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Arkansas following Kansas over cliff This has been an especially informative political season, but the most significant revelation comes from the state of Kansas, where Sen. Pat Roberts and his buddy Sam Brownback have built a Republican empire that has brought the state of Kansas to its knees.

To make the long horror story short, Sam Brownback took over as governor in 2011, instituted the perfect Republican reforms to “stimulate” the Kansas economy, and, naturally, these Republican reforms have crippled the state of Kansas.

Arkansas is about to do the same. If Arkansas continues to elect Republicans, our state will wind up just like Kansas, and we know it.

But, red state Arkansans are truly the same as the proverbial lemmings that follow their leaders right off the cliff.

Wiser folks can stand and say, “Look, Arkansas! There goes Kansas right off the cliff,” but the average Arkansas voter has already chosen the way of Kansas, and no one can convince a lemming to change direction.

The halcyon days of Democratic leadership in Arkansas will soon be over. It is time to accept the Kansas-style demise of the Natural State in the hands of Republicans. Over you go, Arkansas.

Gene Mason Jacksonville

If only Mark were as charismatic as those two he could smash the softball that is Tom Cotton out of the park.

Come on Mark (and all other D candidates), ACA makes most pay something towards their own healthcare. Surely in the age of Ebola we can all agree on the need for health care. Our founding fathers thought of it in Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution that put healthcare (general welfare) on the same footing as national defense. Come on Mark, uphold the Constitution.

Quid pro quo In response to an Arkansas Blog post

on the AETN debates between Senate candidates Rep. Tom Cotton and Sen. Mark Pryor and between 2nd District Congress candidates French Hill and Pat Hays: Running against Prez Oblackula is a tired easy route for the ditto heads. Far more difficult if you run against Hays. Pat said he would not have voted for the Affordable Care Act if he were in Congress. Kinda hard to keep trying to tag him to Prez muslimkenyan.

I suspect, folks like me in the middle liked the calm, upbeat, hopeful and collaborative approach from NLR versus the turdblossum

backwash from the LRCC. Yapper John Just watched the Hays-Hill debate. I don’t want to say that Hill is desperate necessarily, but when he tries to link Mayor Hays to the president, it just comes off as too great of a stretch. Hill tries to say he understands real people and talks about how he supports public schools, etc. Don’t his kids go to private school? Isn’t he a Country Clubber? I mean, what does he have in common with regular folks? French Hill has more in common with Milton Drysdale than he does with the Man on the Street.

Poison Apple A few folks kept a count, during the AETN debate today: Cotton referenced “Obama” 74 times. A friend did the math and it comes out to once every 14 seconds in the time that he spoke. Textbook case of “Obama Derangement Syndrome.” elwood

In response to Benjamin Hardy’s cover story “Family vs. institutional care in Arkansas” (Oct. 9):

In response to an Arkansas Blog post about National Education Association ad criticizing Senate candidate Rep. Tom Cotton for his vote against the student loan program:

This article is disgusting! People in the human development centers are not “forced” into institutions. They are not there as a last resort. The resident is in their “home” (should not be called an institution), because that is the best residential “choice” for the individual. Each resident has a legal guardian who makes the proper choice for that individual for the most appropriate place to live. DO NOT EVER JUDGE THE GUARDIAN FOR THEIR CHOICE. You do not know what the circumstances are for each individual and you should not judge them for their choice.

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Is Tom Cotton running against Michael Bloomberg, President Obama or David Pryor? I’ve heard commercials indicating Bloomberg’s radical idea of background checks for people purchasing guns is infringing on my 2nd amendment rights.

Since I’m not a felon, stalker or spousal abuser I don’t feel like it does. Maybe it’s a good idea to try and keep weapons out of criminals’, spousal abusers’ and the mentally incompetents’ hands. Just saying.

Or is Tom Cotton running against President Obama? I hear TC say about every 10 seconds that ACA is bad even though it seems to provide healthcare and make nearly everyone pay something towards the cost. Why is healthcare a bad thing again?

Mark Pryor seems like the best guess as he seems to be linked to both Obama and Bloomberg frequently.

HappyHomeForKim, no one is arguing against the placement that you chose for your daughter. The point made by the families like the Dodsons (almost 3,000 of them) is that they want their son to remain at home with his family and friends. That’s what I want for my son, too. As far as the cost is concerned, I believe Mr. Hardy interviewed representatives of DHS who stated that Medicaid expenditures are higher for care in an institution than care in the community. Individuals with disabilities and their families should have a right to choose between supports in the community or care in an HDC, but at this time they aren’t afforded that choice. Not having another option does, in fact, force some families like the Dodsons to place their child in an HDC. Diana DeClerk Varady

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

WEEK THAT WAS

Among the emails turned up by Freedom of Information requests of Leslie Rutledge’s tenure at the Department of Human Services: an email written in a grotesquely offensive dialect that Rutledge forwarded.

Rutledge’s excuse: She only forwarded the racist material “without comment.” She blamed the email’s author, who emerged to announce that those criticizing the note were simply unfamiliar “with literary technique.” Rutledge defenders on social media invoked Mark Twain (if you’re using Twain to defend a embarrassing, slapdash email written in the 21st century, you’re already in hot water — is the n-word cool too?). Here is a sample of the “literary technique”: “baby’s momma done turn into a ho and a stripper an she be raisin’ fusses and kickin’ and bitin’ and whoopin dis man ...”

This mix of ham-fisted Ebonics stereotypes and Uncle Remus dialect isn’t how anyone of any race speaks today. It’s how some white people speak to make fun of black people.

To be charitable, maybe Rutledge just didn’t know how offensive this was. Given her petulant, blame-theliberals defensive crouch, she will never learn. Her latest excuse — that there were no racial undertones at all, and the email merely “sounds like country talk” — strains our credulity, and our charity.

Quote of the week “How will [Leslie Rutledge] ‘protect’ all of us when she doesn’t even respect all Arkansans or lacks the judgment to recognize she doesn’t? … [I]t would be heartening if she would just take responsibility for what she did and apologize, not continue the excuse-making of ‘I just forwarded what my friend sent to me.’ ” —State Sen. Joyce Elliot

The demagogues must be crazy As Election Day gets closer, the 6

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BREAKING: Forwarding racist emails is not OK

THE PINTA IN ARKANSAS: Replicas of Christopher Columbus’ ships, the Nina and the Pinta, are docked at the Julius Breckling Riverfront Park in Little Rock through Oct. 20. Admission to a tour ranges from $6 to $8.

demagoguery is going into high gear. U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton recently told a tele-townhall that ISIS was going to join forces with Mexican drug cartels and attack Arkansas.

The claim, which Cotton’s camp later said was based on blog posts from various rightwing websites, is without merit — but might succeed at least in sewing panic for political profit. Meanwhile Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway), being challenged by a surprisingly frisky young upstart, Tyler Pearson, said that parole should be abolished entirely in the wake of the tragic murder of real estate agent Beverly Carter. When Pearson pointed out that Rapert’s proposal “would likely bankrupt our state,” Rapert responded only as demagogues can: “I’d like you to ask Mrs. Carter’s family today if she wished that that man who should have been in prison was there wwhen he killed her.” Finally, if there’s going to be populist rabblerousing, you know old friend Mike Huckabee (not running for anything at the moment, but eyeing the 2016 Iowa presidential caucus) will be in the mix. He said that if Republicans didn’t go back to full-throated discrimination against gay people, he’d

leave the party.

No show Secretary of State Mark Martin dodged this week’s AETN debate, the only major candidate to do so for any office.

He blamed a scheduling conflict. Odd because he hasn’t made a public appearance in months. Might be nice to hear about, say, his failure to adequately inform the public about the new voter ID law.

A number of local ink-stained wretches in town have stories of Martin literally crying when faced with mildly adversarial questions, so cowering at home may be the best approach.

The shamelessness of Mike Maggio, by the numbers Maggio, who was removed from his elected position as circuit judge on account of ethical violations, filed a claim for unemployment compensation from the state of Arkansas. It is likely the claim will be withdrawn. $451: weekly unemployment Maggio would receive if unemployment claim approved

$11,275: maximum payment Maggio could receive 0: number of public officials claiming or receiving unemployment after leaving office, according to the recollection of state unemployment officials

Debates There were lots of debates this week. A brief summary: Republicans said “Obama” a lot. Asa Hutchinson said Mike Ross’ “knees buckled” after the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting (Ross’ pro-gun exuberance was insufficient in the immediate wake of news of the slaughter of 20 children, according to Hutchinson).

Quote of the week 2 “We basically took a shotgun to a problem that needed a .22” —Bill Clinton on mass incarceration in the United States, addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock last week

OPINION

So many races, so few words

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s a momentous election builds to a climax, it’s hard to know where best to deploy 600 words.

I write after AETN’s debate between U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor and Rep. Tom Cotton, with two third-party candidates preventing focused exchanges by the major candidates. Cotton managed to say the name Obama roughly six dozen times — once every 10 seconds in his closing remarks. He also repeated bodacious whoppers in a cold, robotic performance.

He provided an effective context for niceguy Mark Pryor, who zinged Cotton for his ownership by billionaires and his interest in nation-building overseas to the detriment of programs for American people.

In the governor’s race, some of the same dynamics are at work. Republican Asa Hutchinson, in his fourth try for statewide office, presents an appearance of amiability that belies the meanness of his philosophy. Democrat Mike Ross is superior on substance, if not always on

style. Hutchinson has been forced to renege on an instant income tax cut promise because of simple budget MAX arithmetic. He conBRANTLEY tinues to waffle on maxbrantley@arktimes.com a bipartisan health insurance program that has provided health security to 200,000 Arkansas. He’s a reluctant supporter of an increase in the minimum wage. Ross has a sound income tax plan (gradual) and is a firm supporter of the private option insurance plan and the minimum wage increase. But Ross, too, labors under the Obama ally label.

AETN gave voters — the few who bothered to watch — a piercing look at the 2nd District Congressional race. Former North Little Rock Mayor Pat Hays wore his goodguy outfit and talked about his successes as a nonpartisan mayor. J. French Hill, the millionaire Republican banker, did, as one

Media-stoked fear sets off mindless stampede

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irst of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror ...

— President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932 inaugural address

One time, my wife and I went walking near a pasture where nine mares grazed. I knew them all by name. Suddenly and for no obvious reason the herd stampeded, galloping by as if their lives depended upon it.

It was a thrilling sight, like being right down on the rail at the race track.

But what were they running from? There are no predators around here capable of harming a horse. As the leaders thundered by, I noticed two fillies at the back getting skeptical. They kept looking behind and catching each other’s eye as if to say “What’s this about? I don’t see anything, do you?”

As the fillies pulled up, the leaders thundered headlong into a run-in shed about 100 yards ahead and stopped. The proximate cause of the stampede had been a fat black horse fly on the boss mare’s rump. As soon as she went under the roof, the insect flew off.

It was quite comical, actually.

We Americans didn’t used to be like that.

We prided ourselves on being a pragmatic, self-confident people — more like the skeptical fillies than the thundering herd.

GENE But if you believe a LYONS lot of what you read in the news media and see on TV, much of the public currently lives on the edge of panic.

The role of cable TV news channels in stoking hysteria has reached new depths of shamelessness. They do it for the ratings, you know.

And if you don’t, the barbaric propagandists of ISIS certainly do.

Typical headlines: “ISIS Threat: Fear of Terror Attack Soars to 9/11 High, NBC News/WSJ Poll Finds.” By the ghastly tactic of beheading American and British citizens on TV, Islamic extremists fighting to establish a Sunni fundamentalist “Caliphate” have stampeded the nation.

Millions of Americans who wanted out of Middle Eastern sectarian wars now think the U.S needs to get back in.

If ISIS’s goals are insane, so are their tactics. Politically speaking, no U.S. president could have failed to react to the orga-

reader suggested, a good impression of “Beverly Hillbillies” banker Milburn Drysdale. Fresh off pocketing a $4 million personal deal in a bank merger that likely will cost some co-workers their jobs, Hill made it clear that he philosophically opposed minimum wages and said they did little to help those in poverty.

These high-profile races have sucked up dollars that otherwise could go to important statewide races. If it mattered.

Recent polling demonstrates, however, that there are more yellow-dog Republicans than yellow-dog Democrats in Arkansas, something in the range of 45 percent to 40 percent. It’s a shame, because some statewide offices deserve more than party-line voting.

The state’s chief election officer, Secretary of State Mark Martin, is a mystery man, rarely seen in public. His poor office management includes failure to educate voters about the voter ID law his party passed to suppress Democratic votes. His Democratic opponent, Susan Inman, is an election expert with a record as an amiable and accessible public official. Quite a contrast to the surly Martin who, alone among major candidates, refused to participate in AETN debates.

For attorney general, the Republicans nominated Leslie Rutledge, whose resume shows a string of undistinguished stints in political patronage jobs, a couple of which she left amid questionable circumstances. The Department of Human Services wouldn’t rehire her on account of “gross misconduct,” which perhaps included the abysmal decision to circulate a friend’s email about a needy family written in cartoonish black dialect. The main alternative, Democrat Nate Steel, is a solid small-town lawyer and legislator.

Then there’s the race for state treasurer. The GOP nominee is Dennis “What We Need is Another 9/11” Milligan, best known for attempting to blackmail Duncan Baird out of the primary race with some political dirt. Milligan beat him with sleazy tactics and liberal use of the word Obama. Baird supported the private option insurance legislation. Good Republicans still won’t utter a word of criticism about Milligan, even though the Democratic nominee, Karen Sealy Garcia, is a squeaky clean former accountant for a Fortune 100 corporation and an able Hot Springs council member.

Partisanship and uninformed voters equal power in Arkansas politics today.

nization’s mad provocations. Exactly how collaborate with Mexican drug cartels to President Obama’s bombing campaign will “infiltrate our defenseless border and attack end, nobody can say — although that hasn’t us right here in places like Arkansas.” stopped a thousand propagandists from Armies of Mexican Islamic terrorists trying. descending upon El Dorado and Texarkana!

Invading Iraq at all was the big mistake, For somebody who comes advertised as and it says here that getting sucked back in brainy, Cotton appears incapable of concealto yet another Middle Eastern ground war ing how dumb he thinks voters are. would be to repeat it. A big part of the probThen there’s Ebola, which cable TV lem is the unreasoning fear, far out of pro- also shamelessly hypes for ratings. “I’ve portion to any actual threat the nation faces. followed cable news for many, many years Although my saying so infuriated certain now,” writes The Daily Banter’s Bob Cesca readers, I once wrote that Osama bin Lad- “and not since the lead-up to the Iraq War en’s “deluded followers posed no military has the American news media behaved with threat to the integrity of the United States such recklessness.” or any Western nation. At worst they were Among a hundred possible examples, capable of theatrical acts of mass murder Cesca was aghast at CNN’s interviewing like the 9/11 attacks. And that was sufficient novelist Robin Cook, who once wrote a evil indeed. ” thriller about a conspiracy to spread Ebola But fear made us reckless. I’d say the foiled by a hero-doctor. same about ISIS. For all its ruthlessness, “The real issue here is how quickly it can ISIS has no air force, no navy, and a ragtag mutate, and how that’s gonna effect the army incapable of projecting power any- transmission …,” Cook said. “Perhaps this where but the desert wastes of Iraq and virus cannot live very long in the air. I don’t Syria. Helping the Kurds defend themselves know. But I don’t think anybody knows.” against a genocidal massacre is one thing; Actually, people do know. Every protrying to impose a pax Americana on the fessional health agency in the world agrees entire region quite another. that Ebola cannot be transmitted through Quivering in our beds for fear of a terror- the air. As for mutating, Scientific Ameriist strike should be beneath the American can reports that there’s “almost no historipeople. It’s impossible to respect shameless cal precedent for any virus to change its politicians like Arkansas Senate candidate basic mode of transmission so radically.”

The real thing is bad enough without Tom Cotton, who actually warned viewers on a TV town hall that ISIS terrorists might spreading lurid disinformation. www.arktimes.com

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PEARLS ABOUT SWINE

Close ones hurt more

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here are nits to be picked after one-point losses. Always.

As much as anything else, retrospective dissection is the gospel of college football fandom; and in SEC country, if you aren’t combining spirits and profanity to motivate your second-guessing in the aftermath of a tight one, by God, buddy, you’re doing it wrong.

Arkansas lost to Alabama 14-13 Saturday night, and oh, you couldn’t find a more apt contest for searing scrutiny. You could also, incidentally, scrawl the old “game of inches” saw in your own blood on a cocktail napkin from Maxine’s Tap Room and torch the same in the middle of Dickson Street, and I’m not even sure that would exorcise all the woes this program keeps on bravely trying to purge.

The whole evening was well-framed reverie, a lot of half-century bombast for the 1964 national champs, but by the time the ever-smarmy Penn Wagers had made the last of his latest batch of dubious officiating declarations and bled the rest of the game clock away helplessly, it truthfully recalled that fateful afternoon in December 1969 instead. Here were some scrappy Porkers donning beautiful throwback gear, respecting the same by holding the line of scrimmage against a bitter and exalted rival, all to find no endgame solace. If that agonizingly slim final margin didn’t remind you of the Game of the Century against Texas in 1969, then I’m sure other things did.

For instance, playcalling curiosities after Arkansas built its well-earned but tenuous lead. Or special teams miscues. Or maybe some yellow flags that should’ve stayed pocketed on one snap and slung to the turf after another.

While Nick Saban was in ill spleen all night, incensed by his team’s feeble performance after a loss to Ole Miss, he still walked off a winner. Bret Bielema, on the other hand, frankly endeared himself further to this columnist with a gut-wrenching but utterly dignified postgame press conference that underscored exactly why Jeff Long found him worthy of the hire. He choked up because he legitimately felt the sting that his players were feeling, and because he genuinely believed all the plaudits he directed toward them.

The Hogs’ effort was undeniable and the evidence of their progress is stark, but the results just aren’t bearing that out.

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are readily, easily fixed. Four penalties, three turnovers and one slightly off-kilter snap helped conBEAU tribute to a fairly WILCOX significant point swing. What’s really unfortunate is that some who had chances to emerge as unlikely heroes came up achingly short.

Kody Walker has had such a starcrossed career that the fullback’s first quarter fumble out of the back of the end zone felt so obscenely unjust. And after John Henson’s leg betrayed him and his team two weeks ago at Arlington, how cruel is it that his tipped point-after, which wasn’t totally his own doing, would end up creating the final deficit? Allen had thrown more than 110 passes between interceptions, but naturally, when he heaved one from hash mark to hash mark through spitting rain it was about two yards shy of becoming a highlight for the ages. Instead, Jonathan Williams had no chance but to camp under the lob and Alabama’s Landon Collins snatched it for the punctuation.

Dropped interceptions were big. Alan Turner failed to cradle one in the end zone in the first half and that ended up being costly because the Tide scored its first TD two plays later. Tevin Mitchel had earlier missed out on one that might’ve yielded six and would have at worst put Arkansas on the shorter part of the field. Alabama muffed punt returns twice in the first half but the Hogs failed to capitalize, and later, the Tide managed to recover fumbles.

By the time the fourth quarter was dragging on, the battle of wills climaxed around midfield. Arkansas pushed Bama back on a fourth-and-inches, but moments later the Tide squelched any momentum the Razorbacks wanted to extract from that by doing the same. Then came Allen’s long cross-field fling that needed a bit more shoulder behind it.

It beat the bejesus out of losing 52-0, but it was a really tough one to chew on, too. Arkansas is so vastly improved that the recent defeats arguably hurt worse.

But when there are 72,000-plus willing to don ponchos and muck boots to see how far you’ve come, it’s testament to the newfound faith the fans are putting in this staff and these players. At some point in 2014, though, those selfsame parties need to summon the fourthquarter temerity needed to reward our indisputably conditional love.

