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The Powerful People and charters Out of the hundreds of words the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette used Sunday, Sept. 20 and the following Monday opining on education, one thing was correct.

The paper wrote, “Rather than re-create the neighborhood-based schools that had recapitulated generations of poverty, the city created a network of public charter schools.” Even in this sentence, one has to focus on the truth (neighborhood schools can be destructive), and not the blatant advertising for charter schools.

Pushing charters is the new parlance of the Powerful People (PP) along with maintaining their beloved private schools.

From safe havens, they delight in exposing the details typical of destructive destitution dominant in schools populated almost entirely of the poor.

Only a few private schools (mostly Catholic) can say they were around before being private was a way to avoid integration. Even those few schools that were not originally for avoidance now accept folks ducking public schools. It requires a lot of money to operate a school so you cannot blame them for taking new students knowing that doing so hurts public schools. Dollars usually trump (pun intended) integrity.

Charter schools are a new (cheaper) way to avoid rowdy public schools. However, what happens if all of our schools become charters? Would there be good charters and bad charters? Would they, in effect, become the new neighborhood schools?

Does the magic of charters overcome the effects of poverty? The DemocratGazette editorial made it sound like that was the case in New Orleans. However, the facts speak differently. The DemGaz mentioned one article that pointed out the problems in New Orleans, and then tore it apart, a typical ploy of the PP. If you search “new orleans charter schools” you can read as many (perhaps more) cons as pros.

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From the web In response to last week’s cover story, “Stranded”: So does it follow that in the absence of foster families DCFS fails to place at-risk, abused and neglected children who need to be in care?

Of course it does.

We are so infatuated with the fetus and do not protect children no longer in the uterus.

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PMM The solution is pretty easy: Increase the pay of DCFS workers. If the state did that it would suddenly have an influx of well qualified, caring individuals who would help sort out this whole mess. There’s very little incentive right now to stay working at DCFS. Make it more appealing for great folks to apply and actually STAY. But we all know that politicians talk a good game about fixing DCFS when articles like this come out or when Justin Harris get caught being evil but nothing ever changes sadly.

Christine Robertson

From the time we initially were asked about being foster parents, it took about 16 months to finally go through classes, paperwork, home studies, etc. Everyone involved seemed overworked. You could go for months without hearing anything and then suddenly you had to be available the next day for a house check — no warning till the last minute. Once you do get to have foster kids, the minute one is about to leave, you get tons of calls for taking another child. The system needs so very many more employees to get homes open efficiently and to follow kids in the system.

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Great investigation, guys. Seems like a lot of he said she said, nonsupported allegations from the aggrieved, and the turning of a blind’s eye. For example, the garage incident seems like a lot worse than just being less than perfect parents.

Slithey Tove I’m not sure “the garage incident seems like a lot worse than just being less than perfect parents.”

Of course a lot depends on the weather and many other variables, but have you ever let your kids camp in the back yard for example?

The nonsupported allegations? DHS employees and others in a similar situation aren’t free to comment, pro or con, to such situations.

Doigotta In response to “Trump, Carson top new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Huckawho?” a Sept. 27 Arkansas Blog post: Poor, poor Huck. All dressed up and so few places to so places to go.

He should make gobs of money on the crazy religion tour. I believed it all along (granted, not much of a revelation) that this was all about padding his wallet and less about saving the country.

Mission accomplished!

We should be proud of the Huckster and his moves as one of the finest carpetbaggers we’ve ever seen. yapperjohn What does it say when over half of those polled would vote for one of the none-of-the-above candidates? That not even Republicans can stand Republicans?

DancesWithLizards My less affluent Republican friends seem to be all eat up with Donald Trump.

The reason appears to be “Trumps Kick Ass of anyone not white or with a funny name” attitude.

So Huck might get more than 578 supporters if he’d come out totally Chuck Norris-Terminator-whatever’s worse than the Terminator — morphing into a Jeffery Dahmer, eater of all minorities, maybe.

Huck should kill a minority or a gay and walk around holding up the blood dripping head. Or find a day care filled with Mexican kids and burn it down, kids and all. Man, he’s got to do something quick if he wants to keep sucking up the money.

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EYE ON ARKANSAS

WEEK THAT WAS

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to dream of full rights for all their brothers and sisters as Martin Luther King sought to do, when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed as Dorothy Day did by her tireless work, the fruit of a faith which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contemplative style of Thomas Merton.”

— Pope Francis, calling for social, economic and environmental justice in his historic address to Congress last week.

Bye-bye Boehner On Friday, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced he’d be resigning his position (and his congressional seat) in a month’s time.

Brought down in large part by restive conservative members within his own caucus, Boehner couldn’t find a way to govern the nation without enraging the uncompromising hard-right elements of the GOP base. Good luck on finding anyone who can.

More tilting at windmills Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced last week that she’d ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court decisions on a 2013 Arkansas abortion law. The statute, which bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy when a fetal heartbeat is detected, was found unconstitutional by a federal district judge. The decision was then 6

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upheld by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which was no surprise. It would require a reversal of decades of precedent to allow a state to prohibit abortions months before viability of the fetus, the standard established in Roe v. Wade. But Rutledge is insistent on wasting more time and money with a futile appeal to the nation’s high court.

Driving Dixie down Last week, the Little Rock Planning Commission voted unanimously to change the name of Confederate Boulevard to Springer Boulevard along the full length of the road, which runs between Roosevelt Road and I-440 on the southeast side of town. It’s a decision welcomed by most residents of the neighborhood, including Gloria Springer — the street is named for her grandfather, Horace, who was a pillar of the AfricanAmerican community in the Granite Mountain and Sweet Home areas many decades ago. Springer told the Planning Commission that the name change means something “for my grandchildren and grandchildren to come. It’s like handing a baton to the next generation.”

Not everyone feels that way. Jay Clark, one of two men who spoke against the name change, decried the work of “leftists, blacks and politician” in attacking “a symbol of Southern heritage.” Clark’s comments fairly summed up the reason why it’s long past time to ditch Confederate symbols in public places: “The Southern states left the union lawfully. … They fought with honor, dignity and courage. ... It’s disgusting that [people] want to sully the names of these good people, true heroes.” He did not mention their cause: to keep black human beings enslaved as property.

The City Board of Directors will take final action on the name change.

This Supreme Court brought to you by big business A fundraiser on Monday illustrated the perils of electing judges.

Circuit Judge Shawn Womack, a for-

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GOOD EXPOSURE: Lera Lynn of Athens, Ga., who provides a Greek Chorus-like mournful background to season 2 of HBO’s “True Detective” showed off a vast range of countryinfluenced music in an appearance at South on Main last Thursday night.

mer Republican state senator from Mountain Home, is running for an open seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2016 and is expected to be a reliable vote on the judiciary (as he was in the Senate) for the busi-

ness lobby. Might that be why three business PACs — including that of the State Chamber of Commerce — held a reception to raise money for his campaign in Little Rock, with a suggested contribution of $500 a head?

The thing is, the state’s ethics rules say judges aren’t supposed to raise money for themselves for their races. Fundraising is to be done by committees that don’t communicate with the candidate about who gives money — the logic being that such knowledge might unduly influence their activities on the bench. So, don’t worry, voters: We’re certain candidate Shawn Womack remains blissfully unaware that the Chamber’s PAC is actively raising money for his campaign.

OPINION

Huckawho? Ex-gov is yesterday’s flavor

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iven the wild gyrations of the Republican presidential nominating race, I write these words knowing that a future meal of them remains possible, but nonetheless: Mike Huckabee is toast.

A fresh-face misread as a genial, slightly moderate type by national media in 2008, Huckabee won the Iowa caucus and several primary states while finishing second to John McCain. He was something of a darling on national TV shows, including “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show.” The exposure helped launch a lucrative media career on radio, Fox News and the public speaking circuit (primarily to anti-abortion groups) that has made him a multimillionaire.

With a Fox News base and generally favorable media reviews from 2008, Huckabee entered the 2016 race with some reason to think he could be among the pack of early frontrunners. But, in Real Clear Politics’ running average of polling, Huckabee is mired in ninth place,

with 3.2 percent support. At the top, with a cumulative 52 percentage points of support, are outsiders MAX BRANTLEY Donald Trump, maxbrantley@arktimes.com Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina.

The evangelical base that propelled Huckabee in 2008 has more choices this year. Huckabee got 28 percent of the straw vote at the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit in 2007, good for second place. This year, he got only 14 percent, behind Sen. Ted Cruz and Carson.

The preference for fresh faces and outsiders is clearly bad news for Mike Huckabee and, on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton.

Huckabee and others hope the Trump balloon will pop. The mad-as-hell 25 percent that support him have to go somewhere. Huckabee has made his bid by

First Nixon, then Boehner

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It was easier for ike Richard Nixon’s resignation speech 41 years earlier, John most people to feel Boehner’s sudden valedictory more sympathy from Congress may be said to be the old for Boehner than politician’s finest moment. almost anyone had Unlike Nixon’s, that is not saying very for Nixon because ERNEST much.

Boehner’s dismal DUMAS While Sen. Barry Goldwater, the father failings in four-andof modern conservatism, had to drift over a-half years as speaker of the House of from the Hill to deliver the news to Presi- Representatives were not altogether of dent Nixon that his last friend in Congress his own making and none of them owing had deserted him, Boehner arrived all by to base motives. Many will make the case himself at the conclusion that the last ves- that Boehner’s one notable achievement tige of leadership had escaped him and — avoiding a collapse of the republic over that he had to go for his own good if not his party’s maniacal effort to destroy the presidency of Barack Obama — might not the country’s.

Even Nixon’s worst critics admitted have been possible under the leadership of that nothing he had done had become him anyone else in the upper ranks of House so much as the way he took leave of pub- Republicans. lic office, in disgrace only 19 months after I may make too much of John Boehner’s winning one of the greatest landslides in resignation by comparing the old bar history. He resigned with humility, grace sweeper’s quitting to Nixon’s resignaand even slight if grudging contrition for tion, which was one of the pivotal events the shame he had earned for the govern- in U.S. history. But the circumstances of ment in Watergate.

Nixon’s resignation had much in common

increasingly shrill appeals to homophobia and Islamophobia. His problem is that most Republicans are flying the same banners. But Huckabee has seemed particularly desperate. His staff physically elbowed Cruz out of the picture at a Huckabee-staged rally for Kim Davis, the law-defying Kentucky county clerk.

Huckabee has been stridently anti-gay since his 1992 race for U.S. Senate (when he talked of quarantines for AIDS sufferers). But he hit a new low by going on the offensive against Frito-Lay for its rainbow-colored Doritos. The company is supporting the noble “It Gets Better” campaign aimed at helping young people marginalized by their sexuality. It’s a mortal sin to Huckabee because “It Gets Better” is the brainchild of Dan Savage, a nationally syndicated sex columnist who’s shot acid barbs at Huckabee.

Huckabee has also taken to telling tall tales. He told the Values Voters that his government corruption hotline brought down a gaggle of Clintonite legislators.

His hotline never produced a viable tip.

The legislators actually were caught in a scam exposed by the Arkansas Times and prosecuted by Democratic Prosecutor Larry Jegley and Clinton’s U.S. attorney appointee, Paula Casey.

As desperate and forlorn as Hucka-

bee’s campaign appears — see a recent appearance with has-been Chuck Norris — he still enjoys support from Republicans in Arkansas. In a recent release, Huckabee announced that every major officeholder backed him. Notable exceptions were three direct, unvarnished and strong politicians — Auditor Andrea Lea, Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Steve Womack. For others less direct, it’s easy to buy time in an uncertain race by declaring support for an ex-native son. Huckabee listed only 19 of 86 Republican legislators on his team. They are generally hardcore tea partyers outside the leadership circle or share Huckabee’s pet prejudices (see state Sen. Jason Rapert).

Hutchinson did no favor for Huckabee in moving up our presidential primary to March 1, with other Southern states. Even if Huckabee does win the state (and recent polling showed Trump running well here, too) it won’t count for much, because delegates in the early primary states will be awarded in proportion to vote. Later in the primary season, when Arkansas has generally voted, a 25 percent vote, if the highest percentage, would be good enough to take ALL delegates to the national nominating convention. As of today, that could make a difference.

with Boehner’s: a country deeply divided, an engulfing suspicion, even hatred, in Washington, and despair over the government’s inability to get anything done — in Nixon’s case despite near unanimity by the president and opposition leaders on a national health insurance plan much like what would become Obamacare in 2010.

Nixon said he was resigning to end the nation’s nightmare and begin its healing, and Boehner said he quit to save the House of Representatives, the institution he loved.

Watergate and Nixon’s resignation obscured the breathtaking accomplishments of the most devious occupant of the White House ever: the groundbreaking SALT treaty for nuclear-arms reduction with the hated and untrustworthy Russians, the opening to communist China, the massive airlift that saved Israel in the Yom Kippur War, undertaken by Nixon over the objections of all his advisers, including Henry Kissinger, and in spite of Nixon’s own virulent anti-Semitism.

Boehner’s one chance for historic achievement, immigration reform, a giant goal of the business and Bush wing of the Republican Party, he blew by joining the blackmail branch of his party and blocking the bipartisan immigration bill negotiated by his counterpart in the Senate, Mitch McConnell. By Dec. 11, the next dooms-

day date, McConnell will have replaced Boehner as Public Enemy No. 2. You know who No. 1 is.

What was most compelling about Boehner’s leavetaking — besides the timing, hours after he shed tears of joy during Pope Francis’ homily to Congress, an event the speaker had arranged — was his laying much of the blame for his own and the nation’s troubles at the feet of his tormentors in the House, the group of 30 or 40 congressmen sometimes called the tea party caucus. They wanted to take the nation to the precipice, even to default on the nation’s bills for the first time in history, to bring the president of the United States and the other party to their knees.

Boehner always joined them, calling for scores and scores of votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, although every one of them was missing any substitute for the law that now insures close to 8 million Americans, some 300,000 in Arkansas.

Boehner saw to it that the House got to vote on budgets that would begin to unravel Medicare, sharply curtail food assistance to the poor and that would stop payments to Planned Parenthood, one of the medical groups that provide gynecological health services to poor women.

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othing so became U.S. Rep. John Boehner’s tenure as speaker of the House as his manner of leaving it. Subjectively speaking, he has never appeared to believe very much of the nonsense his position required him to utter. An old school politician who literally grew up working in the family bar, his conservatism is of the traditional Midwestern kind — more Bob Dole, say, than Ted Cruz.

More process and negotiation, that is, than ideological certitude and visionary schemes to purge the nation of sin.

To be blunt about it, very few Roman Catholics, and none who grew up in a bar, could ever believe such a thing possible. Unafraid to let his emotions show as Pope Francis urged lawmakers to compromise for the common good, he may in that moment have recognized his own complete failure.

On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Boehner expressed his frustration in theological terms. Asked if the fundamentalistdominated tea party faction that views him as a sellout to President Obama was unrealistic, he almost shouted.

“Absolutely they’re unrealistic!” he said. “But the Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there spreading noise about how much can get done. I mean, this whole idea that we were going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013, this plan never had chance.

“But over the course of the August recess in 2013, and the course of September,” Boehner added, “a lot of my Republican colleagues who knew it was a fool’s errand, really they were getting all this pressure from home to do this.

And so we have got groups here in town, members of the House and Senate here in town, who whip people into a frenzy believing they can accomplish things that they … KNOW are never going to happen.”

No, and shutting the government down in 2015 to get rid of Planned Parenthood has even less chance of accomplishing anything other than pointless melodrama, TV face time for the aforementioned Sen. Cruz, and the near-certain election of a Democratic president.

The late Robert F. Kennedy once told a friend of mine that no particular genius was required to succeed in politics, but you do have to be able to count. It’s

because Boehner understands that, yet seemingly lacked the intestinal fortitude to abandon the GENE so-called “HastLYONS ert Rule” that his speakership came to such a sad end.

What with Hastert nearing an ignominious denouement of his own — the former speaker’s lawyers are reportedly negotiating a guilty plea involving hush money paid to a young man he’d sexually molested as a high school coach — you’d think Republicans would want to avoid the phrase, if not the practice.

Refusing to let the House to vote on any bill not supported by a majority of Republicans not only placed party above country, it also permitted tea party hotheads to paralyze the government. In consequence, the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin points out, a 2013 immigration reform bill favored by GOP leadership that passed 62-38 in the Senate never came to a vote in the House.

Supported by such Republican luminaries as Sens. John McCain and Marco Rubio, the bill would clearly have passed had Boehner allowed a vote — good for the nation, good for the Republican Party. Alas, to keep his job, Boehner caved to tea party nativists. In consequence, Toobin writes, “he suffered the fate of all those who give in to bullies; he was bullied some more.”

This year it was the highway bill, another popular, badly needed, jobintensive piece of legislation also opposed by the tea party. The tyranny of the minority, you might call it. If they had their way, we’d all have to buy tractors and bush-hog our own roads.

Instead, Boehner permitted the innumerate faction something like 60 votes to repeal Obamacare — each as futile and pointless as the last and the very definition of “things they know are never going to happen.”

Another consequence of Boehner’s failure, it should be said, is the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, the blowhard billionaire who appears to have convinced millions of voters who failed to master eighth-grade civics that he can solve the nation’s toughest problems by yelling at them.

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et’s dispense with the torturous weekly reliving of hell this week, OK? I for one don’t think the garish details of another fourth-quarter collapse make for delicious column material. It was gut-wrenching, nasty, horrifying, predictable, etc.

After the Hogs’ 28-21 overtime collapse in Arlington against Texas A&M, we should instead develop a first-trimester diagnosis for 2015, because after three consecutive losses in a season that this columnist stupidly predicted would end with that many defeats, there’s an unexpected urgency here.

What needs to be fixed, and what actually is working, demand that assessment.

Thesis 1: Brandon Allen is not the problem. I’ve been an ardent defender of the embattled senior quarterback. It is not easy to maintain that posture … unless the Fayetteville product averages just shy of 300 passing yards and posts a robust 70 percent completion rate after the first quartet of games. Does Allen bear the blame for a few bad throws, untimely gaffes and perhaps even a bit of a dispassionate approach to the game? Sure. The kid is batting about .400 for his career, much worse in conference, but he’s also steadily improved and managed to post stellar numbers while his entire supporting cast crumbles around him.

Allen has put the Hogs in the position to win these games when they might normally be well out of contention by halftime, then carries himself in a dignified manner in those excruciating postgame interviews.

Thesis 2: Arkansas’s defense is getting better, but it’s incremental this time around, and still suffers from a paucity of leadership.

The missed tackles and utter confusion that reigned in the Texas Tech debacle steadily dissipated Saturday in a half-hostile environment, but by the time that dreaded last 15 minutes came around, it was evident Dan Enos was going to call any and all plays he could to keep the same unit off the field. There was a clear message sent: Run this clock out in the most agonizingly slow fashion possible, so those softies on the other side don’t come out here and torch the whole works. And guess what? The Arkansas offense turned stupidly conservative, a la Jim Chaney, and the defense got exposed because the eight-point lead was every bit as tenuous as every other one-possession lead the Hogs have crafted and lost the past three seasons.

Thesis 3: Drew Morgan’s coming-out party has season-saving potential. It’s no secret that the Greenwood product is surehanded, quick and durable. Therefore, it 10

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defies all common sense and logic for him to have waited this long to get the opportunities he received Saturday, BEAU WILCOX when he caught eight balls for a career-high 155 yards and one touchdown.

