street, Little Rock arkansasartscenter.org Above: Emilio Sánchez, Untitled, Bronx Storefront, “La Rumba Supermarket,” late 1980s, watercolor on paper, 40 x 59 1/2 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Emilio Sánchez Foundation, © Emilio Sánchez Foundation

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BY JAMES MATTHEWS

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f I were a betting man, I would put money on Ben Mendelsohn being nominated for an Oscar for his acting in “Mississippi Grind.” But “Mississippi Grind” is successful because of more than only the acting. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who co-wrote and co-directed the movie, deftly navigate the near-nostalgia in which the film traffics without ever succumbing to it.

Mendelsohn plays Gerry, a middle-aged gambling addict in Iowa who believes he has the ability to discern a deeper meaning hidden just below the surface of the world, a meaning the rest of us miss or don’t know how to read. The spectacular rainbow over Iowa farmland that opens “Mississippi Grind” is a sign for Gerry, and the movie tumbles forward as he tries to find the pot of gold at the other end.

Only Gerry, who’s barely hanging on to his real estate job and Subaru, and has long since lost his wife and little girl, seems to have witnessed the rainbow until a winsome stranger appears at his poker table, as if conjured, and mentions it. Curtis (Ryan

Reynolds) is a fellow gambler 10 years Gerry’s junior who is just passing through on his way to a big pot in New Orleans. He has the easy smile and good looks of a confidence man, and you can never shake the feeling that the friendship they strike up may only be a long con on Curtis’ part. But Gerry sees in Curtis what he wants to — a luckier self, a last chance, a fetish (Gerry even calls him his “big, handsome leprechaun” at one point). And when Curtis again walks unexpectedly into Gerry’s world, Gerry knows: “It’s a sign. It’s a sign!”

A sign of what? It’s a sign that they are to set off together for New Orleans, following the Mississippi River all the way down. Gerry is running from his life and debts in Dubuque, and Curtis is drifting easily toward yet another win in his lucky life, or so it seems. “Mississippi Grind” is a buddy/road movie in which the buddies are strangers whose years of bluffing and folding make true connection unlikely. It’s the yellow-brick road gone weedy. Huck and Jim rafting the Mississip’ — a reference made blatantly in the movie — without

the moral awakening. Dante being led by Virgil down, down, down to the very lowest circle of hell, not as visitors but as two inhabitants finding their proper places in that underworld. “It’s a long way down, ain’t it, Gerry?” Curtis notes at one point.

And they’re nowhere near the bottom yet.

From Dubuque to St. Louis, where the Gateway Arch is a stone-gray rainbow mocking Gerry’s hope, and from St. Louis to Memphis, gambling at each stop along the way. They drift back and forth from the bright, polished nowheres of corporate casinos to the smoky blue gloaming of backroom poker games, from daylight racetracks to midnight pool halls.

In their only detour from the river, the two drive west from Memphis to Little Rock. Gerry claims he wants to make up with his ex-wife after having won big in a backroom game. And so they drift off the highway and down into town, represented in a flash of landmarks that will be recognizable to locals — the Junction Bridge, Doe’s Eat Place, the defunct Cinema 150 on University Avenue. Little Rock represents a last chance at connection and salvation,

but for Gerry it’s little more than a pit stop on his shameless descent.

The two make it to New Orleans, and pawn and punch and roll their way to a climax that secures the place of “Mississippi Grind” in the upper tier of gambling movies.

“We can’t lose,” says Gerry, again and again in the penultimate scene, and you don’t know whether it’s gambler’s bravado or the loser’s final prayer. In fact, you are left wondering whether we ever understand who are the winners and who are the losers, and whether there’s anything on the other end of the rainbow except what we have left behind.

It will likely be the acting that gets the most notice in the film: Mendelsohn and Reynolds, certainly, but also actors in smaller roles, like Alfre Woodard, who is brilliant if unexpected as a small-town loan shark. The blues-heavy soundtrack, the scenery, the costumes are all so right that they almost disappear from notice.

The total effect is that, as the theater lights dim, the rainbow appears, Gerry slouches up to the bar, and already you’re all in.

LYONS, CONT. chosen one-third in 2010, one-third in 2012 and one-third in 2014.”