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he Observer observed nothing last weekend but the rain. It came down on The Observatory in pails at times, the old oaks in the yard dripping dejectedly, their half-baked fall colors varnished in rain the temperature of spit. In a month, we’ll all be November deep in coats and scarves. But for now, it’s rain, and cannon thunder, and the blue flash of God’s own lightning through the blinds, spooking the 26-pound cat so much that he compressed himself into a furry pancake and scooted under the bed, where he squeezed in between the stowed box fan and Spouse’s plastic tote full of sweaters, yet to be opened so far this fall. There are tornadoes out there in the murk, grinding like black peppermills through towns. The rain on the roof says: “Shhhhhhhh,” broken every so often by an acorn dropping onto the neighbor’s aluminum carport, the noise like a lost wingnut from the space station falling into an iron kettle. The acorn will never reach the sanctuary of the soil. It will be scooped up and hoarded in a few days by our resident city squirrel, fat and happy as a little bear in this rifle-less paradise of oaks to spiral around and woodwork to chew. We should really do something about him, we think darkly, before he bites through the wrong thing and burns the joint down. The rain, meanwhile, says: “Shhhhhhhh.”

There’s floor-to-ceiling bookcases on one wall of the dining room. There’s a torchiere lamp in there, and a footstool, and a big wingback chair that we never sit in for some reason, even though it would likely be paradise to one with a bibliophile’s heart. We should sit in there more. The Observer built those bookshelves his damn self, on either side of a window seat where the cat mounds up asleep on sunny days when the seat is not strewn with our papers and books. We’ve always been covetous of houses with libraries, their Seuss-high library ladders spiraling up to leather volumes on impossible shelves. So, when we finally bought our little house on Maple Street, the bookshelves came before almost anything else, cussed

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into existence out of a pile of Home Depot birch plywood over the course of one hot summer. On rainy days, we go there and browse, running our finger over the spines of books, bending low for those we’ve neglected for weeks or years, picking one, reading a few pages, putting it back. It’s a beautiful thing on a gray day.

On Saturday, during the rain, we were browsing, the reading finger pausing and then moving on, and we pulled down a big book of art photographs, bought at Square Books in Oxford, Miss., an age ago. When we opened it, a folded piece of paper fell out. On it: a drawing of a mighty steamboat rolling on the river at full bore. Below it: “Happy Farter’s Day! Love, Sam” On the back, in The Observer’s own hand: “Age 8.”

Do we have to tell you that the correct spelling of “Father’s” had been carefully erased and penciled over with “Farter’s” in Junior’s careful print? Probably not.

He was 8, after all, and fart jokes are pretty much the “Who’s on First?” of the 8-year-old set. Too, if you’ve watched this column for the past 13 years, you know Junior’s humor has veered toward the scatological more than once, even though he has grown these days into a serious and thoughtful 14-year-old — too serious sometimes, we think.

That Happy Farter’s Day from the past gave us a hell of a smile on a rainy morning, however, so after a moment of reflection on how the years have rushed past us like a sparrow on the wing, we folded the paper back into the book, reloading the grin bomb once more for A Future Observer to find once more, in some future year, on a future rainy day. And we closed the book. And we smiled at it again. And we put the book back onto the shelf, sliding it in until it thumped against the back of the bookcase we’d shaped and painted with these own hands. And there came the crack of another acorn falling for the bear-fat squirrel’s winter hoard. And the hand of the clock marched, tick by tick, toward November. And the rain on the roof said: “Shhhhhhhhh.”

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Costco, the warehouse retailer with a reputation for quality goods and a wellpaid workforce, is exploring locations in the Little Rock area.

Costco said its policy was not to talk about comment about expansion into new markets.

But reliable sources say a local development firm, Flake and Kelley, has begun meeting with city officials about the possibility. Hank Kelley said he couldn’t comment on any clients he might be representing.

One site being discussed, according to other real estate sources, is 60 acres of residential property at the northwest corner of Cantrell Road and Interstate 430, along River Mountain Road, a small thoroughfare that leads to a county park on the Little Maumelle River and accesses busy Cantrell by means of a brief traffic light.

The Times spoke with the owner of one of those three homes, retired public relations and advertising man Hugh Pollard.

He does not want to leave his home, which sits on six forested acres. Bonnie Harvey and Harry Rosenblum own the other two properties, with the Harvey holding accounting for about half the acreage.

Pollard has spoken with a Costco representative. The firm sees a location situated between higher income neighborhoods with freeway frontage as a good location.

Pollard said he thinks highly of Costco and would like to see it come to Little Rock, but not at the expense of his residential neighborhood. He said opposition to the idea was growing from other property owners in the vicinity. A church, for example, lies immediately to the west of the homes and it could be expected to object to a new outlet for alcohol sales nearby if Costco included them in its product mix.

Pollard said the project would require a reworking of traffic signals on Cantrell and likely worsen traffic there; it would have a negative impact on the county park, which has limited parking; and it would require clearance and leveling for a parking lot big enough for more than 700 cars, plus some likely hillside excavation that would end what now constitutes a “green entry” to Little Rock for motorists entering the city via the I-430 bridge over the Arkansas River.

Costco has told Pollard that it would not move ahead with the River Mountain Road site if he objected. He recently completed a landscaping and home renovation project and is happy with his home, he said. The company perhaps could proceed without his property (and the thoughts of the other two River

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Prepared for Ebola Health Department, hospitals scramble to prepare, though chance of the virus traveling to Arkansas is miniscule.

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dds are that Ebola, the virus that has swept through West Africa in the worst-ever outbreak of the disease, will not turn up in Arkansas. Only one case has emerged in the United States, in Dallas, where a Liberian American died.

(A nurse who treated him has become ill, thus becoming the first case of transmissible Ebola in the U.S.) But the state Department of Health isn’t taking any chances. In the past six weeks, the health department has been engaged in “an extraordinary amount of preparedness” to deal with Ebola contact, Dr. Gary Wheeler, the department’s branch chief of infectious diseases, said Monday. The department has discussed screening with hospital and emergency personnel; schools about exchange students; and companies, including Walmart, who see business travelers. These are enti-

ties that are the most likely to encounter people who may have been in the African countries affected by the outbreak.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the health department recommend that persons who’ve been to outbreak countries should take their temperatures twice a day for 21 days to make sure they’re clear of infection. All health care providers are to report to the Health Department patients from the outbreak countries.

As of Oct. 10, the Zaire strain of Ebola had killed more than 4,000 people in Liberia, where the outbreak started in March; more than 8,000 cases of confirmed and suspected Ebola have been reported.

Symptoms begin with fever and a headache. Stomach pain and vomiting follow.

At the end stage of the illness, internally hemorrhaging patients will bleed out

from every orifice. It is a gruesome death.

Liberia, where the outbreak began, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal and the Republic of Congo have all reported cases.

Nigeria and Senegal are considered to be close to stopping the spread; the last case in Nigeria was Sept. 5 and in Senegal Aug. 29. Bats are suspected to be the source. Thomas Eric Duncan, who died at Texas Health Presbyterian, presented with symptoms a day or so after arriving in the United States.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been updating its protocols for dealing with infectious disease and training staff for several weeks, but Dr. Keyur Vyas said Duncan’s death had added “urgency” to the preparations.

Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse, tested positive for Ebola on Sunday. Her infection was blamed in a breach in protocol in handling the patient. Tom Frieden, the director for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said on Monday it was possible that other health care workers who came in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan may also test positive because they “may have had a breach of the same nature.”

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In a perfect marriage of the modern Republican Party’s fetish for federalism and Obamacaranoia, Arkansas Republican legislative candidates said they would “support legislation to nullify ObamaCare and authorize state and local law enforcement to arrest federal officials attempting to implement the health care scheme, known as ObamaCare,” in response to a survey from the Campaign for Liberty, a political organization founded by Ron Paul. Again, that’s arresting federal officials for enacting federal law in Arkansas. Among those who said yes: three sitting GOP legislators — Sen. Missy Irvin of Mountain View and Reps. Richard Womack of Arkadelphia and John Payton of Wilburn (Irvin later said she didn’t remember filling out the survey and that the notion of arresting federal officials for implementing Obamacare was “ridiculous”). A number of Republican lawmakers and candidates declined to respond to that question. None said no.

What’s the matter with Ar-Kansas?

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback promised that slashing tax cuts would bring prosperity to Kansas, saying his voodoo economics would be a “shot of adrenaline” and Kansas would be a “red-state model ... a real, live experiment” for the rest of the country. The experiment — inspired by supply-side economist Art Laffer, who served as a consultant and cheerleader for the Brownback plan — was a humiliating failure, as Brownback’s platform bled revenues and sent the state into a devastating fiscal crisis.

Somebody tell Arkadelphia state Rep. Richard Womack, who told the crowd at a recent candidate forum that he’d been getting tips from … Art Laffer. “There’s no denying the numbers, and the numbers says that in order to bring new jobs, we have to cut state income taxes, and keep cutting income taxes,” Womack said, adding, “economics is incredibly simple.” Sure — just look at Kansas. www.arktimes.com

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When Arkansas Times readers get a hankerin’ to tie one on in the morning at Sunday brunch, they think … U.S. Pizza? That’s what the ballots tell us;

David Koon investigates. For our staff pick for “Favorite ‘Twin Peaks’ Setting Had David Lynch Channeled Stoned George Jones,” Will Stephenson profiles Jimmy Doyle’s Country Club’s owner and namesake and discovers he and his honky-tonk are one of a kind.

Speaking of colorful bar owners, they don’t get much more fun-loving than Larry “Goose” Garrison, the longtime White Water Tavern owner who died in September. Lindsey Millar tells his story.

Finally, since this is a survey of Central Arkansas bars and booze, what better place than to preview the Arkansas

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Wine bar Zin Urban Wine and Beer Bar Runners-up: Crush Wine Bar, By the Glass, Cache Restaurant

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West End Smokehouse and Tavern Runners-up: The Tavern Sports Grill, Gusano’s Chicago-Style Pizzeria, Buffalo Wild Wings

Bartender Jarrod Johnson (Big Orange) Runners-up: David Burnette (South on Main), Kevin Creasy (White Water Tavern), David Timberlake (The Pantry)

Pick-up bar Hillcrest Fountain Runners-up: Bar Louie, Cache Restaurant, Town Pump CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 www.arktimes.com

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AT THE FUTURE HOME OF REBEL KETTLE BREWING COMPANY: Co-owners (from left) Tommy McGhee, Shawn Stane, John Lee and Matt Morgan.

Craft Beer Festival preview 52 brewers, over 250 beers, on Oct. 24.

at the door) allows for all the sampling you want and includes food from nine restaurants, including Arkansas Ale House, Bravo! Cucina Italiana, Cafe Bossa Nova, Cregeen’s Irish Pub, Crush Wine Bar, The Fold Botanas and Bar, Old Chicago NLR, Butcher & Public and Whole Hog North Little Rock.

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he Arkansas beer community has Arkansas, distributors have been hitseen a lot of changes and plenty of ting the hops trail pretty hard to bring growth since last year’s Arkansas many of the nation’s best brews to our Times Craft Beer Festival. More brewer- shelves and tap walls. End result? ies have opened in Northwest Arkansas You’ll need a scorecard — which we and others are getting ready to open. provide on page 24 — to keep up with The Fayetteville Ale Trail has taken off this year’s beer festival. You’ll also as a popular activity for the region’s need tickets, which you should buy beer lovers. Central Arkansas is play- in advance to avoid being on the outing catch-up with a number of new side looking in once the festival inevibreweries making plans to open soon. tably sells out. Get them at arktimes.

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ARKANSAS BREWERIES Apple Blossom Brewing Co. Fayetteville’s Apple Blossom Brewing Co. has been a welcome addition to the Northwest Arkansas craft beer community, and its beers are starting to make their way to Central Arkansas.

I’ve visited Apple Blossom on three different occasions and each time has been more rewarding for my taste buds

than the previous. You won’t have to drive up scenic I-49 to try Apple Blossom for yourself as the brewery will be pouring its Fayetteweisse, Armstrong American Pale Ale, Triple IPA and possibly some Hayride Pumpkin Porter or Oktoberfest.

Blue Canoe Brewing This upstart nano brewery and taproom is still in the planning stages for the River Market District, hoping to open later this year. Founders Laura Berryhill and Patrick and Ida Cowan plan to locally source as many ingredients as they can to create their beer. For example, Pinnacle Blossom Wit Beer is named for local honeysuckle blossoms.

Berryhill and the Cowans will be pouring three beers at the festival that they hope will be mainstays year- round at their taproom: Paddler American Wheat, 4x4 Pale Ale and Whittler Milk

Stout. They also plan to rotate seasonal It wasn’t very good wine apparently. because that what you get with this Rog- ing Co. before Ozark Beer Co. was born and experimental beers.

“My friends said, ‘Maybe you should ers brewery. Brewmaster Andy Coates with partner Jeff Baldwin, just north of make something we can actually drink.’ worked at Great Divide Brewing Co. and Fayetteville. Ozark will pour its Belgian That’s when I got started home-brew- Goose Island Beer Co. before moving to Golden and Cream Stout.

Core Brewing It’s been a huge year for ing,” he said. He went on to complete Arkansas in 2010 with his wife, Lacie. It Springdale’s Core Brewing. a six-month brewmaster school at the was a homecoming for Lacie and a new Rebel Kettle CEO Jesse Core says Core University of California Davis before home in the Ozarks for Andy. He made Another Little Rock is approaching nearly 470 opening up Fossil Cove Brewing in a name for himself locally as the brewer brewery in the development stages, Rebel Kettle locations where its product is sold, and Fayetteville, which recently celebrated at Fayetteville’s West Mountain BrewCONTINUED ON PAGE 18 he hopes to start selling it in Mexico its second anniversary. Fossil Cove’s in 2015. Core also recently opened a tap room is on my “must do” list every beautiful new taproom in Rogers and time I get up to the hills, not just for as it’s also a distillery, expect for a the beer, but for the wonderful laidbarrel-aging program to start gain- back environment. You can find Fossil ing steam as well. Just this month Cove’s taps around Central Arkansas Big Dam Horn O’Plenty Imperial Oktoberfest • Amer Belge Belgian IPA Lichtenhainer Weisse Smoked Sour Wheat • Gluten Free Cider Core also added another power hit- already, but with the recent addition Big Dam Horn O’Plenty Imperial Oktoberfest • Amer Belge Belgian IPA ter to its starting line-up with the addi- of a 20-barrel fermenter and 20-bar• • Lichtenhainer Weisse4-9 Smoked Sour Free Cider OF Wheat • Saturday Wednesday-Friday 12-9Gluten Sunday 11-8 tion of former Apple Blossom brewer rel brite tank carbonator, expect to THE • stonesthrowbeer.com • 402 E. 9th Nathan Traw, as director of brewing. see plenty more. Start by checking out RUNNER-UP Despite its Northwest location, Core’s Fossil Cove’s La Brea Brown, Blizzle Wednesday-Friday 4-9 • Saturday 12-9 • Sunday 11-8 402 E. 9th • stonesthrowbeer.com • beers have been easy to find in Central Black IPA and Paleo Pale Ale. Arkansas since the brewery’s debut.

Leap of Faith Brewing Core will pour plenty of its most popular beers, including Behemoth Pilsner, Sometimes when you Leg Hound Lager, ESB, Hilltop IPA, have a dream you just have Imperial Red, Oatmeal Stout and a to take a leap of faith, and seasonal beer. that’s what local homebrewers Dave Ragan and Joe Mains are doing as they plan another upstart brewery in CenDiamond Bear It’s been a great year tral Arkansas. They’ll be sharing some for Diamond Bear Brew- of what they hope to have in store ery, now in its 14th year of for you soon, like Righteous Indignaproduction in the state. In June, it tion, Highgarden Brown Ale, Counopened a huge shiny new brewery in try Monks Farmhouse and the hops North Little Rock, complete with the monster called Thor’s Hammer IPA. Arkansas Alehouse, a brewpub res- Take the leap! taurant. Also this summer, Diamond Bear jumped into the world of craft Moody Brews With much rejoicing from cans, canning Southern Blonde for fans to take on lake trips, golf rounds or local beer lovers, former Vino’s brewmaster Josiah just wandering around the Arkansas outdoors. Not only will you be able Moody launched his own label this to find Arkansas Alehouse’s food at summer, which he cleverly dubbed the festival, you’ll also get to sample Moody Brews. He’s taken a proven Southern Blonde, plus Diamond Bear’s successful route (see Evil Twin and 2007 Great American Beer Festival Prairie Ales) of “gypsy brewing” by gold medal-winning Pale Ale. brewing and bottling his new beers at Choc Brewing Co. in Krebs, Okla.

The first official beer to come out of Flyway Brewing Here’s another Little Moody Brews is an Imperial IPA called Rock brewery that’s on the Half Seas Over, which you can find in rise with big plans for the four-pack bottles and on draft at sevupcoming year. It’s trying to secure a eral Central Arkansas watering holes. location for a brewery with an eye on It’s a wonderfully aromatic tropical opening in the early months of 2015. hop blast with a flavor to match, comAt the festival, Flyway will have all ing in at 80 International Bittering four of its planned year-round lineup Units (IBUs). The 8.5 percent alcohol of beers. Look for Migrate Ale, Free by volume (ABV) seems big, but it sure Range Brown Ale, Early Bird IPA and is hidden well as the beer finishes as Shadow Hands Stout to all be flowing. smooth as a session IPA.

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recently announced a mid-2015 opening at space on East Sixth Street. The future brewery’s location is pretty much directly between Stone’s Throw (402 E. 9th St.) and Lost 40 (McLean and Capital, east of I-30), so Central Arkansas’s version of an Ale Trail could have a lot more walking involved. Rebel Kettle has been pouring at festivals in recent years and has already earned a reputation for making tasty beers that ignore style limitations. See for yourself by trying Popfly Popcorn Cream Ale, Dirtbag Brown Ale, Moontower Cream Stout and Liquor & Peaches, a bourbon and peach imperial porter.

Saddlebock Brewery Having toured the Springdale brewery a few times, I wasn’t at all shocked when TripAdvisor named Saddlebock to its 2014 Top Wineries & Breweries Worth Traveling For. It’s a really neat three-level brewhouse that looks like a barn and is ultra-environmentally friendly, from gravity-fed grain all the way through to a naturally cooled cellar. It’s an interesting tour in a beautiful location, outside the city beside the scenic White River. I highly recommend stopping by on any visit to Northwest Arkansas. Look for Oktoberfest, Late Summer Shandy, Bock and my favorite, the super refreshing Blueberry Tart, at the fest.

Stone’s Throw Brewing At last year’s festival, Stone’s Throw had been open merely a few months in its downtown Little Rock location just a stone’s throw from the River Market. Here we are a year later and it’s doubled twice now since brewery operations began on July 4, 2013. The most recent additions in September — three fermenters and a brite tank each with a six-barrel volume — will allow the brewery to make its most popular beers available for longer periods. Beers that need more time to ferment, like lagers and high- gravity recipes, will also have increased availability. Stop by its table and check out Ichabod Pumpkin, Big Damn Horn O’Plenty Imperial Oktoberfest, Amer Belge Belgian IPA and Petit Jean Pear Cider.

Vino’s Pizza Pub Brewery There was a lot of change for Vino’s this year, with former brewmaster Josiah

Moody leaving to start Moody Brews, but it will continue to make consistent quality beer like the people of Little Rock have come to expect for over 20 years. Nobody else can lay claim to over two decades of beer making and selling in this state. Vino’s is also one of only two breweries in the state with multiple Great American Beer Festival awards. It will be serving up Oktoberfest, Red Wolf Ale, Dopplebock and Dunbar Garden Table Beer.