Nonetheless, Allen developed an obvious rhythm and cohesion with a receiver for the first time since, well, probably high school. If this team has to rely on yards after the catch for big passing plays, Morgan has made the authoritative declaration that Hunter Henry simply refuses to make: He’s open, trustworthy, tough and speedy enough to create separation. And now he’ll get an opportunity to show that against a Tennessee defense that has mirrored the Razorbacks’ penchant for late-game wilting.

Thesis 4: Arkansas cannot get out of its own way. The penalties on Saturday were about 70 percent stupid, and 30 percent nonexistent. Regardless of whether the team is flagged five times or 15, though, the majority of the targeted offenses are simply too inexcusable to bear for a program that ostensibly is built on a premise of game-day steadiness. And yet again, it’s an offensive line, so ballyhooed for its dimensions, that draws much of the attention. The blocking was greatly improved against the Aggies, but it went for naught because the zealousness in the trenches translated into one or two too many stray grabs or flinches.

Thesis 5: Tennessee is the best possible opponent for the Hogs, and at the best possible time. That is said with full knowledge that Arkansas has not won at Neyland Stadium since a fluky 1992 upset of the Vols, and that subsequent appearances there have ranged from no-shows (2000 and 2007) to outright crotch-shots (1998 and 2002 need no reintroduction). This Volunteer team was the East’s mirror image of the Hogs in the preseason but has been anchored by their expectations, and completely unable to extract wins from a relatively forgiving early schedule. Yes, they had to play Oklahoma rather than Toledo, but it’s hard to argue that at this juncture, Arkansas has been a marginally better .250 team than Tennessee’s 2-2, even in view of that. Butch Jones is embattled, frustrated and seemingly lost, and his charges have accordingly faltered against the Sooners and did so at Gainesville with a far-less-potent Gators offense on the field as contrasted with the A&M group the Hogs tussled with.

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The falling boy

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he Observer wrote some weeks back about our trip to the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff, a gem of a spot with a large collection of vintage rolling stock that is all open so you can clamber up and over and through the old cars and cabooses and locomotives, sit in the driver’s seats, and pretend you’re Casey Jones. If you’re a train buff or have a kid who is, get thyself to Pine Bluff. That’s an order.

One thing we neglected to add to that piece was something that, in hindsight, says quite a bit about the way any parent who is worth a damn never stops worrying about his or her child.

The Observer has long been a worrywart father, not necessarily a hoverer, but only because we have stopped from being within arm’s reach of that boy since the day he was born. One of the only good pieces of advice we ever got on the subject of being a parent came from our own dear, departed Pa. Here it is: Let them fall if you can stand it.

That’s right, helicopter Moms and Dads: Let them fall. Right down, into the very dirt, even if they scrape an elbow or knee. Not only does it show your child that his or her body isn’t made of glass, it allows them to see that they can, all by their lonesome, find the strength to pick themselves back up again. That’s a skill that some people never quite get the hang of, but one which everybody in the world will need sooner or later.

The Observer has tried to follow that advice, but we struggle. So, when Junior was climbing the steel ladder to the cab on one of the locomotives at the Railroad Museum last month, The Observer found himself standing behind our mannish boy, holding up our hands so we could catch him if he slipped.

Junior is, you understand, 6-foot-3, and weighs about as much as a freshly stocked Coke machine. If he’d fallen, we’re pretty sure he would have ruptured his Old Man’s spleen on the way down. But I damn sure would have tried to catch him.

Once you have a child, it never leaves you, friends. The old worry. The old care.

Junior’s father has let him fall, and resisted

the urge to rush in and right him. But the only thing Yours Truly is sure of is that we’ll be barely suppressing the urge to catch our falling boy until the day he lays his dear old Pa in the clay.

SPEAKING OF LONG-TERM planning: The Observer and family are getting out to Washington, D.C., in a couple of weeks, the result of The Observer’s discovering that air travel isn’t as terrible as we remember it and that if we’re willing to drive the relatively short hop to Dallas, one can get dirt-cheap airfares that make a long weekend in New York, Boston, D.C. or even San Francisco possible, even on a meager budget. So, we’re leaving on a jet plane.

The Observer has been to D.C. before, as you might remember. We went out there to see the second inauguration of Barack Obama, on a bus, a trip that lives in our family lore as one of the most hellish experiences of The Observer’s long life. We won’t recount it here, but suffice it to say that Junior still pleads with us to tell it start to finish from time to time, so he can cackle at our woe.

Thanks to a series of misadventures, The Observer — who has dreamed of visiting the museums of the Smithsonian Institution since he was a little boy — didn’t get to see a thing in D.C. other than the inauguration. As close as we got was a trip to the gift shop of the Museum of Natural History, where we bought a pewter shot glass bearing the seal of the Smithsonian for our father’s grave. The Smithsonian, you see, had been his dream too. The folks we were with — Arkansas Times photog Brian Chilson and the Log Cabin Democrat’s Courtney Spradlin — surely thought Your Correspondent batshit crazy, weeping like a fool there among the T-shirts and stuffed dinosaurs, trying to pick out a knickknack.

We said then that we would return.

And so we will, if all goes well, in a few weeks. It’s probably not wise to count our chickens in this world where nothing is certain. But we find we can’t help it. We will walk those halls. We will marvel over treasures. And we will think of Dad, who was always there to catch us.

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The University of Arkansas is playing secrecy games again.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Arkansas Times for the list of those invited to the UA System and UA chancellor’s skyboxes at the first two home football games of the season in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, the Times was given an incomplete list. Said spokesman Laura Jacobs: “On the ‘Arkansas vs Texas Tech (Campaign Weekend)’ list, there are names redacted, pursuant to Ark. Code Ann § 25-19-105(b)(9)(A) competitive advantage.

I have also redacted computer access ID numbers, pursuant to Ark. Code Ann § 2519-105(b)(11). The redactions are apparent.”

Some 14 names were omitted.

Back we go to when the UA claimed — and won (lamentably) from Circuit Judge Chris Piazza — a competitive advantage exemption from releasing documents about the conditions of a gift it received from the Walton family. The Arkansas Times had sued for the information. We lost. We couldn’t afford the appeal. We got some comfort from the opinion of legal scholars, including future federal Judge Leon Holmes, that a public institution had no legal ground to claim a competitive disadvantage from releasing information about its money-raising activities. It’s an issue begging for resolution.

Now the UA is pretending again to be a private endeavor and using competition as a pretext to hide the public’s business — this time recipients of high-dollar football tickets.

Why the interest in skyboxes? Another intersection of business and politics. We got a tip recently that the UA had recently spent a significant sum to open a door between the two skyboxes. We were told further that the work was instigated by UA Trustee John Goodson, the wealthy lawyer whose wife, Courtney Goodson, is seeking to move from an associate justice seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court to chief justice. John Goodson, otherwise relegated to the smaller system box, wanted access for easier hobnobbing with the swells in the chancellor’s box. After all, someone with the bucks to give to the university might have some spare change for a political candidate. Indeed, the Goodsons were in the skyboxes for the first two games and her campaign organization worked the tailgate crowd those days.

Responses from the UA were interesting. Campus spokesperson Jacobs said no documents existed on the decision to open a doorway closed since, she estimated,

Rapert wary heartbeat rules not implemented Emails to Health Department, Medical Board demand proof.

with licensing staff to “make sure we have an effective plan in place to enforce compliance” with Act 301.

In August, Rapert emailed Brech

BY LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK and Kevin O’Dwyer, attorfederal judge stilled ney for the Medical Board, the heart of state that he was concerned the Sen. Jason Rapact was going unenforced. ert’s legislation in 2014 that (The Health Department would have made abortion licenses clinics and the Medillegal at 12 weeks gestaical Board licenses doctors.) tion (the so-called Human In an Aug. 25 email to Heartbeat Protection Act), Rapert, Brech cited Rapert’s ruling that the 12-week previous request for “ ‘10 limit was unconstitutional. copies of the written notice But Judge Susan Webber to a mother that informed Wright did not strike down her of the presence of a heartbeat and statistical language in the bill that requires pregnant women probability the baby would seeking an abortion to be make it to full term from SEN. RAPERT: Accused Medical Board of “dragging feet” on rules. informed in writing that a 2014,’ ” and that the names could be redacted, that the fetus has a heartbeat and provided the probability that the fetus Health Department did not have pos“We know for a will survive to term based on gestational session of the records. “You may not be fact that due to the age. aware that under Arkansas’s FOIA laws, Rapert, R-Conway, has since July medical records are specifically exempt Arkansas Medical from disclosure,” Brech wrote. been writing the state Health DepartBoard purposely ment and the state Medical Board The correspondence quoted in the dragging their feet, demanding proof that the heartbeat email was not included in the FOIA’d information is being provided to women materials.

Brech said it is possible he several thousand seeking an abortion. In the emails, Rapert was quoting a text message. abortions occurred Rapert quickly responded to Brech’s accuses the state Medical Board of “dragafter March 2014 Aug. 25 email: ging their feet” writing rules required by “My request of the Arkansas Health the act on heartbeat testing and thereby when Judge Wright causing thousands of abortions and asks Department over several months has issued her ruling that the Health Department provide him been for you to give me verification provupholding the copies of forms signed by women — their ing that Arkansas abortion providers are names redacted — seeking an abortion. complying with the informed consent informed consent There are only three abortion providprovisions of the Arkansas Heartbeat provisions .” ers in Arkansas, and only one of those Protection Act. Specifically I am con— Sen. Jason Rapert cerned they are not providing the written performs surgical abortions. Planned Parenthood, with clinics in Little Rock portion of the informed consent proviand Fayetteville, offers medicinal aborsions to mothers seeking an abortion. To decided to have an abortion or not, but tions. only the names of the providers. date, your office has failed to provide me The law only requires women to sign Emails provided under the state Freeany information to confirm that the law is being followed and you have failed to dom of Information Act include one on saying they’ve been provided information; it does not require the ultimate deciJuly 2 from Health Department Director offer actionable advice as to how our sion the woman makes after signing the Nate Smith to Rapert saying he’d spostate can audit the abortion providers form. Were Rapert to receive the inforken to staff attorney Robert Brech, chief to verify they are following the law. … I asked if you could simply obtain copies mation he requested, he would not be financial officer for the Health Departable to determine whether the women ment, about compliance and would meet of records and redact the names to verify

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Inquizator: Holt Condren Holt Condren is an explorer and entrepreneur based in Maumelle, the founder of Ink Custom Tees and the author of “Surf the Woods: The Ordinary Man’s Trail Map to the Extraordinary Life.” He’s also featured in a new documentary, “Finding Noah,” which follows a team of archeologists and theologians to Mount Ararat, in Turkey, on a search for Noah’s Ark. The film will premiere with a multicity one-night-only screening at 7 p.m. Oct. 8. In Central Arkansas, you can see the film at Breckenridge Village and Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock, Conway Cypress Point, and Central City 10 in Hot Springs.

How did you get involved in the search for Noah’s Ark? In 2007 I got drawn into the search after watching another documentary. Having been an adventurer and an outdoorsman, it sounded like a great thing to be a part of. I started learning about the search for the ark, learned who the players were, what was being done to document the scientific evidence. I found out there was a team trying to do scientific research on Mount Ararat, in Turkey, using groundpenetrating radar and satellite technology to look under the icecap. I started making phone calls until I found the man leading this particular expedition.

Mount Ararat is a real dangerous part of our world. It’s in northeast Turkey, the foothills going into Iran on the eastern side. A few hours south of Ararat is Syria, it’s really a dangerous area. Turkey had kept the mountain off limits to major expeditions, but in 2009 they allowed our team in. I had gotten involved in mountaineering, and the team needed someone with mountaineering skills to probe the crevasses and make sure the team was safe in the area, so that’s how I fit into it all.

How did the expedition go?

I’ve now summited Ararat 11 times, spent over 100 days on the mountain, once for 30 days at a time in subzero temperatures, freezing, thin air, without food. The film depicts this really well. The Kurdish Militia Forces, an organization the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization, was involved — we’ve had to deal with them every year. It was a combination of ordinary guys doing extraordinary things and this epic idea of a mountain taller than any mountain in the Lower 48. It’s been a blast.

Are you disappointed not to have found the ark?

Who says we haven’t?

I just figured I would have heard about it on the news or something.

I have to be careful about saying what we have or haven’t found, but I’m not disappointed with any part of it. It’s been a wonderful experience, and I think we’ve answered some questions. Not everyone on our team believes in the ark, it’s not just a team of Christians. We were taking a scientific approach.

What do you say to people who doubt the ark ever existed?

I guess I’d say it takes faith to believe one way or another. It takes faith, in my mind, to believe that it never existed, just like it takes faith to believe it does. My personal belief is that it did, and there is evidence to support the fact that there was a worldwide flood.

Just to play devil’s advocate: A lot of people interpret that story allegorically. There were millions of species, you know? How do you reconcile that? Doesn’t it seem kind of wild?

I don’t know if every species was on the ark or not. I don’t like to hear from Christians who naively go into it and say we shouldn’t even look for scientific evidence for biblical things. There’s been a lot of people over the years who said we shouldn’t worry about looking for it, we should just take that with a childlike faith that it was there. I think, no, let’s go out there and try to do it scientifically. I don’t have the evidence — I’m not holding a piece of wood in my hand. I don’t get into arguments about it.

But you can’t tell us whether or not you found it?

You have to come see the film. I think you’ll be surprised.

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INSIDER, CONT. 1998. (Eventually, she did find a work order.)

But she gave this explanation: “The chancellor’s skybox at Razorback stadium used to be one large box. At some point during the last stadium renovation, around 1998 or so, a wall was added to create two boxes. The addition of a door between the two was made at [UA System President] Don Bobbitt’s request. It was done to foster interaction between guests in the two suites as well as to reduce costs. In the past, the UA System and the chancellor’s offices each contracted for food for their guests and there always was some leftover.

It was felt that a single serving line would be more efficient leading to less waste.”

The work cost $6,412 and was done by the campus “facilities management team.”

Donald Bobbitt is a busy man. He really has time to worry about the catering bill at a handful of football games?

We put a question to his office and again asked about Goodson’s involvement.

A system spokesman said: “Dr. Bobbitt spoke with several people about his idea to connect the boxes, including Trustee Goodson, who is chairman of the Buildings and Grounds committee. The UA System receives tickets from UA annually and Board of Trustee members are given two tickets to the President’s or Chancellor’s box for each game. Dr. Bobbitt said the idea has been on his mind for a while, and it’s much more than the issue of cost savings on food. It’s also an issue of connectivity between the boxes and providing a more inclusive experience among Trustees, UA System and UA staff and guests.”

According to the redacted guest lists we received, Goodson had System tickets for the first game and chancellor’s box tickets for the Texas Tech game, when the secret big-money people were in attendance. He has not responded to emails asking about the skybox matter.

In case you wondered: The UA places the value of a skybox ticket at $350. They are actually worth much more in the private skyboxes, where significant contributions to the Razorback Foundation are required. The university, which employs lobbyists, may not legally give Razorback tickets to elected officials. Nor could a public official accept a gift worth more than $100 from anyone — except from a close relative such as a spouse. So Goodson’s bringing his campaigning wife into the skyboxes is likely legal under ethics law.

Is it a good idea in terms of appearances, since other candidates without wedding rings can’t gain the same access? Not that this compares to $50,000 free yacht vacations to Italy and a wealth of expensive gifts from a boyfriend such as Goodson has reported in the past. www.arktimes.com

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Warrior As a young man, Ted Holder helped Arkansas take some of its first steps toward LGBT equality.

LIFELONG: Struggling early in life with his sexuality, Ted Holder has gone on to be an icon in the struggle for gay rights and acceptance.

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To celebrate the arrival of marriage equality to Arkansas and the 2015 Little Rock Pride Parade and Festival on Oct. 11, Arkansas Times will publish in the remaining months of 2015 a series of profiles of some of the state’s LGBT pioneers. What follows is the first in that series, featuring Ted Holder and Jennifer Chilcoat (page 32).

While we won’t be able to talk with all of the brave people who helped, and are still helping, to make LGBT rights a reality in the state, our hope is that these profiles will honor all

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who stood up for equality in the days when that was a much riskier proposition. If you know someone you think we should profile, please drop us a line at lindseymillar@arktimes.com or at the Arkansas Times Facebook page.

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ne of these days, LGBT people will be fully equal and accepted, even in Arkansas.

Don’t ever think we won’t get there.

This nation, for all our faults and dalliances with hate, is a country that eventually listens to the better angels of her nature, usually sooner than you’d think.

Bigotry is a stubborn knot, especially when it is bound up with the thread of religion, as hatred of gay people often is. But time, love, understanding and the passing of those generations who’ve never known anything else can see even the most stubborn knot untied.

Someday, people will want to know the history of how this state came so far from where we once were. When that day comes, there will be people to thank. One of those hundreds is Ted Holder.

HATER: A homophobic protester outside Immanuel Holder, 62, is a lawyer who works Baptist Church in the 1990s, taken by Holder. for the Arkansas Securities Department. Thin and thoughtful, a dry wit, he lives with his husband, Joe van den movies or anything about gay people, there Heuvel, in Little Rock’s Quapaw Quarwas always something wrong with them.” ter, mostly retired from life as an advoAfter graduating from high school in cate for the cause of LGBT rights. As a 1971, Holder went on to Hendrix College younger man, Holder was one of the foundin Conway, where he struggled with his ers of the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task sexuality. “I tried to change it,” he said. “I thought it was a phase that I would grow Force, serving on the board and often as the group’s president until he stepped down in out of. I tried dating girls, even through the mid-1990s. The Task Force struggled college. That didn’t work out very well.” to be heard at times, but left an indelible After graduating from Hendrix, Holder footprint on the path to full equality for gay went on to law school in Little Rock. Soon people in Arkansas. The double focus of the after graduating with his J.D., Holder had a Task Force, Holder said, was to work for a decision to make about the direction his life more cohesive gay community all over the would take. Like a good lawyer, he started state while furthering the cause of accepby doing careful research. tance by winning hearts and minds in the “I started researching whether I should mainstream world wherever they could. go to a psychiatrist or if I should go to a gay bar, if I could find one,” he said. “As it hapBorn in West Memphis in 1953, Holder pened, a friend of mine invited me to some said he came to the realization that something was different about him early. “I parties. ... There was a gay couple there. That remember being attracted to guys before was the first one that I knew of that I had I understood what that meant,” he said. “I met. At the time, I was also reading all kinds remember people talking about girls, and of stuff. So that was pretty good, to have met I just didn’t get it. I remember one time, them. That was a way into the gay commusomebody said, ‘Look at that!” It was a nity. It was not open here, at all. I was around girl on a bicycle. I thought they were talk30 then, so that would have been like ’82 or ing about the bicycle. Looking back on it, I ’83, just as AIDS was busting out. I remember, really did understand. But you didn’t have a I told them, ‘So y’all are gay?’ and they said, ‘Yeah. Are you?’ I was like, ‘Can I talk to you role model. The only things you ever heard about this another time?’ It was weird, but about gay people back then were always so negative. It was general. If you ever saw any it didn’t take long. As one of them said: ‘The

splinters have been flying ever since.’ I busted out of that closet.”

At the time, Holder was working at the attorney general’s office. After accepting that he was gay, he began attending a weekly support group for gays run by Little Rock psychotherapist Ralph Hyman. “It was [about] how to be OK, and get on with life,” Holder said. “How to work through problems.

It was pretty good. It was group therapy.