But then if you’ve read this far, you already knew that. Unable to win by normal political means, the “Freedom Caucus” proposes government by televised melodrama: threatening yet another government shutdown or even a default on the national debt — risking a financial crisis far worse than 2008 — to blackmail the president into doing its bidding on issues from Obamacare to Planned Parenthood.

Cable TV news ratings would go through the roof! Until the roof fell in, that is. However, the U.S. Constitution allows for a simple remedy: There are a whole lot more Democrats in the House of Representative than “Freedom Caucus” members. All that’s necessary is for Speaker Boehner to exhibit the political courage to cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi, scheduling votes on issues of bipartisan agreement such as the debt limit.

And the show would be over, just like that.

AFTER DARK, CONT. 7 p.m. Oct. 16.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St.: “Exit Stage Left,” photographs of the Arkansas Symphony by Kelly Hicks, reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 16, Argenta ArtWalk.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Holiday open house, with refreshments and art demonstrations, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 17; new work

by Matt Coburn, Paula Jones, Theresa Cates and Amy Hill-Imler, new glass by James Hayes, ceramics by Kelly Edwards, sculpture by Kim Owen and other work. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE ARTS, 20919 Denny Road: “Park’s Pants,” a project by photographer Nancy Nolan in collaboration with Dave Anderson, through Nov. 22, opening reception 6 p.m. Oct. 15, “Tales from the South Tin Roof Project” with Nolan Oct. 22. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. 821-7275.

Bentonville CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “Alfred H. Maurer: Art on the Edge,” 65 works spanning the art-

ist’s career from the Addison Gallery of Phillips Academy, through Jan. 4, with art talk by cocurators Stacey Epstein and Susan Faxon 4 p.m.

Oct. 15; screening of documentary “A Strong Clear Vison on Maya Lin,” 7-8 p.m. Oct. 16; talk about “Alfred Maurer: Art on the Edge” by curator Manuela Well-Off-Man and educator Moira Traw, 1 p.m. Oct. 19; lecture by visiting artist Maya Linn, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, $8-$10 (register at crystalbridges.org or 479-657-2335); 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.

NEW MUSEUM EXHIBITS, EVENTS

MacARTHUR MUSEUM OF ARKANSAS MILITARY HISTORY, MacArthur Park: “Combat Paper Workshop,” turning military uniforms into handmade paper, Oct. 15-17, for more information and to register contact Stephan McAteer, smcateer@littlerock.org; continuing and permanent exhibits. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun. 376-4602.

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Dining WHAT’S COOKIN’ RICHARD GLASGOW, CHEF/OWNER of the Hillcrest Thai restaurant kBird, reports that he’s applied to the city to extend his evening hours to 9 p.m.

Because of the restaurant’s location in an otherwise residential area, current zoning restrictions require it to close at 6:30 p.m. If the application is successful, look for the new hours to begin in February 2016, after Glasgow returns from his annual trip to Thailand.

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1515 CAFE This bustling, business-suit filled breakfast and lunch spot, just across from the state Capitol, features old-fashioned, buffetstyle home cookin’ for a song. Inexpensive lunch entrées, too. 1515 W. 7th St. No alcohol. $-$$. 501-376-1434. L Wed.-Fri., D Mon-Sat. 4 SQUARE CAFE AND GIFTS Vegetarian salads, soups, wraps and paninis and a broad selection of smoothies in an Arkansas products gift shop. 405 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-244-2622. BLD Mon.-Sat., L Sun. FLYING FISH The fried seafood is fresh and crunchy and there are plenty of raw, boiled and grilled offerings, too. The hamburgers are a hit. It’s counter service; wander on through the screen door and you’ll find a slick team of cooks and servers doing a creditable job of serving big crowds. 511 President Clinton Ave. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-375-3474. LD daily.

GOOD FOOD BY FERNEAU Lunch offers a choice of ordering the gluten-free, sugar-free, healthy-yet-tasty-and-not-boring fare. On Friday and Saturday nights chef Ferneau stretches out a bit with about four entrees that still stay true to the “healthy” concept but do step outside the no-gluten, no-sugar box. 521 Main Street. NLR. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-725-4219. L Mon.-Fri., D Fri.-Sat. THE GRAND CAFE Typical hotel restaurant fare.

