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Thank you In less than two weeks, We the People are about to roll the dice and elect our next president. Just enough time left to dash off a few well-deserved thank you notes … .

So first of all, a great big thank you to our Arkansas watchdog tea parties, and to their patron saints the Koch brothers, for birthing them out of the smoldering ashes of daddy’s John Birch Society. Good to know that old-fashioned, flag-waving, Bible-thumping, patriotic paranoia never goes out of style.

And a special thanks for the right wing’s frenzied letters and blogs and banners that openly confess all that moulders in their inky souls. Their hatred of the black man in the White House, their love of Fox News and fake web sites, and their fixation on some dead guy named Saul Alinsky. Their heroes are legion, demigods of the email underworld, supermen like Dinesh D’Souza and David Barton and Robert Jeffress and even Billy’s boy, the very, very reverend Franklin Graham.

Always pro-life and yet always eager for more kill-them-all smiting. Always peddling an improbable myth of American exceptionalism to beguiled folk along the desperate fringes of reality.

Thank you, Republican Party, for your

three-ring political circus that gave us blow-dried, blowhard, scary-clown Donald J. Trump. He almost makes us miss George Bush and his bloody wars and blown-up economies. Almost.

Thank you religious zealots, for showing us your real family values. If you ever held dear the radical example of your long-ago messiah, you’ve clearly left it all behind for a last-stand mess of Machiavellian pottage, a devil’s deal to somehow save the Supreme Court from godless liberals. We marvel at your mountainmoving faith in a madman who promises to build a beautiful wall that others will pay for, banish dusky strangers from this fair-skinned land and bring us into a millennium of it-will-be-so-fantastic gospel prosperity.

Thank you, Mr. Trump, for making us believe again in the magic of hair spray.

Thank you, America, for scaring the bejeezus out of every sentient being on our fragile planet. The world waits and wonders — and trembles — that we could even remotely consider this preening, predatory trumpery of a little man.

And finally, a brief apology to our neighbors in Canada and Mexico. We’re really, really sorry.

John Ragland Hot Springs

Midwifery regulation Currently, the Arkansas Department of Health is proposing very restrictive midwifery rules on Arkansas families. We already have some of the most restrictive in the country. The ADH has outlined a number of medical procedures and tests to which they will soon mandate mothers consent to as a condition of being cared for by a midwife, rather than a physician.

If the mother doesn’t consent she will lose her midwife. It doesn’t matter how far along the mother is in her pregnancy.

Many obstetricians will not accept pregnant patients in the third trimester and some are unable to take any new patients.

If these mothers can’t find a doctor, they may experience a gap in maternity care, go without maternity care for the duration of their pregnancy, or hire an unlicensed midwife. Mothers who have had a previous caesarean are currently prohibited from hiring a midwife under Arkansas law. This mother will likely deliver in a hospital with a “policy” that requires she have another surgical birth.

There is a local law regarding the health department’s authority to regulate public health. It states the government cannot infringe on a citizen’s right to a health care provider, practitioner or

healer. Furthermore, the proposed midwifery rules only impact women, who are a protected class. Additionally, there are ethical and anti-trust implications when a government agency, through a board of doctors who are also market participants, decides to make extremely personal health care decisions for women. The board members have a financial incentive to prevent families from hiring midwives and designing rules that make it difficult for them to keep a midwife.

The medical procedures and tests the ADH wants to mandate are procedures that expectant mothers can rightfully decline while under the care of a physician. When they make an informed choice to do so they will not lose their doctor, so why should they lose their midwife?

There is a Midwifery Advisory Board, comprised of consumers and midwives, who advise the ADH during the rulemaking process. They will have a public meeting sometime in November where the changes will be discussed. We want the public to attend.

Kesha Chiappinelli Little Rock

From the web In response to the Oct. 23 Arkansas Blog post “Welfare for the wealthy: More reasons to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3”: At some point, even when it comes to fishing, the streams run out of naive, born-in-the-stock-pond trout that will bite on anything.

Then there’s nothing left but skeptical natives who’ve seen it all before and have a pretty good idea of what’s food and what’s just bait.

“Economic development”? “Jobs creation”? … What else you got?

Joe Quimby The same people who are proposing this hogfest are the ones who complain continually against food stamps (SNAP) and other help for the less well-off, many of whom work for these same companies, with their low pay, less than 40-hour work week and lousy to no benefits.

The Good Suit Club, the Chambers and the 1 percent led by the Republican Party that routinely has a hatefest on the poor because of “welfare” are leading the way to take 10 to 100 times more for the already rich and those who contribute (bribe) to their campaigns. This is a definite NO! couldn’t be better

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‘LIVING LEGEND’: Union Pacific’s No. 844 steam locomotive made its way through the North Little Rock train yard on Oct. 24. The 907,980 pound train was the last steam locomotive made for Union Pacific and is amid a 1,200 mile journey that will end in Cheyenne, Wyo. on Oct. 31. This is the first multi-state excursion for the locomotive since completion of a three yearlong restoration.

WEEK THAT WAS

“ D o n a l d Trump’s going to win the election … and let me tell you why. There are so many people in America who are going to vote for Donald Trump [but] they don’t want to tell anybody because to do so, the media will label them as a racist, a bigot, an Islamophobe, a xenophobe, misogynist. They’re not going to tell anybody, but by gosh, when they go into that voting booth they’re going to vote for Trump.”

— Former Gov. Mike Huckabee on Fox News, denying the reality of Trump’s slide in national polls over the past month.

Left and right against Issue 3 The worst proposal remaining on the Nov. 8 ballot is Issue 3, which would allow the state to pledge unlimited public money to private projects and give local governments latitude to spend tax dollars on businesses and chambers of commerce in the name of “economic development.” For once, the conservative group 6

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Conduit for Action is on the right side of an issue: It’s buying ads in opposition to this giveaway of public funds. Americans for Prosperity, the political organization funded by the Koch brothers, is also making the argument against Issue 3, which it called a “serious risk to economic freedom and limited government in the Natural State” in a recent Facebook post.

The conservative activists are on the mark. Issue 3 is a bald example of corporate welfare, masked in the language of “job creation.” The group pushing the amendment is funded heavily by chambers of commerce, many of whom received handouts from local governments over the years until a recent lawsuit put a stop to the practice of appropriating public money to local chambers.

Now the business interests want to revive the practice by enshrining it in the state constitution; it’s up to voters to say no.

Not in our backyard Three Republican congressmen issued a news release objecting to the resettlement of refugees in Arkansas by the nonprofit Canopy NWA, which applied for certification from the U.S. State Department to help resettle people fleeing violence in Syria and

other places. U.S. Reps. Steve Womack, Bruce Westerman and Rick Crawford wrote Secretary of State John Kerry to declare that “we cannot support a program that brings refugees into our nation who could pose a national security threat.” Evidently, that includes children and families. A spokesman for Catholic Charities, which is partnering with Canopy NWA, said the effort would probably amount to one or two refugee families a month at first and perhaps 100 people per year after that.

Since the civil war began, approximately 4.8 million Syrians have fled the country.

High stakes, big losses The ballot proposal to install three new casinos in Arkansas is now dead, but committee finance reports filed last week show just how much it cost to wage the battle over Issue 5. The Cherokee Nation contributed $6 million to the effort to install new casinos via constitutional amendment, including a specific carve-out in Washington County for Oklahoma-based Cherokee National Businesses LLC. On the other side of the issue, the owners of Southland Gaming in West Memphis and Oaklawn Racing

and Gaming in Hot Springs — Arkansas’s two existing casinos, which chafed at the thought of competition — spent almost $1.5 million to oppose Issue 5.

Now it’s a moot point: Earlier this month, the Arkansas Supreme Court disqualified the measure from the ballot.

A new Chinese import: jobs After a trip to China to talk trade, Governor Hutchinson announced that a Chinese garment company plans to open a $20 million factory in Little Rock that will employ 400 workers at around $14 an hour. The Suzhou Tianyuan Garments Co. will make adidas apparel.

Arkansas is offering the manufacturer over $3 million in grants, rebates and other incentives.

Free bus rides on Election Day Need a ride to the polls? Rock Region Metro, Pulaski County’s bus service, is volunteering its services on Nov. 8. All buses will be free that day whether you’re bound for the polls or not. (Although those of us who can do so should consider going before then — early voting opened this week across the state.)

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t took a football stadium to lay bare Republican budget hypocrisy in Arkansas.

It happened last week when KARKTV, Channel 4, broke the news that Governor Hutchinson wanted to slash the state’s contribution to operation of the state’s War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock in half, from $895,171 to $447,647 beginning in 2018.

It’s all about a more “efficient” state government, the governor said. He promised a coming plan for an envisioned new “sustainability” for the stadium, even though it faces a future without a Razorback football payday.

Kevin Crass, the Stadium Commission chairman, said he couldn’t envision a day the stadium could operate profitably. None do. Verizon Arena, though vibrant, is a break-even operation thanks, first, to a building provided debt-free by taxpayers. That’s the same for convention facilities all over Arkansas, which get millions in rebates from the tourism sales tax dollars they generate.

Those rebates and other spending put the lie to both Hutchinson and, par-

ticularly, Sen. Bart Hester, the Northwest Arkansas bully who pushed Hutchinson to cut War MemoMAX rial funding. HesBRANTLEY maxbrantley@arktimes.com ter hates Central Arkansas. He thinks all the money should go to his part of the state.

Hester made no call for sustainability when the state sent a half-million dollars to a Bible college just down the road from him in Springdale. He’s called for no cuts in subsidies to other arenas and convention facilities.

War Memorial Stadium also spurs sales tax dollars, with events that draw high school bands, high school and college football teams and many others from all over the state each year. But a state support cut and loss of Razorback revenue will leave a $1 million budget gap that no amount of flea markets, motocrosses and drum and bugle corps can cover.

The singular outrage is Hester saying the $449,000 War Memorial savings is

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re you sick of the election yet?

One thing that seems certain is that our politics remain as hyperpartisan and dysfunctional as ever. I may be naive, but I think Arkansas has an opportunity to help lead the country back toward pragmatic progress on the issues that will make our families and communities stronger.

On economic development, we need to radically improve our infrastructure and workforce development. We have to find the revenue to pay for the roads we need, but that’s not all. Arkansas got a D+ on our infrastructure from the American Society of Civil Engineers. We can create jobs, improve our access to clean drinking water, make our bridges safer, build world class schools, protect our communities from floods and build a strong green energy economy at the same time.

Arkansas retains one of the most regressive tax systems in the nation, taxing poor and middle-income families at over twice the tax rate that our

wealthiest people pay. The disparity only got worse with the highend tax relief passed in the last BILL two legislative KOPSKY sessions. Maybe this will be the session to finally offer working families an earned income tax credit to help lift working people out of poverty.

On civil rights, it should not be a partisan issue to say that the gender pay gap is a problem that needs to be addressed. It should not be a partisan issue to look at the gaps between races on income, housing, health, education, policing, incarceration and more and say that we need to tackle racial inequity head on. Sexual assault became an issue in this presidential election, and Arkansas has an opportunity to reduce both sexual assault and our highestin-the-nation teen pregnancy rates with common sense reforms to the

about adequate state services for foster children.

It’s a pittance for one thing, a drop in an ocean of needs.

It is also a stinky red herring that he could throw out on every budget bill. Do we really need to spend a million bucks at the Governor’s Mansion? Think of the foster children.

And how about that Bible college his pals helped? Think of the children.

Or what about that whopping $5 million Hutchinson just gave to El Dorado for an “arts district”? Think of the number of foster children THAT could help.

That’s not how you budget. You determine needs — including purely recreational amenities — and fund them. It can be costly and is almost never profitable.

If you think a stadium that pays tribute to war veterans is no longer a justified public expense, just say so and defend.

Don’t use foster kids or soldiers or sewage treatment as a made-up justification.

Hester’s claim of a bleeding heart for kids should be viewed against his record.

He’s a foe of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which brought health care security to more than 300,000 Arkansas men, women and children. Hester resents every dollar of it.

Obamacare might be the reason Hutchinson threw Hester a bone on the football stadium in the first place.

Hester was a key vote in the legislative trickery that allowed Hutchinson to con-

tinue the private option Medicaid expansion, which in turn saved his budget and a major income tax cut. Hester voted against the Medicaid expansion, but the bill to kill the program was crafted so as to provide a pathway to a gubernatorial veto override that saved the program.

I wonder, too, how many dollars could be generated for children or other worthy causes by the unconstitutional law Hester engineered to reduce the property tax bills on people who own billboard property (as he does).

The War Memorial fight isn’t football vs. foster kids. It is politics, of a particularly hypocritical and dishonest sort.

UPDATE: The words above were written before Hutchinson’s announcement Tuesday that he wanted to take control of War Memorial Stadium and put it under his Parks and Tourism Department, while undertaking a study of future uses of the stadium. He did not retreat from his plan to cut state support, though he said the stadium could be positioned to benefit from marketing and grant access at Parks. Stadium defenders made nice about the governor’s face-saving response to anger about abandonment of, yes, a “war memorial.”

They are hoping for the best, but the loss of independence is a loss. And people like Hester still hunger to cut it off completely. The politics that put this in play are unchanged.

way we teach children about healthy relationships.

A strong public education system is a universal pillar of economic prosperity. We have a set of proven, nearconsensus reforms recommended by groups like Forward Arkansas and the Arkansas Opportunity to Learn Campaign. They include improving and expanding pre-K, improving teacher quality, providing more after-school and summer learning opportunities, reforming discipline policies, improving community engagement and doing more to help children in poverty. Yet state policy debates in recent years have been consumed by attempts to gut standards and retreat from adequate funding while embracing radical and controversial theories of privatizing schools. Why are we arguing over the most contentious and speculative elements of education when we have a whole set of proven reforms that already enjoy public support at our disposal?

Arkansas’s prison system is among the fastest growing in the country and we know that it has several fundamen-

tal flaws. It’s unfairly utilized, targeting low-income and people of color at disproportionate rates. It costs too much. It doesn’t treat mental illness well. It becomes a trap. It’s choked with nonviolent drug offenders. Again, we have proven, nonpartisan reforms at our disposal: diversion programs for nonviolent offenders. Treating mental illness and drug addiction as public health issues instead of crimes.

Improving our over-burdened parole and re-entry systems. These will all take short-term investments to yield long-term gain.

We can improve opportunities for Arkansans while protecting our natural resources as well. We can invest in the critical functions farmers can serve to protect and conserve water quality. We can improve our drinking water. We can expand our parks and tourism industries to share our natural heritage with more visitors.

We can transition our energy sector to shift away from dirty coal sources of power and create economic incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy production. arktimes.com

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ractically speaking, it doesn’t really matter if Donald Trump accepts the results of the November election. No concession speech — can anybody imagine the big blowhard delivering one? — is legally required. The Electoral College will certify the vote in December and the new president will be sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017, whether Trump likes it or not.

That goes for his more fervid supporters, too.

According to a recent CBS News poll, upward of 80 percent of Texas Republicans claim to believe that only voter fraud can prevent Trump from winning. Florida Republicans, too. Numbers like those prompted the Washington Post’s conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin to urge anti-Trump Republicans not to make the mistake of staying home on Nov. 8.

“The bigger the margin by which he loses,” she writes, “the more preposterous Trump’s claim that the election is fixed. Indeed, it’s more important for Republicans — if they want to get back their party — to vote against Trump than it is for Democrats.”