It was really not therapy, because it was all volunteer. People just showed up and nobody paid for anything. He wasn’t doing therapy, let’s be clear about that. But it was good support, both because there’s a bunch of you and because Ralph was good about getting people through these sort of things.”

While most people in his life accepted that he was gay (it took his mother two years to “get right,” he said), coming out changed his relationships, Holder said, including some changes he still regrets. “I feel bad about it now, but I just cut off a lot of people,” he said. “I’m a social animal. I had been really involved in the Grande Maumelle Sailing Club. I had a lot of friends there, a lot of lawyers. I just withdrew from everybody, because I didn’t want to be rejected. As life’s gone on, a lot of those people I have never taken back up. It’s not their fault, and it wasn’t fair to them. I didn’t trust them, and I wish I had.”

Little Rock is a small city, and the gay community of Little Rock has always been a small town within that city. Holder said his interactions with gay friends at the longstanding gay-friendly club Discovery versus how they treated him in everyday life was one of the reasons he decided to help found the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

“You’d see people there, and then you’d see them on the street the next week,” he said. “They’d act like they didn’t know you.

They’re afraid someone would figure out that they’re gay. ... I just felt that it was not right that people could see you in a bar or anywhere and then not want to talk to you later on because somebody might figure out they’re gay. I thought, this is not right.

This has got to change.”

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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Holder helped found the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 1984. They immediately ran headlong into a problem: How do you run an advocacy group for gay and lesbian people when most of the people in the group are wholly or partially in the closet?

“We said, ‘Let’s do a letterhead,’ ” he remembered. “Nobody would put their name on the damn letterhead! Nobody wanted to do that. It was a problem.”

Eventually, those involved became more comfortable doing the hard work of being open, and the group found its voice, including organizing and staging a counterprotest when a venomously homophobic religious group made plans to protest outside Little Rock’s Immanuel Baptist Church, where Bill Clinton was a member. In addition, the Task Force created an anonymous hotline, staffed by volunteers every evening, for those questioning their sexuality.

They started a radio show on Little Rock’s KABF-FM, 88.3, called “Queer Frontier,” launched Task Force chapters all over the state, and started a support group for LGBT youth. On the social front, they held poetry readings, get-togethers, and “prom of your dreams” events for those who weren’t able to attend high school dances with the partner of their choice. The group’s monthly newsletter, “Triangle Rising,” was one of the first LGBT-centric media outlets in the state, collecting and reporting news of gay interest from across Arkansas.

“We never had a parade,” he said. “I wish we had, but we never had one. People were still not to the point where they could do that.”

One of Holder’s proudest moments with the Task Force was when the group was part of a contingent of gay and lesbian Arkansans who traveled to the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal

“I just felt that it was not right that people could see you in a bar or anywhere and then not want to talk to you later on because somebody might figure out they’re gay. I thought, this is not right. This has got to change.”

— Ted Holder Rights in April 1993. A headcount found 230 Arkansans among the crowd, which was estimated to be in the neighborhood of 700,000. (While 230 souls might sound like nothing to write home about, Holder notes there were only eight people in attendance from Mississippi.)

While fostering community was important, Holder said that one of his goals for the Task Force was to avoid the “inwarddirected” mindset that he said some LGBT advocacy groups can fall victim to.

He knew that in order to better the lot of LGBT people, the group had to show the straight world that gays and lesbians are normal people with normal lives; people who, as Holder put it, just want a home and someone to come home to.

“I’ve always wanted to, somehow, affect the greater populace,” he said. “It was really difficult when people can’t come out. I got to where I was OK. People could interview me. People could talk to me. They had me on television several times about this, that or the other. But all these other people, not so much.”

Over time, the worm started to turn, especially after national media outlets started calling the group for comment on

gay life in Bill Clinton’s Arkansas during Clinton’s first run for president. After Clinton was elected, Holder said they asked for and received a sit-down with Gov. Jim Guy Tucker. Holder said Tucker told them that, while he couldn’t expend his limited political capital advocating for gay causes like a repeal of the state sodomy law, he wouldn’t stand in the way of those goals either, and wouldn’t veto a repeal if it came to his desk. One of the first politicians to ask for the group’s endorsement, Holder recalled, was a young Vic Snyder.

“We were having a board meeting, and this guy comes in — young guy, nice looking,” Holder said. “We didn’t know who the hell this was. I was in the bathroom, and I came out, and they said: ‘This guy is running for state Senate and wants us to endorse him.’ I said, ‘Somebody cares what we think? This is amazing! Well, hell yeah, we’ll endorse him!’ ” Fighting the good fight, while rewarding, is a lot of work. Between his day job and work with the task force, Holder was soon seeing more of his work and advocacy colleagues some days than he did his husband, Joe, who he’s been in a committed relationship with since 1991 (they married in San Francisco in 2008). In 1994, Holder made the decision to resign from the board of the task force.

Three or four years later, he said, he got a mailer that caused him to send in his formal resignation from the group. “We got some stuff in the mail and [the task force was] going to have a conference,” he said.

“One of the things on there was, ‘Sex Toys and How to Use Them.’ I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s what we all need. Every one of those things goes to somebody, and goes to [antigay Arkansas Family Council leader] Jerry Cox somehow.’ I just sent in a resignation letter. I said, ‘Don’t send me anything

else, because I didn’t want to be associated with that.’ Holder said the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task Force folded a few years after that.

Though he’s officially retired from advocacy work, Holder still keeps track of the advancement of gay rights in the state. While he marvels that he had enough energy to keep all those plates in the air during the 1980s and ’90s, it led him to a long view of the struggle. These days, he said, he’s open with anybody and everybody.

Though he says he’s been disappointed in some of the anti-gay legislation issuing from the state Capitol of late — authored by one-agenda legislators with talking points in their pockets, a far cry from the quietly progressive legislators of old — he says the outpouring of pushback to that legislation proves how far we’ve come.

“When all that happened with [House Bill 1228, the ‘religious freedom’ bill that many called a license to discriminate against LGBT people], did you see how many people came to the Capitol? Thousands of people. They’re able to get people to do that now.” As a lawyer, Holder said, he was similarly proud of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza for his ruling striking down the state’s ban on gay marriage in May 2014.

Though he wasn’t born in Little Rock, Holder said he’s always been impressed by the city’s acceptance of those who are different. It has always been a pretty nice place, Holder said. It’s even nicer now.

“One thing that I’ve always found interesting about [Little Rock], not being from here, is that the people who live here don’t realize how progressive and laid back Little Rock was, and still is,” he said. “I love it. They’re going to bury me here. I’m not leaving.”

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“This is my second year teaching,” she said. “Last year, I taught fourth grade at Townsend Elementary. This is my first year teaching third. I graduated from Arkansas Tech University in 2014 with my Bachelor of Arts degree in early childhood education, then went straight into teaching. Right now, I am in the final stages of my master’s program for School Counseling at the University of Central Arkansas, and I hope to graduate in the spring of 2016.”

If this weren’t enough to fill her time, Amanda also is a board member of the Arkansas Education Association’s district five, which represents Jefferson and Grant counties. She serves as the liaison and helps connect the district members with the AEA. She also serves on the public relations committee.

“I was a member of the AEA at the college level for four years,” Amanda said. “This is my second year at the professional level.

The reason I am a member is not only for the amazing benefits and discounts it offers, but also because it has allowed me to connect with fellow educators to gain feedback and knowledge. As a new teacher, that is what helps me in my field.”

Amanda joined the AEA early in her career because of the networking opportunities available to her and other members like her.

“The AEA is a voice to the voiceless in legislation issues,” she said.

“It speaks up for what its members think is best for all of us as well as the students we teach.”

The AEA is the professional public education membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of education offered to students and making it attractive to teach in Arkansas public schools.

To do so requires learning and working environments where teachers and support professionals are equal partners with the board and administration. The AEA is committed to leading and assisting in every possible way to make Arkansas’ public schools the best they can be.

For Amanda, she gets back every day all the attention she lavishes on her students.

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The 24th Annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, presented this year by Deltic Timber Corporation, will launch on Friday, October 9th with a striking line up of non-fiction films. The 10-day festival, October 9-18, will screen over 140 films. Many are award-winning films that have played the major festival circuit, while others our audience will be among the first to discover. Parties, events and appearances by special guests will unfold throughout the festival week.

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OPENING NIGHT The Primary Instinct

D: David Chen | USA | 75 min Actor Stephen Tobolowsky has acted in over 200 TV shows and films over the past 40 years, possessing one of the most dazzlingly diverse filmographies on the planet. But even more compelling than the stories he’s been part of on-screen are those he tells off-screen. In ‘The Primary Instinct,’ Stephen plays himself and uses the art of storytelling to take the audience through a riveting and moving journey about life, love, and Hollywood. Along the way, he just may answer one of the questions that has dogged humanity from the beginning of time: Why do we tell stories in the first place? Actor Stephen Tobolowsky will attend for a Q & A following the screening. ESPN Short Go, Sebastien, Go! will precede the feature along with a musical appearance by Sebastien De La Cruz. Opening Night Screening and After Party hosted by Presenting Sponsor Deltic Timber Corporation.

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Being Human: The Humanities in Non-Fiction Film

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THE GREAT ALONE D: Greg Kohs | USA | 80 min | Regional Premiere The striking comeback story of Iditarod racer, Lance Mackey, against the backdrop of the great Alaskan wilderness. From his childhood with his famous father to cancer’s attempt to take him, The Great Alone pulls viewers along every mile of Lance’s emotional journey to become one of the greatest sled dog racers of all time. Attending: 4-Time Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey, subjects Kathie Smith and lead dog Amp BE HERE NOW (THE ANDY WHITFIELD STORY) D: Lilibet Foster | USA | 100 min | Regional Premiere As though life is imitating art, actor, Andy Whitfield had just achieved his dream of becoming a star as the tragic-hero of the hit series, ‘Spartacus,’ when he is faced with his biggest personal challenge – life-threatening cancer. Andy and his wife Vashti commit to taking his healing into their own hands and to embracing life, rather than allowing fear to rule them. Allowing a camera to follow the family on their journey to find a cure, Be Here Now allows an intimate,

From This Day Forward insider’s view of both a love story and the couple’s fight to face their fears, go for their dreams, and make every moment count. Attending: director Lilibet Foster QUEEN MIMI D: Yaniv Rokah | USA | 75 min | Regional Premiere Marie “Mimi” Haist defied her adulterous husband and moved onto the streets in her 50s, living in parking lots and doorways until finding her “home” one stormy night between rows of washers in a Californian laundromat. En-

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RAIDERS!:THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE (Texas) D: Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen | USA | 104 min| Regional Premiere In 1982, two 11-year-old Mississippi boys set out to remake their favorite film,Raiders of the Lost Ark, shot-for-shot, a goal that consumed seven turbulent summers, testing the limits of their friendship and nearly burned down a house in the process. This is the surprisingly moving story behind those seven summers of their youth, going behind the scenes for the making of “the greatest fan film ever made.” Official Selection SXSW - Subjects Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos will appear via Skype

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couraged to stay by a more than generous laundry owner, Mimi’s ‘the past is the past’ philosophy endeared her to regular fluff and fold clients and, after more than 20 years, Mimi has made some unlikely friends, ranging from local loves to Hollywood A-listers Zach Galifianakis and Renee Zellweger. Filmed over 5 years by barista/actor/director Yaniv Rokah while he worked at a cafe across the street, Queen Mimi is the story of an unlikely hero. Now 89, Mimi reminds us to never give in and never give up, and that if you ever find yourself in the gutter, to never stop looking at the stars. Attending: director Yaniv Rokah ROMEO IS BLEEDING D: Jason Zeldes | USA | 93 min | Regional Premiere A fatal turf war between neighborhoods haunts the city of Richmond, CA. Donté Clark transcends the violence in his hometown by writing poetry about his experiences.

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KILLING THEM SAFELY (Missouri) D: Nick Berardini | USA | Regional Premiere A close examination of Taser International, the manufacturer of the eponymous electrical weapons marketed as a non-lethal alternative to guns. Weaving together testing footage and footage from real world use of the weapon, Killing Them Safely exposes the lack of oversight and regulation, and the fatalities that have occurred as Taser use by law enforcement has increased dramatically. World

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ATTENDING: director Nick Berardini SAILING A SINKING SEA (Arkansas) D: Olivia Wyatt | USA | 65 min The Moken people of Burma and Thailand are a seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system revolves around water. Sailing A Sinking Sea weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices. As a viewer you will swim under the sea past fishes and mermaids, sail boats across turquoise waters, land on 13 different islands, step inside sea shanties on stilts, delve into the minds of shamans, become possessed through the worship of sea gods, dance between lovers and emerge drenched in Moken mythology. Official Selection SXSW, Hot Docs, BFI London FF. Attending: director Olivia Wyatt

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Attending: director Jason Zeldes DRIVING WITH SELVI D: Elisa Paloschi | CANADA | 72 min | U.S. Premiere Selvi, like so many girls living in India, was forced to marry at 14, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair she escapes, flees to a highway with the intent of throwing herself under a bus. But rather than jump, she boards the bus, choosing to live… going on to become South India’s first female taxi driver. Attending: director Elisa Paloschi FROM THIS DAY FORWARD D:Sharon Shattuck | USA | 76 min | Arkansas Premiere With her own wedding just around the corner, filmmaker Sharon Shattuck returns home to examine the mystery at the heart of her upbringing: How her transgender father Trisha and her straight-identified mother Marcia stayed together against all odds. From This Day Forward is a moving portrayal of an American family coping with the most intimate of transformations. Attending: director Sharon Shattuck HOT SUGAR’S COLD WORLD D: Adam Bhala Lough | USA | 87 min | Regional Premiere Hot Sugar’s Cold World is fly-on-the-wall look into the life of a modern-day Mozart, Nick Koenig (Hot Sugar) as he creates one-of-a-kind music made entirely out of sounds from the world around him. Nick lives every young musician’s dream, but when he splits from his girlfriend, (rapper Kitty), and flies to Paris to move on, he hunts for increasingly unique and exotic sounds to help him interpret this emotional world. From Executive Producers David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Jody Hill. Attending: director Adam Bhala Lough

“Women Behind the Lens:” Black and Latina Filmmakers CAN YOU DIG THIS D: Delila Vallot | USA | 80 min | Regional Premiere South Los Angeles. What comes to mind is gangs, drugs, liquor stores, abandoned buildings and vacant lots. The last thing that you would expect to find is a beautiful garden sprouting up through the concrete, coloring the urban landscape. As part of an urban gardening movement taking root in South LA, people are planting to transform their neighborhoods and are changing their own lives in the process. These “gangster gardeners” are creating an oasis in the middle of one of the most dangerous places in America. Watch the inspirational journeys of four unlikely gardeners, discovering what happens when they put their hands in the soil. Attending: director Delila Vellot

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Attending; Coach Roscoe Bryant, associate producer Liza Corr THE SEVENTH FIRE D:Jack Pettibone Riccobono | Germany | 78 min | Regional Premiere Terrence Malick presents this haunting and visually arresting nonfiction film about the Native American gang crisis. When Rob Brown, a Native American gang leader on a remote Minnesota reservation, is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeenyear-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared gangster on the reservation. Attending: director Jack Pettibone Riccobono, subject Rob Brown both via Skype

GHOST TOWN TO HAVANA D:EugeneCorr|USA|86min| Regional Premiere An inner city coach’s son, estranged from his father, follows the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland, CA. and Nicolas in Havana, Cuba Meeting initially on videotape, two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas’ team. And over one week, real friendships form.

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Spa City Documentary Features DREAM/KILLER D: Andrew Jenks | USA | 106 min | Regional Premiere Dream/Killer tells the story of a father’s journey to free his best friend and son, Ryan Ferguson, from a 40-year prison sentence for a brutal murder based on somebody else’s dream. The cast of characters reveals the very best and worst of the American judicial system. From the questionable District Attorney-turned-Judge Kevin Crane, to the high-powered Chicago attorney Kathleen Zellner; to Ryan’s father, Bill Ferguson, who relentlessly dedicates his free time and life to giving his son a shot at the freedom and justice that he deserves. One man is given his freedom, another putwrongfully behind bars, a killer still on the loose, and a family with no answers to the murder of their loved one. Attending: director Andrew Jenks, subject Ryan Ferguson THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT: REDUX D: Harry Thomason, Nichlas Perry | USA | 101 min | World Premiere We currently live in one of the most tumultuous political climates of the nation’s history, a climate where politicians can be toppled on a whim. Using new interviews, and shocking revelations from both sides of the political spec- trum, Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry’s 2015 update of their original 2004 documentary based on the best-selling book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason offers a glimpse at the genesis of extreme partisan vendettas.

The Hunting of the President Redux exposes a gallery of

defeated politicians, disappointed office seekers, extremist pamphleteers, wealthy eccentrics, zany private detectives, religious fanatics and die-hard segregationists, all chiming in discord.

An alarming treatise on the political power of the media and personal interests. Attending: director Harry Thomason, subject Susan McDougal IMBA MEANS SING D: Danielle Bernstein | USA | 75 min | Arkansas Premiere IMBA MEANS SING is the story of one little boy who is a big star. As the celebrity drummer from the Grammy-nominated African Children’s Choir, Moses relies on his youthful resilience. Growing up in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, Moses and his family lack enough resources for him to even attend the first grade. Moses is only eight-years-old when the film begins-yet he knows all too well that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to secure his future and change the course of his family’s life. We follow Moses as he works for an education and spreads the magic of his African childhood.

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LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS D: Laurie Kahn | USA | 95 min | Regional Premiere Love stories are universal. Love stories are powerful. And so are the women who write them. Love Between the Covers is the fascinating story of the vast, funny, and savvy female community that has built a powerhouse industry sharing love stories. Attending: director Laurie Kahn, with New York Times Bestselling Author Eloisa James via Skype THE PRINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA D: Jesse Vile | USA | 50 min | World Premiere Back in the 1980s, the road to the Olympics was long and hard for an amateur wrestler. But then along came John du Pont, an eccentric heir to the family fortune with a passion for wrestling. His 800-acre Foxcatcher Farm became the hub of the sport, with state-of-the-art training facilities, free accommodations, generous stipends and the support of America’s best freestyle wrestlers, brothers Mark and Dave Schultz. It all seemed too good to be true—and it was. With exclusive access to new witnesses and never-before-seen footage, The Prince of Pennsylvania is the story of a paradise lost

AARP: Movies for Grownups HARRY AND SNOWMAN D: Ron Davis | USA | 84 min | Arkansas Premiere The remarkable life story of international show jumping legend Harry deLeyer, a Dutch immigrant whose career was launched by his famous show jumping horse Snowman. Snowman was an old Amish plow horse that Harry rescued off a truck that was bound for the meat and glue factory for only $80. Less than two years after he rescued Snowman, they rose to become the national show jumping champions and were the Cinderella story and media darlings of late 1950’s and 1960’s. The true heart of the film

is not the remarkable rags-to-riches story of both Harry & Snowman, but the lasting and impactful relationship that is built between Harry, Snowman and the entire deLeyer family. Very few horse stories have been able to truly touch the hearts of a nation. Red Pollard & Seabiscuit did in the 1930’s, Harry deLeyer & Snowman did it in the 1950’s and then Ron Turcotte & Secretariat were the last to do it in the 1970’s. Harry and Snowman allows 85 year old Harry to to tell his remarkable story in his own words.