925 S. University Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-664-5020. BD daily.

GREEN LEAF GRILL Cafeteria on the ground floor of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield building has healthy entrees. 601 S. Gaines. No alcohol, CC. 501-378-2521.

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

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

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

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Del Frisco’s delights — mostly But it’s pricey.

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Del Frisco’s Grille

17707 Chenal Parkway 448-2631 delfriscogrille.com/little-rock QUICK BITE Brunch — served 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays — looks intriguing, with a small but eclectic menu that stretches from a pork burrito to chicken-fried steak and eggs to a couple of Benedicts and Bananas Foster French toast. There are lots of drink options, too, served by the glass or carafe.

he Del Frisco’s chain has three beef and gooey cheese in a classic eggroll HOURS 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursrestaurant concepts: two highershell highlighted by a drizzle of sweetday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturend steakhouses and Del Frisco’s and-sour and Chinese mustard. They day, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Grille, the lower-tier version that procame out almost instantly but, oddly, vides “guests with a familiar yet excitweren’t hot.

OTHER INFO Credit cards accepted, full bar.

The crab cake, pure lump with the ing atmosphere, fresh, approachable fare and genuine hospitality.” The Grille barest minimum of binder, was definitely the best we’d had in town. It Steaks come with a choice of three seems the best choice for the chain’s first foray into Arkansas — and by all appearfeatured flecks of red pepper and was styles of potato or green beans. We ances the newish spot at the Promenade downright fabulous — as it should have passed on the mashed and fries in favor at Chenal is a big hit. been, given that it wasn’t huge and was of the “loaded potato cakes,” two smallThere was a short wait at 7 p.m. on $16. The rich lobster sauce offered a nice ish pucks of hash browns studded with a Wednesday, and the bar was hopping. counterpoint to the luscious, almost cheese and bacon. They were yummy.

It seems little is left to chance at Del buttery crab.

We adored the shaved Brussels sprouts Frisco’s Grille, from the bois($7): They were pan-sauteed to terous atmosphere amplified almost caramelized and were by sound careening off lots of equal parts flavorful and plentihard surfaces, the sports-onful, easily enough for two.

TV-with-no-volume in the Our friends had a gargantuan disc of coconut cream bar and the audible but not too loud classic rock playing pie with a mound of whipped throughout. cream teetering atop it, but The “genuine hospitalwe went for the butterscotch ity” touted on the website is jar ($8) and the Nutella bread a definite plus, from perky pudding ($9). The pudding was and engaging bartenders to superb — subtly flavored, light upbeat waitresses to a wanand topped with a thick layer dering general manager who of soft salted caramel, tastes doesn’t intrude but will check GREAT CRAB CAKES: Flecked with red pepper and covered in that worked very well together. with a patron strolling toward lobster sauce.

We subbed vanilla ice cream the back of the restaurant to for coffee ice cream with the see how his meal is going so far.

Knowing Del Frisco’s roots as a fine bread pudding, and it was the highlight. steakhouse, we couldn’t help but note The menu is also the product of much The pudding itself wasn’t anything like corporate oversight, we’re sure, and that steaks aren’t really played up at bread puddings we’ve had — in taste or with 22 Del Frisco’s Grilles open from the Grille, with two filets, a ribeye and texture. We discerned no Nutella. The a New York strip the only options. The coast to coast, the formula clearly is color said chocolate, but it really was 12-ounce filet is only $8 more than the sort of tasteless. proven. The variety is impressive, and eight-ouncer, so we went for it.

We’ll likely be back to Del Frisco’s most (but not all) of what we tried was Grille for dinner — the lunch menu is quite good.

Our dining companion isn’t a bloodyvery similar — and we’ll certainly be Make no mistake — even a downscale red-meat kind of gal, so she opted for back to the bar. We had a VIP signaDel Frisco’s concept is not inexpensive. medium. But when she cut into it she A $7 cup of roasted corn bisque and $8 wished she’d have said medium rare, ture cocktail and heard the bartenders’ deviled eggs are the lowest-end appetizbecause her filet was cooked mediumtales of soaking pineapple in vodka and well. The attentive waitress sensed her ers. A couple of entree salads are $18.50, then squeezing it through cheesecloth, disappointment and offered to redo it, sandwiches range from $14.50 to $17, laborious and apparently not a ton of and entrees go up from there, topping but we didn’t take her up on it. The filet fun. But it makes for a fabulous $10.50 out with the 12-ounce filet (with two was well seared and was tasty, but it cercocktail. There also is a great selecsides) for $45. tainly wasn’t fork tender. It’s priced like tion of beers on tap — including a few We started with the cheesesteak eggone of the best steaks in town, but it’s locals — and an impressive wine list. not — at least this one wasn’t. rolls (two cut on the bias for $11), decent

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DINING CAPSULES, CONT. eyed peas and fried chicken. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, all CC. 501-374-7685.