Regional Breweries Abita Brewing For my wife and me, no trip to New Orleans is complete without a stop by this brewery in Abita Springs, La., 30 miles north of the Big Easy. Formed in 1986, it now brews 130,000 barrels (and 5,000 barrels of delicious root beer) per year. Abita is now sold in 46 states and Puerto Rico and is the 15th largest craft brewery in the country. You can try its popular Andygator, 2013 medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival in the bock category, along with Lemon Wheat, 2014 Great American Beer Festival medal-winning Oktoberfest, Restoration Pale Ale, Strawgator and Purple Haze, a very popular lager brewed with real raspberries added after filtration. If you’re a fan of its Strawberry Harvest Lager — and who isn’t — and are sad because it’s out of season, give the Strawgator a try, as it’s a fusion of that beer and Andygator.

Bayou Teche Brewing If you like Cajun food, especially of the spicy variety, then Bayou Teche just may be your new favorite brewery.

The Arnaudville, La., brewery tends to craft 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, but still remains true to its original intent.

Let’s call Bayou Teche’s brew beers with a Cajun accent. Stop by and try Acadie Biere de Garde, Bierre Pale APA, Bierre Noir Schwarzbier and Cocodrie Belgian IPA. 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 our scene was just beginning to take off. The

brewery has 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 deal were not disclosed, industry analysts estimate the sale price exceeded $100 million. Boulevard will pour some great beers, including Bully Porter, Bourbon Barrel Quad, Bob’s ’47 Oktoberfest, Entwined and Collaboration No. 4, a spiced Saison from its collaboration with Brewery Ommegang.

Charleville Brewing What started as a winery in Sainte Genevieve, Mo., has branched into a nicesized brewery operation with a brand new brewhouse 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. I went to visit this summer. My Garmin must have forgotten it was the Show Me State, because it couldn’t show me how to get there, but it was worth getting lost once I finally found my way. It’s a beautiful place with some super friendly people and a lineup of quality beers (and wines). Look out for Hoptimistic IPA, Half-Wit Wheat, Tornado Amber and maybe a couple of seasonals.

Choc Brewing Since last year’s festival, a new brewing system has given Oklahoma’s Choc Beer Co. a jump in capacity.

It’s a four-vessel, 50-barrel system was purchased from Atlanta’s Sweetwater Brewing Co. that allows Choc to produce more of its own beer as well as more for Prairie Artisan Ales, who, along with Little Rock’s Moody Brews, Choc brews on contract. Look for Choc Beer, OPA and Signature Dubbel as well as one or two yet-tobe announced special releases.

Coop Ale Works Oklahoma City, Okla., has really become a hotspot in the Midwest for craft beer in the last few years, and Coop Ale Works was one of the frontrunners in that movement, opening in 2009. It’s been trying to get on Arkansas shelves for about a year, but it’s sold so much beer in Oklahoma it hasn’t been able to make the jump.

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Crown Valley Brewing & Distilling Co. Just south of St. Louis in the hill country not far from Charleville Brewery sits Crown Valley Brewing & Distilling, which not only makes a lineup of beers but also coffee, root beer, spirits and wine. Its handcrafted brews are made on location by Brew Master Jeremy Gilbert in the stateof-the-art 15-barrel microbrewery.

Look for Crown Valley to pour Big Bison, Country Carriage Apple Cider, Farmhouse Lager, Gunslinger Double IPA and Strawberry Cider.

Lazy Magnolia Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. was founded by Mark and Leslie Henderson in 2003 in Kiln, Miss. In January 2005 its first batch of beer was brewed and Lazy Magnolia became Mississippi’s first package brewery since Prohibition. It’s been available in Arkansas for over a year now and has a good footprint throughout the South with a nice lineup of what could be called “Southern Style” beers. Sweet potatoes lend the Jefferson Stout an earthy, faintly sweet character similar to pumpkin, and Southern Pecan is a nut-brown ale made with whole roasted pecans.

What’s more Southern than pecans and sweet potatoes? Lazy Magnolia will serve up both Southern Pecan and Jefferson Stout plus Southern Hops’pitality, an IPA with “Southern Complexity.”

O’Fallon Brewery The motto of this small craft brewery northwest of St. Louis is “We Love Beer.” I like that. It’s just straight forward and right to the point, which goes right along with many of its beers. There’s not a lot of smoke and mirrors here, just very solid representations of popular styles of beer. Try 5 Day IPA, Zeke’s Pale Ale, Pump-

kin, Hemp Hop Rye and Wheach, a delicious wheat/peach brew, at the festival.

Marshall Brewing Co. Marshall Brewing Co. became Tulsa’s first production craft microbrewery since the 1940s when it began operations in spring 2008. Brewmaster/founder Eric Marshall is a fourthgeneration Tulsan who studied the art of brewing in Munich, apprenticed in multiple breweries throughout Germany and served as a brewer at the Victory Brewing Co. before starting his own brewery. Marshall will pour staples like Sundown Wheat, McNellie’s Pub Ale, Oktoberfest Lager and also a 7.8 percent ABV Belgian IPA called This Machine IPA. Mother’s Brewing Co. Mother’s Brewing out of Springfield, Mo., celebrated its arrival in Central Arkansas in August with a week full of fun events, including a massive 23-tap takeover at The Flying Saucer, a Saucer record. Going all out seems to be the only way Mother’s does things. The brewery won’t be pouring 23 different beers at the festival, but it’ll have plenty, including Towhead American Blonde, Lil Helper IPA, Three Blind Mice Brown Ale, Mr. Pumpkin, Squashed, Oktoberfest, Winter Grind and a brewmaster’s special. If you’re a coffee beer fan, make sure to try Winter Grind, which I think is one of the best coffee stouts around.

Piney River Brewing Co. You know what I like about Piney River? Everything. I like that Joleen and Brian Durham founded Piney River Brewing Co. on their farm in South Central 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 Float Trip Ale, Black Walnut Wheat, Old Tom Porter and Masked Bandit IPA, a delicious black rye IPA. Prairie Artisan Ales Chase Healey and his brother, Colin, founded Prairie in the summer of 2012.

They started out by brewing their beers under a contract at Choc Beer Co. in Krebs, Okla. They called on international beer distributor Shelton Bros. when they were ready to hit the market, putting their beer in front of consumers around the country and world. Since then, they’ve secured their own brewery building in west Tulsa, where they brew anywhere from 15 to 25 percent of Prairie’s beer — the rest is still made at Choc. They have also acquired land in Glenpool, Okla., which will become Prairie Farm, part of their vision of a massive brewery expansion combined with a tourist destination and functioning farm. Oh, and the beer?

Well these guys are brewing some of the funkiest, wild and sour beers out there. They’ll have a nice representation of what they do with Cherry Funk, Standard Hoppy Farmhouse, Birra Farmhouse and Prairie Bomb, an incredible dark, thick stout with hints of coffee, vanilla beans, chili peppers and cocoa nibs.

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. They’ve been in our state for a bit and have more quality beers in their portfolio than my team, the St. Louis Cardinals,

have rings. Look for Pale Ale, Kolsch, Dry Hopped APA, Session IPA, Black Lager, Tasmanian IPA, Pumpkin Ale and Tripel and Oktoberfest at the festival.

Southern Star Brewing Southern Star Brewing Co., which arrived in Arkansas in the spring, was founded in July 2007 in Conroe, Texas, and was the first craft brewery in Texas to provide canned craft beers to consumers from its 10,000-squarefoot warehouse. Southern Star is currently clearing land for a new $5 million brewery 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.

Southern Star will be pouring Buried Hatchet Stout, Bombshell Blonde, Pine Belt Pale Ale and Walloon Grissette, a farmhouse-style ale.

Spoetzl Brewery Located in Shiner, Texas, Spoetzl was founded way back in 1909, and is the oldest independent brewery in Texas and the fourth-largest craft brewery in America, based on 2013 beer sales volume. It produces the popular line of Shiner Beers, including the flagship five-time Great American Beer Festival medal-winning Shiner Bock, a beer which many people claim as their “gateway beer” into craft beer (including me). Spoetzl will pour its White Wing Belgian White, Bohemian Black Lager Schwarzbier and either the seasonal Oktoberfest or Holiday Cheer, a Dunkelweizen with hints of peaches and pecans.

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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 along with California Lager, Liberty Ale and a Porter.

Boston Beer Co. America’s largest craft brewery, based on 2013 sales volume, is better known as Sam Adams. Co-founder Jim Koch raided his savings, took out a second mortgage, and 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. Among those that’ll be at the festival: Fat Jack, Harvest Pumpkin, Rebel IPA, Winter Lager and 2014 Great American Beer Festival gold medal winner Tetravis Belgian-Style Abbey Ale.

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Breckenridge Brewery was the state’s third, founded in 1990. It’s grown from a small, 3,000-barrel-a-year brewpub into one of the most successful craft beer and restaurant companies in the nation, now brewing well over 52,000 barrels of fresh beer annually, ranking it the 40th-largest craft brewer in the nation. At the fest, the brewery will pour 471 IPA, Agave Wheat, Autumn Ale, Oatmeal Stout and Vanilla Porter.

Brewery 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 Belgian-style craft beers, now distributed in 45 states. Founded

by Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield, owners of the Vanberg & DeWulf beer import company and three family-owned Belgian breweries including Duvel Moortgat, Ommegang will not only pour from its fantastic lineup of Belgian inspired beers, it will also

bring some Duvel Moortgat lines as well. Look for Ommegang’s Game of Thrones Valar Morghulis, Ommegang Scythe & Sickle Harvest Ale, Ommegang Three Philosophers Belgian-style quadrupel, La Chouffe Golden Ale and the incredible Maredsous 10 Abbey Tripel.

Caldera Brewing Co. Canned beers are really popular in the current craft beer climate, and one of the original breweries to get this movement started was Caldera.

Incorporated in Ashland, Ore., in 1996, Caldera was only available in draft until June 2005, when it became the first microbrewery in Oregon to can its own beer. Caldera has only been in our market since summer. Try its Lawnmower Lager, Hop Hash IPA and delicious Caldera IPA — a tribute to American hops.

Crazy Mountain Brewing Co. A recent addition to the Arkansas beer scene, this brewery hails from ski resort heaven Vail Valley, in beer-rich Colorado. Look for Amber Ale, Lava Lake Wit, Mountain Livin’ Pale Ale, Boohi Red Ale and Crazy Mountain’s 10 percent ABV and an 80 IBU barley wine, Lawyer’s, Guns & Money.

Evil Twin Brewing Not a standard physical brewery, Evil Twin is more a beer production company, commonly referred to in the craft beer world as a “gypsy brewery.” All the beers from Evil Twin are prepared in “10 of the best breweries around the world.”

Founder Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø of Denmark creates recipes for beers that are as unique as their names, possibly in competition with his twin brother, Mikkel Borg Bjergsø of fellow gypsy brewery Mikkeller.

Stop by for some Evil Twin’s Falco IPA, I Love You With My Stout, Freudian Slip Barley Wine and Bikini Beer, an amazing low-alcohol offering that has a big beer hoppy flavor.

Finch’s Beer Co. Chicago-based Finch’s is another brewery leading the canned beer revo-

lution 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 in the Midwest. At the festival you’ll get to check out some of Finch’s best: the robust Secret Stache Stout and super hoppy Hardcore Chimera double IPA, which clocks in at 9 percent ABV. Let’s hope it will have some cans of its winter seasonal, Nuclear Winter, as well to share.

Founders Brewing Co. Local beer lovers rejoiced back in the spring when this Grand Rapids, Mich., brewery finally arrived in Arkansas. It’s the 26th-largest craft brewery in America by sales volume as of 2013 and has been ranked among the top breweries in the world by Ratebeer.com for several years running. Founders flat-out makes quality beer and will be pouring All Day IPA, Dirty Bastard, Centennial IPA, Porter, Breakfast Stout and Dissenter Imperial IPL. Goose Island Beer Co. When Anheuser-Busch InBev swallowed Goose Island for $38.8 million in 2011, diehard fans worried that the quality of beer would drop off.

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, IPA, 312 Urban Wheat, 312 Urban Pale Ale, The Muddy Imperial Stout, Pepe Nero and three varieties of Bourbon County Stout (regular, coffee and barleywine).

Green Flash Brewing Co. Headquartered in the Mira Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, Green Flash was founded in 2002, and its beers have garnered 10 medals at the Great American Beer Festival since, including a bronze this year for Le Freak. Green Flash’s focus is on very hop-forward beers, which the West Coast is well known for delivering. You’ll get to try its amazingly good, game-changing West Coast

IPA (which accounts for about 50 percent of sales), Road Warrior Rye IPA, Citra Session IPA, Le Freak (a cross between a Belgian-style tripel and an American Imperial IPA) and Double Stout, an 8.8 percent ABV imperial stout.

Laughing Dog Laughing Dog Brewing is a craft beer brewery based in Sandpoint, Idaho, run by a yellow lab named Ben. Well, Fred and Michelle Colby are really the ones behind the curtain, but the three often discuss new ideas for brews and flavors, and Ben gives his OK by one bark, or a no by two barks. He must know his beer because Laughing Dog has some good ones. The brewery will be pouring its Sneaky Pete IPA, Dogfather Bourbon Stout and Rocketdog Rye IPA. Left Coast Brewing Co./ Lucky Buddha Left Coast began operations in its 5,000-square-foot warehouse in January 2004 in San Clemente, Calif., about three miles from the beach. In 2012, the brewery expanded operations, adding two new 120-barrel fermenters and one 120-barrel brite tank. It now distributes across the country as well as Japan and New Zealand. Stop by Left Coast’s table to try Voodoo Stout, Hop Juice Double IPA and imported Lucky Buddha Lager from Sydney, Australia.

New Belgium Brewing Co. New Belgium was opened in Fort Collins, Colo., in 1991. In 2013, it generated $190 million in revenues and is now the thirdlargest craft brewery in the country based on volume of beer sales.

And with a second production facility in the works in Asheville, N.C., scheduled to be open by winter of 2015, New Belgium could soon become even bigger. You like winners? The brewery won nearly 30 medals at the Great American Beer Festival. Its flagship Fat Tire is very well known, but New Belgium has a huge lineup of other quality beers as well, which it’ll pour at the festival: Ranger IPA, Rampant Imperial IPA, Snapshot Wheat, Transatlantique Kriek, Wild2 Dubbel, LeTerroir Dry Hopped Sour Ale, Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout and some of the Folly Pack canned beers.

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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. 24 event.

ARKANSAS BREWERIES Apple Blossom Brewing Co.

❏ Armstrong American Pale Ale______________________ ❏ Fayetteweisse____________________________________ ❏ Hayride Pumpkin Porter or Oktoberfest_____________ ❏ Triple IPA ________________________________________

Blue Canoe Brewing

❏ 4x4 American Pale Ale____________________________ ❏ Paddler American Wheat__________________________ ❏ Whittler Milk Stout________________________________

Core Brewing

❏ Behemoth Pilsner_________________________________ ❏ ESB_ ____________________________________________ ❏ Hilltop IPA_ ______________________________________ ❏ Imperial Red______________________________________ ❏ Leg Hound Lager_ ________________________________ ❏ Oatmeal Stout _ __________________________________ ❏ Seasonal TBA____________________________________

Diamond Bear

❏ Pale Ale__________________________________________ ❏ Southern Blonde _________________________________

Flyway Brewing

❏ Early Bird IPA____________________________________ ❏ Free Range Brown Ale_____________________________ ❏ Migrate Ale_______________________________________ ❏ Shadow Hands Stout _____________________________

Fossil Cove

❏ Blizzle Black IPA__________________________________ ❏ La Brea Brown____________________________________ ❏ Paleo Pale Ale____________________________________

Leap of Faith Brewing

❏ Country Monks Farmhouse _______________________ ❏ Highgarden Brown Ale_ ___________________________ ❏ Righteous Indignation_____________________________ ❏ Thor’s Hammer IPA_______________________________

Moody Brews

❏ Half Seas Over Imperial IPA________________________

Ozark Beer Co.

❏ Belgian Golden ___________________________________ ❏ Cream Stout______________________________________

Rebel Kettle

❏ Dirtbag Brown Ale_ _______________________________ ❏ Liquor & Peaches________________________________ ❏ Moontower Cream Stout_ _________________________ ❏ Popfly Popcorn Cream Ale_________________________

Saddlebock Brewery

❏ Blueberry Tart____________________________________ ❏ Bock_____________________________________________ ❏ Late Summer Shandy_____________________________ ❏ Oktoberfest______________________________________

Stone’s Throw Brewing

❏ Amer Belge Belgian IPA ___________________________ ❏ Big Damn Horn O’Plenty Imperial Oktoberfest_______ ❏ Ichabod Pumpkin_________________________________ ❏ Petit Jean Pear Cider_____________________________

Vino’s Pizza Pub Brewery

❏ Dopplebock______________________________________ ❏ Dunbar Garden Table Beer_ _______________________ ❏ Oktoberfest______________________________________ ❏ Red Wolf Ale_ ____________________________________

REGIONAL BREWERIES Abita Brewing

❏ Andygator________________________________________ ❏ Lemon Wheat_ ___________________________________ ❏ Oktoberfest______________________________________ ❏ Purple Haze______________________________________ ❏ Restoration Pale Ale______________________________ ❏ Strawgator _ _____________________________________

Bayou Teche Brewing

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❏ Bierre Pale APA___________________________________ ❏ Cocodrie Belgian IPA______________________________

❏ Tasmanian IPA___________________________________ ❏ Tripel ___________________________________________

Boulevard Brewing Co.

Southern Star Brewing

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Laughing Dog

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

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North Coast Brewing Co. 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. Its beers are available in 47 states now, ranking it the 45th-largest craft brewer in the U.S. North Coast will have Acme IPA, Le Merle Belgian Style Farmhouse Ale, Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, Old Stock, Prankster and Brother Thelonious to share.

Shock Top Brewing Co. 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, Honey Bourbon Cask Wheat, Spiced Banana Wheat and Shockolate Wheat.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. I’m pretty sure the good people at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. laugh at the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” because this Chico, Calif., brewery is one of the old dogs, established back in 1980, but it still continues to change the industry. This year it set the craft beer world on fire with an unprecedented seven-city traveling beer festival called Beer Camp Across America, followed by the year’s most exciting mix-pack, a partnership with a dozen exceptional craft breweries that led to a 12-pack featuring 12 different beers. If you missed it, you can catch the beers from the 12 packs at Sierra Nevada’s table in addition to its Pale Ale, a classic and the industry standard in my opinion, as well as Torpedo IPA, Ovila Tripel and Narwhal Imperial Stout, a malt-forward monster that clocks in at 10.2 percent ABV. Summit Brewing Co. Summit Brewing Co., of Saint Paul, Minn., is another brewery that launched with fanfare in the Natural State in 2014 and received a strong reception. It was founded in 1986 in an old auto parts

warehouse and now ranks 23rd on the list of biggest craft breweries. Summit will be pouring most of its beers that are available here, including its 2014 Great American Beer Festival medal-winning flagship Extra Pale Ale, Saga IPA, Horizon Red IPA, Great Northern Porter and Herkulean Woods, which is brewed with spruce tips and Minnesota maple syrup.

Tallgrass Brewing Co. Tallgrass Brewing Co. is based in Manhattan, Kan., a town nestled in the Flint Hills and surrounded by the Tallgrass Prairie.

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Tommyknocker Brewery What’s about 2 feet tall, grizzled, lives underground, wears miner’s garb, commits random mischief and knocks on mine walls to warn of cave-ins? 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.

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HONKY TONKS The story of Jimmy Doyle’s Country Club and the man who keeps it alive.

BRIAN CHILSON

BY WILL STEPHENSON

‘A DYING ART’: Jimmy Doyle’s Country Club is an Arkansas treasure.

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t’s not an uncommon thing to say of a bar that “there’s no bling destination in Mississippi] came along, the D.W.I. laws place like it,” but in the case of Jimmy Doyle’s Country changed, the economy. All of that started a downward trend Club, this is more or less observably, even statistically true. for blue collar, workingman clubs.”