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SHOULDER THE LION D: Erinnisse Heuer & Patryk Rebisz | USA | 74 min | Regional Premiere Using stories of three artists who have lost one of the fives sense, and in each case the particular sense that has defined their art, this visual essay explores the meaning of images, fragility of memories and desire for relevance in today’s world. A photographer, who is blind, questions the power of images in our visually saturated culture. Forced to give up his dream of playing music due to his advancing hearing loss, a musician must reinvent his future. A painter

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to the madness of its creator, a man who had the means to buy anything except for the one thing he truly wanted.

Attending: ESPN’s Jenna Anthony , Shaun Alperin CHAMELEON D: Ryan Mullins | USA | 76 min | Regional Premiere A janitor mopping floors in a brothel. A drugged out Rastafarian in a psychiatric ward. A wealthy investor in high heels and lipstick. These are just a few of the disguises that Anas Aremeyaw Anas has used to infiltrate Africa’s criminal underworld. But Ghana’s most notorious journalist is more than just a reporter. He’s a crime fighter who uses his journalistic skills to bust cor- ruption; a modern day folk hero who keeps his identity hidden from the public.

Anas reveals a side of Africa rarely seen: tabloid journalism, high-tech surveillance and high-speed car chases. Just how far is Anas willing to go to uncover the truth?

DEMOCRATS D: Camilla Nielsson | USA | 100 min | Regional Premiere Two political opponents are appointed to write Zimbabwe’s new constitution.It is the ultimate test that can bring an end to President Mugabe’s 30 years of autocratic rule.It can go either way: towards the birth of a constitutional democracy - or renewed repression.

THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER D: Chad Garcia | Ukraine/USA | 82 min | Regional Premiere Fedor Alexandrovich is a radioactive man.

He was four years old in 1986, when he was exposed to the toxic effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and forced to leave his home. Now 33, he is an artist in Ukraine, with radioactive strontium in his bones and a singular obsession with the earth-changing catastrophe - why did it actually happen? Was there more to the story than the Soviet government let on? And, most importantly, what did this all have to do with the giant, mysterious steel pyramid now rotting away 2 miles from the disaster site: a hulking Cold War weapon known as the Duga and nicknamed “the Russian Woodpecker” for the strange, constant clicking radio frequencies that it emits? In Chad Gracia’s documentary/conspiracy thriller, Alexandrovich returns to the ghost towns in the radioactive Exclusion Zone to try to find answers - and to decide whether to risk his life by revealing them, amid growing clouds of Ukraine’s emerging revolution and war.

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SOMETHING BETTER TO COME D: Hanna Polak | USA | 98 min 10-year-old Yula is growing up in Putin’s Russia in the Svalka, the largest junkyard in Europe, just 13 miles from the Kremlin.

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who lost half her brain in a boxing match searches for her place in life, unsure of what her relationship should now be to the world. Each of the three artists leads us closer to the answer of this vital question: how do we keep going after we face dramatic life changes and we can no longer trust our most prominent instinct?

Attending: Director Patrick Rebisz, subject Katie Dallam MAVIS! D:Jessica Edwards | USA | 80 min | Arkansas Premiere The first documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the ’60s and hits like “I’ll Take You There” in the ’70s until today, Mavis has stayed true to her roots, kept her family close, and inspired millions. .Featuring powerful live performances, rare archival footage, and conversations with Bob Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Jeff Tweedy, Chuck D, and more. At 75, she’s making the most vital music of her career, winning Grammy awards, and reaching a new generation of fans with her message of love and equality.

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“The First Boys of Spring” HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARKANSAS — Tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of the documentary film, “The First Boys of Spring,” which traces the history of Hot Springs as The Birthplace of Spring Baseball.

The documentary by Emmy Award-winning documentarian Larry Foley will premiere at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 10, in Horner Hall at the Hot Springs Convention Center. The premiere is part of the 24th Annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, which runs October 9 through October 18.

A special guest at the October 10 premiere will be Baseball Hall of Fame Member Lou Brock, the Arkansas native who had a legendary career with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Tickets are available on line through the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival website www.eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/24th-annual-hot-springsdocumentary-film-festival-tickets-18078225459. Tickets also will be available at the door, beginning at 10 a.m.

Seating is general admission.

There will be a panel discussion immediately following the premiere showing featuring baseball historians Bill Jenkinson, Tim Reid, Don Duren, Mike Dugan, and Mark

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ot Springs Village is going through a metamorphosis.

It is not just a retirement community any longer. Although still one of the best golfing values in the country, there is so much more that one can do in The Village. With HSV Chief Operating Officer David Twiggs’ new “Placemaking” initiative already set in motion, The Village has become a new hot bed of activity for active people. From kayaking whitewater spillways, traversing natural, rugged trails on mountain bikes or in running shoes to savoring the peace of a hook and line in the water—it is all there now. A quote from Francis Bacon comes to mind: “Knowledge is power.”

Most of the public doesn’t know of all the things that Hot Springs Village has to offer these days. Explore the top five things to do in Hot Springs Village. #5. STAND-UP PADDLE BOARDING—This new trend not only exercises your entire body but offers a peaceful, reflective experience getting you closer to nature than ever before. Jami, a yoga boarder who regularly enjoys Lake Balboa, explains “It’s pretty centering, you can almost just float away to your own tranquil place on the water.

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For parts of five decades, the immortals of America’s National Pastime trained on baseball diamonds and“boiled out the alcoholic microbes” of winter in the thermal baths of Hot Springs. In 1886, The Chicago White Stockings were the first to trek south to Hot Springs, when the team’s owner and manager decided the boys needed a place to practice and get ready for the season ahead. Other teams soon followed, including the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburg Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers and many others.

Hot Springs was “wide open” in those days, frequented by famous and infamous characters. And so came the greatest of the great, to play ball, for a month or so in late winter and early spring, including more than a third of all players enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Cy Young, Honus Wagner — the best who ever played the game — all worked out in Hot Springs. And so did the legends of the Negro Leagues. The likes of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson also came to train in the Southern resort town, staying in different hotels, but working just as hard to

It gives me peace of mind.” Yoga boarding is the art of practicing yoga while on a paddle board. Or, you might choose to try sport boating, kayak fishing or simply renting a pontoon boat. #4. THE WAYPOINT—The renovated DeSoto Marina is Hot Springs Village’s newest, swankiest coffee, smoothie and taco bar. Red Light Roastery and Little Penguin Tacos offer home-grown goodness add a cold brew, and an afternoon on the deck is something for the ages. The Waypoint is the headquarters of Basecamp, the local outdoor experts, where you can inquire with confidence about the best places to go biking, hiking and boating in the Grove Park Ouachita High Country.

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Visit Hot Springs, the city’s convention bureau, and the Arkansas Humanities Council have joined with Foley to produce “The First Boys of Spring,”which documents the city’s role in the history of Major League Baseball in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Hot Springs’Historic Baseball Trail uses a series of plaques and electronic databases to trace the city’s links to baseball immortals such as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Al Simmons, Tris Speaker, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and more than a hundred other legends of the game when Hot Springs was the first place where ballplayers gathered each spring to get into shape for the coming season.

In creating the Baseball Trail, Visit Hot Springs relied on the encyclopedic knowledge of the game of five nationally known baseball historians: Bill Jenkinson of Pennsylvania, Tim Reid from Florida, Don Duren from Dallas, Mark Blaeuer

#3. TRAILS, WATERWAYS AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES— Interested in casting your bait or bagging that buck? The Ouachita Rod and Gun Club provides monthly opportunities to commune with others, expand your knowledge base and satisfy every hunter and fisherman’s dream. Hot Springs Village is a quick trip from the world’s best duck hunting and world-class bass fishing. With the sport of kayaking gaining momentum, The Village is in the midst of creating competition-level spillways. Miles of natural trails keep bicyclists, hikers and nature enthusiasts busy for hours. If that doesn’t get your paddle swishing, your bike tires humming, and your trigger finger itching, we don’t know what will.

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The series of 28 historical markers throughout the city was dedicated in March 2012. It is linked to the very latest digital technology that allows visitors to tour the city and visit places where America’s baseball legends came to play, train and visit during baseball’s golden age.

Foley, a journalism professor at the University of Arkansas, is an accomplished documentary filmmaker. His productions have earned many regional, national and international awards, including five Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and eight Emmy nominations.

Foley specializes in writing and producing films on cultural history. His documentary credits include “Sacred Spaces —The Architecture of Fay Jones”; “The Greatest Coach Ever,” a biography of track legend John McDonnell; “Beacon of Hope — The Story of the University of Arkansas”;“Charles Banks Wilson — Portrait of an American Artist”(Mid-America Emmy);“The Forgotten Expedition, It Started Here: Early Arkansas

and the Louisiana Purchase”; “22 Straight, Arkansas’ Natural Heritage”; “Out of the Woods, The Keetoowahs Come Home”;“The Black Swamp”; “The Governor from Greasy Creek”; “Arkansas — A Special Place”; “Up Among the Hills,” the story of Fayetteville; ‘Hell on the Border,”and‘Natural, Wild & Free.”

His PBS credits include“The Buffalo Flows” (Mid America Emmy — Writer); “Saving the Eagles”; “The Lost Squadron,” and “When Lightning Struck: Saga of an American Warplane.”

Lou Brock was baseball’s most dangerous baserunner for more than a decade, pressuring opponents with his speed and daring on the basepaths.

But Brock was much more than a stolen base specialist. And by the end of his spectacular 19-year big league career, Brock was recognized as one of baseball’s most complete – and clutch – players of the 20th Century.

Born June 18, 1939, in El Dorado, Ark., Louis Clark Brock played college baseball at Southern University before signing as an amateur free agent with the Cubs in

1960. After two years tearing up the minor leagues, Brock surfaced in Chicago at the tail end of the 1961 season, becoming the Cubs’ regular center fielder in 1962.

The following year, the 24-year-old Brock played 148 games as Chicago’s right fielder, scoring 79 runs while stealing 24 bases and hitting .258.

But on June 15, 1964, the Cubs – desperate for pitching – dealt Brock to the Cardinals as part of a trade for Ernie Broglio, an 18-game winner in 1963.

“I guess that fewer than 2 percent of the people in baseball thought it was a good trade for us,” said Cardinals third baseman Ken Boyer.

Brock proved the doubters wrong, hitting .348 with 81 runs scored and 33 stolen bases in just 103 games for St. Louis while leading the Cardinals to the National League pennant. In the World Series, the Cardinals’ new left fielder hit .300 with five RBI to help St. Louis beat the Yankees in seven games.

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She got her gumption up Tennessee transplant jumped into volunteer work with PALS.

J

ennifer Chilcoat was 25 and fresh out of graduate school in Tennessee when she arrived in Little Rock to work at the Central Arkansas Library System. Thanks to a national publication called Lesbian Connection, she had a couple of names of women who would help her settle in a city where otherwise she was a stranger. The two women let her stay a couple of nights at their home on Louisiana Street while she searched for an apartment.

It was 1990, and she was barely out herself. But it wasn’t long before she got involved with what was a relatively new organization, the Arkansas Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “I felt I had to get my gumption up,”

Chilcoat understands that there “are a lot of people who are not ready to make a change in their outlook. They feel threatened and they’re pushing back. …

This is just something people have to go through. I would be stupid to think that a Supreme Court decision would make everything fine.”

Chilcoat said.

So she worked with high school and college students — youth who weren’t much younger than she was — in a support group called PALS (People of Alternative Life Styles), for kids struggling with their sexuality or the impact of their sexuality. She also deejayed the KABFFM, 88.3, show “Queer Frontier” and worked on Triangle Rising, the task force newsletter. The group also operated a crisis line seven days a week, duties rotating between members, and sponsored a gay prom at the Woman’s City Club and other places for people of all ages every year. She guessed the core of the group was around 60 people.

The work of the task force, as Chilcoat remembers it, was more inwardly focused on supporting the community, helping people know they were not alone, rather than actively campaigning for gay rights, though they participated in Martin Luther King Jr. Day “marades” and members went to Washington, D.C., for the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. “We had a banner,” Chilcoat said. “It had a pink triangle on it. It was a legit banner, man!” she said, laughing.

Chilcoat remembers those days fondly. “It was so much fun. We worked so hard. We loved each other.” It helped, she said, that her co-workers at the library, where she is now deputy director, were sup-

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portive. Had she not moved to Little Rock but stayed at home in Tennessee, among people who knew her and to whom she did not want to come out, “I don’t know what my trajectory would have been.”

Not that it was easy in Little Rock.

After a poetry reading at Vino’s, Chilcoat recalls, she was in her car talking with her window rolled down to a transgender woman when a group of teenaged boys began pelting the car and the woman with hunks of concrete. One chunk sailed through the rear window of Chilcoat’s car and sprayed glass all over her back seat. The woman was hit but not hurt, Chilcoat recalled.

The kids in PALS were different — some out, some thrown out by their families, some still closeted. Chilcoat particularly remembers three or four kids in the PALS meetings who came all the way from Carlisle, though she could not remember how they knew about the organization, and another “big red-headed pencil, about 6 feet tall, skin and bones, a mouth full of braces and he was hilarious.” They had different personalities, but “they all got along.”

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The volunteer organization, as many do, lost steam after around 10 years, toward the end of the 1990s.

“This sounds very odd,” Chilcoat said, but, “my recollection was that the death knell was the fact that we received a grant from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation” to transition from an all-volunteer group to paid staff. “It was a transition [the task force] wasn’t ready to make.”

The past few years have brought enormous change to the gay community, with the Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right and with laws on the books in many states even before the high court’s ruling granting the right. The years have brought changes in Chilcoat’s life: She and her wife (they tied the knot last weekend at a pizza restaurant with family and friends) have a 10-year-old son, and their life is like “Ward and June Cleaver’s,” she laughed.

But, she said, “if I had made a prediction, I would have predicted that civil rights protections [would have been enacted] before the right to marry.” Arkansas still allows busi-

nesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, reinforced by the last General Assembly with its Religious Freedom Protection Act. Religion was used in the civil rights era as an excuse to discriminate against people based on their skin color. Though there is still much racism evident today, race relations and rights are much improved since the 1950s. “That puts me at ease that it’s going to work out,” Chilcoat said of the acceptance of same-sex marriage. She understands that there “are a lot of people who are not ready to make a change in their outlook.

They feel threatened and they’re pushing back. … This is just something people have to go through.

I would be stupid to think that a Supreme Court decision would make everything fine.”

Recently, Chilcoat and her son and other Cub Scouts took a trip to a horse farm in Mayflower. As it turned out, the owner was one of the kids she’d worked with in PALS so long ago.

“He hadn’t changed a bit — funny and outgoing with big round blue eyes,” she said. He was happy, successful, and a barrel racer in his free time.

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“Catering for me was a complete accident,”said Hughes, owner of RSVP Catering.

“I had dreams of moving to New York and working in the fashion industry. My first job out of college was in retail and I hated it!”

Hughes took a job as a hostess in a restaurant, and a few weeks after she started, the catering director resigned and Hughes’boss asked her to take the position.

“I knew absolutely nothing about the duties,” she said. “However, I was young and I looked forward to the challenge.”

Mary Wildgen, former owner of RSVP Catering, had discovered that her catering manager was resigning just as she was planning to leave on a vacation out of the country.

“Mary called me and asked if I would come work in the office until she returned,” Hughes said.

Hughes worked for Wildgen for 20 years, and when Wildgen was ready to retire, Hughes was ready to take over the business.

“I love listening to the vision of each individual getting a full understanding of every detail and helping make the vision a wonderful experience,” said Hughes, who has catered events ranging from corporate events like groundbreakings, outdoor barbecues and fish fries, to more intimate affairs like luncheons, baby showers and champagne lunches, and she offers boxed lunches and take-home meals as well.

Technology has changed the day-to-day operations of most businesses, and RSVP Catering is no exception. Hughes is able to work with clients online, exchanging notes about details, menus and photos during the event-planning process. The convenience, while undeniable, takes more diligence than a face-to-face encounter, she said.

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Hughes said the typical strengths of women are a tremendous benefit in her accidentally chosen field.

“Being a woman in every walk of life is a challenge,” she said. “However, I have to admit it has worked to my advantage in my profession because most of the people who are doing the planning of most events are women. Women are very visual and detail-oriented people.”

She speaks from experience in advising people to do a test run before settling on a career path.

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of business you want to own, go to work for a company that does that,” she said.

“Learn everything there is to know about running the business. I knew how to cook before I started working at RSVP; however, I never realized I had to some days wash dishes when no one came in to do that or bartend/serve at the last minute. Those are some of the things that most don’t consider when thinking about being an entrepreneur.”

Hughes is happy in the job she stumbled into, though, and she appreciates the variety in her days.

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hen customers ask Rosalia Monroe what’s in her recipes, she likes to tell them “love.”

It was her family, after all, who encouraged her to open Cafe Bossa Nova and, later, Rosalia’s Family Bakery.

“The idea for the restaurant came from my kids because they always thought I was a good cook,”she says.“But every kid thinks that about their mom, right? I try to treat people who come to my restaurant like people who come to my house and I want them to feel welcome and comfortable.”

The Salpicao on Bossa Nova’s menu is the same chicken salad dish she made for her family at home, and the Frango Caipira — traditional country-styled Brazilian chicken and served at the restaurant — is the same one that graced their table.

Rosalia moved from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to Houston in 1986 with her three children: Joe, Marcio and Adriana. She used her seamstress skills to start a sewing and alterations business, but struggled financially to raise and educate her children, and that motivated her to look for new opportunities.

In 1990, Monroe moved to Little Rock and opened 1-2-3 Cleaners.

She turned over her dry cleaning business to her sons before she opened Cafe Bossa Nova in 2002; it no longer exists as 1-2-3 Cleaners. Rather, Joe now owns Moose Cleaners and Marcio owns Max Cleaners.

Her daughter, Dr. Adriana McGarity, is an anesthesiologist.

“I never cooked professionally before I opened a restaurant. I couldn’t sleep at night. I had butterflies in my stomach,” she said. “Over the years it has become easier, and I think I learned over the years about how to handle stressful situations and not to panic and how to deal with things.”

Monroestruggledtoovercomealanguage barrier as well as a cultural one with the birth of her restaurant. “The culture more than the language,” she said, “because you can communicate somehow, but when you go somewhere there is a different culture you have to adapt to them and they have to adapt to you.

“I was introducing to them some kinds of food they had never had before, so when the first customers came into my restaurant

and looked at the menu and would see things they did not know and maybe want to leave … I would go to their table and just say, ‘Listen, just try it. If you don’t like it, you don’t need to pay.’ Luckily for me they like it and they pay and they come back and bring their friends and family.”

She and her husband, Dan, opened Rosalia’s Family Bakery in 2011.

Monroe is a natural nurturer. “It helped me one way, to take special care in the way I treat other people professionally or personally,” she said. “It helped me grow as a human being because I think a woman is more sensitive to what people need and can treat them how they want to be treated. I love people and I’m very blessed that I can show that for people through the dishes that I create.”

She recommends to those who aspire to entrepreneurship that they stay strong.

“Just listen to your heart and don’t give up,”she said.“Learn from your mistakes and if you fail, don’t see yourself as a failure but look at it as a lesson learned and try again.”

Monroe said she is happy to have persevered in her own endeavors, giving back to the community and offering employment opportunities all while doing what she most enjoys.

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“I was working at the Green Corner Store and the owner, Shelley Green, gave me the opportunity to open some kind of food offering at the soda fountain, so that’s where I got the idea to do ice cream and sodas like a traditional soda fountain,” Mengel said.

The building had been a pharmacy, and they felt compelled to bring its story full circle in the Green Corner Store.