Rubin’s surely correct about the absurdity of the GOP candidate’s posturing. However, I think it’s a mistake to take rank and file grumbling about voter fraud too seriously. Large percentages of Texas Republicans also claim to believe that President Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim, climate change a Chinese-sponsored hoax and a thousand other similar absurdities. They’ve regarded every Democratic president since 1992 as illegitimate.

Did you know that the 2016 Texas GOP platform calls for quitting the United Nations, expelling its headquarters from the U.S. and abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency?

But they haven’t gotten up off their Barcaloungers to do anything about it, and they’re not going to do anything but grumble this time either. These are essentially metaphysical complaints — political non-starters.

See, before it’s anything else, a U.S. presidential election — particularly this presidential election — is essentially the world’s longest running “reality TV” show. It’s “American Idol” with pollsters, or “Celebrity Apprentice” with stadium rallies, and so forth.

The cable news networks helped make it so back in the summer of 2015, when they began to cover Trump, a publicity-hungry playboy who imperson-

ated a tycoon on TV, like a figure of real significance.

CNN, MSNBC and the rest covered his arrival at GENE airports as if he LYONS were the Pope — breaking into regularly scheduled programming to broadcast his speeches live.

It was only ever about one thing: ratings.

No, two things, ratings and money.

Trump could be provocative and amusing in a coarse way. He gave good TV. So they made him a star.

Except now the show is about over. So long as he was only seeking the applause of a certain kind of Republican, Trump looked invincible. But he never made the transition to the broader electorate. The novelty wore off. His insults and gibes grew steadily less amusing. Like many of his supporters, he appeared never to have grasped that it’s no longer possible to win national elections without black and brown voters.

Not to mention women. After he derided Hillary Clinton as a feeble little old lady, she made him look foolish in three debates running. By the end, she was the one doing the taunting, while Trump pouted and seethed. His repertoire of middle-school putdowns was no longer adequate to the task.

Trump would be losing even without his videotaped boasts about groping women, which merely confirmed what many instinctively suspected. He’s the kind of bully a woman can’t risk getting stuck with in an elevator.

So now “Celebrity Candidate 2016” is about to be canceled. What’s more, there’s no audience for repeat broadcasts after everybody knows who won.

Or, to put it another way, sorry Coach Trump, but the clock ran out with your team trailing by three touchdowns. Yelling at the refs only makes you look like a crybaby.

Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall has correctly diagnosed Trump’s motives. “For all the damage and destruction of Trump’s effort to undermine the legitimacy of the election,” he writes, “I believe it’s mainly been about preemptively managing the shame of defeat. If Trump just loses, it kills his brand and would I suspect be insupportably crushing in personal terms.

“But if he’s cheated, he becomes a martyr, a political martyr.”

Except that Americans just don’t do martyrs.

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’m not one for hyperbole, but the mere mention of “56-3” changes things.

Arkansas just got punished so badly on the so-called Plains of Auburn that it merits a serious reflection on where, precisely, the program’s needle rests. Yes, it was one game. But it was a game that essentially destroyed much of the progress heretofore, called into question the acumen of the staff and the desire of the players, and left the Hogs bruised going into a bye week.

And, most galling, it happened at Auburn, in front of a fan base that had grown so disgruntled with Gus Malzahn that when the Tigers played LSU only a few short weeks prior, it was viewed as a potential referendum on both coaches. Les Miles got booted the next day when his team’s last-second touchdown pass was taken off the board and Auburn’s six-field goal effort yielded a narrow win.

Since that time, Malzahn’s decision to hand off play-calling to Rhett Lashlee has been a decision that, like many in-season shakeups, has drawn short-term dividends. Against the Hogs’ hapless and clueless unit, Auburn simply ran and ran and ran some more, with Eli Stove blistering down the field for a 78-yard end-around score on the first play from scrimmage and the rest of the Tiger backs battering the hell out of the Hog linemen and safeties (you’ll note I exclude linebackers here, as by my calculation, they were never involved in much of a tackle at all) to the tune of 543 rushing yards.

That’s a pathetic showing in any circumstance, but for Arkansas, fresh off such an inspired and unifying win over Ole Miss, it was flat-out insulting. Auburn beat Arkansas State by only 37 points earlier this season, and dispatched with a flailing mess of a Mississippi State team by less than half of the margin that went up in scoreboard lights Saturday evening.

So what to do? Robb Smith’s tenure as defensive coordinator could well be ending far sooner than anyone would have projected. It turns out that having the likes of Martrell Spaight, Darius Philon, and Trey Flowers, along with reasonably solid anchors like Rohan Gaines back deep, makes a major difference in how a defensive unit plays. The “experience” guys that the Hogs are leaning upon right now are simply nowhere near as athletic or instinctive, and that deficiency is garishly visible on most plays. Spaight provided speed and leadership in the middle of that unit, and Flowers and Philon imposed tension and strain on the backfield.

At this juncture, Deatrich Wise, Tevin Beanum, Brooks Ellis, and Taiwan Johnson all resemble a lesser BEAU caliber of player, WILCOX and the statistics bear this out. Most damningly, they’re all continuing to log plenty of playing time, which could be a rough indictment of the fieldworthiness of the youngsters down the depth chart. You won’t convince me that McTelvin Agim couldn’t mirror Beanum’s paltry numbers (zero sacks, zero tackles for loss, zero fumbles forced or recovered in eight games) with his eyes closed, arms bound behind his back, and feet anchored in concrete.

The offense provided no relief, and in fact looked horrific. Dan Enos is trying to maximize Austin Allen’s effectiveness behind a tattered mess of an offensive line and it’s about to blow up all over creation when Allen’s braced knee or some other necessary appendage gives out. The playbook on how to deal with this unit is shockingly basic: cede an occasional downfield throw or inside run, but keep the heat on the quarterback because you will find yourselves gobbling up a fumble or pinning the Razorbacks far behind the chains. Arkansas has become sickeningly predictable on first down, too, which hearkens back to a certain coach whose defiant reliance on the smoke draw at least comported with logic when the likes of Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, Fred Talley or Cedric Cobbs lurked behind the quarterback.

Bret Bielema took a few cheeky jabs at Malzahn’s circuslike offense when he came here, and that nonsensical gumflapping should cease permanently now.

This wasn’t quite the farce that transpired when Kliff Kingsbury brought Texas Tech to Fayetteville last fall and picked on a Toledo-stung bunch still trying to capture an offensive identity. No, it was an ass-kicking, an outcoaching and outclassing, and it hurt.

There are still four winnable games on the schedule, granted, but even those woebegone fans in Starkville and Columbia have to be foaming at the mouth, to borrow a Randy Rainwater-ism from years ago, at what’s coming their way in November. The bye week is the only thing with good timing for the Hogs this weekend, and all it might prove to be is the intermission before the tragic final act if some serious deficiencies aren’t resolved over the next several days.

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It will be quite a change. Yours Truly was out on the wild veldt of the newsroom for over a decade, forced to interact, forced to keep our desk at least somewhat shipshape, forced to be as social as reporters get, which is the comraderie one would expect from members of a profession that gets told to go to hell a lot. Once The Observer got a door, a window shade and a light switch under our sole command, though, we got a little too comfortable with retiring to our lair, pushing the door to, and sort of marinating here in our own company, which is never a good thing for anybody. In any biopic, for instance, the point where the subject finally gets rich enough to buy the megamansion with 19 bathrooms and the Lamborghini-shaped swimming pool is the point where heroin and questionable wardrobe choices always enter the picture. We’re not there yet (not with the heroin, at least) but it’s tempting. To boot, The Observer’s hearing has taken a whack over the years — all the screaming guitars and close proximity to rumbling V8 motorvators in our misspent youth, we suppose — and so when we hear Brantley and the quiz kids out in the newsroom yukking it up over something or other, we have to go to the door of the office and stand there like an old fart answering a salesman’s knock at dinnertime, then ask what the joke is, even knowing that explanation is the death of all jokes. That, at least,

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ake no mistake: Arkansas is not in play this election cycle. Though Hillary Clinton now looks likely to trounce Donald Trump nationally, Arkansas remains one of the Republican nominee’s safest strongholds. An Oct. 21 poll conducted by Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College shows Trump leading Clinton in the state by a whopping 23 points. That’s a slight rise from mid-September, which means Trump’s popularity in Arkansas evidently wasn’t dented by the emergence of a recorded 2005 conversation in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

Meanwhile, Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman enjoys an 18-point lead over Democratic challenger Conner Eldridge, and Republican U.S. Rep. French Hill looks almost certain to defeat Democrat Dianne Curry in the 2nd Congressional District. Arkansas’s three other incumbent Republican congressmen are running unopposed. At the state level, the GOP is in such a strong position that both legislative chambers are guaranteed to remain in Republican control even if Democrats were to win every contested race.

It’s no wonder Arkansas Democrats have had trouble finding candidates to run this cycle. The 2014 midterm was a demoralizing blowout, and 2016 may well advance Republican dominance even further. However, it may also contain surprises, with implications for both the 2017 legislative session and beyond. Nationally, Trump’s

candidacy is scrambling the GOP’s traditional coalition by newly attracting a band of working-class, white, largely secular voters in unprecedented numbers while driving away equally unprecedented percentages of women, minorities and people with college degrees. It makes sense that Arkansas would be solid Trump country: We have a largely white state with low levels of educational attainment (under 30 percent of Arkansans have a postsecondary degree; nationally, the figure is around 40 percent) and a proven fondness for populists and iconoclasts.

But things may be different on a local level. Jay Barth, a professor of politics at Hendrix College and a regular columnist for the Arkansas Times, said Trump’s presence at the top of the ticket could change the dynamics of certain legislative races in two diametrically opposed ways.

First, relatively affluent suburban areas with a higher percentage of college-educated voters could trend less Republican than in years past.

“I think there still is an opening for Democrats in places with high percentages of highly educated voters who are probably not only disturbed

by Trump but also arguably disturbed by some of this whole ‘tea party 2.0’ version of Republicanism,” Barth said.

“You know, it’s not Asa Hutchinson’s Republican Party. It’s a different kind of Republicanism that they’re not quite at home with, and I do think a palatable Democratic candidate may really be able to make inroads there.

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… Trump is just getting demolished among highly educated people.”

This isn’t to say that most GOPleaning voters who refuse to vote for Trump would automatically withhold support for down-ballot Republicans as well. But, a voter turned off by her party’s presidential candidate is a voter more likely to stay home on Election Day, and legislative races can be decided on a few hundred ballots.

Add in the turnout advantage enjoyed

by Democrats on presidential election years, and that enthusiasm gap could make a real difference.

Barth pointed to three Pulaski County races that potentially fit this mold. In North Little Rock, attorney Victoria Leigh, a Democrat, and former sportscaster Carlton Wing, a Republican, are competing for House District 38, a seat left open after incumbent Donnie Copeland chose to mount an unsuccessful primary challenge against fellow Republican Sen. Jane English. In Maumelle’s House District 39, incumbent Republican Mark Lowery is being challenged by Democrat Bill Rahn, a lawyer who owns Snap Fitness Gym. Lowery, a speech instructor at the University of Central Arkansas, carries some personal baggage as a candidate: His name turned up on a list of users of Ashley Madison, a website for people seeking extramarital affairs. (One other legislator, Democrat John Baine of El Dorado, also appeared on the list.) In House District 32 in West Little Rock, former state Election Commissioner Susan Inman, a Democrat, is challenging Republican incumbent Jim Sorvillo.

Better-educated voters’ aversion to Trump could also penalize downballot Republicans in college towns, Barth said. Northeast Arkansas trended heavily Republican in 2014, but Democrat Nate Looney has a shot at unseating incumbent Republican Brandt Smith in Jonesboro’s House District 58. In House District 18 in Arkadelphia, incumbent Republican Richard Womack, a contractor, has a strong Democratic challenger in Richard Bright, a justice of the peace and a lawyer. And while Democrats are still struggling to gain a foothold in Northwest Arkansas outside

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If you aren’t well-versed in weird Twitter and fall more in the “the internet is a fascinating place I want to learn more about” camp than the “the internet is mostly a cesspool where I check email, research antiques and look for craft ideas on Pinterest” one (a rough approximation of how the Millar family breaks down, by the by), you should listen to “Reply All’s” recent podcast about Pepe the Frog. It’s a fun and fairly pithy explanation of how a somewhat obscure indie cartoon character, a fairly grotesque looking stoner frog named Pepe, became the go-to meme for white nationalists for Donald Trump to such a degree that Hillary Clinton now has an explainer about Pepe on her website. It’s a good explanation, but listen to the podcast instead; it’s much more fun. Along the way, you’ll learn a little about the infamous messageboard 4chan and “rare” internet memes, the slipperiness of irony on the web and the etymology of international webspeak “top kek.”

—Lindsey Millar

I thought I had my bases covered when it comes to Little Rock’s ethnic grocery stores — and yes, I wince a little at the dated, whitebread ring to the assumed homogeneous American baseline implied by that moniker — but I was evidently wrong.

I shop at Sam’s or Mr. Chen’s when I need something East Asian (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.), Ali Baba for Middle Eastern goods, Asian Groceries for dahls and curry components, and whatever tienda happens to be nearby for Mexican and other Latin foods. But what if I desperately need, say, pickled herring or a two-pound wheel of Bulgarian cheese? Turns out those and other sundry European obscurities are available at Indian Grocers, which is on Rodney Parham Road near North Shackleford (it shares a strip mall with Franke’s cafeteria, but if any culinary cross-pollination has resulted, I’m not aware of it).

Why exactly Indian Grocers — which, as its name implies, mainly purveys products from the subcontinent — carries such a large contingent of Slavic and Nordic goods is unknown to me. It’s wonderful, though. A dozen varieties of Ritter-Sport are on display inside the front door, and there’s a cold case crowded with delicate jars of caviars and roe spreads and fish bits at the end of one aisle. Eastern European cheese products coexist with blocks of paneer; pumpernickels jostle the chapatis in the freezer.

I bought a loaf of Latvian rye bread, a tin of stuffed cabbage leaves, four pounds of red lentils, some pita and a passionfruit soda. I also randomly plucked what looked like a decadeold TV dinner from the frozen case, but it inexplicably rang up as $17.99 and I quickly backtracked. Explore with caution.

—Benji Hardy

There’s such a thing as a learned suppression of one’s need to take things literally, and as far as I can tell, it’s a vital prerequisite skill to have in your toolbox if you’re a person who’s studied Greek and Roman mythology, even casually. Sure, Aristotle tried to put his foot squarely down in the concrete, naming and classifying and dissecting and counting and defining, but isn’t it Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” that comes up in talk of criminal justice systems, or Euripides’ “The Bacchae” that makes its way into conversations about smashing the patriarchy? There’s something in the supple, slippery language of myth

and drama that, when translated by a skilled hand, can set your mind spinning with poeticism and punch in a way that “Nichomachean Ethics” isn’t likely to do.

That immediacy and red-hot imagery drips from the pages of Anne Carson’s lusty Hercules-and-Geryon love triangle novel, “Red Doc>,” and from its much earlier predecessor “Autobiography of Red.” A compendium of otherwise Sapphic-sounding fragments weaves in nonancient words like “kindergarten” or “sandwich” or “hockey practice” so seamlessly we spill over them without pause, and the reader is probably a dozen chapters in before marveling at how easily the literal slipped away, how easily sentences like “Don’t pick at that Geryon you’ll get it infected. Just leave it alone and let it heal, said his mother

rhinestoning past on her way to the door. She had all her breasts on this evening” are absorbed, the reader having forgotten the story’s (loose) basis in ancient myth, on surviving pieces of Stesichorus’ “Geryoneis.”