In the peak years, some 20 years ago, they say you had to A vast, brick, dungeon-like structure encircled by several acres of parking off Interstate 40 in North Little Rock, Jimmy Doyle’s show up early to even get in the door. It was a crucial stopbelongs to a vulnerable and dwindling species, the traditional over for truckers and country acts both, the I-40 Galloway American honky-tonk. Friday nights are for karaoke, Saturdays exit being home to one of the largest truck stops in the state are for the house band. There are no other nights. There’s a and, in those days, a prime checkpoint for tour buses heading story some of the regulars tell, about a “great big old tall guy” west out of Nashville. The landscape has changed now; the who came sliding across the slick wooden dance floor up to bar hasn’t. “It’s a step back in time,” Heavner said. “It’s kind the bandstand one night, saying, “Hey, can I come sit in with of hard to explain.” you guys?” The band said yes, because it was Toby Keith. The To really understand the character of the place, its unlikely important thing isn’t whether the story is true or not, I think, survival and what Heavner calls its “different vibe,” you have but that they tell it. to talk to its namesake, the man who founded the place in his “What we do out there is a dying art,” Michael Heavner told own image and sustained it through good times and bad. And me recently. A music instructor at the University of Arkansas at there have been bad times. On the phone with Heavner, I asked Little Rock, Heavner is a classically trained pianist who spends if he knew any particularly good Jimmy Doyle’s stories. his weekdays among “educated musicians,” as he calls them, “Well,” he said, pausing to think. “I know some tragic ones.” but for the past 16 years has spent his Saturday nights playing keyboards in the Jimmy Doyle’s house group, the Arkansas ON A RECENT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, I MET River Bottom Band. “I saw it happen,” he said, meaning the UP with Jimmy Doyle himself, now 78 years old, at his decline. “Whenever satellite TV came along, Tunica [the gam- bar, a place few have seen in the daytime. Originally built CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

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by Iranian immigrants, a family of grocers, the building is enormous and architecturally striking, with concrete walls 18 inches thick, fauxmarble bathrooms (complete with ashtrays) and a metallic gate of ornate, Middle Eastern design over the front door. The closest other building, the place they send you if you forget to bring cash (they don’t accept cards), is a liquor store called, ominously, First and Last Chance.

We met out back, where the remnants of the old sign — huge, wooden letters spelling out “Jimmy,” “Doyle”

and “Club,” wired with 255 light bulbs — leaned against the side of the building. A tornado dislodged it a decade ago, though you can tell it must have been an impressive sight. Jimmy Doyle himself stood in the gravel lot, held out his arms and beamed, as if to say, This is it. He wore tight brown slacks, cowboy boots and a shortsleeve button-up print shirt featuring antique prop planes. “Come on in and I’ll show you around,” he said.

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Catherine or John David. His family a few times.” Then he showed me name is Brewer, as in Brewer Botinto his old recording studio, which toms, the township 15 miles below featured vocal and drum booths, a 32-track mixing board and an old Stuttgart where he was born in 1936.

The son of a nurse and a moonshiner Fostex tape recorder. Brown shag carwho “agreed to disagree,” as he puts pet covered the floors, around which were scattered broken musical instruit, when he was still a toddler, Jimmy Doyle was shaped by the place, a ments and boxes of unlabeled tapes.

12-mile circle of swamplands along Live wires dangled from the ceiling. I asked when he’d last recorded there.

Bayou Meto. After his mother left, “Hell, I don’t know, 10 years ago?” he he helped his father make whiskey said. “I can’t keep track of time.” in the woods, pumping the water and making delivery runs with a little Jimmy Doyle started playing the red wagon. His favorite stories from fiddle for family dances in the Bottoms. childhood involve running from “the revenue men” on horseback. “It’s the only way we had to make a living,” he said, though it seems they often didn’t. Before he got out, he said, things got so bad that their kitchen was a 10- by 12-foot tent and they survived primarily off tree bark and “possum grapes” (similar to blueberries). He still remembers the day he joined the Navy — Dec. 6, 1954.

He wanted to show me around upstairs, an area he hardly uses anymore except as storage, so I followed him up the back staircase.

The place was airy and empty, a concrete floor littered with memorabilia, holiday decorations and souvenirs from his various career ventures. It was an ‘CAN’T KEEP TRACK OF TIME’: Jimmy Doyle still autobiography in performs with the Arkansas River Bottom Band band every Saturday night. junk: There were photo albums, books of handwritten lyrics, stacks of LPs, plastic Santas. He In the Navy, he led a band called The showed me the broadcast cameras he’d Hayseeds, and played on the ship — used for his public access TV show, he made three Far East cruises — and in country bars wherever they’d stop.

“Jimmy Doyle’s,” back in the ’70s and ’80s. For a while there, he said, the After his discharge, he wound up in San show had been the heart and soul of Jose, Calif., with $35 in his pocket. One his business, the thing that inspired day he heard a call for musicians on him the most. the radio: “Come on out to the Corral One room was filled entirely with Club. Play with the band who played small porcelain figurines — I counted with Bob Wills.” He was hungry, so four unicorns. By way of explanation, he answered the ad. “Come to find out, he said simply, “We went to Mexico they didn’t even know Bob Wills,” he

ized. Or better yet, ask him about his own records. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, he recorded a number of singles in Nashville with producers like Pete Drake, the great pedal steel player who worked with Bob Dylan, The Beatles and just about every Nashville star of the era.

He had a gorgeous, malleable voice, full of sharp twang, vibrato and that hard-to-define quality common to all great male country vocalists, a sense of regret tinged with resignation. He sang songs about truck drivers, burning bridges and trading a “moment of passion” for a “lifetime of love.” “Without a fiddle and a steel, I don’t think it’s country music,” he told me, and his own music is appropriately decked out in all the trappings of the Nashville Sound’s golden age.

His records are also, without exception, un-anthologized and out of print.

There is only one way to purchase music by Jimmy Doyle, in fact, and it’s as strange as you might expect.

In 2009, he self-published a novel titled “If The Whole World Was Blind,” based on a song he wrote in 1967 about an interracial relationship (“Then I heard somebody whisper/ The girl she’s not our kind/Should somebody tell him?/The poor boy he’s blind”).

He showed it to the legendary singersongwriter Mel Tillis, who told him it sounded more like a book than a song, advice he took literally. He named the main character, a white Army veteran blinded in Vietnam, after his own son, Charley Bob. A well-meaning and odd book, every page is filled with public domain clipart to illustrate the story. It’s sold exclusively at Jimmy Doyle’s, and comes with a CD of his music, the only one currently available. The CD alone is worth the price of the book, which BRIAN CHILSON

said. “I stayed there a long time.”

Soon he was a fixture in the emergent West Coast country scene, leading the house band and either opening or playing back-up for all the artists who came through San Jose: Wynn Stewart, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Freddie Hart. He earned a regular gig in Las Vegas, a TV show in Reno and eventually became semi-well-known for his stand-up comedy. “I was Mr. Doyle on the West Coast,” he told me. “Then I came back to Arkansas and they said ‘Jimmy Who?’ ”

This is the thing that is, on the one hand, most surprising about Jimmy Doyle, and, on the other, exactly what he’s been trying to tell us for 40 years: For a moment there, in however specific a way, he was a big deal. As strange as it is to say about a man who named a bar after himself, he’s arguably too modest. Ask him about the time he hung out backstage with a young Tammy Wynette while they watched George Jones, whom they both idol-

might be of interest only to Jimmy Doyle completists, though there are sections that approach something like self-revelation, mostly those that draw on his military experience and his love of flying (he owns a Mooney single-engine plane, which he still flies regularly).

“As the airplane gained altitude, things were getting smaller on the ground,” he writes of one of Charley Bob’s flights. “He thought, ‘If we get any higher, we will be in heaven.’ ” The book is also tinted with tragedy given the fact that the real Charley

Bob was killed three years ago, shot four times by his wife in their home (she claimed it was self-defense and was convicted of second-degree murder; the sentencing hearing is later this month). The younger Brewer performed regularly at Jimmy Doyle’s and had even gone to Nashville briefly to try and make it as a country singer.

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and inspired by 9/11. It’s on the CD as well, track 4: “A Teardrop in the American Eagle’s Eye.” WE WALKED DOWNSTAIRS into the bar proper, and Jimmy Doyle switched on the lights, shading the whole room a dark, eerie red.

His wife and business partner Patsy Gayle stood at the bar. They met in 1974, when Patsy’s mother, then in the hospital, saw him on TV and insisted her aspiring-singer daughter seek him out. “You got to go out and see this guy,” she told her. “He’s

a nut.” She found him playing at the Red Gate Supper Club and ended up singing with him onstage that very night. “We met and that was it,” Patsy told me. “We never really parted after that.”

While we talked, an older man in a baseball cap walked in and sat down at the bar, which wouldn’t be open for business until the following Friday, not that anyone seemed to mind.

“What’s up, Black Jack,” Jimmy Doyle said, saluting the man. That was the only time Black Jack was acknowledged in my presence, and

I soon forgot he was there. While I spoke to Patsy, Jimmy Doyle climbed up onstage and took up his fiddle, which is pure white. The stage is long and backed by velvet curtains, which seem all the more dramatic in the red light.

“We don’t know which way to go with it,” Patsy said, gesturing around the bar. “We’ve thought about giving it a face-lift. Making it something that could appeal to younger people.”

Jimmy Doyle started fiddling, slowly at first and then furiously shredding.

It was some sort of improvised concerto, beautiful and startling. “But then people tell us not to change the place,” she went on, a little louder so as to be heard over her husband. “So you don’t know what to do.”

She stared idly at the stage and recalled an old routine Jimmy Doyle used to do with a friend, something they called “Chester the Chicken,” where a giant chicken puppet would dance around the crowd while they spoke for him. There were other memories too, like the time Alan Jackson played there before anyone knew who he was. Or the time Ray Price’s bus broke down in the parking lot, and his whole band came

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inside and spent the night. She ran through a whole list of old friends, forgotten Grand Ole Opry stars, veterans of the Arkansas River Bottom Band (which, she estimates, number in the hundreds). “We’re talking about them like they’re here,” she said laughing, “like they’re still here with us.”

Jimmy Doyle had reverted back to country and was singing now. His voice was magnificent. “Jimmy says he’s not gonna get old, and I sometimes think he never will,” Patsy said. Michael Heavner had told me the same. “The future remains to be seen,” he’d said. “I know Jimmy Doyle, though; he’ll stay there till the end.” I remembered the chorus to one of the songs from the CD I’d liked best, track TK: “I don’t want to be a millionaire,” it goes, “I just want to live like one.”

Onstage, Jimmy Doyle started making strange, atonal sounds with his fiddle. “That’s a train coming!” he shouted, and it did sound like a train. We all laughed. “That’s a mule!” he said, switching it up, and it was. “Mule,” he said gently, addressing the imaginary animal, “do you want some oats?”

ON THE JOB: Larry “Goose” Garrison (left) at Slicky Willy’s in the late ’70s.

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money. You burn a bar that loses money.”

Garrison didn’t have much more success with the short-lived White Water Tavern in Fayetteville, located in the former home of The Swinging Door, an iconic bar on Dickson Street with a two-story painting of a cowboy straddling the entrance.

“I come to town and I don’t know anything about Fayetteville and there was this big ugly-ass cowboy on the front,” Garrison said in 2011, “and I tore the cowboy down. Then I come in with a sledgehammer and knock the swinging doors off the front and stomped on them and broke them. No one told me they’d just gotten ’em fixed. Everybody in Fayetteville hated my guts. … That cowboy cost me a lot of money.”

Within the Arkansas music community, however, Garrison was beloved. He booked a mix of blues, folk, country and rock ’n’ roll. Burger, The Cate Brothers, Larry “Totsy” Davis, CeDell Davis, Blind Mississippi Morris, Mojo Depot, Go Fast and The Salty Dogs were among the regulars over the years.

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verybody has stories about White Water Tavern, longtime owner Larry “Goose” Garrison told the Times in 2011. “Course we can’t tell them all.” Even now, a month after he died at 63, ask his friends for their best story about Goose — a nickname he happily carried with him from high school after he killed tame geese — and they smile and say, “I got stories, but you can’t print them.”

Peter Read, publisher of the live music guide Nightflying, met Garrison in the mid-’70s.

“It was weird at his funeral because everybody got up and talked about growing up with Larry. The most beautiful thing about the man is that he never grew up. He was a wild-eyed child of a man. That’s really what made the difference.”

His first bar, Slick Willy’s, was a playland for adults, with air hockey, foosball, miniature golf, snooker, darts, pinball and more. He and David Corriveau opened it in 1977 in Little Rock Union Station (Corriveau and Buster Corley, who owned Buster’s, next door to Slick Willy’s, went on to open the similarly themed national chain, Dave & Buster’s).

“I went down to Slick Willy’s once on a Friday afternoon,” Read remembered.

“Larry walked up and said, ‘Have you ever seen $10,000 in quarters?’ On the

floor of his office was an enormous pile of quarters. He said, ‘Get down there and play in it.’ He hopped down on the floor with his big butt and started picking them up with each hand and pouring them over himself.” Read asked why the pile was there. “So I can play with it,” Read recalled Garrison telling him.

Why the bar business? “I was out of my fuckin’ mind,” Garrison told the Times in 2011. Before Slick Willy’s, he made a living by gambling — especially in whorehouses.

“One right over on State Street. The madam — Mama Lou, she lived in Searcy — she’d leave me the key. I’d stay there two days and gamble all night and win my ass off. I’d wait until these guys were drunk and then clean them out. I’m a decent card player, but I’m not a fool.”

His luck didn’t hold when he bought into the White Water Tavern in 1979.

A month after he became part owner, arsonist Ron O’Neal burned it down. It was the first of three fires that nearly destroyed White Water — O’Neal set it on fire again in 1982, and in the late ’90s a drunk motorcyclist crashed into the back of the building and busted a gas line. Each time, slow insurance payments kept him from promptly reopening. He never understood insurance companies’ suspicions.

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He treated musicians with respect…

“He treated musicians with respect,” said Amy Garland, a singer-songwriter who began playing at White Water 20 years ago and remembers nights when crowds didn’t materialize, but Garrison still gave her a sizeable “cut of the door.”

“Goose never said anything,” she said, “but I knew. … He always kind of protected me. He was just a protector of a lot of people.”

“He’d give people chance after chance,” said Marianne Taylor, a bartender at White Water who knew Garrison for more than 35 years.

“He always took care of people even when they didn’t deserve it,” former promoter and doorman T.J. Deeter said.

“People always say that about people when they’re dead, but he really did those things. If you were his friend and you turned to him, he would help you out. He once gave me a car when I didn’t have one.”

In the mid-2000s, Deeter hosted the Arkansas Rockers Review, a showcase for local musicians of all genres: punk, hip-hop, metal, rock. He remembers regulars being turned off by the lyrics of some of the younger acts and of punk rock kids spitting on each other.

But Goose would come to the bands’ defense, Deeter remembered. “[T.J.] got the bands that would never get to play anywhere else,” Garrison said in 2011. “I thought they were the weirdest and most fucked-up people in the world until I got to know them, and shit, I loved them. I loved them.”

In 2007, after his health deteriorated and the stress of running a bar got to be too much for him, Garrison began leasing the building to Matt White, Sean Hughes, Nick Coffin and M.C. Ferguson — the latter two left the business within a year. They were in their early 20s at the time.

“When they were training, Sean and Nick had big beards and wore those Castro caps,” Garrison said in 2011. “And one of the old guys, a regular, said, ‘Goddamit, Garrison, you’re leasing the bar out to Palestinians. Those are terrorists.’ I said, “Motherfucker, they’re from Conway.’ “ “He gave us a shot and we became friends for life,” Matt White said. “Just about everything you did with him turned into an adventure, and I’ll always be grateful for his huge generosity of spirit. He was simultaneously very tough and a huge sweetheart. Just hanging out with him made you feel better.”

Last Saturday, White Water Tavern hosted an all-day tribute concert for Garrison, where some 15 bands performed. The event doubled as a fundraiser for a scholarship for local musicians that Garrison’s family is setting up.

Bart Angel, drummer in Big Silver, The Salty Dogs and backing bands for his wife, Amy Garland, said the hours spent hanging out with Goose after gigs when the bar was closed were precious memories, even if the details have grown fuzzy.

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here, pray tell, did we get this $14.49 for the 13), which featured eggs, rule that says you can’t drink bacon, spinach, roma tomatoes, cheddar alcohol in the morning? What and mozzarella. We also got the 8-inch teetotaling deacon dreamed that one up? spinach frittata ($8.99), with red pepper, What starched-underpants spinster? What onion, eggs, chicken, spinach, mozzarella and Parmesan and a fruit cup on the side. boring shut-in, still clinging to every word on C-SPAN for news of the triumphant Because we were writing a story about reinstatement of Prohibition? Pshhht! drinking, we also tried the mimosas ($2 There’s no better time to drink, we say. each). We weren’t quite dedicated enough The morning to the concept is when you’re of getting dawn potted, fresh, what however, to with your try the bottle tired old liver flushed of the of champagne previous day’s ($6.99), which imbibements! arrives at the Whatever table in an ice the reason, bucket with unless you’re two glasses, a long-term and a carafe of guest at orange juice.

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arlier this year, management at the Arkansas Times asked if I would work on a project the Times was pursuing with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, the goal of which was to encourage economic development in the state’s nonprofit sector. I spoke to the leaders of and wrote about the national and international nonprofits that have their global headquarters in Arkansas, asking why they located here and why other nonprofits should consider having their headquarters here. It was an opportunity for me to meet with and learn from a breadth of people I never would have had the chance to speak with otherwise.

And it made me think: If Arkansas is serious about economic development, we need to focus on entrepreneurs, in particular, women entrepreneurs. I approached the people at Arkansas Times about the idea, naming a few women-owned businesses that had been in operation for decades. It was these women I thought should be promoted – the ones who started with nothing or very close to it, stuck it out in good times and bad, and are still here today. In addition, or maybe because of a variety of reasons – marriage, divorce, having and raising children, a love for their profession – these entrepreneurs started or took over businesses that form the backbone of our communities.

It was the shortest pitch of my life. “Do it,” Arkansas Times publisher Alan Leveritt said.

After brainstorming with several people who have knowledge of the leaders in each category, we compiled a list of women in five different industries and selected several to portray in each. A priority for us was to feature women who Arkansans aren’t so used to seeing in traditional and social media, and our criteria for who is profiled is based on range — in experience, backgrounds, age and their particular takes on their industry. All of them have unique stories, all of them came to entrepreneurship in different ways, and all of them had one thing in common: Never quit if what you are doing is your calling.

Each week in October, we are featuring women in food, professional services, nontraditional, retail and design, and assets industries. This week, we focus on women entrepreneurs in nontraditional industry; those who are in interactive technology, bail bonds, farming, theater and entertainment, architecture, destination management and corporate foliage. We hope you find inspiration in their stories and motivation in their successes.

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rowing up, Jennifer Herron didn’t dream of being an architect. The founder of Herron Horton Architects needed to take a fine arts class toward graduation, so when she was in 11th grade at Little Rock Central High School, her guidance counselor suggested she take up mechanical drawing. It helped that Herron had loved taking art credits at the Arkansas Arts Center.

“It was with Mr. Clive Floy, and we were doing drawings of engines,” she

said of the mechanical drawing class.

“You had to be real precise, look at the engine, cut it in sections, pull it apart, put it back together. I could get the layers — I knew how to draw that.

So he asked one day, ‘Have you ever considered architecture?’ I don’t come from a family of architects, but he told me, ‘You have a sensitivity to it.’ ” She chose the University of Kansas for her college studies, one of three women in her five-year course. Her sophomore year she backed off, taking core architectural classes while delving into liberal arts. “After my second year, I realized I missed those liberal arts, so I took a year off from studio. What it did was open me up to the other parts of the university. I could take figure drawing, photography, fine arts, the humanities, 38

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world religion. That year I could explore these things I was really starving for.