“We wanted to follow the mission of the store, which was to support sustainable and local goods, and we couldn’t find a local source of ice cream that supported the same principles as the store, so we decided to make everything from scratch using seasonal and organic and fair-trade products,” she said.

Mengel already was hoping to bring small-batch, handcrafted ice cream to Arkansans.

“There was no small-batch handcrafted ice cream in Arkansas. I wanted that for myself and I thought other people might enjoy it,”said Mengel, who worked in an ice cream store in Atlanta, where she attended Emory University. “When I got to Little Rock, I was really interested in the local movement and how artisan craft producers were taking farm produce that was locally made and turning it into a craft product.”

Her original plan called for selling someone else’s small-batch handcrafted ice cream in her store, but because there was no suitable source, she decided to make it. The Loblolly team got its ice cream machine the night before the debut of its original flavor, buttermilk, at the Arkansas Cornbread Festival in November 2011.

“It was kind of terrible, but we actually won our competition and that kind of gave us the motivation to really expand and share our ice cream with as many people as we could,” Mengel said.

After the soda fountain got going, local restaurants started asking to sell Loblolly, and Mengel and co-owner Laura Frankenstein — Mengel’s mom — said yes. (Her dad, Mark Mengel, is Loblolly’s master waffle cone maker.)

“The business has expanded because we have pretty much said yes to everything that is feasible for us to do. We’ve said yes to collaborating with all sorts of producers and different food businesses and nonprofits,” she said. “I think that’s helped a lot, to be part of the community, and the community has returned support to us.”

While attending Emory, Mengel and a friend opened a coffee cart, the only

student-owned business on campus.

“I started it because it was like the ice cream here in Little Rock. There was no good-quality, fair-trade, ethically sourced coffee,” she said. “I like business and I like food, so I guess I always knew I was going to do those two things together.”

Mengel suggested that business owners take advantage of free resources like the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Small Business and Technology Development Center, which offers helpful consulting, and Little Rock SCORE, which offers free counseling for small businesses.

She would like to spend all of her days sweet-talking folks about Loblolly, which she sometimes gets to do on board Loblolly’s solar-powered ice cream truck during deliveries and special events.

“One of my favorite parts is coming in and working with our Loblolly family every day. And then another part of it is the quality of our research and testing of ice cream — creating our flavors and testing our flavors and coming up with ideas for things that we can make and share with Little Rock and Arkansas.”

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soap to music, as one part marketplace, he food that’s coming out of Solfood one part performance venue and one part Catering is entirely reflective of showcase of new ways of living. founders Kelley Smith (known locally “I’d say 80 percent of our patrons are simply as Butterfly) and Marie Amaya — meat-eaters and they just come to learn which is to say, much more is there than that, for one thing, we’re not judgmental meets the eye. towards people that eat meat,”Amaya said.

The duo, for whom “chefs” and “entre“Pretty much the statement that we’re going preneurs” are but two applicable titles — for is, you can have a complete and fulfilling along with artists, musicians, playwrights, diet and lifestyle on just eating plants, and mothers and educators, among others — you don’t have to suffer because of that. bring a similar complexity to dishes that “We prepare food in a way that [meatbelie their simple ingredients. eaters] feel they don’t need meat on their “Cooking is like art,” Butterfly says. plate, so to speak; the same texture, the “There’s a lot of creative energy put into it, a lot of love into cooking. Because we are using our hands a lot, that whole artistic side is fused into the food.”

The artistry, they say, is in trying to communicate what memories taste like — a grandmother’s touch or a favorite auntie’s laugh — as much as their Smith and Amaya belief in the goodness of a plant-based diet. same feel, the same satisfaction that you “I think we both call on our grandmas get from meat, you can do all that and eat and our aunts,” Butterfly said. “I mean, ‘Oh plants and be happy.”

I remember my grandmother used to do The two preach this message one person this,’or‘Well, my grandmother put in a little — or, more accurately, one taste — at a sugar.’ Even cooking food for ourselves time, drawing on diners’ own food expedevelops from where we participated riences to lead them to something new. with our grandmothers, our aunts, fathers, “We’re constantly trying to come up mothers. So there’s an ancestral feel to it, with little catchy names to try and bring very much so.” people in,” Amaya said. “By the time they Throw in the regional influences the two get to the table, they already smell the have picked up along the way — Amaya’s food, and from the name and the smell they Chicago roots fused with Butterfly’s Houston connect to their emotions, and emotions upbringing — and the two bring a wealth are connected to memory. of culinary variety to their food, served up “I think those labels are very important. through their catering business, at local I mean, in a perfect world, it shouldn’t be farmers markets and selected retail locanecessary; but in the world that we live tions around Little Rock and popping up in, they definitely have a place because at various community events. they make that bridge. You don’t have to Not the least of these is the Urban Raw do as much explaining; the food can kind Festival, which they launched three years of speak for itself before they even put it ago. The free event brings together artiin their mouths.” sans of all kinds, producing anything from ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT www.arktimes.com

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here’s not much in Little Rock’s Hillcrest neighborhood to remind one of the Swiss Alps, unless you count Ciao Baci, a neighborhood landmark and the signature restaurant of Suzanne Boscarolo’s distinguished, three-decade career.

“I like being involved with people; I really love that a lot,” Boscarolo said.

“Bringing some good food and good wines to people and teaching young people in the restaurant industry, you know, that’s what’s important.”

It could be said Boscarolo came to the restaurant business honestly; her grandparents operated a hotel in her hometown of Frutigen, Switzerland, and her uncles were also proprietors. Family ties notwithstanding, her career choice said more about her independent streak than carrying on a cherished family tradition.

“Whenever I would go to visit my grandfather and grandmother, I was always invited down into the kitchen to see what he was doing, and so that probably rubbed off a little bit,” she said. “My grandmother always told me don’t ever open a restaurant or do anything in that line of business.”

She arrived in Little Rock in the early 1980s, working at the Excelsior and The Capital hotels before launching her first restaurant venture, Ciao Italian Restaurant, in 1985. It was her last professional stop for nearly two decades.

In 2001, she opened Ciao Baci, snugly appointed on a quiet street — Beechwood — in Hillcrest. Having repurposed one of the neighborhood’s signature bungalowstyle houses, Boscarolo created an intimate setting that offered the feel of dining in a friend’s home — albeit a friend with the means to stock a wine cellar good enough to win nine consecutive Wine Spectator awards and the kitchen chops to pull off consistently interesting dishes.

“I have a very talented chef, Jeffrey Owen, who likes to come up with new experiences, and we change our menu on a seasonal basis,” she said. “He always introduces something new and exciting, maybe a little bit outside the norm, and 36

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people enjoy it.

“We keep our staples. You know, there are certain things that we just don’t take off the menu. Our calamari will always be there.”

Three decades in any business is cause to celebrate, and even more so in the

notoriously competitive restaurant game.

Along the way, Boscarolo said, she’s enjoyed seeing employees catch her passion for the business, some of whom have gone on to launch ventures of their own.

“In any business, you need a hardworking and dedicated staff in order to succeed,” she said. “I am fortunate to have such a great team at Ciao Baci.”

Boscarolo said that Little Rock diners are enjoying dining options and chef talents like never before.“I think it’s fantastic, it has come a long way,” she said. “We have all of these young people who are so exciting, and especially the farm-to-table movement is great. It’s all positive.”

Even as the local industry has grown, she’d still like to see more young women at the helm of new restaurants and she enjoys equally the opportunity to pass along her experience both within her own company as well as to other proprietors.

“I would love to see more women restaurateurs succeeding, that’s for sure,” she said. “It’s a commitment, but if you are passionate about what you are doing, you have to stick with it. We make mistakes but that’s a learning opportunity. If something doesn’t go quite right, re-evaluate, try again and do the best possible.”

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arolyn Franke loves the chicken fried chicken, roast beef, chicken and dumplings, country fried steak and mashed potatoes and, of course, the banana pudding at Franke’s Cafeteria.

She also loves the work she does there for the family business established by the grandparents of her husband, Bill Franke, the company’s sole owner since 2006.

She ran her own business for a couple of years after graduating with a business degree from the University of Arkansas, and later took a job as a social worker.

“Then I got out of that and worked as a flight attendant, which was something I had always wanted to do,” said Franke, the company’s chief financial officer. “I think women should know that it’s OK to try a lot of different things, it’s OK to reinvent themselves.”

That job lasted until she married Bill Franke and they had children.

“At that point, I became a stay-athome mom,”she said.“But I always loved when my husband would come home from work and talk about Franke’s.

“When we opened our Rodney Parham store, which was over 20 years ago, I became involved in overseeing the decorating, working with the decorators in the dining room, picking out this, that and the other,” Franke says.

“When we opened, I told my husband I wanted to go to work. And I have worked there ever since.”

Her daughters, then 14 and 16, joined her in the dining room, serving drinks and busing tables. One of them, Christen, continued working in the restaurant until she left for college and now manages the Rodney Parham Franke’s. The company also has a Franke’s downtown in the Regions Bank Building.

“I graduated from that to primarily what I do today. I work Sundays doing to-go orders, and helping on the serving line and talking to customers. I go in almost every day, actually, doing that same thing,” she said.“That’s really important, to talk to your customers and see what they want and let them know that you care and that you’re involved and that what they say matters.”

As CEO, Bill Franke deals with decisions about raising prices in response to

increased operating costs, always a daunting prospect in the competitive dining environment. Carolyn Franke said, “We have learned that you don’t change the recipes.

We have added new menu items but we never change the most popular things — the roast beef, the eggplant casserole, the egg custard pie, the banana pudding — the things that people love and that we serve every day, seven days a week.”

Her goal, in part, is employee retention.

“They are the foundation of the busi-

ness and keep your business running successfully with the way they treat your customers — on the serving line, in the dining room and cooking our recipes in the kitchen,” Franke said. “As the CFO, I oversee bills, payroll, customer service, employee benefits.”

She learns what pleases customers as she meanders through the Franke’s dining room, refilling drinks and chatting with people. For example, on Fridays she brings roses, irises and lilies from her flower garden because customers have told her they enjoy them.

“When the season’s over, people always ask me where are my flowers, so then I go out and buy them. Whatever I can do as a business owner, I’m going to do,” she said.

“I’ve been blessed with being motivated and determined and have lots of energy.

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ndia Veerman’s interior design background came in handy when it came time to redesign her kitchen and dining room to fit her entrepreneurial lifestyle, and it’s made for some beautifully decorated and packaged lemon cakes, too.

She has run The Lemon Cakery out of her home for the last three years and has three ovens in her kitchen and a huge baking rack in her dining room, plus all the other trappings of a business — including a computer so she can monitor incoming orders, boxes and more — in between.

She’s hoping to soon serve her “loyal lemon heads,” from a storefront bakery.

The Lemon Cakery was born shortly after Veerman and her husband, Paul, moved to Little Rock almost seven years ago from her home state of California.

She had tried corporate life after college and discovered she didn’t care for that lifestyle. She was drawn to more creative fields and found she loved to rehab old homes. She graduated with honors from the Art Institute’s online residential planning program.

Her husband, now a retired master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, was transferred often.

“It was hard to keep a flourishing interior design business because we were always moving around,” she says. “I found out I was pregnant at 42 with my third child. At the same time, the housing market died and I had no business. I had to close my doors. I was trying to raise a baby — I had three small children — and my husband was deployed all the time, and I really couldn’t get a job.”

Veerman, in a simple gesture of gratitude and friendship, gave her real estate agent one of the lemon cakes she had been making for 20 years.

“She said, ‘You’ve got to sell this cake, this cake is amazing,’” Veerman said. “On a whim I started playing around with packaging and kind of said, ‘Well, let’s see what happens.’ And they started selling.”

Veerman started making her signature lemon cake in college after a recipe she found in a cooking magazine failed to meet her expectations.

“I didn’t like the way it turned out,so I started tinkering with it,” she said. “It

became sort of an obsession to make the perfect lemon Bundt cake.”

She mastered that task and then put in a great deal of work into learning to run a business.

“I just did all shoe-leather and grassroots marketing,” she said. “I had no advertising budget. Everything I made was going back into supplies and I was learning, basically, how to run a bakery, getting licenses and

all the other things you need.”

She enlisted her family’s assistance. Her husband helps with the dishes, while her children — 16-year-old Liam, 13-year-old Aidan and 4-year-old Scarlett — fold boxes.

Liam also handles some local deliveries.

“If you keep them invested and keep them a part of it, then they believe in it, too, and they want it to be successful and they’re happy when you’re successful.

When they’re happy because you’re always around, that’s just a bonus of being an entrepreneur,” Veerman said.

The Lemon Cakery, when it settles in its new French cafe-style storefront, will continue offering exclusively lemon cakes, including those with cranberry glaze in fall and winter and strawberry glaze in summer, along with lemon cream cheese curd, gourmet coffee, homemade Italian soda and, of course, lemonade.

“It’s been such an incredible ride and just amazing to go from cellophaning them and giving them to my neighbors, to full-on shipping and packing, and it’s just been so great. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. It’s tough and it’s rough and you never get a break and your hours are whatever needs to get done. It’s definitely not for everybody. But I just love it,”Veerman said.

“It’s so much fun. It’s so worth it.”

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hristina Basham and Sonia Schaefer love the rush of the restaurant business.

Things move fast and days can be hectic and unpredictable, with unexpected challenges cropping up all over — equipment and staffing issues to be solved, caterings and special events to be handled and the general day-to-day operations of business to conduct.

“What I love most about my job is that it is different every day,”said Basham, co-owner of Boulevard Bread Co. with Schaefer.“I love when we are super busy and everyone and everything is clicking — the staff is doing a great job, customers are having a good time. It’s great to see all the different components come together and work.”

Schaefer, a New Orleans native and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York, enjoys chatting with customers from the open kitchen.

“I know them by name,”she says.“We’ve had a lot of the same customers for a very long time so we get a certain relationship with them.”

Boulevard is credited with being one of the earliest eateries to serve organic, locally grown and artisan foods. The Boulevard team prides itself on a deep passion for the “Slow Food Movement,” and on culinary education within the community. Basham and Schaefer strive for a low-impact, environmentally conscious way of doing business, which is why they buy from local farmers to support sustainable agriculture, use biodegradable products and earth-friendly cleaners, serve fair-trade organic coffee, and recycle everything they can.

“There are so many different aspects to this business and when they all work, it’s great. I think one of the most challenging aspects is keeping everyone happy, both customers and staff,” Basham said.

Boulevard’s staff, rounded out between the flagship Boulevard Bread Co. and the recently expanded Boulevard Bistro and Bar in the Heights and two downtown locations, has grown to include about 55 employees.

Schaefer, who bought into the business

Basham and Schaefer six years ago and worked for the restaurant for nine years before that, strives to keep her feet on the ground.

“A lot of business owners step into different kinds of ownership roles and they don’t deal with that sort of day-today, but I do,” she says. “I very much think it’s important. I think it’s important for our employees and I think it’s important to keep quality up.”

And she’s enthusiastic about the products created there. “It’s exciting every day.

Some days I’m excited to make a certain soup or create a certain dish, or I get excited about making dips for the football games, and some days I get excited because I’ve read about a certain bread and I want to try a bread like that.”

Boulevard’s menus range from a house salad with pears, dried cherries, Point Reyes blue cheese, spiced pecans, organic field greens, red onions and red wine vinaigrette, to lemon herb roasted chicken served with pimento mac-n-cheese and lemon caper vinaigrette.

“The cinnamon rolls are fantastic, as are all the pastries. The best in town, actually!” she says.“I think the secret to the cinnamon rolls is the cream cheese icing, it’s so good.

I love our croissants toasted with butter and jelly. They are the best. I also love our sandwiches, and the Bistro menu is pretty amazing as well.”

It’s amazing, just as is the fact that Basham has the opportunity to oversee it all.

“Crazy to say, but Boulevard Bread has been in business for 16 years this month,” Basham said. “After working in the restaurant business for most of my adult life, it was a dream to open up a place.”

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STRAIGHT OUTTA LOUISIANA: Mo’Betta Gumbo Chef Mindy Adam’s (from left) Rampart Shrimp Salad, shrimp gumbo and catfish po’ boy.

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here are all kinds of Katrina stories: sad Katrina stories and terrifying Katrina stories and glad-tohave-survived Katrina stories. The best, however, are those that start out terrible but spin in the direction of hope, like an anti-hurricane, setting things right instead of wrong. Ten years after Hurricane Katrina blew through southeastern Louisiana and drowned New Orleans, there are tens of thousands of stories like that. One of them belongs to Chef Mindy Adams, executive chef at the cozy, rigorously authentic Cajun restaurant Mo’Betta Gumbo down in Benton. A former resident of Slidell on the north 38

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shore of Lake Pontchartrain, she said the love and acceptance she found here after her home was destroyed has made her an Arkansan for life.

Born and raised in south Louisiana, Adams was working at a hotel and raising her then-7-year-old son, Tyler, in August 2005 when Katrina spun up out of the Gulf and took dead aim on New Orleans.

“Honestly, I almost didn’t leave for Katrina,” she said. “Nine out of 10 times, the hurricanes would turn, and it’s expensive to evacuate, especially our whole family. I didn’t leave until the morning Katrina hit. The tail of it

caught us the whole way to my uncle’s house in Pensacola.”

Watching the news from Pensacola while the edge of the hurricane loomed in the west, Adams saw the storm and its aftermath. “We were watching it all over the news: the Superdome, and the flooding, people on their roofs,” she said.

“It was horrible. But I didn’t cry. It still wasn’t real to me.”

When they were able to go home a week later, Adams finally found her tears. “On the ride home, there were just caravans of utility [repair] vehicles, from Georgia, from Florida, from Tennessee.

All these electric companies going to help,” she said. “That’s when it hit me.

That’s when I knew it was real. I cried the whole rest of the way home.”

Back in Louisiana, her worst fears were realized. Eight feet of murky water had stood in her home for days, cover-

ing everything she hadn’t brought with them in fish-smelling slime. There was a tree through the roof. Houses on her street had been raised to the slab by the force of the wind and water, and her son’s school had been destroyed. Her house was salvageable, but would have to be completely gutted, a process that would take over a year.

Adams and her son stayed in Florida for a month, moved to Texas to stay with friends, then leased a house in Tennessee. Later, they lived in a FEMA trailer in the front yard of their house. During that time, they came to Arkansas periodically to stay with friends, and Adams would cook for them. She had no formal training, but had grown up cooking, standing on a chair at the stove beside her dad. “Girls night out became Dinner at Mindy’s,” she said.

“They were like: You need to open a Cajun restaurant here! We don’t have any good food here! The more they talked about it, the more I was like, ‘You know …”

Though she had planned on staying in south Louisiana, it was something her son said while visiting Slidell in 2006 that finally made her leave for good. “There was still so much debris everywhere,” she recalled. “My son looked at me. He was 8 at the time.

And he said, ‘It’s never going to be the same, is it, mom?’ He just started crying. I thought: ‘I gotta get him out of here’ ... He cried so much about it. It hurt him to see the houses where his

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friends lived gone.”

Adams moved to Arkansas and bought a house near Sheridan in 2007.

She rememADAMS: Wants to bring bered her New Orleans to the world. friends raving over her cooking and decided to follow their advice into a culinary career. “I was like, if I’m going to do it, I have to get an education,” she said.

“I enrolled at Pulaski Tech Culinary …

Things have just kind of progressed from there.”

She hired on as executive chef at Mo’Betta Gumbo in October 2014 and the restaurant opened the following month. Adams said she insists on doing things there the same way she would

if she were back home, including having her bread, seafood and sausage trucked in from New Orleans. “My family ships food to me — my breads, po’boy bread,” she said. “I stock up on shrimp and boudin when I’m down there.”