Both books are astonishingly quick reads, due in part to the amount of negative space afforded to the page to lend the poetry its pulse and pace, and if I were pressed to explain why I find them so compelling and magnificent, I’d probably cite how willingly the reader suspends the literal in favor of the symbolic, how the books don’t so much require the reader to disengage the literal and the logical as render the effort unnecessary; the poems have already led her halfway down a road of anachronistic myth before she even realizes she’s taken a step.

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General Rutledge takes on the Feds Promises more in 2018

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merica was introduced to our Attorney per an she be raisin’ fusses and kickin’ and bitin’ that, should Trump win the election, she has a General Leslie Rutledge this summer and whoopin dis man ... .”). She’d been living in good shot at a Supreme Court appointment.)

D.C. — in fact, was still registered to vote there and fall as she appeared on TV as a surroOn MSNBC, she called Alicia Machado a “diswhen she was running for office in Arkansas. gate for Republican presidential nominee Donald gruntled former Miss Universe,” shrugging off Trump’s misogynistic belittling of Machado as Trump. A nation cringed (with the exception of There was backlash to her portrayal of her true Trump believers) as she insisted nobody Republican primary opponent, David Sterling, fat and an “eating-machine.” Again she insisted, cared about the self-described billionaire’s tax as a lawyer for pornographers and supported by “Americans do not care about this.” Reminded returns, scoffing at polls that show, by a large the “porn industry” (he’d represented Cupid’s (again) that polls spoke differently, Rutledge majority, people do want to see Trump’s business Lingerie in a noncompete case against a former countered that polls showed most women resent employee some years earlier). interests and what he pays (nothing, by his own Hillary Clinton for disparaging Monica Lewinsky, admission) in federal taxes. Her conversations But she has become the darling of the Repubthough she could not say who took the polls. And with people, she said, were more accurate than lican Attorneys General Association, and has when Trump tweeted about a mysterious “sex the myriad polls on the subject. joined up with her fellow GOP generals in doztape” made by Machado, Rutledge went comBut Arkansans already knew Rutledge, 39, ens of lawsuits targeting federal government pletely haywire in his defense, saying Trump’s action was in no way as awful as Bill Clinton’s who won the state’s second-highest office in 2014, rulemaking. and besides, Hillary Clinton was a “disgusting” as a politician rather than a legal mind. Indeed, when Rutledge campaigned for office, she promIn addition to suing Uncle Sam, Rutledge person who had never created jobs and had lived ised to “wake up every morning” thinking how has spent much of this year campaigning for off the government teat all her life. she would sue the federal government that day.

Trump, unfazed — like many party loyals — by In her out-of-state travel for Trump, RutShe’s made good on that vow, focusing the his contempt for Hispanics and Muslims and his ledge has had an entourage of security officers, Judd Deere, the attorney general’s spokesman, office’s legal energies on ideological battles vulgar boast he could grab any woman’s “pussy” against the Obama adminisconfirmed. He said the tration, standing with Repubdetail “travels out of lican attorneys general across state with General Rutthe nation. Her actions, as ledge when there are lead attorney in some suits credible threats of vioand as a friend of the court lence,” and when federal law enforcement in others, are anti-woman recommends it. The (defending bad anti-abortion legislation and funding detail accompanied her for Planned Parenthood), to the Republican conanti-LGBT (decrying transvention and the Demogender rights squashed by cratic National Convenso-called “bathroom bills”), tion. Deere also traveled anti-immigrant (joining the with her.

Texas case to halt President Now, having gotten poor reviews for Obama’s executive orders on her national TV perdeferred deportation), antilabor (fighting overtime and formances and Trump GRILLED ON TV: Rutledge and CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer (right) tangled over the AG’s union rules) and anti-envilooking like a loser, Rutinsistence that she knew better than polls that Trump’s tax returns were of no interest. ronment, where she’s party ledge is looking to get reto several suits fighting rules elected in Arkansas. She over clean air and water. She has not been able by virtue of being famous. Besides defending announced Oct. 17 her intention in an interview to reverse the Affordable Care Act (which, as Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns — she with the Associated Press that she would be told a dumfounded CBS newsman Bob Schiefa Republican, she was duty-bound to promise seeking a second term two years from now. This she’d do). fer that she knew no one cared because “real writer would have liked to add Rutledge’s voice Rutledge described herself at the Republican Americans” had told her so — she’s been dutito this article, but she declined the Arkansas National Convention as a “Christian, pro-life, fully reciting the Tea Party rulebook, making the Times’ requests for an interview. gun-carryin’ conservative woman.” The Batesbewildering claim that Hillary Clinton is a poor ville native is also the first female attorney gen“role model” for women because she said ugly Rutledge chose not to introduce a legislative package in 2015, and said last week she has no eral of Arkansas and the first Republican attorney things about women her husband has been linked plans to do so in 2017, either. general since Reconstruction. She was elected as to. Rutledge has responded to TV interviewers’ questions about the thrice-married Trump and part of the Republican wave that washed away The attorney general appears disinterested in Democrats after the election of the first black Rudy Giuliani’s televised announcement he’d be an important Arkansas consumer issue: payday lending. Fighting payday lenders was a top pripresident and turned Arkansas deeply red. marrying his mistress by flashing the Rutledge Rutledge entered her 2014 race with lots of smile, all tight lips and teeth and no eyes. Having ority with predecessor Attorney General Dustin baggage — a job history that included being put trashed Hillary, she then pivots to say the elecMcDaniel, who sued in-state and online lenders tion is really about jobs, etc. on a “do not rehire” list at the state Department of citing the state Constitution’s cap on lending Human Services because of “gross misconduct” Rutledge likely made her own legal staff cringe and who was able to send most of them packing. and a trail of startling emails, including one she when, at her Republican convention speech, she Rutledge, on the other hand, has taken no action forwarded that was written in a denigrating black trashed a Supreme Court justice, saying Clinton against CashMax, a North Little Rock lender, dialect that she defended as “country talk” (as in: should go home and “take Ruth Bader Ginsburg despite the North Little Rock city attorney’s “baby’s momma done turn into a ho and a stripwith her!” (Rutledge has reportedly told people position that it’s violating state law. The office,

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TRUE BLOOD RED: Arkansas is no longer a state friendly to Democratic politicians. Here Sen. John Boozman, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. Rep. French Hill and AG Leslie Rutledge gather at an event for Hill.

a spokesman said, is investigating.

It may be significant that in May, Rutledge protested the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal for greater limits on payday loans, saying “sweeping federal standards” would harm small dollar lending and stifle the free market.

Payday lending may not get Rutledge’s ire, but when cities pass laws prohibiting discrimination against LGBT citizens, she acts to try and stop them. She’s fighting a ruling in a Fayetteville circuit court upholding that city’s nondiscrimination ordinance, saying it violates Act 137 of 2015. The legislature intended Act 137 to prevent nondiscrimination ordinances at the local and county level, but a Fayetteville circuit judge has ruled that the state Constitution allows such protections and let Fayetteville’s ordinance stand.

The attorney general has been more active taking on legislation in other states: She has involved the Arkansas office in standing up for Texas’ laws to end abortion rights, a fight in Washington state by a florist who refuses to do business with samesex couples, backed North Carolina’s legislation 16

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to require transgendered people to use bathrooms in accordance with their gender assignments at birth, and supported a North Carolina county commission’s right to open its meetings exclusively with Christian prayer.

Joining in amici cases is a cheap way to express political philosophy, unlike actually going to court. For that work, Rutledge hired the state’s first solicitor general, Lee Rudofsky.

What follows is a rundown of what Rutledge has done for Arkansas. States’ rights supporters who chafe at national policies on environment, civil rights and abortion will applaud.

The environment

Since 2015, Rutledge has signed on as a friend of the court in numerous anti-environmental, industry-friendly actions. This is unsurprising not just because she vowed to try and sue the federal government every day, but because of where her campaign dollars came from, including polluter representatives the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and Koch Industries.

By May of this year, Rutledge made Arkansas

an original plaintiff or filed friend of the court briefs in 26 cases fighting federal rulings. Among the environmental actions the state seeks to stop are the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and rules on ozone; power plant startup, shutdown and malfunction emissions; the Waters of the United States and Mercury Air Toxic Standards rules; and regional haze.

One of Rutledge’s first acts in office was to file to intervene in a Virginia case against the Clean Power Plan, which requires states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030. Rutledge (like AG McDaniel before her, it should be noted) said the EPA’s clean air rulemaking will “skyrocket electric rates for Arkansans.”

That’s the same argument she makes for Arkansas’s opposition to the regional haze rule, which regulates haze from pollutants in wilderness areas and national parks. She doesn’t think Arkansas has any haze; in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives on the rule, Rutledge said, “Anyone who has ever visited Arkansas would be hard-pressed to believe that

our beautiful mountains have a smog problem.”

Yet utilities in Arkansas, anticipating the rules and seeking to avoid the cost of retrofits, have already cut back on the use of coal and are investing in clean alternatives. Entergy, for example, is working out a plan to close its White Bluff coal-fired plant to comply with the regional haze rule and has reduced production there as well as at its Independence coal-fired plant. The reduction, state Sierra Club chapter director Glen Hooks said in an interview, is “dramatic”: Entergy ran the White Bluff plant at 43 percent capacity, and the Independence plant at 30 percent last year.

“It’s getting harder to make an economic argument” in fighting clean air and water laws, Hooks said. Yes, coal is the cheapest fuel. But it comes with secondary costs: dollars spent on water cleanup from coal ash spills, on health care for industry workers and health threats to a wider group of people from breathing bad air. Harvard researchers put the hidden cost of coal at a third of a trillion to half a trillion dollars every year. “If you are only focusing on electric rates, you are not seeing the true cost of damage done by the fossil fuel industry,” he said.

Because Arkansas did not come up with its own regional haze plan, the EPA was to write it for the state. When the EPA did not meet a deadline to do so, the Sierra Club sued. Rutledge sought to disqualify the Sierra Club as plaintiff; she lost. As a result of the Sierra Club lawsuit, the EPA wrote the regional haze plan for Arkansas.

When Rutledge announced she would join 16 states in challenging the power plant startup, shutdown or malfunction emission rules, she said, “Once again, the EPA is choosing to put the political interests of the Sierra Club ahead of Arkansans.” That she views the Sierra Club’s mission as political rather than honest says more about Rutledge than it does about the Sierra Club: It puts her in the company of those who believe that global warming is not a fact but a political position. Is the EPA, she mused in testimony about the Clean Air Plan before Congress in 2015, “about working cooperatively with the states and stakeholders to preserve clean air or is this rule established to force states into complying with a national energy policy to fit the needs of the current administration?”

Arkansas could have submitted its own Clean Air Plan by the EPA’s deadline, as well as a regional haze plan. It

did not.

Rutledge also called “devastating” the EPA’s proposed Waters of the United States rule to clarify what bodies of water fall under the Clean Water Act, saying it would cripple Delta farmers.

Though an EPA administrator sought to assure Rutledge that the new rule would not burden farmers, and a Democratic congresswoman said the new plan left exemptions for farmers in place, the attorney general was skeptical.

What is the short-term effect of Arkansas’s battles against these plans, which take years to implement?

“It you’re talking to people, ‘Hey, I’m from Arkansas,’ ” Hooks said, “a lot of times people will [mention] the Buffalo, the Ozarks or hunting. It’s a destination for people who are outdoorsy. If we have an activist fighting against efforts to improve water, forests, air, it doesn’t add to our reputation.”

Abortion and women

In the past few years, the state has spent time and money in federal court trying to defend its unconstitutional laws to restrict a woman’s right to abortion.

Rutledge, not satisfied to fight Arkansas’s failed attempts to ban abortion at 12 weeks and prevent women on Medicaid from getting birth control or cancer screens from Planned Parenthood, also intervened in the legal challenge to Texas’ draconian law that would have shut down its abortion clinics by requiring them to, basically, be outfitted like hospitals. In explaining her decision to intervene, Rutledge said she was only thinking of the women, wanting to protect them from the stigma that would arise if they sought medical help at an emergency room.

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The U.S. Supreme Court found the Texas law unconstitutional in a 5-3 ruling.

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The Supreme Court, which for 24 years has set fetal viability at 23 or 24 weeks, refused to hear Rutledge’s appeal. The former attorney general had informed the legislature he questioned its constitutionality, but as the state’s lawyer defended it in court.

Besides Rutledge’s decision to involve Arkansas in the Washington state case and appeal the Fayetteville court’s decision on that city’s nondiscrimination laws, other actions suggest a certain animus against gay rights. Three months into her tenure, she joined three other Republican attorneys general to sue the U.S. Department of Labor over its rule defining “spouse�

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request of AG-elect Rutledge, in 2014 made Arkansas party to a challenge of President Obama’s executive action to temporarily halt deportation and provide work permits for undocumented immigrants, expanding on two existing programs, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and Deferred Action or Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Because the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 (Justice Elena Kagan recused), an appeals court ruling that the order exceeded the president’s statutory authority stands. The case could still go to the Supreme Court, however.

An analysis by the Center for American Progress of the impact of dismantling DAPA and DACA said it would be disastrous economically for families and for state and local tax revenues. As was pointed out by Clinton in the last presidential debate, there are undocumented immigrants paying more in federal taxes than Donald Trump.

Other Rutledge (and Republican) fights: The Obama administration’s overtime pay rule that, starting Dec. 1, makes persons earning up to $47,476 a year eligible for time-and-a-half pay after 40 hours. She intervened in a Texas case to enjoin the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Persuader Advice Exemption� to make transparent consultant-management communications. She has also filed a brief objecting to the Washington, D.C., City Council’s ordinance disallowing open carry. That would align with her reversal of an opinion by predecessor McDaniel on the state’s open-carry law, saying the law made open carry legal — as long as the person carrying the gun does not intend to use it to shoot someone.

Republican attorneys general, who have bonded during the Obama administration to wage multistate fights, have been successful in slowing the implementation of regulations on carbon pollution, clean water and immigration. Arkansans can expect Rutledge to continue to fight progressive rulemaking and federal legislation.

Backed in her first campaign by coal interests and Koch Industries, Rutledge has already accepted contributions for the 2018 race from the Entergy PAC, a former Murphy Oil CEO, a Murphy heir, the poultry industry, the Stephens Energy PAC and members of the wealthy Stephens family. She’s also received money from a conservative political action committee created by her father, Keith Rutledge.

In fact, in announcing her decision to run for re-election, Rutledge assured us it would be more of the same. She told the Associated Press that she’ll continue to sue the federal government “as long as we have agencies going beyond the scope of the authority given to them.�

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ust in time for Halloween and Election Day, audiences at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre will be served a hefty portion of witchcraft, social paranoia, political scheming, personal betrayals and principled sacrifice with Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” The 17th century setting in Massachusetts might be timely for Thanksgiving, too, but the community in Salem is a far cry from the coloring-book picture of fellowship we’re used to.

There’s a reason why “The Crucible,” which used the Salem witch trials that turned neighbor against neighbor as an allegory for McCarthyism, sticks with us, a standout against the rest of our high school reading material. It’s timelessly relevant, politically charged, thoughtprovoking literature, but it’s also damn good entertainment — quickly paced, tension building, edge-of-your-seat, what’sgoing-to-happen-next drama.

“There’s something about the play taking place in the 17th century that allows you to relate your life to it and draw your own conclusions,” Gracyn Mix, who plays protagonist Abigail Williams, said. “Depending on where you are in your life, you’ll see different things and have different questions.”