“After that, my third year, I could see where I was going. It’s not that you wise up, it’s that you get more aware of what you want. So I was like, this is it, I could see pulling in the psychology, the sociology, the history part, I could pull in all that.”

She met her husband, Jeff Horton. at KU, and after graduation in 1991 they moved to California to work for a firm retrofitting buildings for earthquakes.

Work was scarce, and hearing of better options in Boston convinced them to head east. They set down in Little Rock, where Jennifer’s parents live, for a short stay. “We were just going to stay for three months, and I picked up a job and we saw things really happening here, Clinton was president, things were moving. Also, you could work on a project, design it, it wasn’t stuck at the city level for three years like in San Francisco. We learned a lot out there but we were meager living.

“We married, bought a house. When we had Jake (now 16), I wanted to have flexibility so I went out on my own, had my own firm. After a year Jeff realized that he had to make a decision in his career, so he hooked up with me. We started a family and a firm at the same time.”

In Little Rock’s blooming market, Herron was able to use her liberal arts education to influence the projects they accepted. The couple even built their own home at 13th and Spring streets, just outside the Capital Improvement Zone, which allowed them to express their architectural style while remaining in an area they both love.

Herron says her career has been fortuitous. “I think I was fortunate for Clive Floy to ask, ‘Did you ever consider architecture?’ and just realizing liberal arts is an important piece of it. There’s a reason why you’re doing things, there are people that you meet along your journey. It all comes together sometimes.”

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atie Short always wanted to be outdoors, and she always wanted to be around animals. The Berkeley, Calif., native grew up in the city but knew she needed to get her hands into the dirt and work a real farm.

On a trip, her mom found out about Heifer International in Perryville, and Short, who was very interested in livestock agriculture, made the pilgrimage to Arkansas.

“I have always been interested in food and science,” she says. “I grew up in the city, so I really didn’t have a lot of role models to look up to with that combination of interests. I found my way to Heifer Ranch in Perryville and realized this is what I wanted to be doing, and started my own farm after that.”

Short spent two years at Heifer before starting her own small sheep ranching operation in 2005. She headed back to school, studying at Arkansas Tech University and earning a degree in animal science and agricultural business.

Afterleasinglandtomaintain from Heifer International and purchasing another 30 acres in Perry County, she added goats, pigs and dairy cattle and meat poultry to herAnimalWelfareApproved farm. She believes the way the animals are raised and treated directly influences the quality of the product.

“At the core of it, I really think the highest quality eating experience comes from animals who have lived the highest quality life that a domesticated animal can have.

I think that we go to lengths here that probably a lot of farms are not willing to go to, to ensure the incredible quality of our animal products and the incredible quality of our animals’ lives.”

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fed natural feed and grow up unrestrained.

Today, Farm Girl Meats offers chicken, eggs, pork and milk through farmers markets in Little Rock and Conway, to Community Supported Agriculture programs and, every Wednesday, at the farm’s store in Houston. The products are also sold directly to several Central Arkansas restaurants, including Boulevard Bread, The Root Cafe and South on Main – and through the farm’s website, farmgirlfood.com.

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of creating and sustaining a farm, Short offers this advice: “Find a job working for someone. I didn’t know where to start when I started, and I know there are a lot more resources now than there were before. There are websites for farm food jobs, as well as just a lot of farms now advertising positions on their website. Find a farm that’s doing what you want to do and offer to work for them. It’s not a lucrative career, but it’s very rewarding.”

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nternet technologies evolve rapidly, and the women of Aristotle have proven nimble enough to keep up. Marla Johnson Norris, Jennifer Peper and Elizabeth Bowles blazed paths to create the company and constantly adapt to keep it on track.

In 1993, Norris, Aristotle Inc.’s chief executive officer, was working with a group of people in Little Rock on a contract with Electronic Arts to create a video game called Immercenary.

“That is the same year that the World Wide Web came onto the scene with the introduction of Mosaic, the first web browser and a proliferation of servers globally from 50 in January of 1993 to over 500 at the end of the year,” says Norris, whose friend suggested she start an Internet company the following year.

Norris wasn’t yet hip to the Internet.

Left to Right: L. Elizabeth Bowles, JD, Jennifer Peper, Marla Johnson Norris “So, I got on a friend’s Internet help rural people who can’t get to a doctor but need account, surfed the Web for the first time, and my mind amazing health care — how can the Internet solve that was blown. I was in love,” she says. “All my interests and world problem?” she says. “That, to me, is the essence passions around creative communications and global of this technology.” interconnectedness were moved light years in that Right out of the gate, Aristotle’s founders turned a one moment.” roadblock into a leading edge.

Her mind reeled with the possibilities for connecting “We learned that Netscape required a licensing fee people, organizations and companies to information that no other ISPs paid, but it was the law,” Norris said. and to each other.

“This really stood us on our heads, because most of us Jennifer Peper, too, was drawn to the possibilities. had software development in our background, and we Peper, president of Aristotle Interactive, joined the had a lot of respect for licensing and honoring the talent company more than 15 years ago, bringing insights from of the software engineers. But, the price was prohibitive previous work in health care, law, the nonprofit sector and paying it would have made us so uncompetitive as and food service. an ISP that we knew we would not survive.”

“Those insights are really what gave me a passion for Aristotle, it was decided, would make its own browser the industry, because, for example, how can we make client. health care more available, more effective, how can we

“We went ahead and developed an email client software to go with it so our new ISP customers could have one piece of software to browse the Internet and read, compose and send emails,” Norris says.

While the software was in development, several new Internet service providers set up shop in Little Rock.

“Still, because we had a great service and software product and because we went to the Park Plaza Mall to show people how to use the Internet, we ended up being the biggest ISP in the Little Rock area and voted Best ISP by the Arkansas Times’ readers over and over again,” Norris said.

Elizabeth Bowles, president and chairman of Aristotle Inc., was working for Arnold and Porter, a Washington, D.C., law firm, in the area of intellectual property during the technology boom, and she did some legal work for Aristotle as the company was formed.

Bowles was up for partner at the firm in 1999, but she realized she preferred an environment where she could combine her entrepreneurial spirit and her knowledge of the laws governing Internet security, law, privacy and technology. She joined Aristotle in 2000 and led the Internet Service Provider division of the company, expanding the company first to offer dial-up service nationwide and subsequently to offer broadband Internet service over fixed wireless.

Norris says that in business, flexibility is key.

“Every day there have been new and exciting possibilities, some new combination, and out of that an entirely new business,” she says. “We have had to keep thinking and acting like a start-up to stay relevant, even 19 years into this business.”

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hen you think of women in bail bonds, Stephanie Plum probably comes to mind. Janet Evanovich’s Jersey girl, who stumbles into recovering fugitives and solving crimes because she can’t find any other gainful employment, has made the author a lush living. But Evanovich’s portrayal only has one thing in common with Dee Elias’ story, and that’s the need to make a living.

“I was married with a 6-month-old baby, and I had to find a way to make a living for us both,” Elias said. “I got a job working for an attorney, and he said I had the personality and temperament to be in bail bonds. He’s the one who encouraged me to do it.”

That first year of work, Elias got her license and got a divorce – all in her early 20s. Her goal was to raise her son, keep a home and take care of her expenses all by herself.

“When I started, it was a male-dominated industry,”she said.

“I earned the respect of the officers, deputies and court personnel because I did arrests alone.

Once they saw that I wasn’t going away and that I could do the job, they worked with me.”

In the more than 20 years that Elias has been a bondswoman, she’s made 623 arrests. She says it’s a grown-up game of hide-and-seek, and in most incidences the person who has failed to appear in court will surrender willingly.

“I’m never going to match a man in physical strength, so I have to use my brain to get someone to surrender,” Elias said. “That’s what women have on their side – the ability to reason and appeal to a person’s humanity. I had a kid pull a gun on me once, and I was completely alone — just him with a rifle and me on the business end. I told him there were teams of deputies just feet away and if he shot me it

JANACohen GOING PLACES WITH COHEN’S ARKANSAS DESTINATIONS

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ana Cohen understands the tourism and transportation industry well. The owner of Arkansas Destinations pairs event planning and transportation logistics to ensure seamless journeys for her clients, whether they’re retirees or rock stars.

Cohen worked with the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau for 15 years before setting out on this leg of her career. “I never figured I’d be an entrepreneur. I think a lot of women are accidental entrepreneurs because of child-rearing and careers don’t always seem to match up to other people’s expectations, so you have to go out and do your own thing.

“That’s what pushed me [into private business], I wanted to work part time. I was about to have a third child and they were all spread out in age. I wondered, ‘How am I going to travel and represent this city, and who’s going to take my kids to school?’ I loved Little Rock and I wanted to sell Little Rock, so people were just going to have to come see me.

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“It was about the time the Clinton [Presidential] Library was going to open, and people realized we were going to have all these conventions here and we needed people to service them and plan their tours and move them around, and I ended up being one of those giblets on the gravy train.”

In 2000, seeing that need, she started Arkansas Destinations as the city’s first destination management company. “It got to the point where you needed private enterprise to do these things. You can’t depend on the taxpayers to cover it. Those CAT buses are for routes, not for characters.”

Cohen started out with a single bus. “I started planning tours and events for people and didn’t have the transportation I needed after 9/11 — all these 55-passenger buses

would be so much worse for him than going back with me and facing the relatively minor charge he had against him already. He finally decided to put the gun down and come in with me, but there wasn’t one person — much less a team of officers — anywhere around.”

Elias eventually expanded her capabilities to include civil process serving, but it was just six years ago she began her latest adventure: LeCig Electronic Cigarette Stores.

Her husband, Mike, was a heavy smoker, and she started looking for ways to help him quit. She found electronic cigarettes online, ordered one, and after the third day of use, her husband had quit tobacco cigarettes completely.

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“When I was dealing with the company to get Mike’s kit, their customer service was just abysmal. I wanted a place where people could come to feel comfortable and be able to ask any question they had about electronic cigarettes without feeling embarrassed.”

To date, LeCig has Arkansas locations in Bryant, De Queen, Glenwood, Hot Springs and Nashville, as well as Broken Bow, Okla., with plans to open more in Northwest Arkansas. For now, LeCig sells wholesale electronic cigarette products to stores from coast to coast and ships worldwide.

“It’s so much better for your health than tobacco,” Elias said. “If I can get someone to stop smoking or dipping tobacco, I feel like I’ve succeeded. In fact, that’s how I succeed as a bail bondswoman, too. I always had my priorities in order. My son kept me focused, and I knew whatever I did for a living would have to provide for him, me, our home and our finances. Any woman who wants to go into business needs to get her priorities straight first, then not look back.”

in town, when people came back after 9/11 they were smaller groups, maybe 30 or 25 — and so I couldn’t find buses, so I bought my own.”

Arkansas Destinations’ most iconic vehicles are the trolleys. “Polly and Dolly the Trolleys were retired

by Central Arkansas Transit. They were showpieces for the future River Rail, and as soon as CAT got them, they realized they couldn’t use them for what they wanted to do because it was unfair for the city to rent the trolleys as charters; it was unfair competition.

“So, they came up for bid. I was already doing shuttling, and they were girly. I had a friend Polly who had just gone through breast cancer surgery and survived and got her clean bill of health, and I named one of the trolleys after her and Dolly after another one of my friends.”

Arkansas Destinations has continued to grow. Today it uses four trolleys and several buses and mini-buses, and Cohen says the company is about to purchase its first full-size 55-seat charter. It’s also an umbrella corporation that includes other companies, including Arkansas Events and Arkansas Weddings. Cohen spends about half her time working on event planning.

For Cohen and her operation, every job is important.

“We’ll work with a group of 100, and it could be 100 dignitaries from all over the world or 100 people that graduated from high school together 50 years ago.

Whatever it is, it’s a big deal to them, so it’s our job to make it successful for them. It’s fun. I’m living the dream.”

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“Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, there wasn’t any theater in Russellville, but I took tap and ballet. I was always the littlest, so they’d send me out to do the bow.”

A recruiter convinced Canerday to head to Hendrix College, where she fell in love with the stage. She acted at Dogpatch USA near Harrison. “Summer of 1980, the first time I got paid, we worked six days a week and got $135, and I thought I was just rich! The first year I was Dateless Brown, got to carry around a shotgun and ask little boys to marry me.

‘C’mere little fellah, ya wanner get hitched?’

They’d run off screaming.”

After college, some productions at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse and a few locally filmed movies (including the acclaimed “Sling Blade” in 1996), Canerday decided to try Hollywood.

“I went out to L.A. to get an agent. The William Morris woman in New York loved me, said ‘You need your own series about you.’ She set up the meeting, and the girl I talked with was the only one that had not seen “Sling Blade” yet. She asked me, ‘Yeah, can you be funny?’ and the smartass in me said, ‘Nope, not a bit, not me!’ but then I said, ‘Oh yeah, I’m real funny.’ And she said, ‘Well, you need to do something about your weight, you need to do something about your hair, you need to clear up your complexion.’ ” Canerday called fellow actor John Ritter, who suggested Bauman-Hiller. “There were three old people and three young people in this room, all asking about me. Everyone else, as soon as I said Arkansas, they ask about Billy Bob [Thornton] or the president, one of the two.

“So they were the only ones really interested in me. Wally Hiller gave me his card and said, ‘I can speak for everyone at this table when I say we want you.’ He told me, ‘Don’t dye your hair blonde, don’t get your tits done, and for God’s sake honey, don’t lose that accent.’ ” The actress, whose credits include “October Sky” and “Walk the Line,” found roles changed when she went into film.

“All my plays are usually comedies. I’m always the wacky crazy aunt, the silly funny neighbor, the possessed alcoholic, just somebody really

funny. All my 12 first movies, I was someone’s mother, very serious, quiet, the voice of reason, and cooking. And all my friends died laughing, because every movie I’m making food and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, you’re making biscuits. You of all people wouldn’t know where to begin.’ Sure

enough, I’m opening the cabinet, you should see all the shit I’m getting outta there, how do you make biscuits?

“I came back summer of 2001 to do one play at Murry’s and haven’t been back [to Hollywood] since! I do like L.A. and I like the vibe, but it was just a lonely existence. I’d spend all my day driving and going to auditions and did get jobs and make money, thank God, but I was homesick. I missed cheese dip. Every year, my mom for Christmas, she’d give me a case of Rotel!”

In the past six months, Canerday’s worked in two shorts and four feature films, including “The Grace of Jake” (starring Jordin Sparks) and the controversial “All the Birds Have Flown South,” a Southern Gothic psychological thriller. She takes it in stride.

“It’s always been my dream to live in Arkansas and jet off and do movies when they send for me. Luckily I’ve been able to.”

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here are few entrepreneurs who take off immediately after college on the career that will define them. Robin Connell is the exception. The Louisiana Tech graduate became the owner of Plantation Services at the bright and early age of 28. She has always known she wanted to work with plants.

“I always studied plants – but this industry, I didn’t know about until I graduated college,” Connell says. “I had studied outdoor plants since I was in junior high.

My senior year project was a houseful of Boston ferns that I grew and raised for a Mothers’ Day sale. I went on to college and really didn’t know what my direction would be, I just knew that plants were my thing. I went into it thinking I was going to be a landscape architect, thought I’d get my horticulture degree and go on and get

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Connell found Plantation Services, Inc. while researching the Little Rock area, where her boyfriend (now husband) was from. She came to town, met with owners Randy Cooper and Tina Shelby and soon found herself with a job, learning everything from selecting plants to placing them

in businesses and homes to handling the finances for the corporation. When Cooper and Shelby considered retiring in 2011, Connell was their first choice for continuing the 30 year old operation.

“They looked at the decision as they wanted to sell when they wanted to, not when they had to sell it,” Connell says. “They told me ‘we know that you dedicated a lot of devotion and time and energy to this place, and we want you to have the opportunity to take it to the next level.’ They very much let me be the driver in how the deal was structured.”

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“It never occurred to me I could make a career out of it as a makeup artist.”

The owner and president of The Agency, one of the largest full-service casting agencies in the South, Tackett says she built her career on recognizing where service was needed and filling that void. Freelancing as a makeup artist on set, Tackett’s passion for her art as well as her efforts to go above and beyond to assist the crew in any way was evident. Producers and directors would consult with her about professionals to fill a particular cast, which led to her referring prospects.

“I thought, ‘Bingo! This is how I can make myself indispensable,’” Tackett said. “I began to work on crews, and I could troubleshoot on set.”

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on-set makeup. By 1987, she had six successful films under her belt as well hundreds of successful commercial castings.

“That year, I would wake up and say, ‘What state am I in?’

It was an amazing education and a whole a lot of fun, and I made great contacts. Though the 16-18 hour days were grueling, I never tired of the process. Between casting films and commercials, I was still doing makeup to maintain a cash flow for the business.”

As The Agency took on more work, Tackett devoted her time to being an agent and a casting director. “What we do is listen to our clients and find what they want,” Tackett said. “If we don’t have it, we find it. Our searches range from our own backyards to major markets. It makes a world of difference to clients if they know they can count on you. Advertising agencies, production companies and companies looking for talent not only became our repeat clients but also led to more referrals. Although we love the film work, it is our steady and growing advertising clients

that keep us in business. We would not still be here if it was not for them.”

Tackett credits her parents with her work ethic and sense for treating people with respect. “They grew up in the Great Depression and made sure I learned the invaluable lessons of honesty, pride, respect for others and ethics,” she said.

“They stressed the importance of going those extra miles to succeed and never spend outside your means. Their influence is still with me.”

In 2002, Tackett was diagnosed with breast cancer, and dealing with this inconvenience, as she refers to it, called on the same grit and determination she used when opening The Agency.

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At 31, Connell is one of the state’s younger business owners. Plantation Services covers much of Arkansas, including the central portion of the state as well as Hot Springs, Heber Springs, Conway and more.

“I never expected to own my own business. I didn’t think of myself as an entrepreneur or someone that was really innovative, I just work every day to do it better. But, I love being a business owner. My days are always different, and I always do something different: budgeting, going out and placing plants, loading a truck, cleaning a job, it’s a lot of different hats but for everybody here, we’re all a team, we’re all going to wear all the hats. You never hear anybody say here, ‘it’s not my job,’ it’s all hands on deck, we all have the jobs.”

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Today, The Agency has more than 30 film credits and hundreds of professionals in its talent pool within its multi-state network. While Tackett was the first to make a viable business in Arkansas of an industry usually limited to Hollywood, she believes that any entrepreneur can be a success if he or she does one thing - listen, research, execute and deliver.

“Whatever it takes, you have to deliver successful results,” Tackett said. “I built my business by paying attention to what the people around me needed.

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n Tuesdays from noon to 3 p.m., anyone in or around Little Rock can tune into KABF FM, 88.3, for a set of Arkansas’s finest musical offerings hand-picked by two of the biggest

fans of local music (and of Arkansas itself ) that you’ll ever meet. And these DJs are ambitious.

Co-hosts Kara Bibb and Aaron Sarlo are trying to make Shoog Radio into more

than just a platform for local artists to get airplay and promote themselves with instudio live performances and interviews.

“We want Shoog, and KABF as a whole, to become a focal point for local artists,” they said. “There are so many opportunities for collaboration and supporting

TEAM EFFORT: Kara Bibb (left) and Aaron Sarlo promote Arkansas music.

each other within this community and I think we can help facilitate that.”

These two love what they do, and they love this town. That comes through in the effort that goes into putting together the shows. “Ninety percent of music I listen to is Arkansas artists,” Sarlo said. “I personally try to make sure some of these bands get played because they deserve it.”

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Winners will also be published as the centerpiece of our Fiction Issue this December. Trenton Lee Stewart, Arkansas native and bestselling author of the “Mysterious Benedict Society” series and the Arkansas-set “Flood Summer,” has agreed to serve as judge.