These days, Adams is engaged and her son is grown. He was soon to ship out to the Marine Corps when I spoke to Adams in late August. Though Katrina was terrible, the storm blew her life in directions she couldn’t have considered before. She said she can’t imagine going back to south Louisiana now.

“My dreams are too big,” she said. “I want to open restaurants all over the country. I want to bring New Orleans to the world. That’s my ultimate goal.

That’s my dream. That’s my dream because of Katrina.”

For a full menu, directions and hours, visit Mo’Betta Gumbo on the web at mobettagumboar.com.

NEXT UP IN THE ARKANSAS TIMES Film Series, on Oct. 15, we’ll screen Otto Preminger’s great and strange 1944 film noir “Laura,” which Roger Ebert wrote “achieved a kind of perfection in its balance between low motives and high style.” Nominated for five Academy Awards, it has been called a “stone cold classic” by Indiewire.

“Less a crime film than a study in levels of obsession,” the Chicago Reader’s Dave Kehr wrote, “ ‘Laura’ is one of those classic works that leave their subject matter behind and live on the strength of their seductive style.”

IN A NOTE POSTED ON FACEBOOK over the weekend, Stickyz announced that their longtime soundman Mystro was “diagnosed with heart failure and stage 5 kidney failure,” after checking

himself into the emergency room at UAMS on Aug. 30. “He’s got a long road of treatment ahead with dialysis sessions multiple times a week for the foreseeable future,” the venue wrote, “but at least he is home now and feeling much better than when he first went in.” The post is also serving as an outlet for messages of encouragement and goodwill, with hundreds of comments already posted to that effect. Here at the Arkansas Times, we’re keeping Mystro in our thoughts.

LOOKING AHEAD THIS MONTH: At Verizon Arena, Motley Crue performs on Oct. 8; at Stickyz, Arkansas legend Tav Falco performs with Mike Watt on Oct. 19; at Revolution, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band plays Oct. 17 and the Drive-By Truckers play on Oct. 20; at South on Main, blues legend Leo Bud Welch performs on Oct. 22 with special guest Jimbo Mathus, fresh off the release of his new LP “Blue Healer”; at the White Water Tavern, the KABF-FM, 88.3, show “Girls!” presents a showcase on Oct. 16 featuring Spero, Ghost Bones and Bad Match; at Juanita’s, G-Funk icon Warren G plays on Oct. 15.

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arnelle Barnes, a Little Rock native well known as a member of the local rap group DMP, died Tuesday, Sept. 29, in a car accident near his home, friends say. DMP’s Khaliq Slater said that Barnes lived in the Emerald Mountain neighborhood with his mother, and was driving up a hill around the corner from his house when the accident occurred. He was 18 years old.

Barnes graduated from J.A. Fair High School earlier this year. He had joined DMP — which also includes Miles Flint and James Grant — in 2014.

Flint, who records under the name Jefe, met Barnes at Bryant Middle School, and the two reconnected last year because, Flint said, “he liked our music and started hanging out on the weekends at my brother’s house, and we just got closer and closer.” Barnes had been recording and appearing in music videos with the group ever since.

“He was always a jokester,” Flint said. “If there was ever a moment where no one was doing anything, he was the one who would start cracking jokes and play-fighting. He was playful.” His friends said Barnes had recently visited Atlanta to look into management opportunities for DMP. According to Flint, he met the acclaimed producer Drumma Boy, who “told Darnelle that next time he came back to Atlanta he would make us some beats.” Barnes was scheduled to go back Oct. 7.

Music video director Kenneth Bell, who shot several videos for the group, remembers Barnes as “real energetic and cool, always excited about whatever we were doing — shooting videos, making music. He really felt like he was going to go somewhere with what he was doing. He was going to do as much as he could, he was always excited.”

Bell was editing Barnes’ latest music video Tuesday morning when he heard the news. He remembers filming the clip with Barnes in Conway a few weeks ago: “One of his friends wanted to shoot at a gas station, which was our first stop.

We hopped out and started shooting, and 30 seconds later a guy pulled up and asked if we were making a music video and if he could join in. He ran over and started turning up with Darnelle, who was rapping. And after a few seconds he recognized Darnelle’s voice, and was like “Wait a second, are you from DMP?” He turns to his friend and was like, ‘Hey, this is DMP here!’ ” Barnes was proud of the group and its burgeoning success. In one of his last posts on Twitter, Sunday morning, he wrote, “I made it from nothing to something.”

“He really wanted to make it,” Slater said, “Rest in peace.”

Flint added, “Everybody needs to pray for his mom, his dad and his siblings.

This rap stuff doesn’t matter, it’s about the people that’s hurting. They just lost their baby. They lost their brother.”

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THURSDAY 10/1

KENT BABB: ‘THE INCREDIBLE RISE AND UNTHINKABLE FALL OF ALLEN IVERSON’

Noon. Sturgis Hall. Free, but reservations requested.

Allen Iverson’s career has long been one of the NBA’s most compelling spectacles, an arc that has been equal parts inspiring and tragic. Named Rookie of the Year in the 1996-97 season, Iver-

son went on to spend years racking up scoring titles and awards during his long association with the Philadelphia 76ers, despite an infamous distaste for practice (and passing) and the media’s fixation on his appearance and demeanor — he refused to pander to middlebrow respectability politics.

Since his retirement from basketball in 2013, the narrative has become a spiral of alcoholism, divorce and mounting

debts, complicated by legal troubles and a well-known gambling problem.

Award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb attempts to capture the whole equation in his new biography, “Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson,” which has made headlines for its brutal revelations about Iverson’s personal life. “He’s a man of extremes,” Babb told NPR recently. “He would

either be wonderful or terrible.” This is confirmed by the book’s reports of abuse, neglect and an overall indifference toward routine or rigor. The portrait is a complex one. Babb will discuss the book and sign copies at Sturgis Hall as part of the Clinton School of Public Service’s lecture series. Reserve seats by email (publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu) or phone (501-6835239).

FRIDAY 10/2-SATURDAY 10/3

HOT WATER HILLS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL $5. Hill Wheatley Plaza, Hot Springs. Various times.

HIGH TIMES: Rapper Young Dro performs at Revolution at 9 p.m. Friday, $20 adv., $30 day of.

FRIDAY 10/2

YOUNG DRO

9 p.m. Revolution. $20 adv., $30 day of.

Young Dro is among the most talented and periodically inspired members of the generation of Atlanta rappers now in their late 30s, a group that includes Gucci Mane, T.I. and Shawty Lo. For several years, about a decade ago, it seemed like he might break out and become as big and as relevant as any of them. Like Gucci, he painted abstract word portraits, choosing 42

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words for their sonic and emotional properties as much as for their meaning — rhyming “Arm & Hammer propaganda” with “salamander sandals,” say, on the biggest song of his career, “Shoulder Lean.” (Say the tonguetwister “I lay by my banana, dumping and punkin’ monkeys,” out loud and if you don’t enjoy it for its own sake, for the sheer joy of language alone, then maybe Dro isn’t for you.) His songs are melodic earworms, deliberately danceable and triumphant. I can still

get drawn into his 2002 anthem “Yes Sir,” on which he calls himself “hysterically classy,” and resigns himself — only partly tongue-in-cheek — to a life in the black market, over Casio orchestral swells. He’s been on a tear lately, with songs like “We In Da City” and “Ugh” that seem a little like bids for attention from the kids, on which he’s audibly scaled back his ambition.

To revisit his 2006 album “Best Thang Smokin’,” though, is to remember one of Atlanta rap’s peaks.

Bill Solleder was a refugee from the Chicago music scene (and a record deal gone sour) when he landed in Hot Springs with his wife, Shea Childs, in 2003. Before long they’d founded the beloved underground music festival Valley of the Vapors and a nonprofit umbrella group, Low Key Arts, for their various and sundry cultural efforts.

In an effort to, as Solleder told me last month, “embrace the whole town,” and to further the bourgeoning Spa City music scene they’d helped shepherd, the group started the family-friendly Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival in 2011, attracting many of Central Arkansas’s most popular and promising young acts to the center of downtown, Hill Wheatley Plaza. This year’s festival will feature art exhibitions, vendors, kid-oriented crafts, workshops and live performances by Ghost Bones (winners of the 2015 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase), Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass, Daniel Romano, Big Piph, Sad Daddy, Magnolia Suns and more.

IN BRIEF

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FRIDAY 10/2-SATURDAY 10/3

SUNDAY 10/4

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

8 p.m. Juanita’s. $15.

7:30 p.m. Donald W. Reynolds Library, UCA. Free.

Third Coast Percussion, the acclaimed and consistently experimental ensemble-inresidence at the University of Notre Dame, was formed by a group of young percussionists at Northwestern University in 2004. Sitting in with more traditional orchestras during the day, they rehearsed at night and played at underground and alternative venues and theaters around the city.

They gravitate toward modernists — they’ve recorded a whole album of John Cage compositions — and toward modernity, collaborating with architects, astronomers and app-designers. They’ve played with and premiered work by contemporary composers like David T. Little, Marcos Balter and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche. They’ve performed at many of the county’s most prestigious concert halls; the New Yorker has called them “vibrant” and “superb” and the New York Times once referred to them as “hard-grooving.”

They’ll visit the University of Central Arkansas this weekend as artists in residence, playing a free concert Friday at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall (no tickets required) and collaborating with UCA music students on a performance of Terry Riley’s famed “In C” at Simon Park at 11 a.m. Saturday. According to UCA music professor Dr. Blake Tyson, the group is known for “constantly hitting, scraping and shaking instruments like bells, gongs, toms, marimbas, tin cans, djembes and hundreds of other things that make fantastic sounds.

Not only is it great to listen to, it’s a lot of fun to watch.”

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ

José González is a Swedish songwriter best known for covering a Swedish song he didn’t write, The Knife’s “Heartbeats,” a performance that can still bring back vivid memories of circa-2006 TV dramas (“The O.C.,” “Scrubs,” “One Tree Hill,” etc.). He released a popular and critically acclaimed indie folk album, “In Our Nature,” in 2007, which he claimed was influenced by the writings of Richard Dawkins, and

returned earlier this year with “Vestiges & Claws,” his first full-length LP in almost a decade. He works in the pastoral, Nick Drake mode of hushed profundity, a style that many now associate with Starbucks or the self-hating “Garden State” generation. But he remains a good songwriter, cultural baggage aside — the kind of artist destined to soundtrack emotionally formative periods for young people — and the record has been greeted with nothing but goodwill.

The True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival starts Thursday and continues through Wednesday, Oct. 7, featuring readings, workshops, panel discussions and appearances by authors Zadie Smith and Lois Lowry, Fayetteville Public Library.

Dan Jones, former chancellor of the University of Mississippi, gives a lecture titled “A Personal Journey Through the Politics of Higher Education in the South,” at the Clinton School of Public Service’s Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. The Festival of Wines is at Dickey-Stephens Park, 6 p.m., $75. Comedian Mike Stanley is at the Loony Bin at 7:30 p.m., $7 (and at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $10).

Weekly stand-up show Hogging The Mic presents The Roast of Adam Faucett, a tribute to one of Little Rock’s best-loved songwriters, 9:30 p.m., The Joint. Former Staind frontman and now country singer Aaron Lewis performs at Juanita’s with Jason Cassidy and Cody Cook, 9 p.m., $40. Water Liars singer Pete Kinkel-Schuster plays at the White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 10/2

STUCK IN THE SOUTH: Adia Victoria is at the White Water Tavern at 9 p.m. Tuesday, $7.

TUESDAY 10/6

ADIA VICTORIA

9 p.m. White Water Tavern. $7.

“I don’t know nothin’ ’bout Southern belles, but I can tell you somethin’ ’bout Southern hell,” sings Adia Victoria, a South Carolina native and Nashville resident, on her breakout single, “Stuck in the South.”

The song earned her plaudits from Rolling Stone (who said she sounded like “PJ Harvey covering Loretta Lynn at a haunted debutante ball”) and Rookie Magazine (“Listening to Adia Victoria’s haunting Southern Gothic tales is like being dropped right into

a Tennessee Williams play, but one that’s been updated for right now”). She makes the kind of boundary pushing, dislocating Americana that’s become White Water’s specialty, and she’s working on a full-length with Roger Moutenot, who has produced records by Yo La Tengo and Sleater-Kinney. In interviews, she sketches a musical upbringing that begins with Outkast and Sonic Youth and culminates with an immersion in Nashville country culture: “It is interesting being the only black girl going out to the honky-tonks,” she told Rookie.

WEDNESDAY 10/7

TIG NOTARO

8 p.m. Hendrix College. Free.

Tig Notaro grew up in the suburbs of Houston and worked as a concert promoter before transitioning to comedy, appearing on “This American Life” and “The Sarah Silverman Program” and “Conan.” Her act was transformed in 2012, when she went

Dana Louise & The Glorious Birds play at Juanita’s, 7 p.m., free.

Enchant, R.I.O.T.S. and Inrage play at Vino’s. Renowned blues guitarist and Helena native CeDell Davis, now 88 years old, returns to White Water, 9:30 p.m., $10.

Eureka Springs roots and folk band Sad Daddy plays at South on Main, 10 p.m., $10.

SATURDAY 10/3 The Fall Chili Brawl, a block party and chili cook-off, is at Third and Rock streets. The 5th Annual Main Street Food Truck Festival, featuring music, art, vendors and 30 food trucks, is at 400 S. Main St. Goodtime Ramblers play at the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7-$12. Indie rock groups Teen Daze and Heavenly Beat play at Maxine’s, in Hot Springs, 10 p.m., $5.

MONDAY 10/5 onstage at Largo, in L.A., and began a set with the words “Good evening, I have cancer.” She has since become renowned for her frank and improbably funny discussions of her struggle with breast cancer, the subject of a Netflix documentary, “Tig,” and endorsements from Louis C.K., Amy Schumer and The New Yorker.

Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY’s List, speaks at the Clinton School of Public Service’s Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. Atlanta indie pop band Manchester Orchestra plays at Juanita’s with Kevin Devine & The God Damn Band and Big Jesus, 7:30 p.m., $17.50.

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p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501221-7568. www.blsdance.org.

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

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

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EVENTS

MUSIC

Aaron Lewis, Jason Cassidy, Cody Cook.

Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $40. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

Chris Long. Kent Walker Artisan Cheese, 6 p.m. 1515 E. 4th St. 501-301-4963. www.kentwalkercheese.com.

Daniel Romano & The Trilliums, Ryan Pickop, Dylan Earl. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100.

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

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

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

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

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

Mayday by Midnight (headliner), Smokey (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.

Pete Kinkel-Schuster (Water Liars). White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

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

COMEDY

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

The Roast of Adam Faucett. The Joint, 8:30 p.m. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

EVENTS

Festival of Wines. Dickey-Stephens Park, 6 p.m., $75. 400 W. Broadway, NLR. 501-664-1555. www. travs.com.

Hillcrest Shop & Sip. Shops and restaurants offer discounts, later hours, and live music. Hillcrest, first Thursday of every month, 5 p.m. P.O.Box 251522. 501-666-3600. www.hillcrestmerchants. com.

LECTURES

“Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson.” A talk by Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb. Sturgis Hall, noon. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-6835200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

“A Personal Journey Through the Politics of Higher Education in the South.” Dan Jones, 44

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HYSTERICAL REALISM: Novelist and essayist Zadie Smith will appear at the Fayetteville Public Library at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, as part of the Fayetteville Literary Festival.“Zadie Smith is one of the most accomplished and exciting writers working today,” University of Arkansas English professor Davis McCombs said. “Her novels bristle with fresh voices and ideas. Her fiction and essays tackle tough topics, both social and personal. We’re extremely pleased to bring her to Fayetteville for the True Lit festival.”

former chancellor of the University of Mississippi.

Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. Featuring readings, workshops and appearances by authors Zadie Smith and Lois Lowry. Fayetteville Public Library. 401 W. Mountain St., Fayetteville.

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

MUSIC

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

Annabelle Chairlegs, High Lonesome. Maxine’s, 10 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www. maxinespub.com.

Bob Livingston. Kent Walker Artisan Cheese, 7 p.m. 1515 E. 4th St. 501-301-4963. www.kentwalkercheese.com.

Brother Moses, Rollups, Rachel Mallin. The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100.

CeDell Davis. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

Dana Louise & The Glorious Birds. Juanita’s, 7 p.m., free. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-3721228. www.juanitas.com.

Enchant, R.I.O.T.S., Inrage. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival. Featuring Ghost Bones, Magnolia Suns, Daniel Romano, Adam Faucett, Big Piph and more. Hill Wheatley Plaza, Oct. 2-3, $5. Central Avenue downtown, Hot Springs.

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

Musicfest El Dorado. 3 Doors Down, Dwight

Yoakam, Jason D. Williams and more, Main Street, starts 6:30 p.m. Fri., noon Sat. $25-$40. musicfesteldorado.com.

Ramona & The Soul Rhythms (headliner), Richie Johnson (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. www. cajunswharf.com.

Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers.

Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $10-$15.

2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

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

Sad Daddy. South on Main, 10 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

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

Third Coast Percussion. Donald W. Reynolds Library, 7:30 p.m., free. 300 Library Hill, Mountain View.

Upscale Friday. IV Corners, 7 p.m. 824 W. Capitol Ave. Young Dro, Rod D, Young Freq, Errol Westbrook, 607. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20 adv., $30 day of. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-8230090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

COMEDY

“Lou Tells a Bog One.” An original production

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

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

DANCE

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

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11

2015 Ozark Mountain Brawl. A robotics competition for high school students. Holiday Inn, Airport, Oct. 2-3, 1 p.m., free. 3201 Bankhead Drive. 501-490-1000.

Fantastic Friday. Literary and music event, refreshments included. For reservations, call 479-968-2452 or email artscenter@centurytel. net. River Valley Arts Center, Every third Friday, 7 p.m., $10 suggested donation. 1001 E. B St., Russellville. 479-968-2452. www.arvartscenter.org.

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

800 Scott St.

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. See Oct. 1.

KIDS

“Puss in Boots.” Arkansas Arts Center, through Oct. 4: 7 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 3

MUSIC

DC & Baby E. Juanita’s, 10 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www. juanitas.com.

Gina Chavez with Handmade Moments. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Goodtime Ramblers. Afterthought Bistro & Bar, 9 p.m., $7-$12. 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501663-1196. www.afterthoughtbistroandbar.com.

Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival. See Oct. 2.

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

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

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

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

Karla Case Band (headliner), Ben Byers (happy hour). Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 and 9 p.m.

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

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

501-492-9802.

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

Lucious Spiller Band. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $5. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. www.stickyz.com.

Maddie Robinson. Kent Walker Artisan Cheese, 7 p.m. 1515 E. 4th St. 501-301-4963. www.kent-

walkercheese.com.

Musicfest El Dorado. See Oct. 1.

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

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

Teen Daze, Heavenly Beat. Maxine’s, 10 p.m., $5. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. www.maxinespub.com.

Third Coast Percussion: Terry Riley’s “In C.” Simon Park, 11 a.m., free. Front and Main, Conway.

The Weeping Gate, All Is At An End, Splattered In Traffic. Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. www.vinosbrewpub.com.

COMEDY

“Lou Tells a Bog One.” An original production

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

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

EVENTS

2015 Ozark Mountain Brawl. A robotics competition for high school students. Holiday Inn, Airport, 1 p.m., free. 3201 Bankhead Drive. 501490-1000.