As its name suggests, “The Crucible” is all about testing people’s faith, ideals and relationships. It’s about the testing of a community and the very idea of community, and what happens when trust among neighbors begins to erode. “The writing is so good, and the play is this full community of characters, most of whom have very hard decisions to make of one kind or another,” Eric Gilde, who plays young minister Rev. John Hale, said.

“It’s like a big satisfying meal. People will leave the theater feeling satisfied by it but also excited, wanting to talk more about it afterwards.”

Tarah Flanagan, who plays Elizabeth Proctor, whose suspicion that her husband has been an adulterer sets the turmoil in motion, says the members of the cast find themselves immersed in the play’s questions, too. “As an actor, what often occupies your thoughts is your craft and your performance, but with this play I think about what I would do if I were Mary Warren. Would I be able to make that decision, weighing the truth against my life?”

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children, played by some “one of the greatest There’s a reason why impressive young actors roles in American lit“The Crucible,” which from the Rep’s Summer erature. He’s inherMusical Theater Inten- used the Salem witch ently good, but he’s sive program. “They trials that turned done a terrible thing, bring incredible energy neighbor against and trying to reclaim to the room,” Mix said. his goodness in the neighbor as an allegory “They are terrific. I world.” for McCarthyism, On the subject of never feel like I have to do anything differently,” sticks with us… witchcraft, Barnes said, “It’s fascinatdirector Paul Barnes added. ing to try to wrap your mind around the values in the play, coming to terms with Michael Stewart Allen, who plays John Proctor (and played the title role the understanding that people really did in The Rep’s production of “Macbeth” believe in witchcraft, and the power of evil to infect people.” last year) said, “You can see the play more than once and get something different Ryan McCarthy, who plays Salem out of it each time.” Allen was excited minister Rev. Samuel Parris, elaborated. to be portraying Proctor, who he calls “There’s this conception that the Salem

witch trials represented a certain amount of ignorance and fear, but these were all very smart people,” he said. “People thought and applied very complicated logical arguments to create this worldview and were always searching for the truth. It was interesting to see what motivated Parris, who ends up doing some terrifying things.”

It’s certainly tempting to project upon “The Crucible” any number of contemporary issues, but Barnes believes that the play digs deeper than that. “I think that can be seen in how so many characters have to contend with something at their very core. The things that define these people, their strongest ideals are tested, and that leads to some very tough decisions.” Those decisions lead to varying

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“The Crucible” runs Friday, Oct. 28, through Sunday, Nov. 13. Special events include “Pay Your Age Night” on Sunday, Oct. 30; Stone’s Throw Beer Night on Thursday, Nov. 3; and “Sign Interpreter Night” on Wednesday, Nov. 9. More information is available at therep.org/attend/productions/ thecrucible.

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SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS, a Lambda Literary Award-winning independent press based in Stifft Station, selected four manuscripts this week following its open submission period, including one from an Arkansas author, Randi Romo, a collection of poetry, short stories and essays called “The Distractions of Living.” Romo’s literary voice “reaches into multiple segments of who we are as humans, with an emphasis on queer,” she said. “As a MexicanAmerican Southerner (Como se llama, ya’ll), former farmworker, organizer/activist, queer, female, parent, grandparent, working class, elder, artist, writer and survivor, I have walked among and between many communities. In this multiplicity of identities I have had a unique catbird seat from which to observe when I was not literally in the midst of it all.”

IN A RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY Tuesday, Ballet Arkansas moved to a new studio space at 520 Main St. along the Creative Corridor, beginning rehearsals for “The Nutcracker” in the space only a half hour later. For tickets to the holiday ballet, see arkansassymphony. org/nutcracker. arktimes.com

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THURSDAY 10/27

‘THE HALLOWEEN TREE’

7:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $10 donation suggested.

In an imaginative collaboration between the Schedler Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas, El Zocalo Immigrant Resource Center and the Conway Symphony Orchestra, Ray Bradbury’s 1972 fantasy novella “The Halloween Tree” gets a shadow puppet retelling with an original score by four contributing composers: UCA composition and music theory profes-

sor Paul Dickinson; Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra conductor and Arkansas Symphony Orchestra violist Karen Griebling; jazz pianist and conductor Michael Pagan; and Cory Winters, a former composition student of Dickinson’s. With help from the UCA Foundation, the Arkansas Arts Council and the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the show’s mastermind and artistic director Adam Frank engaged Jim Henderson Family Foundation Grant recipient Kate Campbell and Puppe-

teers of America’s Jan Wolfe to lead puppetry workshops at UCA and at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to spearhead the creation of over 100 puppets. They’ll be projected onto a screen to depict Bradbury’s time-travel adventure through celebrations of the dead in Egypt, Stonehenge, Notre Dame and Mexico. “From the introduction of the story, to the creation of the music and puppetry, to the organization of the puppetry workshops, this has been a truly collaborative effort

and a great way to connect arts with underserved communities in Arkansas,” Frank said. “Our hope is that the project will involve those communities both as audience members and, through the puppetry workshops, as art makers.” The pay-what-you-can performance benefits the support services El Zocalo provides to the immigrant community. A marketplace featuring crafts and clothing made by artists in the local immigrant community precedes the show at 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 10/28

ARKANSAS TIMES CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL 6 p.m. Argenta Plaza. $35$40.

ON SULU AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: George Takei, who spent time as a child at the Rohwer internment camp in Desha County, played Lt. Sulu on the original “Star Trek” series and is a vocal advocate for LGBT equality through his work with the Human Rights Campaign, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall, $15.

THURSDAY 10/27

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7:30 p.m. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Conway. $15.

Fans of “Star Trek” probably would have been perfectly happy to collect selfies and signatures with George Takei for the rest of his life based just on his performance as Lt. Sulu on the original series. Takei’s certainly not demurred from riffing on the beloved character in cameos on “Scrubs” and in a number of alternate Sulu storylines.

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2007 mock PSA directed at NBA player Tim Hardaway — that he’s gained a devoted following on Facebook and on Twitter, where a legion of followers tuned in for his live tweets of the presidential debates. Takei made his longtime relationship with partner Brad Altman public in 2005, and they later became the first couple to apply for a same-sex marriage license in West Hollywood and the first same-sex couple to be featured on television’s “The Newlywed Game.” He’s worked for the Human Rights Campaign’s “Coming Out Project,” had an

asteroid named in his honor, grand marshaled countless pride parades, and publicly called out those who spoke in opposition to LGBT rights: then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his veto of same-sex marriage legislation, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for his opposition to the Obergefell v. Hodges decision on same-sex marriage and Midland, Ark., school board member Clint McCance for making homophobic comments on Facebook. (McCance later resigned.) For tickets, visit ucs.edu/publicappearances.

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” writer Washington Irving is credited with having said, “They who drink beer will think beer,” a truth evident in the sparkle in a craft beermaker’s eyes when she explains why she added blueberry here or wild yeast there. With help from Edwards Food Giant, Ben E. Keith and The Water Buffalo Brewing and Gardening Supply, Arkansas Times has arranged a convergence of over 250 beers, poured from cooler taps by representatives from brew giants like Sam Adams, local upstarts like Blue Canoe Brewing Co. and regional fermenters like Ghost River and Public House. We don’t recommend that you sample all those on an empty stomach, so temper your tasting with food from Skinny J’s Argenta, Zaffino’s by Nori, Whole Hog Cafe, Arkansas Ale House, Taziki’s, Damgoode Pies, Cafe Bossa Nova and Old Chicago Pizza, and dig the mountain music-inspired sounds of Eureka Springs’ Opal Agafia & The Sweet Nothings.

Proceeds benefit the Argenta Arts District, and tickets are available at centralarkansastickets.com. Be quick about it; the festival frequently sells out.

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THURSDAY 10/27

SATURDAY 10/29

CHANTICLEER

8 p.m. Christ Episcopal Church. $20-$35.

FOURCHE IN THE FALL: Audubon Arkansas’s Friends of the Fourche host a volunteer cleanup and “discovery day” to appreciate and beautify the cypress-lined urban watershed Saturday, Oct. 29, with guided floats and hikes beginning at Interstate Park, 8 a.m., free.

SATURDAY 10/29

FOURCHE CREEK DISCOVERY DAY 8 a.m. Interstate Park. Free.

It may not get as much love from nature photographers as Hawksbill Crag or Hemmed-In Hollow, but we’ve got Fourche Creek to thank for storing up to about a billion gallons of floodwater during heavy storms. Audubon Arkansas, whose coalition Friends of Fourche Creek hosts this event, estimates that 73 percent of Little Rock’s surface area drains into the Fourche (pronounced “fush”). The enormous urban watershed is home to 300-year-old bald cypress trees, about 50 different species of fish

and an array of migratory birds, which you can view and photograph on this “discovery day,” a guided cleanup program with an eye to introducing volunteers to the beauty of the Fourche. An expert can guide you on a hike if you prefer to go on foot (Audubon recommends “long pants and sturdy shoes”), or you can bring your canoe, kayak or flat-bottomed boat (along with a flotation device for each passenger) to put in at Interstate Park and float the waterway. Friends of Fourche Creek will provide lunch at noon, as well as gloves and trash bags for tidying up the creek along the way. For more information, call 501-244-2229.

If you’re a person who’s sung in a choir for any length of time, you probably already know what Chanticleer is. In 1978, the original lineup of singers toured the United States in a van, surviving on meals cooked in motel kitchenettes by founder Louis Botto, who bragged that he could feed the entire choir for under $50.

Since then, the revolving roster of men has been walking on stage — without a conductor or any instruments — as Chanticleer, named after the “clear singing” rooster in Chaucer’s “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” The group has commissioned over 90 premiere pieces from over 70 composers, collaborated with musicologists to shed light on otherwise unknown composers and scored two Grammy Awards for ensemble work. This program features works from Vincenzo Bertolusi, Francisco Guerrero, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Claude Goudimel, Entraigues, Mikhail Glinka, Eric Whitacre, Stephen Foster, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Augusta Read Thomas and Jaakko Mantyjarvi. Keep an eye and an ear out for basso profundo superstar Eric Alattore (he’s the one with the gravity-defying handlebar mustache), who’s been holding down the low end of Chanticleer tunes for 26 years.

SUNDAY 10/30

ANDREW W.K: ‘THE POWER OF PARTYING: 50 STATE SPEAKING TOUR’ 8 p.m. Revolution. $20.

SUNDAY 10/30

HALLOWEEN ON THE RIVER

4 p.m. Riverfront Park. Donations accepted.

Halloween’s on a Monday, and if that bums you out, celebrate All Hallow’s Eve on its eve on Sunday at Riverfront Park.

“Halloween on the River” is headed up by nightlife coordinator Michael Brown’s Brownie Luv Foundation in conjunction with The Van, an outreach service that provides resources to Little Rock’s homeless population. The “minifestival” features a live music stage with performances from Stephen Neeper & The Wild Hearts, Joey Farr & the Fuggins Wheat Band, Rodney Block, Jeff

Coleman and The Feeders and Freeverse; an EDM (electronic dance music) stage with a light show; an acoustic stage on the patio at Revolution; a karaoke stage; and a kids zone complete with bouncy houses and a “haunted cave” that starts up at 8 p.m. Frio will host a beer tent and local vendors will be set up with their wares as well as a stash of candy for trick-or-treaters. Bring blankets and chairs to sit on if you like (no coolers, please), as well as donations to The Van in the form of coats, blankets or cash to help keep members of Little Rock’s homeless community warm and dry this winter.

There’s the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Green Party, and then there’s the Party Party, the apolitical faction launched earlier this year by rocker and author of “The Party Bible” Andrew W.K. as an antidote to political division. To advance — and maybe to explain — the idea that bringing people together in a room is powerful in itself, W.K.’s embarked on a tour giving what he calls “a pep rally for the human spirit,” an idea that found its legs after W.K. gave a four-hour speech at New York University’s Skirball Center to a sold-out crowd. He says on his website: “This tour is a coming together for the sake of partying together.”

Andy Frasco and the U.N. play a concert at Stickyz with Spoonfed Tribe, 8:30 p.m., $10-$13. National Book Critics Circle Award recipient Claudia Rankine gives a free poetry reading at the Fayetteville Public Library as part of the True Lit Festival, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 10/28 Louisiana Soul Revival featuring Doug Duffey brings its Monroe, La., boogie to South on Main, 9 p.m., $10.

The 1922 silent film classic “Nosferatu” will be shown at Low Key Arts in Hot Springs with a live score by Invincible Czars, 7:30 p.m., $10, and at Wolfman Studios’ venue The Preserved Moose with a live score by Joseph Fuller, 10 p.m., donations. Author Caroline Randall Williams gives a free talk at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center titled, “Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes from One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family,” noon.

Museum of Discovery’s “Science After Dark” series finale for the year, “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with Science,” is 6 p.m., $5. Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub hosts a Maker’s Ball costume party, 7 p.m., $25-$30. Reynolds Performance Hall at UCA in Conway hosts “Kris Allen and Barrett Baber: Back at Home,” 7:30 p.m., $25. The first of two White Water Tavern Cover-Up nights features The Good Fear covering the music of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and an assortment of local musicians covering Superdrag, 9 p.m., $10.

SATURDAY 10/29 Tawanna Campbell sings at South on Main with Bijoux and Dee Dee Jones, 10 p.m., $15. The Ben Miller Band lands at King’s Live Music in Conway with Cosmic Farmer, 8:30 p.m., $5. The Arkansas Cornbread Festival celebrates the Southern culinary staple, with live music from Big Still River and The Buffalo Gals in the SoMa district, 11 a.m., free-$10. Community Theater of Little Rock’s final evening performance of “Young Frankenstein: The Musical” goes up at The Studio Theater, 7:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Sun., $8-$16.

The Joint hosts “Fantastically Horrifying Cinema” with a double-feature screening of “The Barn” and “Frankenstein Created Bikers,” 1 p.m., $10.

TUESDAY 11/1 Robert Pollards’ longtime lo-fi outfit Guided By Voices comes to Little Rock with a show at the Rev Room, 8 p.m., $23-$28. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Rockefeller String Quartet plays a free concert in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Hospital Lobby Gallery, 4:30 p.m. Vinos’ Brewpub Cinema screens Wes Anderson’s first film, “Bottle Rocket,” 7 p.m. arktimes.com

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THURSDAY, OCT. 27

MUSIC

Andy Frasco and the U.N.. With Spoonfed Tribe. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 8:30 p.m., $10-$13. 107 River Market Ave. 501-3727707. stickyz.com.

Drageoke. Hosted by Queen Anthony James Gerard: a drag show followed by karaoke. Sway, 8 p.m. 412 Louisiana. clubsway.com.

‘The Halloween Tree.” A shadow puppet performance with original score by composers Paul Dickinson, Karen Griebling, Cory Winters and Michael Pagan, benefitting El Zocalo Immigrant Services. Ron Robinson Theater, 7:30 p.m., donations. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. ronrobinsontheater.org.

Herobust. With G-Buck. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $18. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Holy Gallows, Mainland Divide. White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

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

John Neal. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free.

17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Justin Bratcher. Followed by S.I.N. Karaoke. Kings Live Music, 8 p.m., free. 1020 Front St., No. 102, Conway. kingslivemusic.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.

Malice at the Palace, Terminal Nation, Inrage.

Vino’s. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

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

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

RockUsaurus. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

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

Stuart Montez and the Groove. Wildwood Park for the Arts, 6:30 p.m., $15. 20919 Denny Road. wildwoodpark.org.

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

Three Kings Halloween Party. With DJ Xavier.