Submissions must be previously unpublished (this is important) and should be no longer than 3,000 words. Writers must currently live in Arkansas (and should have lived in Arkansas for at least one year) to submit. In the interest of fairness, stories will be provided to Stewart anonymously. The deadline for all submissions is 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10. Send your short story (one per applicant, please) to will@arktimes. com, with the subject line “Fiction Contest.”

THE TIMES IS ALSO THRILLED to announce that we’re collaborating with the Little Rock Film Festival to present a new monthly film series at Ron Robinson Theater. We’re kicking it off at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, with a special screening of “Beverly Hills Cop,” featuring Little Rock’s own Judge Reinhold, a.k.a Detective Billy Rosewood, who will do a Q&A and answer all of your burning questions about the making of the film.

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I AM THE AEA s a Health Sciences, Technology and Education instructor, Tarji Anderson-Russell introduces students to the medical profession, while also serving as coordinator of the school’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs. In addition, she leads the school’s dance team, where she’s affectionately known as “Mama Russ.”

Anderson-Russell says she enjoys working with high school students because of their maturity level and ability to take learning into their own hands. The students, she says, are also “more settled and more structured.”

Inspiring learning in her students is one of her favorite aspects of teaching, and she particularly appreciates learning about her former students’ successes. She says she feels a sense of pride and accomplishment when she sees a student who has struggled in the past finally succeed.

“My favorite thing is when I see those ‘ah-ha’ moments and see the light bulb come on,” she says. “That’s great.”

Anderson-Russell, 41, was named Dumas School District Teacher of the Year for 2014-15, and previously received the honor in the 2010-11 school year.

She joined Dumas New Tech High School in 2006, after teaching seventh grade life science at Dumas Junior High School for four years. She began her teaching career at Lonoke Middle School, where she taught earth science, in 1999.

Before becoming a teacher, she was a respiratory therapist, and still works twice a month as a respiratory therapist at McGehee-Desha County Hospital. She has bachelor’s degrees in respiratory therapy and health education, and a master’s degree in secondary school leadership from the University of Central Arkansas.

In 2002, Anderson-Russell joined the Arkansas Education Association. At first, she says she mostly appreciated the organization’s benefits and discounts, but the most important aspect of being a member is the sense of “collectiveness.”

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She says people often describe her as fun loving, organized and even a neat freak. She also admits that she sometimes takes on too much and wears just as many hats in her personal life as she does at school.

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THE SHOOG RADIO ERA, CONT. knows the songs better than me, knows when we need to hit that mute button,” Sarlo said. “We’ll be going over the setlist, and I’ll say, ‘Can we play that Ginsu Wives song?’ ” Bibb often adds an extra literary element to her playlists. A few months ago, she assembled a set according to the rules of Haiku poetry, using only song titles that included five words or five syllables.

“Luckily the quality of music here is so high that I can put together something like this and you know it’s going to be good,” she said.

modity here because there’s not as much influence to cater to commercial tastes.”

The show’s roots go back a few years to Cheyenne Matthews and Christy Ewing, who had the idea for a radio show with all Arkansas artists. Since then, the torch has been passed many times to others, including Clay Fitzpatrick, Rhett Brinkley, Jack Lloyd and Bryan Frazier (now an assistant station manager at KABF), with Matthews coming back a few times to fill in the gaps.

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Both DJs are also active participants in Little Rock’s arts and music scene.

Sarlo has played in a number of bands over the years, including Techno-Squid Eats Parliament, Laundry for the Apocalypse, The Dangerous Idiots and, most recently, Duckstronaut. Bibb hosts poetry readings at Vino’s and has a poetry blog, There Will Be Flowers.

They help artists financially as well, working with the local blog Give This Band a Dollar to help raise money for bands working to record and tour.

Bibb and Sarlo feel a connection to Arkansas and the music here. “We’re a part of the Mississippi Delta. There’s better soil, better water, better cultivation, more people, extra food, more down time. Blues musicians congregated around here, and rock ’n’ roll was invented here,” Sarlo said.

“People talk about how the scene here is insular, but that can be a good thing,” Bibb said. “If you want to be involved, you don’t have to look far. Things are going on everywhere.”

“I’ve got a peeve with people who think they need to move to bigger cities to play music,” Sarlo added. “People think of us as flyover, but we stray away from the pre-fabricated stuff. It’s less of a com-

hosts would work to bring local bands and venues together to put on shows to raise money for KABF. Outside of the fundraising, these shows work to build up the local community, encouraging connections and collaboration while promoting exclusively local acts and showcasing Arkansas’s vibrant music scene.

Bibb and Sarlo have carried on that tradition, putting together several shows around town, most recently through “Shoog Radio Presents,” a new monthly live music series at The Afterthought.

The first of these shows was fantastic. The Casual Pleasures and Pockets (two very great and very different bands) played at the smaller venue, which has an intimate vibe. It captured that feeling of people sitting on a porch together to see some of their friends play, but with better sound quality and more cosmopolitan food and drink offerings. The bar, which has been a standard for jazz patrons for many years, is expanding its purview and incorporating more local bands playing different styles of music.

You can catch the next “Shoog Radio Presents” at the Afterthought on Thursday, Oct. 23, when they will host John Willis and Late Romantics with Amyjo Savanna.

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FRIDAY 10/17

ARGENTA ARTWALK

5-8 p.m. Downtown North Little Rock.

An exhibition at Argenta Gallery, 413 Main St., with the come-hither name of “The Pornography of Color” features paintings by Ray Wittenberg and is just one of several shows to visit after hours in Argenta on Friday. (The Wittenberg show actually

opens Thursday with another reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Mugs Cafe, at 515 Main St., is exhibiting paintings

by Steven Rockwell, Kelly Furr and Karlyn Holloway in a show called “Energy & Elegance”; get Mugs coffee for energy and a little wine for elegance there. At the Laman Library Argenta Branch, 420 Main St., Ron Wolfe of the Arkansas Democrat-

Gazette will give a demonstration in illustration and his wife, Jan, will put on a puppet show. The illustration theme goes along with the library’s current exhibition, “Wartime Escape,” illustrations by Allan Drummond for the book “The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey.” Greg Thompson Fine Art, 429 Main St., con-

tinues “The Best of the South,” work by top regional artists John Alexander, William Dunlap, Ed Rice, Glennray Tutor and Pinkney Herbert along with Arkansas artists Sheila Cotton, Robyn Horn and Rebecca Thompson.

At Thea Foundation, 401 Main St., see paintings, drawings and animal masks made by Arkansas Children’s Hospital patients. LNP

THURSDAY 10/16SUNDAY 10/19

HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

Arlington Hotel and Low Key Arts, Hot Springs. Various times.

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival continues this week with screenings of nonfiction shorts and features, programs by filmmakers like the Renaud Brothers (3:40 p.m.

Friday) and “Hoop Dreams” producer Gordon Quinn (9:45 a.m. Saturday) and, incredibly, a Closing Night party featuring live performances by Stax legend William Bell and Memphis rapper Al Kapone (5 p.m. Saturday), both of whom are featured in the Memphis music doc “Take Me to the River,” screening earlier in the day. Other highlights include Beth Harrington’s “The Winding Stream,” about the Carter family and their country music dynasty (6:30 p.m. Thursday); Zoe McIntosh’s “The Deadly Ponies Gang,” about drugdealing New Zealanders (8:15 p.m. Thursday); “Evolution of a Criminal,” produced by Spike Lee (9:55 a.m. Friday); “Charlie Victor Romeo,” which the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott called “one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen” (9:30 p.m. Friday), and many, many more, like screenings of “Hoop Dreams” and the new short by festival guest Luke Wilson. WS 48

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OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Justin Moore performs at First Security Ampitheater 7 p.m. Friday, $25.50.

FRIDAY 10/17

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7 p.m. First Security Amphitheater. $25.50.

This summer, Justin Moore’s “Lettin’ The Night Roll” climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Country Airplay charts, the fourth No. 1 hit for the singer born in Poyen (Grant County)

and now based in Benton (after a decade in the Nashville trenches). For anyone not following his career too closely, Moore was also named Best New Artist at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, another big step for the enthusiastic National Rifle Association booster (“I’m gonna tell

you once and listen, son,” he once sang, “As long as I’m alive and breathing, you won’t take my guns”). “I love the simplistic nature of where I grew up,” Moore told Taste of Country recently, and he’ll show his appreciation this weekend with an outdoor concert by the river. WS

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THURSDAY 10/16

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6 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. Free.

“Pride and Joy,” a documentary produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance (part of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi), documents a journey taken by director Joe York across the American South inter-

viewing chefs, bartenders, shrimpers, cattlemen and anyone else associated with Southern cuisine in some way or another. It answers a number of pertinent questions you may not have known to ask: How do you make squirrel stew?

Why are hot dogs better prepared lefthanded? How is buttermilk like Viagra?

What’s in a pig’s ear sandwich? (Hint:

It’s a pig’s ear). On Saturday, the film screens at Ron Robinson Theater after a reception featuring food by the teams from South on Main, Butcher & Public and Loblolly Creamery ($10), plus live music. After the movie, there will be a panel on Southern food and culture moderated by Kevin Shalin of The Mighty Rib food blog. WS

WEDNESDAY 10/22

MAYA DEREN DOUBLE FEATURE

8 p.m. Few. $5 suggested donation.

This week, the team behind Splice Microcinema throws its formula out the window and returns with a double feature of films by Maya Deren, the poet, photographer and pioneering avant-garde filmmaker. A Greenwich Village art scene mainstay, Deren saw Hollywood as a drag on the progress of film-asart, and was a major inspiration to generations of American independent filmmakers, from Stan Brakhage to David Lynch. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943), the first film in the program, is her most famous, a streamof-consciousness trance filled with knives, mysterious figures and broken mirrors.

Deren said it was the result of wanting to “put on film the feeling which a human being experiences about an incident, rather than to record the incident accurately.” It’s about as close to the sensory experience of a dream as any film has ever come. The second film, “Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti” (1985), is one I’ve never seen, but which sounds incredible, a film about Haitian vodou ritual and dance (one of her abiding interests, and constructed from footage she shot in Haiti between 1947 and 1954). WS

At noon, former Arkansas State basketball player Arthur Agee and producer Gordon Quinn discuss “Hoop Dreams” at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall.

The Arkansas Arts Center hosts the Contemporaries Fountain Fest, with BBQ from Whole Hog Cafe and music

by DJ Mike Poe, at 5:30 p.m., $25 adv., $30 day of. The Arkansas Festival Ballet performs “Danse Melange” at the Albert Pike Memorial Temple, 7:30 p.m., $20 (also Friday Oct. 17). Comedy troupe Red Octopus Theater presents a new sketch production, “The Ghoul-sual Suspects,” at The Public Theater, 8 p.m., $10 (through Saturday, Oct. 18). St. Louis alt-rock band The Bottle Rockets are at Stickyz with locals Swampbird, 8 p.m., $10. Blues rock singer-songwriter Patrick Sweany, who’s worked with The Black Keys and Jimbo Mathus, returns to White Water Tavern with Joe Fletcher at 10 p.m., $10.

FRIDAY 10/17

RUN THE JEWELS: Killer Mike and El-P perform at Stickyz 9 p.m. Monday, $15.

MONDAY 10/20

KILLER MIKE AND EL-P 9 p.m. Stickyz. $15.

It’s a little hard to remember, but a few years ago Killer Mike was still best known for comparing himself to Randy Moss on Outkast’s 2001 single “The Whole World.” He spent most of a decade trying and failing to top that success and that of its followup, “Land of a Million Drums,” which found Mike complaining about running out of Scooby Snacks. Having begun his career in the orbit of the Dungeon Family, one of hip-hop’s defining collectives and probably Georgia’s greatest contribution to pop music since James Brown, it was understandably tough to shake the connection. He made a

go of it, though, with a series of great and depressingly underrated mixtapes (“I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind” parts 1, 2 and 3) that somehow never earned him much momentum outside the South. What it took, eventually, was linking up with El-P, co-founder of the cerebral underground rap label Def Jux and a brilliant producer known for the abrasive, dystopian sound of groups like Cannibal Ox (about as far from Killer Mike’s booming gospel trap anthems as you could get). They made an album together that was well received, especially by publications (and audiences) not generally associated with rap music, and went on to form a duo, Run the Jewels. WS

Chris Robinson Brotherhood, a side project from the front man of The Black Crowes, comes to Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $20 (the band plays George’s Majestic in Fayetteville on Thursday at 9 p.m., $18.) Rob Engstrom, SVP and national political director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, hosts a 2014 Election Preview at the Clinton School’s Sturgis Hall at noon. Vegas metal group Five Finger Death Punch plays at Verizon Arena with Volbeat, 6:10 p.m., $51.50. Comedian Bill Engvall comes to the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, performing shows at 7 and 9:30 p.m., $37-$67. Country duo The Easy Leaves plays a free show at South on Main, 7:30 p.m. Frontier Circus and Mulehead are at The Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7. Velvet Kente hosts a Reggae Dance Party at White Water Tavern, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY 10/18 The Good Earth Garden Center hosts the 4th Annual Pooches and Pumpkins event beginning at 11 a.m. Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts presents “Hay Days,” with hay rides, storytelling and more, noon, $5. Local rapper Kari Faux (whose local hit “No Small Talk” was recently remixed by Childish Gambino) performs at The Fold at 10:30 p.m. UALR presents a screening of “Slavery By Another Name,” followed by a discussion, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, 1 p.m., free. Catamaran plays at Vino’s with Duckstronaut, 9 p.m., $5. The Big Dam Horns perform at the Afterthought, and Fayetteville jam band Goose comes to Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8.

Local favorite Bonnie Montgomery performs at White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. www.arktimes.com

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

Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat. Verizon Arena, 6:10 p.m., $51.50. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com.

Frontier Circus, Mulehead. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $7. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Justin Moore. First Security Amphitheater, 7 p.m., $25.50. 400 President Clinton Ave. Live music. No cover charge Sun.-Tue. and Thu. Ernie Biggs. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Majestic Tour with Kari Jobe. Geyer Springs Baptist Church, 7 p.m., $35. 12400 Interstate 30. 501-455-3474. www.gsfbc.org.

Odyssey. Town Pump, 9 p.m., $3. 1321 Rebsamen Park Road. 501-663-9802.

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

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG. Velvet Kente Reggae Dance Party. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

THURSDAY, OCT. 16

MUSIC

The Bottle Rockets, Swampbird. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Charlie Virgo, The Dangerous Idiots.

Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $5. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com/.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $18. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226.

“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.

Jantsen, Dirt Monkey. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $10.

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

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

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

Krush Thursdays with DJ Kavaleer. Club Climax, free before 11 p.m. 824 W. Capitol. 501-554-3437.

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

Mr. Lucky (headliner), Chris Henry (happy hour).

Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www.cajunswharf.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.

Patrick Sweany, Joe Fletcher. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-3758400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

LION HEART: Austin singer-songwriter Emily Wolfe performs at Juanita’s at 8 p.m. Monday, $8.

Comtemporaries Fountain Fest. With BBQ from Whole Hog Cafe and music from DJ Mike Poe. Arkansas Arts Center, 5:30 p.m., $25 adv., $30 day of. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

A Prized Evening. The Worthen and Porter Literary Prizes will be awarded to Mara Leveritt and William D. Lindsey. Main Library, 6:30 p.m.

100 S. Rock St. www.cals.lib.ar.us.

LECTURES

Arthur Agee and Gordon Quinn on “Hoop Dreams.” Sturgis Hall, 12 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys. edu.

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

2nd annual “Museum of Discovery Spark!” The Museum’s signature fundraising event. Museum of Discovery. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-

880-6475. www.amod.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 17

MUSIC

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

Ancient River, Ghost Bones, Stranger Strange.

Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Backroad Anthem. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 10 p.m., $10. 107 Commerce St. 501-3727707. www.stickyz.com.

Big John Miller (headliner), Trey Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m.

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

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $20 adv. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

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

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

The Easy Leaves. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free.

COMEDY

Bill Engvall. Walton Arts Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m., $37 - $67. 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

479-443-5600.

The Main Thing’s “Whatshisname?” The Joint, through Oct. 25: 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Red Octopus Theater: “The Ghoul-sual Suspects.” The Public Theatre, through Oct. 18, 8 p.m., $10. 616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.

DANCE

Contra Dance. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, first and third Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m.; fourth Friday of every month, 7:30 p.m., $5.

3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansascountrydance.org.

Danse Mélange. A production of the Arkansas Festival Ballet. Albert Pike Memorial Temple, 7:30 p.m., $20. 712 Scott St. 501-375-5587. www. littlerockscottishrite.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

Danse Mélange. A production of the Arkansas Festival Ballet. Albert Pike Memorial Temple, 7:30 p.m., $20. 712 Scott St. 501-375-5587. www. littlerockscottishrite.org.

2014 Election Preview. With Rob Engstrom, SVP and national political director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Sturgis Hall, 12 p.m.

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

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 244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. LGBTQ/SGL Youth and Young Adult Group, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St.

EVENTS

SATURDAY, OCT. 18

COMEDY

Red Octopus Theater: “The Ghoul-sual Suspects.” The Public Theatre, 8 p.m., $10.

616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.

DANCE

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

Around the World Thursday: Bremen, Germany.

Forty Two, 6:30 p.m., $27.95. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-537-0042. www.dineatfortytwo. com.

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MUSIC

The Big Dam Horns. Afterthought Bistro & Bar. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www. afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Bonnie Montgomery. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

PARTY AT OUR PLACE!

Boom Kinetic. Revolution, 9:30 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom. com.

Catamaran, Duckstronaut. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $5.

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

Club Nights at 1620 Savoy. See Oct. 17.

Goose. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $8. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Kari Faux. The Fold Botanas Bar, 10:30 p.m.

3501 Old Cantrell Road. 501-916-9706. www. thefoldlr.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 Clinton Ave. 501-372-4782. littlerock.erniebiggs.com.

Lucious Spiller. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $7. 107 Commerce St. 501372-7707. www.stickyz.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, 9 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www. capitalhotel.com/CBG. Third Degree (headliner), Greg Madden (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m.

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

COMEDY

The Main Thing’s “Whatshisname?” The Joint, through Oct. 25: 8 p.m., $20. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

Red Octopus Theater: “The Ghoul-sual Suspects.” The Public Theatre, 8 p.m., $10.

616 Center St. 501-374-7529. www.thepublictheatre.com.

DANCE

Little Rock West Coast Dance Club. Dance lessons. Singles welcome. Ernie Biggs, 7 p.m., $2. 307 Clinton Ave. 501-247-5240. www. arstreetswing.com.

EVENTS

2014 Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Induction Gala. Statehouse Convention Center, 6:30 p.m., $150. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

40th Annual Little Rock Farmers’ Market.

River Market Pavilions, through Oct. 25: 7 a.m.

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

4th Annual Pooches and Pumpkins. The Good Earth Garden Center, 11 a.m., free. 15601 Cantrell Road. 501-868-4666. www.thegoodearthgarden.com/.

Argenta Farmers Market. Argenta Farmers Market, 7 a.m. 6th and Main St., NLR. 501-8317881. www.argentaartsdistrict.org/argentafarmers-market.

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

Flavors of Arkansas. A reception, screening of “Pride and Joy,” and panel on Southern Food and Culture. Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www.cals.lib.ar.us/ ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

Handcrafted Fashion Show. Ozark Folk Center State Park, 2 p.m., $12. 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View.

Hay Days. Hay rides, storytelling and more.

Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, noon, $5. 20919 Denny Road.

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. 501-6137001.

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.

“Researching Your Civil War Soldier Ancestor.”

With genealogist Russell Baker. Faulkner County Library, 2 p.m. 1900 Tyler St., Conway.