Fall Chili Brawl. A block party featuring a chili cook-off, to benefit Youth Home. Downtown.

3rd Street between Rock and Cumberland.

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

Fifth Annual Main Street Food Truck Festival.

Featuring 30 food trucks, music, art and other vendors, at 400 S. Main St. Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. 2200 Kavanaugh Blvd.

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

Little Rock Downtown Navigators Tour. Starts at La Petite Roche Plaza. Downtown Little Rock, through Oct. 31: 4 p.m., free. Downtown.

Little Rock Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, through Oct. 31: 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

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

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. See Oct. 1.

KIDS

“Puss in Boots.” Arkansas Arts Center, through Oct. 4: 2 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501372-4000. www.arkarts.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 4

MUSIC

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

Blood Moon Trio. South on Main, noon, $10.

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

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

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

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

Left & Right. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. www.whitewatertavern.com.

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

TobyMac, Britt Nicole, Colton Dixon, Hollyn.

Walmart AMP, 7 p.m., $26-$65. 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. 479-443-5600. www. arkansasmusicpavilion.com.

EVENTS

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

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. See Oct. 1.

KIDS

“Puss in Boots.” Arkansas Arts Center, 2 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501-372-4000. www. arkarts.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 5

MUSIC

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

Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine & The God Damn Band, Big Jesus. Juanita’s, 7:30 p.m., $17.50. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501372-1228. www.juanitas.com.

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

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

LECTURES

Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY’s List.

Sturgis Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-683-5200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. See Oct. 1.

TUESDAY, OCT. 6

MUSIC

Adia Victoria. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $7.

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

Friday Maybe Saturday, The Inner Party.

The Lightbulb Club, 9 p.m. 21 N. Block Ave., Fayetteville. 479-444-6100.

Gil Franklin & Friends. Holiday Inn, North Little Rock, first Tuesday, Wednesday of every month.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Jam Session with Carl Mouton.

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

COMEDY

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

DANCE

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

EVENTS

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

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. See Oct. 1.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

MUSIC

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

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

Dana Falconberry. South on Main, 7:30 p.m., free.

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

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

Gil Franklin & Friends. Holiday Inn, North Little Rock, first Tuesday, Wednesday of every month.

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

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

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

2611 Kavanaugh Blvd. 501-663-6398.

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

Meg Myers, Jarryd James. Juanita’s, 9 p.m., $15. 614 President Clinton Ave. 501-372-1228. www.juanitas.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.

COMEDY

Christine Steadman. The Loony Bin, Oct. 7-10, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 9-10, 10 p.m., $7-$10. 10301 N.

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

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

Tig Notaro. Hendrix College, 8 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. www.hendrix.edu.

DANCE

Little Rock Bop Club. Beginning dance lessons for ages 10 and older. Singles welcome. Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 7 p.m., $4 for members, $7 for guests. 12th and Cleveland streets. 501-350-4712. www.littlerockbopclub.

LECTURES

EARTHtalk! Lecture Series. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 7 p.m. 2801 S. University. ualr.edu.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

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

BOOKS

True Lit Fayetteville Literary Festival. See Oct. 1.

ARTS

THEATER

“The Shape of Things.” A production of the play

by Neil Labute. The Weekend Theater, through

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AFTER DARK, CONT. Oct. 10: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., $12-$16. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. www.weekendtheater.org.

NEW GALLERY EXHIBITS, EVENTS ART GROUP GALLERY, Pleasant Ridge Town Center: New works, reception 4-8 p.m. Oct. 2. 590-5934.

BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: New pastels by Jason McCann, opening reception 6-9 p.m. Oct. 3. 664-0030.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: Installation of the Anne Frank Tree on the grounds, Oct. 2.

GALLERY 221, Pyramid Place, Second and Center sts.: “From the Ground Up,” paintings by EMILE, Oct. 5-Nov. 3, reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 9. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. GALLERY 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road: “Detalles,” new work by X3MEX, closing reception 7 p.m. Oct. 3.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Portraits,” paintings by Louis Beck, giclee giveaway drawing 7 p.m. Oct. 15. 6604006.

BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “Torchbearer of the American Home, Architect Edward Durrell Stone,” lecture by Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, professor, Fay Jones School of Architecture at the UA, 7 p.m. Oct. 2; “Hopper’s Stories,” lecture by Carol Troyen, Museum of Fine Arts Boston curator emeritus, 7 p.m. Oct. 7; “Jamie Wyeth,” retrospective of the artist’s career over 60 years from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through Oct. 5; “Warhol’s Nature,” from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, through Oct. 5, $4; 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. Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700.

CONWAY ART ON THE GREEN, Littleton Park: “A Place at the Table,” lunch with artist Bonnie McKay, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 1, reservation required. 501205-1922.

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SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. Fifth St.: “Within the Landscape,” paintings by David Mudrinich, Oct. 3-30, reception 6-8 p.m.

Oct. 3. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 870-862-5474.

FAYETTEVILLE THE SHED, 546 W. Center, Unit E: “Taking Root: Binding Ties,” pieced fabric dyed with plants

by Sofia V. Gonzalez, opens with reception 6-9 p.m. Oct. 1.

HOT SPRINGS Galleries along Central Avenue are open 5-9 p.m. Oct. 2 for the monthly Gallery Walk.

ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: “Flying High Without a Net,” art installation by sculptor Lori Arnold, mobiles by Gerald Delavan, trees by Kevin Chrislip.11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501-625-3001.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Work by Michael Ethridge, Amy Hill-Imler, Bob Snider, Ernest Nipper, Houston Llew. 501-318-4278.

HOT SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, 626 Central Ave.: Photo competition, through Nov. 28.

10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., open until 9 p.m. every 1st and 3rd Fri. 501-624-0489.

JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 Central Ave.: “Southern Sojourns,” paintings by Matthew Hasty, through October. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 501321-2335.

NEW MUSEUM EXHIBITS ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “The Evening Bag” fundraiser auction for the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 1, with music, hors d’oeuvres, wine, craft beers, art walk, $50, “Pinafores, Purses & Pigtails,” antique and vintage pinafores and purses, through October. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.Sun., $8-$10. 916-9022.

CALL FOR ENTRIES The Arkansas Arts Council is seeking nominations for the 2016 Arkansas Living Treasure designation, which honors an outstanding Arkansas traditional crafter who has significantly contributed to the preservation of the art form. Deadline for nominations is Nov. 6. Nomination forms are available at www.arkansasarts.org or by calling 324-9766. Nominations of artists who

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work in traditional craft forms such as weaving, broom making, leatherworking, metalsmithing and wood carving, toy making and doll making are encouraged. For more information, contact Robin Muse McClea, artist services program manager, at 324-9348 or email robinm@arkansasheritage.org.

The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting applications for Arts in Education and Arts for Lifelong Learning minigrants to schools and other institutions for 10-day residencies. For more information, contact Cynthia Haas, Arts in Education program manager, at 324-9769.

CONTINUING GALLERY EXHIBITS ARGENTA GALLERY, 406 Main St.: Paintings by Angela Davis Johnson, through Oct. 12.

ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “A Little Poetry: The Art of Alonzo Ford,” through Oct. 25. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORP., 400 River Market Ave., Suite 400: “infiniti no. 1,” woodcuts by Christa Marquez, sculpture by Patrick Fleming. 960-9524.

BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: “Gene Hatfield: Outside the Lines,” through Dec. 26; “Disparate Acts Redux,” paintings by David Bailin, Warren Criswell and Sammy Peters, through October; “Weaving Stories and Hope: Textile Arts from the Japanese Internment Camp at Rohwer, Arkansas,” through October. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 320-5790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: 6th annual “Arkansas League of Artists” juried show, through October. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST CHURCH GALLERY, 509 Scott St.: “Are We There Yet,” paintings by Diane Harper, opening reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 9, show through December.

GALLERY 221, Second and Center streets: Tyler Arnold, paintings; also work by Kathi Crouch, Jennifer “EMILE” Freeman, Tracy Hamlin, Greg Lahti, Sean LeCrone, Tracy Hamlin, Elizabeth Nevins, C.B. Williams, Gino Hollander and Rae Ann Bayless. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 801-0211.

GALLERY 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Daniel Broening and Renee Williams, through Oct. 24.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Best of the South,” work by John Alexander, Walter Anderson, Gay Bechtelheimer, Carroll Cloar, William Dunlap, Pinkney Herbert, Robyn Horn, Dolores Justus, Sammy Peters, Kendall Stallings, Donald Roller Wilson and others, through Nov. 14. 664-2787.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Beautiful Influences,” fired clay and mixed media by Chukes,” main gallery, through Oct. 17; paintings by Mason Archie and Dean Mitchell, Gallery II. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sat. 372-6822.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM GALLERIES, 200 E. 3rd St.: “Growing Up …

In Words and Images,” paintings by Joe Barry Carroll, through Jan. 3; “Katherine Rutter & Ginny Sims,” paintings and pottery, through Nov. 8; “Pop Up in the Rock: The Exhibit,” through Oct. 4; “Art. Function. Craft: The Life and Work of Arkansas Living Treasures,” works by 14 craftsmen honored by Arkansas Arts Council;

“Suggin Territory: The Marvelous World of Folklorist Josephine Graham,” through Nov. 29. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m.

Sun. 324-9351.

LAMAN LIBRARY ARGENTA BRANCH, 420 Main St.: “Delta des Refuses,” work by artists not accepted into the Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center, through Oct. 16. 665-0030.

M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: “Mikesell and EMILE,” new paintings by Michelle Mikesell and Jennifer Freeman; also work by V.L. Cox, Bryan Frazier, Spencer Zahm and others. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 225-6257.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Paintings

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

TRIO’S RESTAURANT, Pavilion in the Park, 8201 Cantrell Road: Paintings by G. Peebles, Pavilion Room, first in Fall Art Series. 221-3330.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: “Learning to Fish,” work by Rusty Scruby, through Oct. 2. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 569-8977.

ARKADELPHIA OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: Photographs by Andrè Kertèsz, Rosemary Gossett Adams Gallery, through Nov. 10. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 870-245-5565.

BENTON DIANNE ROBERTS ART STUDIO AND GALLERY, 110 N. Market St.: Work by Dianne Roberts, classes. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 860-7467.

BENTONVILLE 21c MUSEUM HOTEL, 200 NE A St.: “Duke Riley: See You at the Finish Line,” sculpture, and “Blue: Matter, Mood and Melancholy,” photographs and paintings. 479-286-6500.

CONWAY BOB’S GRILL, 1112 W. Oak St.: Independent Living Services art exhibit, through Oct. 3, an ArtsFest event. 501-329-9760.

FAULKNER COUNTY LIBRARY, 1900 W. Tyler St.: “Reimagine Society,” artwork by college students, through Oct. 3, an ArtsFest event.

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Sculpture by Dan Steinhilber, artist-in-residence, through Oct. 23, Baum Gallery. 501-450-5793.

FAYETTEVILLE THE FAYETTEVILLE UNDERGROUND, 101 W. Mountain St.: 21st annual “Artists of Northwest Arkansas Regional Art Juried Exhibition,” Oct. 1-31, awards reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 17.

479-871-2722.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Patrick Angus: Paintings and Works on Paper,” through Dec. 6. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 479-784-2787.

HELENA DELTA CULTURAL CENTER, 141 Cherry St.: “A Cast of Blues,” 15 resin-cast masks of blues legends by Sharon McConnellDickerson and 15 photographs of performers by Ken Murphy, through Oct. 20, talks by the artists 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 10 (King Biscuit Blues Festival), Delta Drop-In programs 11-11:30 a.m. Saturdays. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 870-338-4350.

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘THE INTERN’: Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro star.

An intern’s take On Robert De Niro in ‘The Intern.’

BY HEATHER STEADHAM

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PLACES TO VISIT

Mark and Patti Fleischner, third generation owners of LAURAY’S, have a team of diverse and talented diamond specialists and goldsmiths.

They provide inspiration and guidance in selecting your dream piece of jewelry. For over 91 years, Lauray’s has gained a reputation for exquisite bridal and custom designs, extraordinary service, repairs and hospitality. Lauray’s is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 1402 Central Ave., 321-2441, laurays.com Stop by STEINHAUS KELLER for the largest selection of German bier in the state and for their Oktoberfest Celebration Oct. 2-3. Located in the grotto at Spencer’s Corner, it has a unique cave-like atmosphere, full-service restaurant and live entertainment. 801 Central Ave., Ste. 15, 624-7866, realgoodgerman.com Always the center of activities in Hot Springs, THE ARLINGTON HOTEL is a twin-towered, 1924 landmark that is now the home of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. 239 Central Ave., 623-7771, arlingtonhotel.com

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MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM celebrates its 16th annual Taste of the Holidays on Thursday, Nov. 19 from 6-9 p.m. Presented by National Park Medical Center, the event will include locally handcrafted beer, cultivated wines, flavorful cocktails and spectacular eats from your favorite Hot Springs restaurants. Enjoy fun, hands-on science experiments, live entertainment and a silent auction. Tickets are $70 in advance and $85 at the event. For more information or to purchase tickets visit midamericamuseum.org/ taste-of-the-holidays or call 767-3461.

LOW KEY ARTS, a community arts organization, has regular programming promoting culture in the Spa City. One of their events, the annual Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival, takes place Oct. 2-3. The outdoor event features original music and fine artists and artisans from around the country. Kids will love the Art & Tinker Tent.

Gates open at 4 p.m. on Friday and noon on Saturday. The festival is located at Hill Wheatley Plaza, 629 Central Ave. Admission is $5. Kids under 12 get in free. For a complete schedule and artist lineup, visit hotwaterhills.com.

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s a 40-year-old intern who was once told “You’re the oldest intern I’ve ever seen,” I was particularly excited to see Robert De Niro, currently age 72, in “The Intern,” written and directed by Nancy Meyers of “It’s Complicated” and “Something’s Gotta Give” fame. I went in expecting a farce, in which senior citizen Ben (Robert De Niro) would foolishly fumble technology, and young company founder Jules (Anne Hathaway) would ridicule him, a relationship which, through the classic (and predictable) tale of young educating old and old appreciating young, would finally melt into a fondness for each other’s weaknesses and a kind-hearted ribbing sort of friendship.

Right off the bat, I was sure I was correct. The movie opens with Ben finding a flyer looking for “Seniors” interested in interning at All About the Fit, an online fashion store that is going supernova. Ha! I thought. This out-of-touch retiree will mistakenly apply for a position looking for fourth-year college students. Hilarity will ensue.

But the movie had more than a few surprises in store. First of all, the flyer clearly states they were looking for people 65 years or older; the typical “Three’s Company”-style misunderstandings were no longer a possibility. And while, in stereotypical fashion, Ben has to call his 9-year-old grandson to help him shoot his video cover letter, De Niro showcases his nuanced acting in the clip, declaring that he knows there’s a hole in his life he needs to fill and insisting, ever so vulnerably, that he still has “music” in him.

When Ben first enters All About the Fit’s refurbished factory space, “hipster” is the obvious name of the game: Jules rides around the office on a bicycle. The first girl who interviews Ben (wearing a sweatshirt and Converses to Ben’s suit and tie) asks him, “What was your major? Do you remember?” And the last to interview Ben asks him, “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” “When I’m 80?” Ben retorts.

But thanks to the senior intern program’s philosophy that people with decades of

life experience just might have more to contribute than people who spent the last four years playing beer pong, Ben is hired.

Ben’s old-fashioned ways and wisdom are an immediate hit with the young crowd. He props up an analog clock on his desk. His neighboring co-worker admires his 1973 briefcase. Ben asserts in the orientation that “Gray is the new green,” and (surprise, surprise) he is assigned to perform his internship directly with Jules.

Ben’s first task after days of being ignored? Get Jules’ jacket cleaned. But, as luck would have it, Ben enters the conference room to retrieve Jules’ jacket just in time to hear that, to her dismay, All About the Fit’s investors are strongly recommending Jules hire an experienced CEO. Business is booming, and they’re worried she might not be able to keep up with it on her own.

The business isn’t the only thing Jules isn’t keeping up with. She rarely sees her daughter, and her husband (who has chosen to stay at home so that Jules can pursue her dream) is having an affair.

If it weren’t for the intervention of Ben, she’d even have ended up being chauffeured around by a drunk. But the observant senior intercedes, and, despite Jules’ best efforts to keep him at arm’s length, a tender relationship between the two develops.

Yet again — at halfway through the movie this time — I thought I knew exactly how this movie would pan out.

Ben would become the revered sage in the office and Jules would realize that her best option would be to hire him as her CEO. Instead, Ben gets to be a tad goofy, just like all the young folks in his office: He sports an erection when the company massage therapist gives him a shoulder rub (prompting the twentysomething next to him to loan him a newspaper for cover), and he stages a heist with his zany sidekicks to retrieve an irritated email Jules doesn’t want her mother to see. But through it all, De Niro remains even-keeled and endearing. And when it comes time for Jules to hire a CEO, you might be just as surprised as I was.

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ANNOUNCING The 2015 ARKANSAS TIMES WHOLE HOG ROAST

WHOLE HOG

benefiting

Argenta Arts District

SATURDAY, NOV. 14 RAIN OR SHINE Argenta Farmers Market Events Grounds , 5 until 9 PM

Tickets $15/$20 Day of benefiting

Argenta Arts District

TICKETS: ARKTIMES.COM/HOG15

TICKETS: ARKTIMES.COM/HOG15

WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING:

AMATEUR TEAMS are considered individuals or businesses not connected to any particular restaurant, food truck or catering companies. Amateur teams will be preparing at least 30 pounds of pork butt. Amateur teams wanting to enter our People’s Choice “No Butts About It” will need to provide an option such as chicken wings, thighs, ribs, goat, stuffed jalapenos, anything besides pork butt - be creative. This is a separate award for amateurs only. Edwards Food Giant is offering 20% discount on meat purchases.

Entry fee: $75

Arkansas Times and the Argenta Arts District are now accepting both AMATEUR and PROFESSIONAL TEAMS to compete in our 3rd annual Whole Hog Roast

BEER & WINE GARDEN

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

Loblolly ice cream will be for sale.

PROFESSIONAL TEAMS are considered restaurants, catering companies and food trucks. Professional teams will be preparing a whole hog from Ben E. Keith Company Entry fee: $500 and includes the whole hog, pick up by Nov. 11.

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Each team must provide two sides serving at least 50 people each.

CURRENT ROAST COMPETITORS AMATEUR TEAMS:

L.A. SMOKERS (LEVY AREA SMOKERS) COWBOY CAFE · SMOKIN’ BUTZ SMOKE CITY LIMITS

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

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL TEAMS ARKANSAS ALE HOUSE · COUNTRY CLUB OF ARKANSAS · MIDTOWN BILLIARDS SO RESTAURANT-BAR · CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER

Deadline to enter: October 16

To enter, contact Drue Patton dpatton@argentadc.org or Phyllis Britton phyllis@arktimes.com www.arktimes.com

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Information in our restaurant capsules reflects the opinions of the newspaper staff and its reviewers. The newspaper accepts no advertising or other considerations in exchange for reviews, which are conducted anonymously. We invite the opinions of readers who think we are in error.

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ THE 5TH ANNUAL MAIN STREET Food Truck Festival is coming Oct. 3 with a record number of trucks promised (at least 45).

Among those participating are Banana Leaf, Beast Food Truck, The Clean Eatery, Eat My Catfish, Katmandu Momo, La Herradura, Le Pops, Loblolly Creamery, Luncheria Mexicana Alicia, The Pie Hole, Slader’s Alaskan Dumpling Co., The Southern Gourmasian and Southern Salt Food Co. There will also be beer gardens, kids activities, artists and buskers working each block.