Kings Live Music, 10 p.m., $5. 1020 Front St., No. 102, Conway. kingslivemusic.com.

Tragikly White. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Whiskey Myers. With Stephen Neeper & The Wild Hearts. Revolution, 9 p.m., $17-$20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom. com.

Will Mendenhall. Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro, 6 p.m., free.

17711 Chenal Parkway. 501-821-1144. yayasar.

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Hall, 6 p.m. 1200 President Clinton Ave. 501-6835200. clintonschool.uasys.edu.

COMEDY

Daniel Dugar. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m., $8. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

Lyrics and Laughs. The Joint, 8 p.m., $8. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

EVENTS

ArkiePub Trivia. Stone’s Throw, 6:30 p.m., free.

402 E. 9th St. 501-244-9154. stonesthrowbeer. com.

World Services for the Blind Luncheon.

Honoring Dr. Joel E. Anderson with the 2016 Vision Award. Little Rock Marriott, 11:30 a.m., $120. 3 Statehouse Plaza. 501-906-4000. wsblind. org.

FILM

George Takei. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 7:30 p.m., $15. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. uca. edu.

LECTURES

“Health Care: How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?” A panel discussion with students of the Clinton School. Sturgis

POETRY

Claudia Rankine. As part of Fayetteville’s True Lit Festival. Fayetteville Public Library, 7 p.m., free.

401 W. Mountain St., Fayetteville. truelitfest.com.

KIDS

Garden Club. A project of the Faulkner County Urban Farm Project. Ages 7 and up or with supervision. Faulkner County Library, 3:30 p.m., free. 1900 Tyler St., Conway. 501-327-7482. www. fcl.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 28

MUSIC

All In Fridays. Envy. 7200 Colonel Glenn Road.

501-562-3317.

All Souls Musical Meditation on Diversity and Inclusion. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix.edu/events.

Bluesboy Jag and the Juke Joint Zombies.

Rodney’s Cycle House, Oct. 28, 6 p.m.; Nov. 18, 6 p.m.; Jan. 7, 6 p.m. 8120 Doyle Springs Rd. 501-562-6336. rodneyscyclehouse.com‎.

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

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Halloween Cover-Up, Night One. The Good Fear covers songs by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and various Little Rock musicians cover the music of Superdrag. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

Huey Lux, DMP, Nostalgic Records, Lil Kiri.

Vino’s, 9 p.m., $8. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

John Calvin Brewer. Markham Street Grill and Pub, 8:30 p.m., free. 11321 W. Markham St. 501224-2010. markhamstreetpub.com.

Kassi Moe. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Kris Allen and Barrett Baber: Back at Home.

With Matthew Huff, Adam Hambrick and Hannah Blaylock. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 7:30 p.m., $25. 350 S. Donaghey, Conway. uca.edu.

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

Louisiana Soul Revival. South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain. com.

Maggie Koerner. With Taylor Nealey. Kings Live Music, 8 p.m., $5. 1020 Front St., No. 102, Conway. kingslivemusic.com.

Matt Treadway Jazz. Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro, 6 p.m., free. 17711 Chenal Parkway. 501-821-1144. yayasar.com.

Pink Slip. Silk’s Bar and Grill, Oct. 28-29, 10 p.m.

2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 5016234411. oaklawn.com.

Richard Gilewitz. Dogtown Sound, 7:30 p.m., $12-$15. 4012 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Hot Springs. 501-478-9663.

Rustenhaven. Cajun’s Wharf, 9 p.m., $5. 2400 Cantrell Road. 501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Salsa Dancing. Clear Channel Metroplex, 9 p.m., $5-$10. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501-217-5113. www.littlerocksalsa.com.

Susan Erwin. Pop’s Lounge, through Oct. 29, 6 p.m. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-6234411. oaklawn.com.

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

Timothy Allen. An organ recital. Hendrix College, 7:30 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix.edu/events.

Tool. With 3 Teeth. Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m., $60$107. 1 Alltel Arena Way, NLR. 501-975-9001. verizonarena.com.

Upscale Friday. IV Corners, 7 p.m. 824 W. Capitol Ave. Whiskey Myers. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9:30 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Youth Pastor, Ten High. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m., $5. 324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com.

Zoogma. With Dreamer’s Delight and Ryan Viser.

Revolution, 8:30 p.m., $10-$21. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

COMEDY

Daniel Dugar. The Loony Bin, 7:30 and 10 p.m., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501-2285555. loonybincomedy.com.

“Electile Dysfunction.” The Joint, through Nov. 19: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

DANCE

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

Bess Chisum Stephens Community Center, 8-11 p.m., $7-$13. 12th and Cleveland streets.

501-221-7568. www.blsdance.org.

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

EVENTS

Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival. Argenta Plaza, 6 p.m., $35. 502 Main Street, NLR. centralarkansastickets.com.

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 501-244-9690 or search “DYSC” on Facebook. First Presbyterian Church, 6:30 p.m. 800 Scott St. Maker Ball. A costume party for adults. Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, 7 p.m., $25-$30. 201 E. Broadway, NLR. 501-907-6570. arhub.org.

“Survive the Zombie Apocalypse with Science.”

The final “Science After Dark” event of 2016.

Museum of Discovery, 6 p.m., $5. 500 Clinton Ave. 396-7050, 1-800-880-6475. museumofdiscovery.org.

FILM

“Nosferatu.” A screening of the 1922 silent film with live accompaniment from Invincible Czars.

Low Key Arts, 7:30 p.m., $10. 118 Arbor St., Hot Springs. lowkeyarts.org.

LECTURES

“Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family.” A talk by author Caroline Randall Williams. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, noon. 501 W. 9th St. 501-683-3593. www.mosaictemplarscenter.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 29

MUSIC

Ben Byers. Ya Ya’s Euro Bistro, 6 p.m., free. 17711 Chenal Parkway. 501-821-1144. yayasar.com.

Ben Miller Band. With Cosmic Farmer. Kings Live Music, 8:30 p.m., $5. 1020 Front St., No. 102, Conway. kingslivemusic.com.

Chanticleer. A performance from the acclaimed twelve-voice male chorus. Christ Episcopal Church, 8 p.m., $20-$35. 509 Scott St. 501-3752342. christchurchlr.org.

Charlotte Taylor and Matt Stone. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Good Foot. With Big Red Flag. Come in costume and get in for $5. Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9:30 p.m., $10. 107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com.

Halloween at Discovery. Costume contest and beginning at 2:30 a.m., a salsa “disco caliente” party. Discovery Nightclub, 9 p.m. 1021 Jessie Road. 501-664-4784. latenightdisco.com.

Halloween Bash. A live DJ set and costume contest. Cajun’s Wharf, 6 p.m. 2400 Cantrell Road.

501-375-5351. cajunswharf.com.

Halloween Cover-Up, Night Two. Cover-ups of yacht rock favorites and The Blarney Boys.

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

The Josh Abbott Band. Revolution, 9 p.m., $20.

300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. rev-

room.com.

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

Karaoke. Zack’s Place, 8 p.m., free. 1400 S. University Ave. 501-664-6444. Casa Mexicana, 7 p.m. 7111 JFK Blvd., NLR. 501-835-7876.

Karaoke with DJ Greg. Revolution, 8:30 p.m., free. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. www.rumbarevolution.com/new.

The Licks, Mat Smiley, Crystal World. Vino’s, 9 p.m., $7. 923 W. 7th St. 501-375-8466. vinosbrewpub.com.

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

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

Pink Slip. Silk’s Bar and Grill, 10 p.m. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 5016234411. oaklawn.com.

Susan Erwin. Pop’s Lounge, 6 p.m. 2705 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-623-4411. oaklawn.com.

Tawanna Campbell featuring Bijoux and Dee Dee Jones. South on Main, 10 p.m., $15. 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/.

White Glove Test, Ghost Bones, Landrest, Hawtmess. Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $10. 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. maxineslive.com.

Will Mendenhall. The Tavern Sports Grill, 7:30 p.m., free. 17815 Chenal Parkway. 501-830-2100. thetavernsportsgrill.com.

Zoogma. With Irie Lions. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $15. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

COMEDY

Daniel Dugar. The Loony Bin, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road. 501228-5555. loonybincomedy.com.

“Electile Dysfunction.” The Joint, through Nov. 19: 8 p.m., $22. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

EVENTS

Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Statehouse Convention Center, 6:30 p.m., $200. 7 Statehouse Plaza.

Arkansas Cornbread Festival. A cornbread competition and tasting with live music from Big Still River and Buffalo Gals. South Main Street, Little Rock, 11 a.m., free-$10. South Main Street. arkansascornbreadfestival.com.

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

Hillcrest Farmers Market. Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, 8 a.m.-noon. 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 Farmers’ Market. River Market pavilions, 7 a.m. 400 President Clinton Ave. 375-2552. www.rivermarket.info.

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

FILM

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AFTER DARK, CONT. Fantastically Horrifying Cinema. A double feature screening of “The Barn,” directed by Justin M. Seaman and “Frankenstein Created Bikers,” directed by James Bickert. The Joint, 1 p.m., $10. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointargenta.com.

KIDS

Hay Days. Wildwood Park for the Arts, noon, $5.

20919 Denny Road. wildwoodpark.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 30

MUSIC

Andrew W.K.: “The Power of Partying.”

Revolution, 8 p.m., $20. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

Cristy Hays. Smoke and Barrel Tavern, 10 p.m.

324 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-521-6880. smokeandbarrel.com.

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

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

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

O Sole Trio: From Pavarotti to Pop. Arkansas State University at Mountain Home, 2 p.m., $9-$18. 1600 S. College Ave., Mountain Home.

870-508-6214. thesheid.com.

DANCE

Ballet Arkansas: Encore! Featuring excerpts from “Under the Lights” and “The Nutcracker,” “Paquita” and “Memoryhaus.” Garvan Woodland Gardens, 3 p.m., $35-$45. 550 Akridge Road, Hot Springs. garvangardens.org.

Visions Choreographic Competition. A competition for a commission to create a new work for Ballet Arkansas. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 7 p.m., $30-$40. 2801 S. University. balletarkansas.org.

EVENTS

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

KIDS

Bats in Your Backyard. The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 1:30 p.m., free.

602 President Clinton Ave. 501-907-0636. centralarkansasnaturecenter.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 31

MUSIC

Black Tiger Sex Machine. George’s Majestic Lounge, 9 p.m., $20. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

Ghost, Marissa Nadler. Clear Channel Metroplex, 8 p.m., $28-$275. 10800 Col. Glenn Road. 501217-5113. metroplexlive.com.

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

Open Fields, Birthday Club, The Talking Liberties. Come in costume and get in for $5.

Stickyz Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicken Shack, 9 p.m., $10.

107 River Market Ave. 501-372-7707. stickyz.com.

Open Mic. The Lobby Bar. Studio Theatre, 8 p.m. 320 W. 7th St.

CLASSES

Scottish Country Dance Classes. Park Hill Presbyterian Church, through Dec. 5: 7 p.m., $60. 3520 JFK Blvd., NLR. arkansasscottishcountrydancing.com/.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 1

MUSIC

Bearbones Trombone Choir. South on Main, 7 p.m., free. 1304 Main St. 501-244-9660. southonmain.com.

Dr. Ruth Marie Allen Concert Series. Featuring the ASO Rockefeller String Quartet in the UAMS Hospital Lobby Gallery. UAMS, 4:30 p.m., free.

4301 W. Markham St. arkansassymphony.org.

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

120 W. Pershing Blvd., NLR. Guided By Voices. Revolution, 8 p.m., $23-$28.

300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.com.

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

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

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

COMEDY

“Punch Line” Stand-Up Comedy. Hosted by Brett Ihler. The Joint, 8 p.m., $5. 301 Main St. No. 102, NLR. 501-372-0205. thejointinlittlerock.com.

EVENTS

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

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

FILM

“Jack of the Red Hearts.” Ron Robinson Theater, Nov. 1-2, 6 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-3205703. cals.org.

Vino’s Brewpub Cinema: “Bottle Rocket.”

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

SPORTS

Bleached, Beach Slang. George’s Majestic Lounge, 8 p.m., $14. 519 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-442-4226. georgesmajesticlounge.com.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2

MUSIC

Iron Tongue, R.I.O.T.S. White Water Tavern, 9 p.m., $10. 2500 W. 7th St. 501-375-8400. whitewatertavern.com.

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.

Messer, Adakain, Red Devil Lies, Smoke

Signals. Revolution, 8 p.m., $10. 300 President Clinton Ave. 501-823-0090. revroom.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.

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

COMEDY

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

DANCE

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

FILM

“Jack of the Red Hearts.” Ron Robinson Theater, 6 p.m., $5. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. cals.org.

Red Dot Cinema. A screening of award-winning, independent films from across Asia. The Studio Theatre, 7 p.m., $8. 320 W. 7th St. reddotcinema.com.

LECTURES

Rabia Chaudry. The Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture, from the co-host and co-producer of the podcast “Undisclosed” and author of “Adnan’s Story: The Search for Justice After ‘Serial’.” Ron Robinson Theater, 2 p.m., free. 1 Pulaski Way. 501-320-5703. ronrobinsontheater.org.

POETRY

Wednesday Night Poetry. 21-and-older show.

Kollective Coffee & Tea, 7 p.m., free. 110 Central Ave., Hot Springs. 501-321-0909. maxineslive. com/shows.html.

ARTS

THEATER

“The Crucible.” Directed by Paul Barnes. Arkansas Repertory Theatre, through Nov. 13: Wed., Thu., Sun., 7 p.m.; Fri., Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., $20$45. 601 Main St. 501-378-0405. therep.org.

“Frankenstein.” South Arkansas Arts Center, Oct. 27-31, $5-$20. 110 E. 5th St., El Dorado. 870-8625474. saac-arts.com.

“I and You.” Walton Arts Center, through Nov. 6: Wed.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., $10-$40.

495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. 479-443-5600. waltonartscenter.org.

“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Directed by Ann Muse, music direction

by Mark Binns. Hendrix College, Nov. 2-4, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, 2 p.m., free. 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. hendrix.edu/events.

“Winnie the Pooh.” Arkansas Arts Center, Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m., $10-$12.50. 501 E. 9th St. 501372-4000. arkansasartscenter.org.

“The Wiz.” Directed by Danette Scott Perry and Leah Thomas. The Weekend Theater, through Nov. 13: Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 p.m., $16-$20. 1001 W. 7th St. 501-374-3761. weekendtheater.org.

“Young Frankenstein: The Musical.” Studio Theatre, through Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 30, 2:30 p.m., $8-$16. 320 W. 7th St. ctlr-act.org/.

NEW IN THE GALLERIES, ART EVENTS ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, MacArthur Park: “Expansion/Distillation,” Architecture and

Design Network talk by Julia Snow of Snow Kreilich Architects, 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. talk Nov. 1, lecture hall; “Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to Present,” 121 artworks by 90 artists, and “Glass Fantasies,” retrospective of work by Thom Hall with 40 enamels, both through December. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. 372-4000.

L&L BECK ART GALLERY, 5705 Kavanaugh Blvd.: “Portraits,” through October; “Still Life,” November exhibit, all work by Louis Beck.

Giclee giveaway 7 p.m. Nov. 17. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Tue.-Sat. 660-4006.

MCLEOD FINE ART GALLERY, 108 W. 6th St.: “Landscapes/Dreamscapes: At the Crossroads of Observation and Memory,” drawings, pastels and paintings by Jeannie Lockeby Hursley and Dominique Simmons, opening reception 5-8 p.m. Oct. 27. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 725-8508.

PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 3000 W. Scenic Drive: “Shadows in the Water,” mixed media paintings by Brad Cushman, through Nov. 9, Windgate Gallery, Center for Humanities and Arts, reception 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Nov. 3. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fri. 812-2715.

RED DOOR GALLERY, 3715 JFK, NLR: Holiday Open House with guest artist James Hayes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 29.10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 753-5227.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK, 2801 S. University: “UALR Faculty Biennial,” work by Win Bruhl, Kevin Cates, David Clemons, Tom Clifton, Rico Cuatlacuatl, Brad Cushman, Tim Garth, Sofia Gonzalez, Mia Hall, Kerry Hartman, Heidi Hogden, Joli Livaudais, Eric Mantle, Carey Roberson, Aj Smith, David Smith, Marjorie Williams-Smith and Rachel Smith, Oct. 31-Nov. 28, Gallery I; “How to Paint Good,” work by Eric Mantle, Oct. 31-Nov. 23, Maners/Pappas Gallery. 9 a.m.5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., 2-5 p.m.

Sun. 569-8977.

BENTONVILLE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, One Museum Way: “The Art of American Dance,” 90 works spanning the years 1830 to now, through Jan. 16; “Nicholas Young Presents SoundMovement,” 7 p.m. Oct 28; “Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies,” campaign advertising artifacts, through Jan. 9; American masterworks spanning four centuries in the permanent collection. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon., Thu.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed., Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sat.-Sun., closed Tue. 479-418-5700.

FAYETTEVILLE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: “ABOUT FACE,” work by Philip Guston, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Rashid Johnson, Mary Reid Kelley, Arnold Kemp, Amy Pleasant and Carrie Mae Weems, through Dec. 4, Fine Arts Gallery, reception 3:30 p.m. Oct. 27, lecture by Hancock 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 27; lecture by Pleasant 5:30 p.m. Dec. 8, both in Hillside Auditorium, Room 206. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 2-5 p.m. Sun. 479-575-7987.

CALL FOR ENTRIES The Central Arkansas Library System is seeking a qualified artist to create a permanent, nonfigurative outdoor artwork for the Thompson Library at 38 Rahling Circle. The work should represent the late Central High valedictorian Roosevelt Thompson’s love of learning and public service. Budget for the project is $45,000; deadline to submit a model and other information about the sculpture is Nov. 1. For more information and the Request for Proposals form, contact Colin Thompson, colint@cals.org, at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.

The Arkansas Arts Council is accepting applications for Arts in Education Mini Grants and Arts for Lifelong Learning Mini Grants, residency programs, through August 2017.

Artists must match the grant award of $1,000 with either cash or an in-kind contribution. For more information, go to the Available Grants section of arkansasarts.org.

The Argenta branch of the William F. Laman Library invites Arkansas art teachers to enter the 2nd annual Juried Arkansas Art Teacher Exhibition, to be held Nov. 18-Dec. 10 at the library. Guy Bell, artist and owner of Drawl Gallery, will be juror. Deadline to apply is midnight Oct. 28. Cash prizes will be awarded.

For information on how to enter, email Rachel Trusty at rachel.trusty@lamanlibrary.org.

Wildwood Park for the Arts invites printmakers to submit works with a theme of nature for the February 2017 “Nature in Print” exhibit.

Deadline to submit proposals online is Dec. 1.

Find more information at wildwoodpark.org/art.

ONGOING GALLERY EXHIBITS

ARGENTA GALLERY, 413 Main St., NLR: “Indigena,” Latino Art Project exhibition of work by Anthony Samuel Lopez, Sabrina Zarco, Mark Clark, Susie Henley, Vickie HendrixSiebenmorgan, Bobby Martin, Lisandra di Liberto Brown, Michelle Moore, Sergio Valdivia and x3mex, through Nov. 6.

BOSWELL MOUROT FINE ART, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd.: BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES, Arkansas Studies Institute, 401 President Clinton Ave.: Studio Art Quilts Associates show, through December; “Fired Up: Arkansas Wood-Fired Ceramics,” work by Stephen Driver, Jim and Barbara Larkin, Fletcher Larkin, Beth Lambert, Logan Hunter and Hannah May, through Jan. 28; “Little Golden Books,” private collection, through Dec. 3. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 3205790.

CANTRELL GALLERY, 8206 Cantrell Road: “Always Coming Home,” new paintings by John Wooldridge, through Oct. 29. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 224-1335.

CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 509 Scott St.: “The Fourth of July and Other Things,” paintings by Diana L. Shearon, through December. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.noon Fri., all day Sun. 375-2342.

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

Sat. 664-0880.

GALLERY 221, 2nd and Center Sts.: “Resurrecting Memories,” paintings by Sean LeCrone, through October; also work

by William McNamara, Tyler Arnold, Amy Edgington, EMILE, Kimberly Kwee, Greg Lahti, Mary Ann Stafford, Cedric Watson, C.B. Williams, Gino Hollander, Siri Hollander and jewelry by 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.: “Binary,”

works by Michael Church and V.L. Cox, through Oct. 29. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 664-8996.

GINO HOLLANDER GALLERY, 211 Center St.: Paintings and works on paper by Gino Hollander. 801-0211.

GOOD WEATHER GALLERY, 4400 Edgemere St., NLR: “Death of a Salesman,” Elliott Earls, through Nov. 19.

GREG THOMPSON FINE ART, 429 Main St., NLR: “Best of the South,” through Nov. 12. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. 6642787.

HEARNE FINE ART, 1001 Wright Ave.: “Two Fronts,” multimedia drawings by Alfred Conteh. 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. “Heinbockel, Nolley and Peterson: Personal Rituals,” watercolors by Amanda Heinbockel, fiber art by Marianne Nolley and mixed media by Brianna Peterson; “Walter Arnold and David Malcolm Rose: Modern Ruins,” constructions from Rose’s “The Lost Highway,” photographs by Arnold; “Tiny Treasures: Miniatures from the Permanent Collection,” through Nov. 6; “Hugo and Gayne Preller’s House of Light,” historic photographs, through October. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

LAMAN LIBRARY, 2801 Orange St., NLR: “Nature and Nurture,” mixed media artwork and sculpture by Carol Corning and Ed Pennebaker, through Nov. 4. 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

Mon.-Thu., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 758-1720.

M2 GALLERY, 11525 Cantrell Road: Work by Marcus McAllister, Richard Sutton, R.F. Walker and Eric Freeman. Noon-5 p.m. Mon., 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 225-6257.

MATTHEWS FINE ART GALLERY, 909 North St.: Paintings by Pat and Tracee Matthews, glass by James Hayes, jewelry by Christie Young, knives by Tom Gwenn, kinetic sculpture

by Mark White. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 831-6200.

MUGS CAFE, 515 Main St., NLR: “Rorschach’s Buddy,” ink paintings by Diane Harper. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 379-9101.

ROCK CITY WERKS, 413 Main St., NLR: Work by Michelle Moore, Debby Hinson, Doug Gorrell, Sheree King, Kimberly Leonard Bingman, Theresa Cates, Vickie Hendrix-Siebenmorgen, Ed Pennebaker, Nancy McGraw, Hannah & May pottery. (RCW). 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 258-8991.

THEA FOUNDATION, 401 Main St.: Artwork by patients at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, through October. 379-9512.

THE HOUSE OF ART, 108 W. 4th St.: “Stigmatized: The Journey to Black Sovereignty,” featured artist Tobechi Tobechukwu.

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

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CONWAY FAULKNER COUNTY LIBRARY, 1900 W. Tyler St.: Friendship quilts from the 1930s and ’40s from the Faulkner County Museum’s permanent collection. 327-7482.

EL DORADO SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, 110 E. 5th St.: “American Watercolor Society’s 149th annual International Exhibition,” through Oct. 27. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 870-862-5474.

FAYETTEVILLE GEORGE DOMBEK, 844 Blue Springs Road: “Open Studio and Gallery,” paintings and works on glass by George Dombek, every Sat.-Sun. through Oct. 30. 479-442-8976.

FORT SMITH REGIONAL ART MUSEUM, 1601 Rogers Ave.: “Dancing Atoms: Barbara Morgan Photographs,” through Oct. 30. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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

HOT SPRINGS ALISON PARSONS GALLERY, 802 Central Ave.: Paintings by Polly Cook and Patrick Cunningham and photographs by Jim Pafford.

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 655-0604.

GALLERY CENTRAL, 800 Central Ave.: Sculpture by Rod Moorhead, watercolors by Doyle Young, glass ornaments by James Hayes.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 318-42728 GARLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY LIBRARY, 1427 Malvern St.: “Macros and Minis,” large and miniature paintings, through Nov. 26.

GARVAN WOODLAND GARDENS: “Traditional Art Guild,” work by local artists, through October, Magnolia Room.

JUSTUS FINE ART, 827 A Central Ave.: “Fall Color,” works by Virmarie DePoyster, Robert Fogel, Matthew Hasty, Dolores Justus, Tony Saladino, Rebecca Thompson, Dan Thornhill and others, through October. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wed.-Sat. 321-2335.

JONESBORO ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Bradbury Art Museum: “Vicinity,” printmaking by John Knudsen, through Nov. 16; “Embellish,” paintings, fiber art and sculpture by Liz Whitney Quisgard, through Dec. 9; “Tools for Thought: Jewelry,” miniature sculptures by Kiff Slemmons, through Dec. 9. Noon-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 2-5 p.m.

Sun. 870-972-2567.

PERRYVILLE SUDS GALLERY, Courthouse Square: Paintings

by Dottie Morrissey, Alma Gipson, Al Garrett Jr., Phyllis Loftin, Alene Otts, Mauretta Frantz, Raylene Finkbeiner, Kathy Williams and Evelyn Garrett. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri, noon-4 p.m. Sat. 501-766-7584.

YELLVILLE

PALETTE ART LEAGUE, 300 Hwy. 62 W: Work by area artists. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. 870-6562057.

HISTORY, SCIENCE MUSEUM EXHIBITS ARKANSAS INLAND MARITIME MUSEUM, North Little Rock: The USS Razorback submarine, WWII tug the Hoga tours. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 371-8320.

ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD MUSEUM, Camp Robinson: Artifacts on military history, Camp Robinson and its predecessor, Camp Pike, also a gift shop. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon.-Fri., audio tour available at no cost. 212-5215.

ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME MUSEUM, Verizon Arena, NLR: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 663-4328.

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER, Bates and Park: Exhibits on the 1957 desegregation of Central and the civil rights movement. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. 374-1957.

CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: “Ladies and Gentlemen … the Beatles!” Records, photographs, tour artifacts, videos, instruments, recording booth for sing-along with Ringo Starr, from the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE, through April 2. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun., $10 adults, $8 seniors, retired military and college students, $6 youth 6-17, free to active military and children under 6.

ESSE PURSE MUSEUM & STORE, 1510 S. Main St.: “A Walk in Her Shoes,” women’s footwear from the beginning of the 20th century, through Jan. 15; “What’s Inside: A Century of Women and Handbags,” permanent exhibit. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sun. $10, $8 for students, seniors and military. 916-9022.

HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM, 200 E. 3rd St.: Renovated and replicated 19th century structures from original city, guided tours Monday and Tuesday on the hour, self-guided Wednesday through Sunday, $2.50 adults, $1 under 18, free to 65 and over. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9351.

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

MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 9th and Broadway: “Treasured Memories: My Life, My Story,” debut of new works in museum’s 2016 Creativity collection by Barbara Higgins Bond, Danny Campbell, LaToya Hobbs, Delita Martin, Aj Smith, Scinthya Edwards and Deloney, through December; permanent exhibits on African-American entrepreneurship in Arkansas. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. 683-3593.

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TV REVIEW

LONG JOHN: Daly susses out a shot, sporting made-to-order pants in “love lamp” from his signature brand of golf apparel, “Loudmouth.”

Sip it, grip it, rip it Dardanelle golf legend John Daly’s story next up in ESPN’s ‘30 for 30’ series.

BY SAM EIFLING

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f John Daly hadn’t existed, nobody would’ve had the balls to invent him.

He rocketed to fame in the 1991 PGA Championship as a 25-year-old nobody who began the tournament as the ninth alternate, who learned only at 2 a.m. the night before that he would even be playing that week. To watch “Hit It Hard,” the hourlong “30 for 30” documentary on Daly debuting Nov. 1 on ESPN, is to remember anew what a novelty he was.

Dardanelle’s own, Daly projected country kid onto a country club game, becoming an instant folk hero. Then we spent the next 25 years watching him win at golf and lose so many other battles with himself.

We know the Daly at 50, the one who shows decades of hard living and hatless golfing on his craggy face. Under lights, in a garishly patriotic blazer, he explains his life as part confession, part matter-of-fact myth-spinning. He’s contrite, for the most part, about the arrest for menacing his first wife during a drunken, house-trashing rampage. Yet he will explain his eight-

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figure gambling losses with a sort of shrug, explaining that high-stakes blackjack was a substitute for the adrenaline rush of golf tournaments. “Some people just never grow up, and I can say I’m probably one of ’em,” Daly offers in the film.

Yet the filmmakers — David Terry Fine and Gabe Spitzer — seem less interested in a salacious dive into Daly’s addictions than a reckoning with how those traits built Daly into the legend he became. The dude has gone through a couple of rough relationships — who hasn’t? And, yes, the man enjoys a beer now and then, a tough situation when full-blown alcoholism overshadowed his considerable talent many times in the past 25 years. Also, he’s smoked since his days at the University of Arkansas; what began as a way to keep his weight down turned into an emblem of rural rakishness when he was puffing a cig on the course, cornsilk mullet flowing, highfiving fans as he walked between holes.

Oh, and when he tried shutting off any of these vices, he turned immediately to

chocolate. Also, he used to crush the ball off the tee like no one else. And he has released two country albums. Mostly, he seems like a pretty decent guy. Pulp novel stuff, this guy.

You can never quite trust Daly’s hindsight, though. He fell in love with the times when he was a borderline mess, because his freakish talents brought him glory and fortune even as he was keeping a pretty steady buzz on. It’s a trap to celebrate a self-destructive athlete for his self-destructive behaviors, but we all nurture nostalgia for the younger versions of ourselves who, above all else, did us the favor of surviving till now.

You see Daly now signing autographs and posing for photos, cigarette perched in his lips, by an RV in a Hooters parking lot, and you think, “There goes an American hero,” but it’s an exercise in melancholy to watch the 1995 British Open, Daly’s other major championship win. The gusts at St. Andrews have his windbreaker slapping about like a sail, and his hair plastered across his skull as surely as if he’d discovered a comb.

He won that day in grueling conditions, and only after his nearest opponent, Constantino Rocca, hit a miraculous 60-foot putt to force a four-hole playoff. Unflappable and strong, he was absolutely the best golfer in the world that week. You have to wonder how much more often Daly could’ve been the best, if he’d stayed sober and healthy throughout his career.

And then you wonder whether, in fact, you would’ve much cared to watch that version of John Daly play golf at all.

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CHEESE DIP MAVENS and hog masters have been strutting their stuff before the hordes, and judges have spoken: A brewery roasted the best whole hog (a first) and the ConcheeZtadors once again pushed all the amateurs to the side.