501-327-7482. www.fcl.org.

FILM

“Slavery by Another Name.” Screening and discussion. UALR, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, 1 p.m.,free. 2801 S. University Ave. 501569-8977.

LECTURES

Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. Ron Robinson Theater, 3 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. www. cals.lib.ar.us/ron-robinson-theater.aspx.

“Murder, Mayhem and Lies: Investigating Some of Arkansas’s Historical Cold Cases.”

1914 Schoolhouse Auditorium, 9 a.m., free.

Downtown Washington.

BENEFITS

Woof Wag and Wine. Proceeds benefit Out of the Woods Animal Rescue of Arkansas. Historic YMCA, 6:30 p.m. 524 Broadway.

SUNDAY, OCT. 19

MUSIC

Cypress Creek Park Fall Bluegrass Jam. Cypress Creek Park. Cypress Creek Avenue, Adona. 501-662-4918. www.cypresscreekpark. com.

Irish Traditional Music Session. Hibernia Irish Tavern, first and third Sunday of every month, 2:30 p.m. 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501246-4340. www.hiberniairishtavern.com.

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

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

501-982-1939 .

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

EVENTS

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

Biketoberfest. River Market Pavilions, 12 p.m.

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

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AFTER DARK, CONT. AFL-CIO. Vino’s, 6:30 p.m., free. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 20

MUSIC

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

Invoker, Lucid, Occupy the Sky. Vino’s, 8 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Killer Mike and El-P. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $15. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

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

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

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

TUESDAY, OCT. 21

MUSIC

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

Brown Sabbath. Revolution, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. revroom.com.

Dana Louise. White Water Tavern, 10 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

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

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

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

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

Pinnacle Brass. UCA Arts Night. South on Main, 7:30 p.m. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

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

COMEDY

thoughtbistroandbar.com.

Stand-Up Tuesday. Hosted by Adam Hogg. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

“Latin Night.” Revolution, 7:30 p.m., $5 regular, $7 under 21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501823-0090. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

EVENTS

Geocaching. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 8:30 a.m. 602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. www.centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

Tales from the South. Historic Arkansas Museum, 5 p.m., $10. 200 E. Third St. 501-324-9351. www. historicarkansas.org.

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

beerknurd.com/stores/littlerock.

FILM

“Plan 9 From Outer Space.” Vino’s, 7:30 p.m., free. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

LECTURES

Different Spokes Bicycle Trail Symposium. Old State House Museum, 7 p.m., free. 500 Clinton Ave. 501-324-9685. www.oldstatehouse.com.

International Public Service Panel. Sturgis Hall, noon.1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22

MUSIC

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

Child Bite, Acid Witch, Ozark Shaman. Vino’s, 8:30 p.m., $5. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www. vinosbrewpub.com.

Here Come The Mummies. Juanita’s, 8 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

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

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

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

2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

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

Marc Ford, Elijah Ford. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. 107 Commerce St. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.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.

Ted Ludwig Trio. Capital Bar and Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 111 Markham St. 501-374-7474. www.capitalhotel.com/CBG.

COMEDY

The Joint Venture. Improv comedy group. The Joint, 8 p.m., $7. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

DANCE

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

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

EVENTS

Kidstock. With music by The Ellis Family Band, Kit ‘n Kaboodle and the Sugar Free Allstars, activities and games. CALS Children’s Library, 4 p.m. 4800 W. 10th St.

FILM

Maya Deren double feature: “Meshes in the Afternoon” and “Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti.” Splice Microcinema.

Few, 8 p.m., donations. 220 W. 6th St., Suite A. 501-628-9270.

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.

BOOKS

Michael Ross. Author of “The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case.” Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m.

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NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: Second annual “Fountain Fest,” AAC Contemporaries group fund-raiser with barbecue, libations, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 16, $25 in advance, $30 at the door; “Really Cool Digs,” Architecture and Design Network lecture by Carl Matthews, UA professor of interior design, reception 5:30 p.m., talk 6 p.m. Oct. 21, free, ardenetwork@mac. com.; “Poet in Copper: Engravings by Evan Lindquist,” through Oct. 26; “Inspiration to Illumination: Recent Work by Museum School Photography Instructors,” through Oct. 26, Museum School Gallery. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARGENTA GALLERY, 413A-B Main St.: “The Pornography of Color,” paintings by Ray Wittenberg, Oct. 16-Nov. 1, reception 6-8 p.m. Oct. 16 and 5-8 p.m. Oct. 17, Argenta ArtWalk. All sales benefit Art Connection. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Fri.-Sat. through Nov. 1. 225-5600.

ART CONNECTION, 204 E. 4th St.: Work by youth participants, reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 17, Argenta ArtWalk. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Fri. 319-7905.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Best of the South,” through Nov. 15, reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 17, Argenta ArtWalk. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 664-2787.

LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St.: Illustration demonstration by Ron Wolfe, puppet show by Jan Wolfe, 5-8 p.m. Oct. 17, Argenta ArtWalk; “Wartime Escape,” illustrations by Allan Drummond for the book “The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey,” through Oct. 26. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 687-1061.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Portraits,” paintings by Louis Beck, through October, giclee giveaway 7 p.m.

Oct. 16. 660-4006.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Energy & Elegance,” paintings and drawings by Steven Rockwell, Kelly Furr and Karlyn Holloway, Oct. 17-Nov. 18, reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 17, Argenta ArtWalk. 442-7778.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK, Fine Arts Building: “Faculty Biennial,” Gallery I, Oct. 16-Dec. 12, reception 5-7 p.m. Nov. 5; “Perception/Reality,” concrete furniture by Mia Hall, Gallery II, through Nov. 10; “Faculty Biennial,” Oct. 16-Dec. 12, Gallery I. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 569-8977.

exhibition gallery; lecture by “State of the Art” artist Kim Dickey, 7-8 p.m. Oct. 17; lecture by “State of the Art” artist Adonna Khare, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Great Hall; permanent collection of American masterworks spanning four centuries. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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JONESBORO ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Bradbury Gallery: “Chimera,” work by faculty members Nikki Arnell and Joe Ford, Oct. 16-Nov. 12, reception 5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 16.

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Dark alliances ‘Kill the Messenger’ an above-the-fold tragedy.

BY DAVID KOON

T SONS OF ‘THE JUDGE’: Downey (center) listens to Jeremy Strong (left) and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Skip ‘The Judge’ By trying to do too much, vehicle for Downey, Duval turns to mush.

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he Judge,” an inoffensive and gen- to his win-at-all-costs son. They clash on a erally likeable drama that odd- number of levels, and just as neither can wait couples Robert Downey Jr. with to see the other in the rearview, something Robert Duvall, runs like a two-plus-hour happens that has the old man needing legal counsel in a serious way. chardonnay. Setting aside a few quasi-coarse Director David Dobkin’s oeuvre to this moments (even a family friendly film needs to establish street cred on its own terms), point (“Fred Claus,” “The Change-Up,” “The Judge” plays mostly by the numbers “Wedding Crashers”) wouldn’t point to that American audiences have decided they a gritty legal drama as his next step, and like in their black-sheep redemption tales. indeed, “The Judge” aims to have it both This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; whatever ways, bringing in the occasional chuckle you might begrudge a crowd-pleaser, they or warm-fuzzy to leaven what could’ve tend to be so named for a reason. But it also been a thoroughly dark story. Downey’s at feels like an opportunity passed. his best in these tight spaces, though. The Downey is a hotshot lawyer in Chicago, hyperkinetic delivery that made his “Iron defending scumbags by trade — making him, Man” performances iconic translates to a by extension, no small bag of scum himself. film in which he has to hit a range of notes.

He gets word during a trial that his mother He moves quickly enough to maneuver has died. He hugs his young daughter through romance, breakup, indignation goodbye, gets into one last screaming match and magnanimity with ease. Meanwhile, with his soon-to-be-estranged wife, and Duvall holds down his role as if he’d been heads off to small-town Indiana, a trip he discovered wandering the wilds of the has long avoided. His grown brothers are Midwest and someone decided to build a still there — Vincent D’Onofrio as a shoulda- movie around him, like setting a house down been baseball star in unremarkable middle beside a century-old oak.

Their chemistry paints a kind of parentage, Jeremy Strong as a simple-hearted shutterbug — and his high school girlfriend, child love-hate that movies don’t always do Vera Farmiga, is still working the counter at this well. Together they almost nudge “The the diner. This is no small amount of baggage Judge” beyond its destiny as a middlebrow for a guy who hasn’t been home in 25 years! exercise worth watching with the in-laws Which obviously is the point, so back off when it appears on cable during the holidays. already.

(Pay attention to the namby-pamby score, in The font of Downey’s troubles, and the fact, to get a sense of how seriously the movie reason home ain’t really his bag, is his old wants us to take it.) Instead, the symbolism man, Duvall, equal parts doddering and gets piled on too thickly, the character arc thundering. He’s the titular judge, having sails too cleanly. It’s slick moviemaking been on the bench for four decades, and that risks gliding right through you without in his bedrock reverence for the law, a foil leaving much of an impression.

big-wheel TV journalists calling Webb his reporter loves movies about reporters. That love of flicks everything but a child of God. After his own about one’s profession isn’t all that newspaper eventually backed away from the unique. Movies about lawyers probably only story, Webb resigned. Though an Inspector sell tickets to lawyers. Firefighters probably General’s report would later confirm much went to see “Backdraft.” It’s the same old of what Webb’s sources had told him, he was story. If you aren’t impressed by what Holsilently blackballed from the profession and lywood has done with your profession, you never worked for a daily newspaper again. can at least go see it for comic relief over all He committed suicide in 2004, just before the stuff they got wrong.

A film about reporters that gets it right — tragically, horribly right — is “Kill the Messenger” Jeremy Renner stars as Gary Webb, a brash and somewhat crusty investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News. Back in 1996, Webb was working on a piece about the DEA’s asset forfeiture program when he tripped over the roots of a story that the mainstream ‘KILL THE MESSENGER’: Jeremy Renner (right) stars. press had either missed or (as is hinted in the film) willfully ignored: that he was to move back in with his mother after Ronald Reagan’s wars in Central because the bank had taken his house.

Renner is perfect for the role of Webb, America had been defunded by Congress able to pull off both the reporter’s bulldog in the 1980s, the CIA had started arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua by looking the tenacity and his vulnerability as he sees other way while Central American coke the rocks he’d been standing on start to dealers dumped powder cocaine into South tumble away into the sea. Though the story Central Los Angeles. With the coke cashed of how “Dark Alliance” came together is in on the streets and guns purchased with grossly simplified (there’s no mention of the proceeds, the same planes would turn the Nicaraguan reporter that Webb worked around and wing back to Central America. with extensively on the story, for example, Webb and his paper eventually and the process appears to take weeks published a series of three stories, called instead of the months Webb really spent on “Dark Alliance,” which used official it), the film feels for the most part like being documents, surveillance tapes and quotes a reporter in tense situations: asking people

by South American drug dealers, coke mules the questions they don’t want to answer, and crack kingpins to shine light into one while walking the tightrope between of the darker corners of late 20th century pissing them off and making them feel so American history. Soon, Webb’s stories, buddy-buddy that they go off on tangents carried aloft by a newfangled development about their kids. Too, there’s the terrible called the Internet, made their way over spectacle of a man’s life destroyed by the the high walls of the Mainstream Media to way things used to be in journalism, with outraged communities all over America, a few media titans deciding — often with where black leaders and politicians were guidance from the agencies they relied soon calling for answers on why the CIA was on for favors, sources and tips — which helping destroy their communities. stories were fit to print. In that way, “Kill the Messenger” is really a film about this As seen in the film, a funny thing happened on the way to Webb winning a brave new world we live in, where the Pulitzer, though. Instead of trying to advance Internet has brought down all the old his reporting, the mainstream media turned gates and gatekeepers. Even if it wasn’t on Webb in a way that’s enough to make you about the slow-motion assassination of a want to go to the kitchen and fold yourself flawed idealist whose only real crime was a tinfoil hat. The L.A. Times, for example, trying to tell the public the truth as he’d had 17 reporters working on picking holes found it, “Kill the Messenger” would still in Webb’s reporting at one point, and “Kill have quite a bit of resonance in this postSnowden age. the Messenger” features real footage of www.arktimes.com

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ROGERS HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 322 S. Second St.: “A House in Mourning,” Hawkins House, candlelight tours 7-9:15 p.m.

Oct. 17 and 24 (reserve tickets at 479-6211154); “IMAGINE: A NEW Rogers Historical Museum,” conceptual designs of new exhibition areas to be built. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat. 479-6210-1154.

(Central Arkansas) ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP. GROUP, 200 River Market Ave.: “People, Places and Things,” paintings by Kathy Strause and Taimur Cleary, jewelry by Christie Young.

BOSWELL MOUROT, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Provocative Shapes,” paintings by Virmarie DePoyster and Laura Raborn, ceramics by Winston Taylor, through Oct. 26. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat. 664-0030.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon,” Underground Gallery, through Jan. 24; “Echoes of the Ancestors: Native American Objects from the University of Arkansas Museum,” Concordia Gallery, through March 15, 2015; annual juried Arkansas League of Artists exhibition, West Gallery, through Dec. 27. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Arkansas Traveler,” new paintings by John Deering, through Oct. 18. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER, 1200 President Clinton Ave.: “Chihuly,” studio glass, through Jan. 5, 2015; permanent exhibits on the Clinton administration. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $7 adults; $5 college students, seniors, retired military; $3 ages 6-17. 370-8000.

COX CREATIVE CENTER, 120 River Market Ave.: “Arkansas Pastel Society,” through October. 918-3093.

THE EDGE, 301B President Clinton Ave.: Paintings by Avila (Fernando Gomez), Eric Freeman, James Hayes, Jerry Colburn, St. Joseph Thomason and Stephen Drive. 9921099.

ELLEN GOLDEN ANTIQUES, 5701 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Paintings by Barry Thomas and Arden Boyce. 664-7746.

GALLERY 221 & ART STUDIOS 221, Pyramid Place: New works by Tyler Arnold, also work by Kathi Couch, Gino Hollander, Greg Lahti, Mary Ann Stafford, Byron Taylor, sculpture by Siri Hollander, jewelry by Rae Ann Bayless, Sean LeCrone, Emile and Brenda Fowler. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 801-0211.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Paintings and drawings by Diane Harper, Dominique Simmons and Emily Wood, through Oct. 25. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Artists Scrounging,” assemblages of found objects by Laura Fanning, Melissa “Mo” Lashbrook, Michelle Canulla, Nina Sharkey Culpepper, Jay King, Jessica Crenshaw, Amy Edgington, Ming Donkey, Michael Crenshaw, Gerald Brown, Joyce Haase, Mike Church, Kelley Naylor Wise, Byron Werner, Loogie, Debra Young, Wade

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

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “All That I Am: A Retrospective,” works on paper by Aj Smith, through Nov. 8. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 372-6822.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Disciplined Inspiration,” photographs by Jack Kenner, art glass by Ed Pennebaker, through Nov. 9; “40 Years of the Arkansas Times,” through Dec. 9; “The Great Arkansas Quilt Show 3,” juried exhibit of contemporary quilts, through May 3; “A Beauty on It Sells: Advertising Art from the Collection of Marsha Stone,” 13th annual Eclectic Collector exhibit, through Jan. 1; “Arkansas Made,” ongoing. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

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

M2GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road (Pleasant Ridge Shopping Center): “Laureate,” retrospective of engravings by Evan Lindquist, Arkansas’s first artist laureate; also works by Richard Sutton and Jennifer and Richard Cutshall. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 944-7155.

SEQUOYAH NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER: “Toy Tipis and Totem Poles: Native American Stereotypes in the Lives of Children,” more than 1,500 objects and documents from the Hirschfelder-Molin collection, through Dec. 19. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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STEPHANO’S FINE ART GALLERY, 1813 N. Grant: New work by Lynn Sudderth and G. Peebles. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Fri.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Thu.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 563-4218.

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CONWAY ART ON THE GREEN, Littleton Park, 1100 Bob Courtway: Paintings by Harold Kraus, featured artist, also works by Patricia Wilkes, Nina Ruth Baker and Emelene Russell, through December. 501-499-3127.

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Illustrations on paper by Fay Ku, photographs by Kathleen Robbins, paintings

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PREPA RE D F O R E B O LA, CO N T . treatment. Other times it might be “from people who’ve stopped to get gas in Dallas,” Wheeler said. “That’s just fine. … It’s good people are thinking about it.” The department has physicians on call 24 hours a day to handle calls.

Hospitals harbor super bugs, like antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus, and other communicable diseases, so doctors are already trained in containment. Any large hospital “should be able to handle a patient in isolation,” UAMS infectious disease specialist Vyas said. At UAMS, doctors must be trained to deal with radiation sickness, since there’s a nuclear power plant just up the Arkansas River. They must also treat patient with tuberculosis and other serious infections; the doctors must take precautions not just to protect themselves, but other patients at the hospitals.

Vyas and RN Rachel Hicks demonstrated for the Times on Friday how staff must suit up before had contact with a person suspected of having come in contact with the virus. First, rubber gloves, a hair covering, N95 respirator mask, a plastic face shield and an impermeable Tyvek suit. (The Tyvek suit is not required by the CDC, but UAMS has chosen to include it in its protocol.) Another set of gloves and a plastic surgical gown that goes over the Tyvek suit completes the layering. The goal is to guard against contact with the patient’s bodily fluids — blood, mucus, sweat, etc. — and droplets from coughs and sneezes (which can travel up to 3 feet).

It is hot in the suit; Hicks was drenched in sweat after her short demonstration.

(Though not as hot as it is in Africa, where health care workers wear rubber suits that can be disinfected and worn again. They are limited to 35 to 45 minutes in the suits because they lose liters of fluid, Vyas said.)

As important as wearing the protective gear is, taking it off presents the same danger as contact with the patient. (The Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola told media that she may have touched her face with her gloved hand as she removed her gear.)

The exterior surfaces of the gown, gloves, suit, etc. — which may have come in contact with the virus — must not be touched.

The plastic surgical gown is designed to pull the outer pair of gloves off with it. Only the inside of the gown and the Tyvek suit are touched as they are torn off. The inner set of gloves must be removed carefully by slipping a finger underneath the glove at the palm to peel it off. Staff will stay with health care workers who are removing their garb to give reminders.

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site or sealed off. Wheeler said the Health Department has also met with Little Rock Wastewater management on dealing with possibly infected waste.

All who come to emergency rooms and doctors’ offices are now being asked whether they have been in any of the African countries during this outbreak of Ebola. (Ebola outbreaks were first documented in the 1970s.) A sign on the entrance to the ER at UAMS lists the countries patients will be asked about; Dallas has been inked in by hand. The police officer at the security entrance will be the first to ask; if the answer is yes and the patient is bleeding, they’ll be taken straight to an isolation room and the infectious disease team will be summoned. (Isolation units are outfitted with negative air flow to keep particulates from leaving the room.) Screenings will be “very individualized,” Vyas said. If patients present with symptoms — fever, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea, bleeding — their blood will be drawn to get a diagnosis. If the blood test shows antibodies to Ebola, “supportive care” such as IV fluids will be administered. That is all that can be done. The only drugs now being administered to Ebola patients are highly experimental; none have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

If a case is confirmed and intervention seems warrantable, doctors here would try to obtain them, Vyas said.

“Early interventions significantly improve chances of survival,” said Greg Crain, vice president and administrator of Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock. He said Baptist administrators “have a huddle every day” and communicate with staff once a week on protocol and preparation. Baptist’s emergency department handles more patients than any other in Arkansas — about 65,000 to 70,000 every year, Crain said — and its board-certified ER doctors are “the front line.”

The “working plan” for now is that the blood will be sent directly to the CDC for testing, Wheeler said. The Health Department has not been provided testing probes by the CDC. The department is also working up plans for housing of people exposed to persons who’ve tested positive for the virus and arrangements for containment of homes, Wheeler said.