The event will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. along Main Street between Third and Eighth streets.

REBEL KETTLE BREWING IS pointing to opening at 822 E. Sixth St. before the end of 2015, head brewer John Lee tells the Arkansas Times. “Right now we’ll be working with four core beers, two seasonals, and also every quarter we’ll have at least a couple of experimentals,” Lee said. “With the 16 taps we’ll have here at the taproom, we want several different eclectic beers along with the regulars.” The four core beers: American blonde ale, an American IPA, a cream stout and a double brown.

DINING CAPSULES

AMERICAN

BEST IMPRESSIONS The menu combines Asian, Italian and French sensibilities in soups, salads and meaty fare. A departure from the tearoom of yore. 501 E. Ninth St. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-907-5946. L Tue.-Sun., BR Sat.-Sun. BOSTON’S Ribs and gourmet pizza star at this restaurant/sports bar located at the Holiday Inn by the airport. TVs in separate sports bar area. 3201 Bankhead Drive. Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-235-2000. LD daily.

BOUDREAUX’S GRILL & BAR A homey, seat-yourself Cajun joint in Maumelle that serves up all sorts of variations of shrimp and catfish. With particularly tasty red beans and rice, jambalaya and bread pudding. 9811 Maumelle Blvd. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $$.

501-753-6860. LD daily.

BUTCHER SHOP The cook-your-own-steak option has been downplayed, and several menu additions complement the calling card: large, fabulous cuts of prime beef, cooked to perfection. 10825 Hermitage Road. Full bar, all CC. $$$. 501-312-2748. D daily.

CACHE RESTAURANT A stunning experience on the well-presented plates and in terms of atmosphere, glitz and general feel.

It doesn’t feel like anyplace else in Little Rock, and it’s not priced like much of anywhere else in Little Rock, either. But there are options 50

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FOUR GOOD THINGS AT DAVID FAMILY KITCHEN: Yams, crispy fried chicken, silky cabbage and real cornbread.

Get two pork chops David Family Kitchen holds its own.

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fter a group of us made a recent lunchtime trip to David Family Kitchen, the neighborhood soul food institution at 23rd and Broadway streets, a dispute arose in the parking lot over the inevitable question: How did the fried chicken hold up to Gus’s?

“Maybe the best in town. Way better than Gus’s,” declared one of our party with conviction. David Family Kitchen serves up chicken with perfectly juicy meat and perfectly crunchy skin, she said, a consequence of frying it superhot in a light batter. Gus’s skin, on the other hand, she characterized as “leathery and chewy.”

Another among our number, a Gus’s partisan, gave a disbelieving shake of her head but was too polite to argue the point in person. She laid out her grievances with DFK later in writing: “For me flavorful and crisp breading is what makes fried chicken wonderful, and unfortunately the breading here was hit and miss. The seasoning was

pleasant, but the crunch was inconsistent — too hard and dry in some places and too moist in others.”

A breast and wing plate is $7.25 and can be upgraded to two breasts for $8.50.

Like all prices listed in this review, that includes two sides and a yeast roll or cornbread.

The catfish — served on Fridays only — garnered more uniform praise. Arkansas catfish joints tend to smother their fillets in a medieval-thick armor of cornmeal, and though this technique has its virtues, the lighter, flakier batter David Family Kitchen uses on its fish is a welcome departure. Tender and not the least bit stringy, you’d be a fool to get just one fillet when you could get two for a dollar more ($8.99 for two). Ditto on the fried pork chops, which a single contrarian member of our crew insisted on ordering. The verdict? “A little dry.”

A pause. “Oh, but definitely get two.” ($7.25 for one chop, $8.50 for two.)

At David Family Kitchen, the staff

David Family Kitchen 2301 S. Broadway St. 371-0141

QUICK BITE If not the best fried chicken in town, it’s certainly a top contender. DFK features catfish on Fridays, oxtails most Tuesdays and Thursdays, and fried pork chops any day of the week, with a rotating cast of other entrees and sides. Don’t miss the peach cobbler and other desserts.

HOURS 6 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. breakfast, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. lunch Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday and Saturday.

OTHER INFO No alcohol, all credit cards accepted.

is friendly, the walls could use a new coat of paint and the lopsided tabletops are splashed with Jackson Pollack-inspired designs and tagged with small plaques bearing mysterious names (“Voyager,” “Black Hole,” “Apocalypse”). You get a cafeteria tray and silverware, then choose your meat and vegetables. Besides the chicken and pork chops, other entrees slip on and off the menu throughout the week: When we returned on Sunday, lunch options included turkey and dressing, spaghetti and, for the truly initiated, boiled chitterlings. (We stuck with the chicken.) Oxtails usually appear on Tuesday and Thursday, smoked neck-

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bones on Wednesday. There’s also an enticing breakfast menu that we have yet to explore and which is served from 6 a.m. onward, weekdays only.

Let’s talk sides. The excellent cabbage, boiled to a pale and silky tenderness, lent the merest suggestion of greenery to our lunch. The mac and cheese was only passable and required Pollack-level application of Louisiana hot sauce to sustain our interest. But don’t overlook the pinto beans — humblest of all sides — which actually taste like real home-cooked beans rather than pure ham. In our opinion, overwhelming vegetables with an excess of pork constitutes a misuse of both pig and bean, a conflating of seasoning with the main event. It’s a rare thing for a restaurant to make pinto beans right, but David Family Kitchen does.

Also done right are the yams, that Southern solution to refusing to wait for dessert. Yes, pedants, we’re actually talking about sweet potatoes, and we know “yams” are properly a starchy tuber of an unrelated plant family, but language is mutable, and candied yams are candied yams. These were perfectly

dressed and cooked — not too mushy, and oozing with butter, sugar and pure happiness, in the words of one diner.

When we asked if there was sugar in the cornbread, the woman serving us laughed and said, no, we make cornbread. Meaning that she considers Northern-style cornbread an abomination. We happen to like it both ways, but DFK’s — which apparently uses both white and yellow cornmeal — was good, and better with butter. The sweet tea was more sweet than tea, and likely made with the instant stuff. This may explain why the gentleman who brought out the unsweet tea, which is kept behind the counter in a pitcher instead of at the drink stand, called it “the real tea.”

Dessert was another highlight. Our table shared bowls of cobbler brimming with lightly cinnamoned peaches and dough that struck just the right proportion of toasted to squishy ($2.50). The sweet potato pie was also superb ($1.75) and was significantly less sweet than the yams, which wasn’t hard to do. Unfortunately, it appears only on Sundays as well, but other pies pop up throughout the week.

DINING CAPSULES, CONT. to keep the tab in the reasonable range. 425 President Clinton Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$$.

501-850-0265. LD Mon.-Fri., D Sat. CHEDDAR’S Large selection of somewhat standard American casual cafe choices, many of which are made from scratch. Portions are large and prices are very reasonable. 400 S. University.

Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-614-7578. LD daily.

CRUSH WINE BAR An unpretentious downtown bar/lounge with an appealing and erudite wine list. With tasty tapas, but no menu for full meals. 318 Main St. NLR. Beer and wine, all CC. $$. 501-374-9463. D Tue.-Sat. DIZZY’S GYPSY BISTRO Interesting bistro fare, served in massive portions at this River Market favorite. 200 River Market Ave. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-375-3500. LD Tue.-Sat. THE FADED ROSE The Cajun-inspired menu seldom disappoints. Steaks and soaked salads

are legendary. 1619 Rebsamen Park Road. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-663-9734. LD daily.

FRESH: AN URBAN EATERY Sandwiches, salads and pizza, all made using quality ingredients. 1706 W. Third St. No alcohol, CC. $-$$.

501-319-7021. BL Mon.-Sat. FRONTIER DINER The traditional all-American roadside diner, complete with a nice selection of man-friendly breakfasts and lunch specials.

The half pound burger is a two-hander for the average working Joe. 10424 Interstate 30. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-565-6414. BL Mon.-Sat. RIVERSHORE EATERY A River Market vendor that specializes in salads, sandwiches, wings and ice cream. 400 President Clinton Ave. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-244-2326. LD Mon.-Sat. ZIN URBAN WINE & BEER BAR This is the kind of sophisticated place you would expect to find in a bar on the ground floor of the Tuf-Nut

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by Chi’s founder Lulu Chi, this Chinese mainstay still offers a broad menu that spans the Chinese provinces and offers a few twists on the usual local offerings. 5110 W. Markham St. Beer, all CC. $-$$. 501-604-7777. LD Mon.-Sat. FLAVOR OF INDIA Southern Indian food, including chaat (street food), dosas with lentils, rice and other ingredients, lentil soup, coconut chutney, and northern dishes as well.

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VEGGI DELI A small cafe in the back of the massive Indian and Mediterranean supermarket Asian Groceries, where vegetarian chat (South Indian street food) is the specialty.

Let no one complain about our woeful lack of vegetarian restaurants before trying the food here. 9112 N. Rodney Parham. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-221-9977. LD Tue.-Sun. (closed at 7:30 p.m.).

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CHATZ CAFE ‘Cue and catfish joint that does heavy catering business. Try the slow-smoked, meaty ribs. 8801 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, all CC. $-$$. 501-562-4949. LD Mon.-Sat. PIT STOP BAR AND GRILL A working-man’s bar and grill, with barbecue, burgers, breakfast and bologna sandwiches. 5506 Baseline Road. Full bar, No CC. $$. 501-562-9635. LD daily.

WHITE PIG INN Go for the sliced rather than chopped meats at this working-class barbecue cafe. Side orders — from fries to potato salad to beans and slaw — are superb, as are the fried pies. 5231 E. Broadway. NLR. Beer, all CC. $-$$.

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CAFE BOSSA NOVA A South American approach to sandwiches, salads and desserts, all quite good, as well as an array of refreshing South American teas and coffees. 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-614-6682. LD Tue.-Sat., BR Sun. DUGAN’S PUB Serves up Irish fare like fish and chips and corned beef and cabbage alongside classic bar food. The chicken fingers and burgers stand out. Irish breakfast all day. 401 E. 3rd St. Full bar, all CC. $-$$. 501-244-0542.

LD daily.

THE PANTRY CREST Czech and German comfort food with a great bar menu. 722 N. Palm St. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-725-4945.

D Mon.-Sat. TAJ MAHAL The third Indian restaurant in a onemile span of West Little Rock, Taj Mahal offers upscale versions of traditional dishes and an extensive menu. Dishes range on the spicy side.

1520 Market Street. Beer, all CC. $$$. 501-8814796. LD daily.

YA YA’S EURO BISTRO The first eatery to open in the Promenade at Chenal is a date-night affair, translating comfort food into beautiful cuisine.

Best bet is lunch, where you can explore the menu through soup, salad or half a sandwich.

17711 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-821-1144. LD daily, BR Sun.

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BRAVO! CUCINA ITALIANA This upscale Italian chain offers delicious and sometimes inventive dishes. 17815 Chenal Pkwy. Full bar, all CC. $$$. 501-821-2485. LD daily. BR Sun. BRUNO’S LITTLE ITALY Traditional Italian antipastos, appetizers, entrees and desserts.

Extensive, delicious menu from Little Rock standby. 310 Main St. Full bar, CC. $$-$$$.

501-372-7866. D Tue.-Sat. OLD CHICAGO PASTA & PIZZA This national chain offers lots of pizzas, pastas and beer. 4305 Warden Road. NLR. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-812-6262. LD daily. 1010 Main St. Conway.

Full bar, all CC. $$. 501-329-6262. LD daily.

VINO’S Great rock ‘n’ roll club also is a fantastic pizzeria with huge calzones and always improving home-brewed beers. 923 W. 7th St. Beer and wine, all CC. $-$$. 501-375-8466.

LD daily.

ZAZA Here’s where you get wood-fired pizza with gorgeous blistered crusts and a light topping of choice and tempting ingredients, great gelato in a multitude of flavors, callyour-own ingredient salads and other treats.

5600 Kavanaugh Blvd. Beer and wine, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-661-9292. LD daily. 1050 Ellis Ave. Conway. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$. 501-336-9292.

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CANTINA LAREDO This is gourmet Mexican food, a step up from what you’d expect from a real cantina, from the modern minimal decor to the well-prepared entrees. We can vouch for the enchilada Veracruz and the carne asada y huevos, both with tasty sauces and high quality ingredients perfectly cooked. 207 N. University.

Full bar, all CC. $$$. 501-280-0407. LD daily, BR Sun. LOCAL LIME Tasty gourmet Mex from the folks who brought you Big Orange and ZaZa. 17815 Chenal Parkway. Full bar, all CC. $$-$$$.

501-448-2226. LD daily.

PONCHITO’S MEXICAN GRILL Mexican food and drinks, plus karaoke on the patio 6-9 p.m.

Thursdays with DJ Greg, happy hour on beers weekdays. 10901 N. Rodney Parham Road. Full bar, Beer. 501-246-5282.

ROSALINDA RESTAURANT HONDURENO A Honduran cafe that specializes in pollo con frito tajada (fried chicken and fried plaintains). With breakfast, too. 3700 JFK Blvd.

NLR. No alcohol, No CC. $-$$. 501-771-5559.

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SENOR TEQUILA Typical cheap Mexcian dishes with great service. Good margaritas.

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TACO MEXICO Tacos have to be ordered at least two at a time, but that’s not an impediment. These are some of the best and some of the cheapest tacos in Little Rock. 7101 Colonel Glenn Road. No alcohol, No CC. $. 501-4167002. LD Wed.-Sun. TAMALITTLE RESTAURANT Authentic Mexican food, including pastes, flour-based small empanada-like pastries stuffed with a variety of Mexican ingredients, and other traditional dishes. 102 Markham Park Drive.

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the law is being complied with. … Someone must have the authority to verify that abortion clinics in our state that are killing little babies in mother’s wombs are following Arkansas law.

“We know for a fact that due to the Arkansas Medical Board purposely dragging their feet, several thousand abortions occurred after March 2014 when Judge Wright issued her ruling upholding the informed consent provisions of the act and November 2014 when the Arkansas Medical Board finally issued rules. … I want answers. How many babies might have been saved if their mother chose not to proceed with an abortion if they were advised of the presence of a heartbeat of their baby within the womb? … If the Arkansas Medical Board has been negligent in their duties to enforce the law, we will consider appropriate action.”

The email was not sent directly to the Medical Board but was copied to O’Dwyer, as well as Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and other legislators.

Brech then replied to Rapert: “I have consistently treated all requests for information as FOIA requests to ensure their timely response from the custodian of the records in question. Are you suggesting that we could go to the clinic, copy their records, and provide them to you under another law? I can assure you that neither I nor the Department has withheld any information in an attempt to keep from you whether Act 301 is being complied with.

O’Dwyer responded Aug. 26 to Rapert’s email: “… First let me say that the Medical Board by no means ‘dragged its feet’ in passing a regulation. After Judge Wright issued her opinion in 2014, the Board, in August 2014, discussed the opinion and the need for the regulation and the basic outline of the regulation. The Board reviewed a final proposed version during its October meeting and after the December public hearing it was passed. … With regard to the remaining concerns, I’m not really sure, as I understand there have been previous discussions regarding this issue to which I was not a part, what you’re needing from the Medical Board. The Medical Board regulates the practice of physicians in this state. … To date, we have not had a complaint filed with the Board regarding any issue contemplated by Act 301.”

That response got a rise out of Rapert, who replied: “The fact that the Medical Board had one year to prepare a rule to be in compliance and did not do so is your prob-

lem, not mine. The fact that the Medical Board did not have a rule in place does not negate a statute in the state of Arkansas. Are you telling me now that several thousand abortions were conducted in violation of the Arkansas Heartbeat Protection Act? Advise us how the Medical Board verifies that provisions of the Arkansas Heartbeat Protection Act have been complied with and show me proof.

“I urge you to provide this information by the end of the week. I am weary of the shell game — prove to me that abortion clinics are complying with the law and that the Arkansas Medical Board is enforcing the law. I look forward to hearing from you. I am scheduling a hearing before Insurance and Commerce, but I wanted you to have time to be able to answer with confidence before having the Arkansas Medical Board testify in committee.”

In response, O’Dwyer emailed Rapert to say, “I have never said or suggested that thousands of abortions were conducted in violation of the Arkansas Heartbeat Protection Act. I have absolutely no evidence that has occurred. The Board has never received a complaint from any source regarding any alleged violation of the Act. I’m not nor have I ever played any games regarding this issue.”

O’Dwyer said Monday he believed that was the end of the communication between him and Rapert. The Medical Board was not called to testify.

As to “foot dragging” on the regulations required by the act, O’Dwyer said the Medical Board, which meets only every other month, took the issue up in August 2014 after waiting to see if the attorney general’s office would appeal the ruling and implemented the rule

by December, which he said was fairly speedy for a regulatory body. (Rutledge has since announced her intention to appeal the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding Wright to the Supreme Court.)

Brech has since informed Rapert that he had a “chance to review documentation that we had from an abortion provider, because I wanted to ensure that it did comply with Act 301.” The form provides patients the statistical probability of having a miscarriage and not the statistical probability of carrying the baby to term. “This may be a technicality, but I thought I should bring it to your attention.”

Rapert had not replied to a request for comment from the Arkansas Times by press time on whether he was now satisfied that abortion providers were in compliance with the law.

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DUMAS, CONT. down the government for a long period and defaulting on public debts would bring the cataclysm for the currency and the economy that economists have always predicted. So they planned a vote on vacating the speakership, and too many others in what passes for the moderate faction were fed up with Boehner’s irresolution and his occasional hamhandedness, as with the effort to force congressional staffs to abandon their traditional government health plans for the Obamacare version while finagling secretly to do the opposite.

When Nixon resigned in August 1974, cheers resounded across the land — from Democrats. When Sen. Marco Rubio announced at the right-wing Republican caucus of religious “values” voters that Boehner had just resigned, the crowd

went wild with jubilation. They were his own people.

Here is the factor that may have decided it for Boehner: All the Republican candidates for president except Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Rand Paul on his good days, all chasing those “values” voters, have joined the blackmail faction and support the doomsday option — never compromise, shutter the government, trigger default if it comes to it, and bully or go to war with every potential adversary or malingering ally abroad.

Can Boehner’s successor manage the party’s competing interests any better or even as well? He might adopt the pope’s now-famous plea to Americans: Pray for me.

LYONS, CONT. the agreement of his GOP antagonists to vote for a “clean” continuing resolution keeping the government funded through mid-December with no demands to defund Planned Parenthood — the latest publicity stunt of the extreme right. After that, all bets are off.

“November and December are going to be like Dante’s ‘Inferno’ around here,” New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pas-

crell Jr. told the New York Times.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Republican voters oppose shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood by 56-36 percent. Americans overall oppose the idea by 69-23 percent.

All that’s needed is a speaker strong enough to put country above party.

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MAUMELLE CIVIL SERVICE ENTRY LEVEL POLICE EXAM The CITY OF MAUMELLE announces Civil Service examination for the position of entry level Police Officer will be given on Saturday, October 17, 2015.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR TAKING THE EXAM ARE: 1- Be a United States Citizen 2- Be the age of 21 on date of the exam (Police Exam) 3- Be able to pass a background check, a drug test, and/or physical examination 4- Possess a high school diploma or equivalent 5- Possess a valid Arkansas driver’s license Beginning salary is $30,334.00 per year; the City offers an excellent employee benefit package.

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