The other winners of the 6th annual World Cheese Dip Championship, held last Saturday, Oct. 22, are Heights Taco and Tamale (professional Big Dipper Award, professional People’s Choice); Stoby’s (professional Little Dipper Award); One Cheesy Couple (amateur Little Dipper Award); Flyway Brewing for most innovative, original cheese dip; Raduno (professional Best Incorporation of a Meat Product); That’s What “Cheese” Said (amateur Best Incorporation of a Meat Product); and Black Angus (professional Best Booth Decoration). Besides the amateur Big Dipper prize, the ConcheeZtadors also won amateur Best Booth Decoration and amateur People’s Choice. Big Dipper winners took home $1,000; Little Dipper and People’s Choice winners got $500; and People’s Choice runners-up won $250.

Professional winners of Sunday’s Arkansas Times Whole Hog Roast were Lost Forty Brewing Co., first place; Swinetology 101, second place; and the Samantha’s and Cheers team, third place. Amateur winners were Kermit’s Ex, first place; Pop Smoke BBQ, second place; and Argenta Butt Rubbers, third place.

PEOPLE WHO LOVE dining at The Root Cafe but shy away because of the crowds will be happy to learn that the new dining area likely will be open by the end of next week.

Corri Bristow Sundell, who owns and operates The Root Cafe with her husband, Jack Sundell, said the restaurant is waiting on the city plumbing inspector for the second bathroom the restaurant was required to install when it added three shipping container units. Now The Root will have 20 tables instead of the three or four squeezed into the erstwhile Sweden Creme diner.

Large windows have been cut into the side of the containers and there will be a banquette along one wall.

Root fans will have to wait longer for dinner service: The kitchen expansion isn’t due to be completed until the end of the year.

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FOR BIG APPETITES: The tasty Torta Cubana at Eliella.

Lots to love At authentic Mexican restaurant Eliella.

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ur quest to find the best happy hour deals in Central Arkansas is still young, but it’s safe to say Eliella ranks among the best. From 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, the Mexican restaurant on Baseline sells its excellent tacos for $1, margaritas for $1.99 and pitchers of beer for $5. Cheap drinks are all we require at happy hour, but man, oh man, is that taco deal a steal.

Eliella’s, of course, are authentic — protein, chopped onion, cilantro on a corn tortilla — and they come in every variety you could want, including the familiar, such as asada, barbacoa (barbecue beef ), chorizo, pastor, pollo and queso, and the more exotic, at least for gringos, like buche (pork stomach), cabeza (brain),

lengua (tongue), nopal (cactus pad) and tripa (intestines).

When we stopped in for lunch last week for an Arkansas Times staff outing — and somehow showed restraint and did not spend the afternoon camped out at the restaurant’s newly renovated bar — we cast our net fairly wide, starting with a buche taco ($2.75). The meat was as soft and rich as marrow. We gave high marks, too, to the barbacoa ($3.10) and carnitas ($2.75) tacos, both of which indicated a kitchen staff that knows how to cook larger cuts of meat “low and slow” without letting them lose the marbling that lends them flavor. The house-made corn tortillas were heavenly corn pillows the likes of which are rarely found in

the bread aisle at the grocery store, and which may very well restore your faith in the culinary relevance of those plastic tortilla warmers your college weed dealer used to roll joints.

The tacos, and everything else, can be customized to your liking thanks to Eliella’s unique and impressively fresh complimentary salad and condiment bar, which has iceberg lettuce, sliced cucumber, pickled onion, limes, several kinds of salsa and more. If you want homemade tortilla chips fresh out of the frier, though, you’ll have to pay $1.49.

A homemade, slightly charred in oil tortilla, a spicy sauce on the tender chicken and a little cilantro made for a superior quesadilla ($7.25). Guacamole and a thick sour cream were served on the side of the generous three-quesadilla serving.

The Torta Cubana ($9.25) was hearty and delicious, full of crumbled sausage, ham, cheese, veggies and a

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PLATILLO DE ARRACHERA: The skirt steak and nopales (cactus) with beans, rice and tortillas stood out.

fried egg on a soft roll, all griddled to marry the ingredients. We’ve had tortas elsewhere that tasted like plain ol’ hoagies by another name; this one was one was unique and loaded with flavor — a meal we’ll remember to order next

Eliella Ristorante 7700 Baseline Road 539-5355

QUICK BITE There’s no iced tea to be had at Eliella; several folks treated themselves to horchata ($2.99) — rice water, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar, similar to chai over ice. On our way out, we sampled a couple of the restaurant’s fresh fruit ices from a dessert bar just inside the door. Both were tasty, and we’d have ordered a full cup of either the guanabana or the chili mango if we hadn’t been too stuffed to handle it.

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

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OLD STATE HOUSE MUSEUM, 300 W. Markham St.: “We Make Our Own Choices: Staff Favorites from the Old State House Museum Collection,” through December; “First Families: Mingling of Politics and Culture” permanent exhibit including first ladies’ gowns. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. 324-9685.

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BENTONVILLE MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, 202 SW O St.: 1930s sandpainting tapestry by Navajo medicine man Hosteen Klah, from the collection of Dr. Howard and Catherine Cockrill, through December. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat. 479-273-2456.

CALICO ROCK CALICO ROCK MUSEUM, Main Street: Displays on Native American cultures, steamboats, the railroad and local history. www.calicorockmuseum.com.

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HELMS NURSES EVER-GROWING EMMANUEL COVENANT WITH DOWN-TO-EARTH APPROACH

hen you visit Emmanuel Covenant Community Church in Jacksonville, you get a glimpse of Pastor Berlinda M. Helms’ vision in action. Not just a church, Emmanuel Covenent is a multifaceted outreach center as well as an Arkansas Better Chance preschool serving about 80 children, many of whose parents serve at the nearby air force base. to walk out the present.”

“We started with eight kids,”Helms says These days, Emmanuel Covenant with a laugh. Four imaginatively designed comprises not only a tight-knit, thriving classrooms, each with multiple activecongregation of about 100 and the learning centers with rotating themes, Learning Center for Children, but also and a loving, dedicated staff overseen by Behold Him Ministries, a charitable Helms reveal her conviction that children outreach program that fosters commuand young people are integral to the future nity leadership. of the church and beyond.

“We’re able to know the kids and their “My goal is not just to teach them families, and meet other needs in the family,” reading, writing and arithmetic, because Helms says. “We’ve got to always keep our at this age it’s mostly social and emotional. eye on this community.”

We help them to develop the skills that will As each component grows, Helms take them through the rest of their lives,” finds herself, as always, in need of more says Helms, adding, “We’re into teaching space. In its current building since 2002, our children history. I want to provoke the church has added on extra wings but is compassion in them.” still growing. Helms dreams of expanding This down-to-earth, long-game approach the current grounds, is typical of Helms’lifelong building a new and larger commitment to service and three-story school and a growth. Before becoming “We’re able to know the kids multipurpose sanctuary a pastor, she spent more for the many large events. than 20 years as a regisand their families, and meet Walking the grounds, tered nurse working in one notices a theme: the the hematology-oncology other needs in the family. color teal, everywhere clinic at Arkansas Children’s from the baseboards in the Hospital and as a nurse We’ve got to always keep our school to the fabric of the manager at St. Jude sanctuary’s seats. Early in Children’sResearchHospital eye on this community.” the church’s development, in Memphis. In 1996, after Helms was inexplicably living in Arkansas for about drawn to this color and only later met the five years, her ethic of service sharpened Alabama pastor Ron Teal, who ended up into a call toward ministry. being instrumental in the church’s growth.

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NEARLY DYING JUMP-STARTS ERMA JACKSON’S LIFE IN MINISTRY

he funny thing about death is that amazing things can happen if it doesn’t kill you.

Erma Jackson, pastor of Faith in the Word Christian Center in El Dorado, crossed over for an hour after being bitten by a black widow spider. The only reason she wasn’t hauled to the morgue is because her mother wouldn’t let them move the 5-year-old an inch.

“I left this world; then a bright light came through and a man’s voice told me to get up,” she said. “That’s how I knew that something was different about me.”

In 2000, the Lord called again, telling her to teach his people, lead a church, to get up. She dropped everything to comply, but the exclusively male establishment around her wasn’t impressed.

“I told of the vision that God had given me and they did not receive me,” she said.

“All the men were against me. I have never seen so many mean people in all my life until I spoke out on God’s word.”

Undeterred, she founded her own church, setting it up to serve all who were searching, but especially those who, like her, had been marginalized by the existing houses of worship.

“When God started my ministry he told me I was going to be dealing with drug addicts, prostitutes, the people that nobody else wanted to deal with,”she said.

“I’ve been able to connect with everybody the same because I’m a mother, first of all.

You have the motherly love, and it spreads out to everybody.”

The congregation started out with 12 members inspired by Jackson’s message of love and salvation. Congregants fed the hungry, clothed the naked and threw their doors open to one and all until membership grew to more than 100 and needed more room. In 2005 the ministry built a new home in El Dorado and began to win the

grudging respect of other pastors in town.

“I guess they figured if they’d be mean they would shut me down, but what I realized is man didn’t call me, God did,” she said. “Even in the midst of adversity I still had to push. That’s what kept me going because I knew that man didn’t do it, God did it. I’m on this journey that you didn’t put me on, so you can’t take me off of it.”

She speaks most passionately about women recognizing their role in ministry, a message of hard-won experience.

“When God needs somebody for the forefront, he’s calling us to the forefront to lead his people,”she said.“He said with him, there’s not male, not female, not Greek, not Jew. That’s why I want everybody to know God is not about male or female. If God has put a calling for your life, just go with it even though you do have to go through some obstacles.

“I didn’t have the knowledge to open up a ministry. I didn’t go to nobody’s ministry school, I didn’t go to nobody’s ministry class. All this came strictly from God. He took me step by step where I needed to go and what I needed to do with everybody he put in my path.”

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eet Jan Ham, the force of nature behind Owl Ridge Farm, a goat and cattle farm near Bee Branch that produces, among other things, luxury goat’s milk soaps, along with a whole lot of joy for everyone close to the farm.

As Ham says, “It’s, like, the bomb.”

Working a fully operational farm and soapmaking business is no walk in the park. As soon as the sun is up, she’s caring for her goats – milking, feeding, moving, doctoring and more – and if it’s kidding season, well, forget eating and sleeping. On a normal day, once outside chores are done, it’s straight to the soap room where Ham hustles to keep up with the growing demand for her soaps, sometimes making several hundred bars a day. It’s a full-time job and then some, but every day, Ham says, “I can’t wait for daylight!”

Ham’s energy easily carried over from her more than 20 years in coaching basketball and golf in East Arkansas. After finding success in the athletic world, Ham and her husband, also a coach, were ready to move on to something else, which for them meant the opposite of literal “retirement.” They moved to Owl Ridge in 2006 and immediately became involved in niche farming projects – Ham’s husband, Rick, in beef cattle, and Ham herself, who had loved raising goats growing up in Greenbrier, in dairy goats.

Her unwavering commitment to quality meant she invested in the very best genetic lines. Her Nubians come from the best stock and make some of the best milk in the world. And, with a keen interest in genetics and advice from a close friend, Ham has continued improving her lines, one of which she calls “the Beans.”

The first goat she had shipped to Arkansas from California “got off the plane and looked just like a pinto bean, so that’s who she was: Beans.” From that first Beans came others, with names like Cocoa Bean, Vanilla Bean, Refried Beans and Cool Beans.

Of course, Ham knows her 18 does (and

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several prize bucks) each by name.

The problem with that many dairy goats is the influx of milk. When another friend suggested Ham try making it into soap, she began a more-than-yearlong science project, testing different blends of food-grade, from-the-earth products to create the perfect soap bar. She sold her first bars in her brother’s antique shop, Arkansas Peddlers Mall in Greenbrier, and quickly found her way into other stores.

Having just gained LLC certification this past September, Owl Ridge Farm soaps are available in Gearhead Outfitters in Jonesboro, and Ham says she hopes to keep growing. With luxurious ingredients like cocoa and shea butter, top-quality goat’s milk, and fun scents and designs such as Berrylicious, Dragon’s Blood, and Mayan Gold, her products are in high demand.

But Ham still finds time to share her farm and story with others. She frequently hosts soapmaking workshops and school visits, where kids get to see farming firsthand. With humility and gratitude toward her goats and those she terms “friends of the farm,” her helpers and advisers along the way, Ham loves that she can share the bounty of Owl Ridge with her customers through the quality of her soap.

“I’m just a farmer, just plain old Jan,” she says, but the success of her product and the atmosphere of her farm say differently.

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YOUNG BUILDS SOUTHWEST EAP THROUGH LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS

aggie Young, president of Southwest EAP, was destined to make a career out of resolving conflict.

One look at her college transcript will tell you that.

“I grew up in Arkansas, I have an undergraduate degree from Auburn University, and my master’s in social work is from Alabama, which makes me a bit of an oddity in the SEC,”the Pine Bluff native said.

EAP stands for employee assistant program. Southwest EAP helps clients provide help to their workforce, including in the areas of employee counseling for wellness, marital or stress issues; work/ life services such as providing adoption assistance or wellness programs; management consultation on various workplace and employee issues; and critical incident debriefing, such as what might follow a workplace tragedy or downsizing.

“Corporate EAPs are more critical now than ever because they positively impact employee productivity and reduce turnover costs,”said Young, 44.“I call it a maintenance contract on your employees. People call us when problems come up, and so you really never know what your day is going to look like. The phone rings or a client walks in and you just sort of take it from there. It really is such a varying job and it’s about working with people and solving problems.”

As a benefit that many companies offer to their workforces to help employees connect with a wide range of resources in addressing personal, professional and work-life balance issues, the company plays right into the elements of business that Young loves most.

“I love working with people,” she said.

“I love the collaborative nature of that and I love problem-solving. I get to do that in such varying ways where one hour I’m working with a supervisor about an employee situation, then the next hour I’m on the phone with HR talking about a departmental problem, and the next hour I’m doing individual counseling.”

Young’s father, Dick Dewoody, founded the firm and taught her how to serve clients

and their employees in times of need. She started at the very bottom doing general filing and worked her way through the ranks before taking over for her dad.

Having been at the helm for 16 years, she stresses responsiveness and communication as keys to effective customer service.

“I think one of the keys with EAPs is how to get connected and how to stay engaged with the company on multiple different levels,” she said. “In some ways it’s easier to do now. We have more ways to stay connected and more ways to reach people with information. But you also have to stay abreast of those and you have to make some decisions about what technology is going to be effective and be putting the right message in the right avenue.”

Most of all, Young said, the company has grown to become one of the leaders in its field by thinking big but operating small.

“One thing that is so wonderful about working here is we are not a large 1-800 number EAP,” she said. “We have a regional focus, and some of our clients or client companies have been with us for 30, 25, 20 years. And being able to build those long-term relationships is rewarding.

“Our client profile hasn’t changed dramatically. You meet people where they are, you assess their needs, and if you do that, you can demonstrate your value.”

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s a girl, Mireya Reith often felt like the only one of her kind, the daughter of immigrant parents in a bilingual household.

“Growing up Mexican-American in the state at the time that I did, many times I felt like mine was the only Mexican family,” she said.

She’s still one of a kind, but not because of her ethnic background. Reith continues to stand out as one of the nation’s leading voices for the very immigrant and minority population that is so personal to her and that continues to transform the state in so many ways.

“The first two decades of immigrant growth (in Arkansas) were very much focused on getting services, or even understanding what the immigrant community was and why the growth was happening,” she said.

“Where we saw a lot of our earliest attention was in our schools and the non-profits that emerged were very much service-delivery oriented. It was amazing timeliness when I came back because folks were finally starting to talk about leadership and civic engagement.”