Vyas said it is “not out of the realm of possibility” that someone who’s been in contact with Ebola could turn up in Little Rock: “Little Rock is pretty cosmopolitan; we have people here from around the world.” But Vyas is far more concerned with a virus he knows will infect hundreds in Arkansas: influenza. He urged that everyone get vaccinated before flu season hits.

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ MADURO CIGAR BAR at 109 Main St. will shut down in mid-November to make way for a new bar, 109 & Co. Owner Michael Peace hastens to add that the cigar bar isn’t being snuffed out, but will eventually reopen in a different space, and he hopes that space is downtown.

109 & Co. will be a stogy-free “modern day speakeasy,” Peace said; the only smoke at 109 & Co. will be in the taste of the aged cocktails that Peace creates himself in oak barrels. Fans will enjoy an expanded cocktail menu, along with favorites like the 43 Decatur (Basil Hayden’s bourbon mixed with two “high-end liquors,”) and his barrel-aged Manhattans. Peace will spend three weeks redecorating to create an intimate ambiance, with “old-fashioned-style wallpaper,” dim lighting and leather chairs and couches.

“We will deep clean everything so there’s no hint of smoke,” he promised. He hasn’t got the bar food “nailed down yet.”

The Maduro’s staff will be kept on.

“Moving Maduro’s will allow us to build from the ground up, to make sure there are no apartments above us,” Peace said. He hopes to open 109 & Co. on Dec. 5, the anniversary of the passage of the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition.

PIZZERIA SANTA LUCIA has opened inside of Terry’s Finer Foods at 5801 Kavanaugh Blvd. The Neapolitan-style pizza restaurant previously operated out of a food truck. The new sit-down restaurant includes a full bar. Hours are 5 p.m. until 11 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 5 p.m. unti midnight Friday and Saturday. The phone number is 666-1885.

ANOTHER BREWERY is opening in Little Rock: Rebel Kettle Brewing Co. announced last week it will open in a 5,500-square-foot building at 822 E. Sixth St. The brewery will house a seven-barrel brewhouse, with four seven-barrel fermenters and two seven-barrel brite tanks, plus a 1,500-square-foot tasting room equipped with 16 taps and a bottle selection. Owners John Lee, Tommy McGhee, Matt Morgan and Shawn Stane are shooting for a spring 2015 opening; they also plan to install a beer garden with a deck, patio and recreational area that will have bocce ball and baggo on the ample grounds outside the brewery.

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Belly busting bar food Satchemo’s serves up creative twists on old standards.

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ust about a month into its run, Satchemo’s Bar and Grill is figuring out what it wants to be. An early decision seems a good one — to open for lunch seven days a week and not try to attract an evening crowd other than Thursday, Friday and Saturday. (The website still reflects the original hours.)

It still bills itself as a sports bar, and the four TVs were turned to NFL games upon request one Sunday afternoon, but if it takes sports fans coming specifically to actively watch sports to qualify as a sports bar, we’re not sure Satchemo’s will get there.

But what Satchemo’s is doing right is serving up homemade, atypical bar food. And with scads of state workers toiling in mammoth buildings not far across Third Street, trying to build a lunch crowd makes more sense than every-night dinner.

Satchemo’s is housed in a rather odd space just west PORK GALORE: The 3 Little Pigs Sandwich. of the viaduct in a building it shares with Warehouse Liquor. It most recently was Twelve and newspaper clippings on the wood tops. That and a few other items on the Modern Lounge, which rarely appeared wall — like a Troy Trojans poster and open, and its black faux marble bathrooms with shower door-like stall doors a picture of not-famous quarterback still scream “club!”

Jim Everett during his days with the St. Louis Rams in the late 1980s — provide The main dining room features a the “sports bar” theme. mishmash of tables with comfortable But whether or not you like sports, chairs that must have come from a fire sale of hotel banquet room furniture. It’s do or don’t want to jam to Friday worth taking a close look at the smaller night karaoke, care about the bands tables with decoupages of old Razorback that occasionally play or give a hoot about shooting a game of pool on one football tickets, program covers, photos

of the two $1-a-game tables, go eat at Satchemo’s.

We started with four appetizers: pulled pork egg rolls, chicken fries, Sassy’s salsa and Capitol City Wings.

The fried egg rolls ($8) are stuffed with pulled pork, baked beans and bits of onion and jalapeno, cut on the bias and served with homemade slaw and barbecue sauce. The flavors work well together, and the proportions are perfect. The fries ($8) are tender, thin strips of breast filet battered in corn flakes and fried to a crunchy wonderfulness. They are crisp but tender and served with ranch (though we’re sure the nice wait staff would bring barbecue sauce if asked). The zingy salsa ($5), also homemade, comes in a good-sized bowl with high-quality tortilla chips.

(We enjoyed the salsa, but a regular said the person who normally makes it does it even better.) The wings ($8) continue the not-runof-the-mill theme, grilled whole to a crispy goodness.

We chose the original sweet and spicy sauce, and it was both. Wings also come Buffalo style or with that tangy homemade barbecue sauce.

We enjoyed them, leaving only bones, but we do think $8 is a bit much for three wings.

Through Facebook and word-of-mouth chatter, we’ve heard raves about the pulled pork nachos ($8), but we didn’t get around to them.

The meatloaf cupcakes ($6) feature “GutBuster’s Famous Meatloaf recipe,” the menu touts, but we learned this was a new menu, and GutBuster hadn’t gotten all the ingredients together yet to serve them. But maybe by the time you’re reading this you can get some.

We also were favorably impressed with several of the sandwiches: The huge 3 Little Pigs ($9), a pork lover’s dream with pulled pork, grilled ham and bacon piled high on a bun with

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If discounted drinks appeal to you, know that Satchemo’s features 75-cent cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon from 4 p.m. until close on Thursday and $1 Bloody Marys from noon until 2 p.m. Sunday.

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fried onions, fried jalapenos, slaw and barbecue sauce; Satchemo’s Butter Burger ($6; add $1 for cheese), a juicy patty that came fully dressed (but we didn’t detect the butter); the Downtown BLT ($5), made with six slices of decent, well-crisped bacon, L and T on Texas toast slathered with homemade mayonnaise (again, a nice touch); and the Rock Island Chicken ($9), a thin, marinated and grilled breast filet served with the sweet-spicy combo of pineapple and pepper jack cheese. Next time, we’ll get the Southern Chicken ($8), which Satchemo’s brines in house and then coats in “homemade crunchy breading,” which might be the same corn flake treatment as the chicken fries.

Do note the menu advises that adding fries or chips (which, rather oddly, are fried wonton wrappers) will cost you $2. We also were advised that a few entree-size salads are coming soon, which should broaden the menu’s appeal.

Satchemo’s features a full bar. Signs touting its namesake drink convinced us, and the mason jar full of rum punch was refreshing. It looks a lot like the famed Play-D-Doh at Cajun’s Wharf but didn’t deliver the same kick. For $12 it should. There are two enticing drink specials: $1 Bloody Marys from noon until 2 p.m. on Sunday (also tasty but not much kick) and 75-cent Pabst Blue Ribbons after 4 p.m. on Thursday.

We applaud Satchemo’s for ratcheting up the standards for its bar food.

We just hope the word spreads.

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The scallops are especially nice. 1620 Market St. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-221-1620. D Mon.-Sat. ADAMS CATFISH & CATERING Catering company with carry-out restaurant in Little Rock and carry-out trailers in Russellville and Perryville. 215 N. Cross St. All CC. $-$$.

501-374-4265. LD Tue.-Fri. ALL ABOARD RESTAURANT & GRILL Burgers, catfish, chicken tenders and such in this train-themed restaurant, where an elaborately engineered mini-locomotive delivers patrons’ meals. 6813 Cantrell Road.

No alcohol. 501-975-7401. LD daily.

ALLEY OOPS The restaurant at Creekwood Plaza (near the Kanis-Bowman intersection) is a neighborhood feedbag for major medical institutions with the likes of plate lunches, burgers and homemade desserts.

Remarkable chess pie. 11900 Kanis Road. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-221-9400. LD Mon.-Sat. ASHER DAIRY BAR An old-line dairy bar that serves up made-to-order burgers, foot-long “Royal” hotdogs and old-fashioned shakes and malts. 7105 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, No CC, CC. $-$$. 501-562-1085. BLD Mon.-Sat., D Fri.-Sat. ATHLETIC CLUB What could be mundane fare gets delightful twists and embellishments inside Embassy Suites. 11301 Financial Centre Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-312-9000.

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B-SIDE The little breakfast place in the former party room of Lilly’s DimSum Then Some turns tradition on its ear, offering French toast wrapped in bacon on a stick, a must-have dish called “biscuit mountain” and beignets with lemon curd. 11121 Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-716-2700. B-BR Sat.-Sun. BAR LOUIE Mammoth portions of very decent bar/bistro fare with an amazingly varied menu that should satisfy every taste. Some excellent drink deals abound, too. 11525 Cantrell Road, Suite 924. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-2280444. LD daily.

BIG WHISKEY’S AMERICAN BAR AND GRILL A modern grill pub in the River Market District with all the bells and whistles — 30 flat-screen TVs, whiskey on tap, plus boneless wings, burgers, steaks, soups and salads. 225 E. Markham St. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-3242449. LD daily.

BOBBY’S COUNTRY COOKIN’ One of the better plate lunch spots in the area, with some of the best fried chicken and pot roast around, a changing daily casserole and wonderful homemade pies. 301 .N. Shackleford Road, Suite E1. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2249500. L Mon.-Fri. BOGIE’S BAR AND GRILL The former Bennigan’s retains a similar theme: a menu filled with burgers, salads and giant desserts, plus a few steak, fish and chicken main courses.

There are big-screen TVs for sports fans and lots to drink, more reason to return than the food. 120 W. Pershing Blvd. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-812-0019. D daily.

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hearsay ➥ THE GOOD EARTH GARDEN CENTER’S next Make and Take class will be about terrarium gardens. Learn how to make and care for a terrarium garden at the class, scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 1. Call 501-868-4666 to register; space is limited to 20.

The registration fee is $75 and is required at time of registration, and the fee covers material costs.

Also on the schedule is the Good Earth’s fourth annual Pooches and Pumpkins event, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 18. Everyone is welcome, including your furry pets. There will be many fall themed areas for family photo taking, a pet costume contest, free hot dogs, popcorn, beverages, balloons, face painting, live music, a fainting goat and much more.

Local rescue groups will be there, so if you don’t have a pooch, you can meet one there. Also, kids in costume get a free small pumpkin. ➥ CANTRELL GALLERY is hosting a fall trunk show for Regalia Handmade Clothing from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 8. There will be a wine and cheese preview party at the gallery from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 7. Bring your friends, see the new line, try on some clothes and visit with Mark Hughes, owner/designer of Regalia Handmade Clothing, which is based in Eureka Springs. For more information about the show, call the gallery at 501-224-1335. ➥ Don’t forget about the ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER CONTEMPORARIES’ second annual Fountain Fest, an outdoor party around the Carrie Remmel Dickinson fountain, scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 16. Funds raised will go toward purchasing artwork and to fund Contemporaries projects that support the AAC. Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 at the door. For more information, visit WWW. ARKARTS.COM/EVENTS/ FOUNTAIN-FEST. ➥ Say happy birthday to two of our favorite stores: TULIPS turned 12 and BOX TURTLE turned 14 recently. Show your love by stopping by and purchasing some great merchandise.

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BOOKENDS CAFE A great spot to enjoy lunch with friends or a casual cup of coffee and a favorite book. Serving coffee and pastries early and sandwiches, soups and salads available after 11 a.m. Cox Creative Center. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501- 918-3091. BL Mon.-Sat. THE BOX Cheeseburgers and french fries are greasy and wonderful and not like their fastfood cousins. 1023 W. Seventh St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-8735. L Mon.-Fri. BUFFALO GRILL A great crispy-off-the-griddle cheeseburger and hand-cut fries star at this family-friendly stop. 1611 Rebsamen Park Road.

Full bar, CC. $$. 501-296-9535. LD daily.

CAFE 201 The hotel restaurant in the Crowne Plaza serves up a nice lunch buffet. 201 S. Shackleford Road. Full bar, All CC. $$. 501-2233000. BLD Mon.-Sat., BR Sun. CATFISH CITY AND BBQ GRILL Basic fried fish and sides, including green tomato pickles, and now with tasty ribs and sandwiches in beef, pork and sausage. 1817 S. University Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-7224. LD Tue.-Sat. CHEERS IN THE HEIGHTS Good burgers and sandwiches, vegetarian offerings and salads at lunch, and fish specials and good

steaks in the evening. 2010 N. Van Buren.

Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-5937. LD Mon.-Sat. 1901 Club Manor Drive. Maumelle.

Full bar, All CC. 501-851-6200. LD daily, BR Sun. CHICKEN KING Arguably Central Arkansas’s best wings. 5213 W 65th St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-5573. LD Mon.-Sat. CHICKEN WANG & CAFE Regular, barbecue, spicy, lemon, garlic pepper, honey mustard and Buffalo wings. Open late. 8320 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-1303. LD Mon.-Sat. COLD STONE CREAMERY This national chain takes a base flavor (everything from Sweet Cream to Chocolate Cake Batter) and adds your choice of ingredients or a combination of ingredients it calls a Creation. Cold Stone also serves up a variety of ice cream cakes and cupcakes. 12800 Chenal Parkway.

No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-225-7000. LD daily.

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DAVE AND RAY’S DOWNTOWN DINER Breakfast buffet daily featuring biscuits and gravy, home fries, sausage and made-to-order omelets. Lunch buffet with four choices of meats and eight veggies. 824 W. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. $. 501-372-8816. BL Mon.-Fri. DAVID’S BURGERS Serious hamburgers, steak salads, homemade custard. 101 S. Bowman Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-227-8333. LD Mon.-Sat. 1100 Highway 65 N. Conway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

(501) 327-3333 4000 McCain Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-353-0387. LD Mon.-Sat. E’S BISTRO Despite the name, think tearoom rather than bistro — there’s no wine, for one thing, and there is tea. But there’s nothing tearoomy about the portions here. Try the heaping grilled salmon BLT on a buttery croissant. 3812 JFK Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $$. 501-771-6900. L Tue.-Sun., D Thu.-Sat. FLIGHT DECK A not-your-typical daily lunch special highlights this spot, which also features inventive sandwiches, salads and a popular burger. Central Flying Service at Adams Field.

Beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-975-9315. BL Mon.-Sat. HILLCREST ARTISAN MEATS A fancy charcuterie and butcher shop with excellent daily soup and sandwich specials. Limited seating is available. 2807 Kavanaugh Blvd., Suite B. No alcohol, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-671-6328. L Mon.-Sat. THE HOP DINER The downtown incarnation of the old dairy bar, with excellent burgers, onion rings, shakes, daily specials and breakfast. 201 E. Markham. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-2440975.

JASON’S DELI A huge selection of sandwiches (wraps, subs, po’ boys and pitas), salads and spuds, as well as red beans and rice and chicken pot pie. Plus a large selection of heart healthy and light dishes. 301 N. Shackleford Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-954-8700. BLD daily.

JIMMY JOHN’S GOURMET SANDWICHES Illinois-based sandwich chain that doesn’t skimp on what’s between the buns. 4120 E. McCain Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-9459500. LD daily. 700 S. Broadway St. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-1600. LD daily.

KITCHEN EXPRESS Delicious “meat and three” restaurant offering big servings of homemade soul food. Maybe Little Rock’s best fried chicken.

4600 Asher Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$.

501-666-3500. BLD Mon.-Sat., LD Sun. LASSIS INN One of the state’s oldest restaurants still in the same location and one of the best for catfish and buffalo fish. 518 E. 27th St. Beer and wine, All CC. $$. 501-372-8714. LD Tue.-Sat. MADDIE’S PLACE Owner/chef Brian Deloney has built quite a thriving business with a pretty simple formula – making almost everything from scratch and matching hefty portions with reasonable prices in a fun, upbeat atmosphere.

Maddie’s offers a stellar selection of draft beers and a larger, better wine list than you might expect. 1615 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$. 501-660-4040. LD Tue.-Sat. MARIE’S MILFORD TRACK II Healthy and tasty are the key words at this deli/grill, featuring hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, salads and killer desserts. 9813 W. Markham St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$. 501-225-4500. BL Mon.-Sat. MASON’S DELI AND GRILL Heaven for those who believe everything is better with sauerkraut on top. The Bavarian Reuben, a traditional Reuben made with Boar’s Head corned beef, spicy mustard, sauerkraut, Muenster cheese and marble rye, is among the best we’ve had

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Middle-America comfort-style entrees make up other meals, from pot roast to pasta dishes.

11725 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$.

501-221-3883. BLD daily, BR Sun. MORNINGSIDE BAGELS Tasty New York-style boiled bagels, made daily. 10848 Maumelle Blvd. NLR. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-7536960. BL daily.

NEWK’S EXPRESS CAFE Gourmet sandwiches, salads and pizzas. 4317 Warden Road. NLR. Beer, All CC. $-$$. 501-753-8559. LD daily.

ORANGE LEAF YOGURT Upscale self-serve national yogurt chain. 11525 Cantrell Road. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-227-4522. LD daily.

RED MANGO National yogurt and smoothie chain whose appeal lies in adjectives like “allnatural,” “non-fat,” “gluten-free” and “probiotic.” 5621 Kavanaugh Blvd. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-663-2500. LD daily.

SADDLE CREEK WOODFIRED GRILL Upscale chain dining in Lakewood, with a menu full of appetizers, burgers, chicken, fish and other fare.

It’s the smoke-kissed steaks, however, that make it a winner — even in Little Rock’s beef-heavy restaurant market. 2703 Lakewood Village. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-812-0883.

SIMPLY NAJIYYAH’S FISHBOAT & MORE Good catfish and corn fritters. 1717 Wright Ave. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-562-3474. LD Tue.-Sat. SLICK’S SANDWICH SHOP & DELI Meatand-two plate lunches in state office building. 101 E. Capitol Ave. No alcohol. 501-375-3420. BL Mon.-Fri.

SPECTATORS GRILL AND PUB Burgers, soups, salads and other beer food, plus live music on weekends. 1012 W. 34th St. NLR. Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-791-0990. LD Mon.-Sat. SPORTS PAGE One of the largest, juiciest, most flavorful burgers in town. Grilled turkey and hot cheese on sourdough gets praise, too. Now with lunch specials. 414 Louisiana St. Beer and wine, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-9316. LD Mon.-Fri. SUFFICIENT GROUNDS Great coffee, good bagels and pastries, and a limited lunch menu.

124 W. Capitol. No alcohol, CC. $. 501-3721009. BL Mon.-Fri. 425 W. Capitol. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 501-372-4594. BL Mon.-Fri. SUGIE’S Catfish and all the trimmings. 4729 Baseline Road. No alcohol, All CC. $. 501-5700414. LD daily.

T.G.I. FRIDAY’S This national chain was on the verge of stale before a redo not long ago, and the update has done wonders for the food as well as the surroundings. The lunch combos are a great deal, and the steaks aren’t bad. It’s designed for the whole family, and succeeds.

Appetizers and desserts are always good. 2820 Lakewood Village Drive, NLR. Full bar, All CC. $$-$$$. 501-758-2277. LD daily.

THE TAVERN SPORTS GRILL Burgers, barbecue and more. 17815 Chenal Parkway.

Full bar, All CC. $-$$. 501-830-2100. LD daily.

TROPICAL SMOOTHIE CAFE Smoothies, sandwiches and salads in an art deco former YMCA. 524 Broadway. No alcohol, All CC. $-$$. 246-3145. BLD Mon.-Fri. (closes at 6 p.m.) 10221 N. Rodney Parham Road. No alcohol, All CC. $$.

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