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ROSALIA’S BAKERY Brazilian bakery owned by the folks over at Bossa Nova, next door.

Sweet and savory treats, including yucca cheese balls, empanadas and macarons.

Many gluten-free options. 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-319-7035.

BLD Mon.-Sat. (closes 6 p.m.), BL Sun. SILVEK’S EUROPEAN BAKERY Fine pastries, chocolate creations, breads and cakes done in the classical European style.

Drop by for a whole cake or a slice or any of the dozens of single serving treats in the big case. 1900 Polk St. No alcohol, all CC. $$. 501-661-9699. BLD daily.

ITALIAN

CAFE PREGO Dependable entrees of pasta, pork, seafood, steak and the like, plus great sauces, fresh mixed greens and delicious dressings, crisp-crunchy-cold gazpacho and tempting desserts in a comfy bistro setting.

Little Rock standard for 18 years. 5510 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-663-5355. LD Mon.- Fri, D Sat. CIAO ITALIAN RESTAURANT Don’t forget about this casual yet elegant bistro tucked into a downtown storefront. The fine pasta and seafood dishes, ambiance and overall charm combine to make it a relaxing, enjoyable, affordable choice. 405 W. Seventh St. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-372-0238. L Mon.-Fri., D Thu.-Sat. GRADY’S PIZZA AND SUBS Pizza features

a pleasing blend of cheeses rather than straight mozzarella. The grinder is a classic, the chef’s salad huge and tasty. 6801 W. 12th St., Suite C. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$.

501-663-1918.

RADUNO BRICK OVEN AND BARROOM The South Main neighborhood’s renaissance continues with Raduno, an upscale pizza joint that also features sandwiches and unique appetizers (think roasted bone marrow). 1318 S. Main St. Full bar, CC. $-$$.

501-374-7476. LD Tue.-Sat., L Sun. ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL A chain restaurant with a large menu of pasta, chicken, beef, fish, unusual dishes like Italian nachos, and special dishes with a corporate bent. 11100 W Markham St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-3150. LD daily.

U.S. PIZZA Crispy thin-crust pizzas, frosty beers and heaping salads drowned in creamy dressing. 2710 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-2198. LD daily.

5524 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-664-7071. LD daily. 9300 North Rodney Parham Road. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-224-6300. LD daily. 3307 Fair Park Blvd. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-565-6580. LD daily. 650 Edgewood Drive. Maumelle. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-851-0880. LD daily. 3324 Pike Avenue. NLR. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-758-5997. LD daily. 4001 McCain Park Drive. NLR. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-753-2900. LD daily.

ZAFFINO’S BY NORI A high-quality Italian dining experience. Pastas, entrees (don’t miss the veal marsala) and salads are all outstanding. 2001 E. Kiehl Ave. NLR. Beer

and wine, all CC. 501-834-7530. D Tue.-Sat.

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BAJA GRILL Food truck turned brick-andmortar taco joint that serves a unique MexiCali style menu full of tacos, burritos and quesadillas. 5923 Kavanaugh Blvd. CC. $-$$.

501-722-8920. LD Mon.-Sat. CANON GRILL Tex-Mex, pasta, sandwiches and salads. Creative appetizers come in huge quantities, and the varied main-course

menu rarely disappoints, though it’s not as spicy as competitors’. 2811 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-664-2068. LD daily.

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL Burritos, burrito bowls, tacos and salads are the four main courses of choice — and there are four meats and several other options for filling them. Sizes are uniformly massive, quality is uniformly strong, and prices are uniformly low. 11525 Cantrell Road. All CC. $-$$. 501-221-0018. LD daily.

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