Reith earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from Williams College in Massachusetts and a master’s degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She spent 14 years in the field of international political development, working across five continents with American nonprofit organizations and the United Nations to engage marginalized communities in democratic processes.

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agendas wasn’t just challenging among the Anglo-dominated centers of power with the state, but also within the national discussion. Her persistence paid off with AUCC being represented on high profile boards and commissions focused on Hispanic issues, especially challenges facing immigrants.

“I remember starting off it was ‘Don’t forget about us in Arkansas.’ It was fighting just to get a seat at the table,” she said.

“We’ve been able to make enough noise and lift up our work that this year, we’ve been asked to sit on all three of the major organizational coalitions in the country and we’ve been asked to take on leadership roles as well.”

Her energy and drive has helped her break new ground. In 2011, Reith became the first Latina appointed by the Governor to the Arkansas State Board of Education (2011) of which she is chairperson. Through that role, she was tapped in 2015 to head a select committee of the National Association of State Boards of Education studying career-based education initiatives.

She has also been awarded the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock’s Hispanic Woman Champion Award (2014), the White House Cesar Chavez Champions of Change Award (2013), Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families’ Sister Joan Pytik Child Advocate of the Year (2013), and Arkansas Times’ 40 Most Influential Arkansans Award (2012).

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icole Hart’s military deployment was a few years in her past when she found herself finally coping with the experience.

The memories flooded back after she witnessed an accident and soon after, she was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder.

When she began to recover, she started ARVets, a non-profit that takes a case management approach to address the myriad needs of other veterans.

Hart, deployed to Iraq in 2004 with the 39th Army Infantry Brigade, was part of the Arkansas Army National Guard’s Headquarters Company Support Battalion, which lost the most soldiers in a single tour during Operation Iraqi Freedom. When she came home 2005, she campaigned for Gov. Mike Beebe, who in 2007 tapped her as military and veterans affairs advisor. She represented the governor’s office on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, charged with evaluating the state’s homeland security and oversaw 30 boards as a special liaison.

“I hit the ground running,” she says. “I did what every other veteran does, which is avoid. I stayed really busy.”

She served on the Arkansas Yellow Ribbon Task Force, which found major shortfalls in the care of the state’s veterans.

ARVets opened in December 2011.

“We are kind of like subject matter experts on all things veteran,” says Hart of the staff of ARVets.

Her work is meant to spur understanding of the complex needs of people who have served. Sometimes, the needs are simple.

One veteran she knows has divorced several times, likely because of trauma he suffered in the line of duty.

“His life is in shambles,” she says. “What he needs most is a friend.”

Hart encourages veterans to express vulnerability and get help so they can move forward. She understands how hard that can be. She grew up in poverty and joined the military while enrolled at Harding University in Searcy to support her younger siblings after their father died.

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11, 2001.

“I had an M16 before I even really knew what an M16 was,” she says. “They just told us in a very military way that our nation had been attacked, handed us guns and told us to stand at the gates and look mean. It wasn’t until after I got out that I realized the real impact that it had.”

She tries to compensate for what she considers a failure – the moment she couldn’t continue holding the hand of a dying soldier – by caring for others.

“I feel like that’s a moment I will be reliving and trying to make up for over and over again for the rest of my life,” says Hart.

Her heart lurched as she knelt before a fallen soldier’s son. He hadn’t spoken since his father died but leaned on her shoulder as she thanked him for his family’s sacrifice.

“That was the first emotion he had had.

It’s those sacred moments where I think, ‘For them our work will never be done,’” she says. “We will continue to have these same kinds of issues until everybody in the nation who has benefited from what veterans have done can step into that light and kind of say, ‘I won’t just be just ceremonial and put a flag on my car. I’ll do something to help.’”

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arah Anne Vestal’s background in business development, accounting and greenhouse growing has led to an unexpected career niche.

Vestal is recognized nationally as an expert in the taxation of medical marijuana production.

Vestal is also recognized as a national transgender activist. In December 2015, she attended a class reunion at Catholic High School for Boys, the school she graduated from 40 years earlier as Charles Vestal. She wrote about that experience in an essay that was published in the Arkansas Times.

Vestal grew up in Little Rock in an entrepreneurial family, and started a business of her own – Seasons, a manufacturing and wholesale distribution company of candles, potpourri and soaps – shortly after graduating from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a bachelor of science in accounting in 1980. When it sold in 1990, it had 200 employees and $25 million in retail revenues, Vestal says.

Next came American Optimum Products in Moscow, Russia, where she represented multinational companies like Tyson Foods, Avon, Maybelline and Proctor and Gamble in financing and setting up foreign corporations in Moscow. Then she started Transmedica International Inc., developing a company and raising money to market medical laser and drug delivery technology.

In 2005, she startedVestal Greenhouse Inc. “I had sold the medical laser company and I was trying to decide what to do next,” she says.“I went to Wild Oats and asked for a BLT and the produce manager told me,‘There is no tomato that tastes good in January.’That became my newest challenge. I developed the first certified organic greenhouse in the country growing tomatoes for Whole Foods and Kroger.”

Ten years ago, Vestal moved to San Francisco and became a revenue agent with the Internal Revenue Service. She was assigned to help cannabis growers in Marin, Mendocino and Sonoma counties, north of San Francisco stay in compliance with taxation laws.

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Marijuana, classified as a Schedule 1 drug, by the Drug Enforcement Administration, can be legally sold in 25 states and the District of Columbia, but federal tax laws prohibit producers from claiming deductions for general or administrative expenses like many other retailers do.

“You can only deduct the cost of goods sold,”says Vestal, who has a master of science from Golden Gate University and a doctor of management in organizational leadership from the University of Phoenix.

Rent, utilities and staffing expenses are not deductible for cannabis farmers, making brick-and-mortar buildings impractical.

In California, she explains, where marijuana was legalized 17 years ago, buyers often purchase medical marijuana from distributors’ online stores and have their products delivered shortly after by a separate company, much like they might order a pizza, to get around tax implications.

Vestal returned to Arkansas five months ago, and consults with agents in other states where medical cannabis is legal, as well as with groups in Arkansas, where there are two issues regarding medical cannabis on the ballot in the November general election.

“I am working with people, such as in the state of Arkansas if they do pass medical marijuana laws, to make sure that we are in compliance and collect all the tax money that is due us. That is my latest entrepreneurial venture, on behalf of the federal government,”she says.“I would much rather these guys know the laws up front instead of me cracking down on them in two years.”

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XAYPRASITH-MAYS ZEROES IN ON SUCCESS FOR OTHERS

upha Xayprasith-Maysisbymost accounts brilliant in business. She likes wheeling and dealing, but what she loves is helping people be the best they can be.

She went to work in Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville when she was 20, and within a few years had risen through the ranks.

“I had an opportunity to learn from the best in the industry how to negotiate multi-million dollar deals before I got to be 30 years old,” says Xayprasith-Mays.

Xayprasith-Mays arrived in the United States with her mother and sisters when she was 7 years old, speaking three languages, none of them English. She learned English at school, but wasn’t allowed to speak it at home.

“My mother didn’t want us to lose our language or our culture,” she says. “I understand it now but I hated it at the time.”

At just 13 years old, she began buying fabric and making things and purchasing at sale prices multiple accessories and pieces of clothing in styles admired by her friends and selling those items for a steep profit.

“I’m a retailer,” she concedes.

She has held various corporate positions over the years and created her own businesses, too – Thai restaurants and I Love New York Fashions, which sells items to various boutiques across the country, and also Inclusion, a Little Rock-based bimonthly magazine associated with her consulting business.

She hosted an Inclusion & Multicultural Youth Empowerment Summit last summer, bringing in speakers to address 700 youths information about professional attire, selfesteem, education and careers.

She did that to give kids a leg up – that’s something she likes to do for grownups, too.

“I always like to make people better,” she says. “I learned early on that everyone is important and sometimes it takes other people to really build up their self-esteem and know that they can do better. I tell people, ‘You can do better. You could be making triple this amount. Let me show you how.’”

Xayprasith-Mays gets calls and emails from people all over the world who have heard about her from other people who excelled after consulting with her. Her fees range from $5,000 to $12,000 per month.

“Money is not the motivating factor because I charge based on the size of the services I have to provide for them,” she says. “People give me lotion, power bars, power drinks, barbecue sauce, coffee, from all over. It’s amazing because I don’t advertise what I do, outside of my magazine and my conferences.”

She is working with scientists in Germany to bring out an organic, natural skincare line with one client, and she has partnered with people in technology, food, healthcare and more. She only takes about three new clients each year.

She understands advertising, product development, sustainability, pricing and more, and she shares her knowledge with her clients and helps them connect with buyers, with the goal of raising their income.

“You can’t be a jack of all trades. You say, ‘I’m just really great at one thing and I try to find ways that are better and better at it,’ and then you can go into other areas,” she says. “It’s a lot of work. I’m a minorityowned company – it’s Asian female-owned – and they recognize that I have a company that helps bring products to life, whether it be with Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Dollar General, Tyson Foods, whatever. Let’s just say I was the Shark Tank before Shark Tank became alive. I love what I do.”

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OAKLAWN YES WE CAN FOOD DRIVE Join Oaklawn in giving back to the community by bringing canned and non-perishable food items November 6–12 at the Yes We Can Food Drive. Receive entries for each food item into the Yes We Can drawing on Saturday, November 12 — where you could win a share of $12,000! Donated food will be distributed to local charities.

THANKSGIVING DINNER Enjoy a Thanksgiving feast Thursday, November 24, from 11 a.m.–4 p.m.! Celebrate with all the trimmings in the Carousel for only $4.99 with your Winners Circle card — then, enjoy extended holiday gaming hours until 6 a.m.

KARAOKE returns to Pop’s Lounge every Wednesday, from 7 p.m.–Midnight! Enjoy half-priced drink specials while singing your favorite karaoke tune — hosted by DJ Chucky D! BIRTHDAY BASH Oaklawn invites all guests with November birthdays to join in a celebration just for you! Enjoy birthday treats, refresh- Jacob Flores at Pop’s Lounge, Nov. 19, 7–10 p.m. ments and a special gift in Lagniappe’s from 4–6 p.m. on Sunday, November 27 and win you share of $10,000 with drawings every 15 minutes from 1–4 p.m. and 6–9 p.m.! Happy Birthday from Oaklawn!

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THE INSIDE TRACK GRILL & SPORTS LOUNGE located in the newly renovated Hotel Hot Springs and Spa is a destination for locals and hotel

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MID-AMERICA SCIENCE MUSEUM hosts the 17th Annual Taste of the Holidays. This year’s one of a kind community celebration will be hosted at the newly renovated state of the art Museum November 17, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Anticipating more than a thousand guests at this year’s Taste, the Museum will host the best restaurants, cafes, coffee houses, BBQ eateries, catering companies, brew pubs and bakeries from around the state.

Mid-America will also be putting a major focus on having quality live entertainment, interactive science activities and a silent auction that guests will not want to miss.

When you buy your tickets online, you save $15 off the door price of $90! Call for more information: 501-767-3461 THE ARLINGTON RESORT HOTEL & SPA, The Arlington is the largest hotel in Arkansas and has been hosting guests as one of the South’s premiere resorts since 1875. Their grand hotel lobby and famous bar features live music Thursday-Saturday. The Arlington has everything you would want in a historic hotel with their top-rated Hot Springs Spa and Salon and Thermal Bathhouse where you will bathe in the famous mineral waters of the “hot springs’. www.arlingtonhotel. com . Hot Springs Meetings & Events at Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa. Make your meetings and events historic! Surprise your meeting or convention attendees with a fun, relaxing event in Hot Springs.

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LEYLA MCCALLA [ARCHETYPES & TROUBADOURS SERIES] 8:00 PM—The Oxford American magazine is excited to welcome Leyla McCalla to the Little Rock! This concert is the second show in our 2016-2017 Archetypes & Troubadours Series. Doors open at 6:00 PM, with dinner and drinks available for purchase at that time.

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[JAZZ SERIES] 8:00 PM—The Oxford American magazine is excited to welcome the Helen Sung Quartet to the South on Main stage! This concert is the second show in our 2016-2017 Jazz Series. Doors open at 6:00 PM, with dinner and drinks available for purchase at that time.

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Murry’s Dinner Playhouse is showing Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Call 5623131 for tickets.

OCT 29

Lost 40 Brewing hosts its first annual ZOMBIE LUMBERJACK RIDE and release of the Nighty Night Imperial Stout from 4-9 p.m. Come in costume for a bike ride at dusk plus live music, games, contests and a bike giveaway – all free of charge, thanks to Bike Arkansas, Chainwheel, Electric Ghost and Recycle Bikes for Kids. n THE CORNBREAD FESTIVAL takes place on South Main Street from 11 a.m. to 4. p.m. Enjoy samples of sweet, savory and traditional varieties with prizes awarded to judges’ favorites. Tickets are still available at CentralArkansasTickets.com n COLLECTIVE SOUL performs live at Choctaw Casino’s CenterStage at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $59 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

ROCK ‘N RAVE on the River is a family-friendly Halloween festival from 4-10 p.m. at Riverfront Park. Admission is free. Please bring a coat or blanket to donate to The Van, an organization that serves the homeless in our community.

Enjoy two stages of music, a children’s zone, haunted cave, free trick-or-treating for the kids plus an adults-only after party in the River Market. For more info or to volunteer, email rockraveriver@ gmail.com.

NOV 4

MAYDAY BY MIDNIGHT plays Cajun’s Wharf. Book the band for your holiday party, wedding or special event online at www.maydaybymignight.com. n ART & SOUL is an art auction showcasing original art created by Easter Seals children and adults and art by local renowned artists. Silent auction and doors open at 6 p.m.

Live auction begins at 7:30 pm. There will be live music, food by At the Corner and libations by Rock Town Distillery and Lost 40. For tickets, visit centralarkansastickets. com. n HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE at the Crown Shop on Rodney Pharham. 5-7 pm. Snacks, Drinks and the Wheel of WOW for in-store discounts! The author of GOOD NIGHT, LITTLE ROCK, Emily Wyatt will be in the store signing copies of her book. Join us for this special holiday event! n ARE for Animals Paws in the Vineyard, Trapnal Hall 6 - 9 PM, Food,drinks,auction, wine pull and live music. Go To CentralArkansasTickets.com to purchase.

MacArthur Military Museum presents THE WALER: AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WAR HORSE at 6:30 p.m. as part of the FREE Movies at MacArthur series.

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In honor of the late collage artist Amy Edgington, ART IN THE PARK at Wildwood Performing Arts will celebrate collage with an exhibit featuring the works of Amy Edgington, Erin Lorenzen, Jessica Crenshaw, Jerry Colburn and more, Nov. 11-Dec. 16. The opening reception will be Nov. 17 from 6-9 p.m. On Nov. 20, from 1-1:30 p.m., there will be a Community Conversation with an Artist followed by an Art Collage Party workshop at 4 p.m. Cost of the workshop is $25. Reservations are required. For more info, visit www.wildwoodpark.org.

Celebrity Attractions presents THE TEN TENORS at 8 p.m. in the newly renovated Robinson Performance Hall. For tickets, visit www. celebrityattractions.com.

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RIVER CITY MEN’S CHORUS kicks off the holiday season with a series of concerts featuring your favorite Christmas tunes.

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LITTLE ROCK’S BOO AT THE ZOO continues from 6-9 p.m. with trick or treating, costumes, fun and games for kids and adults of all ages. For more info, visit www. littlerockzoo.com.

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Arkansas Flag & Banner hosts its annual fundraiser DANCING INTO DREAMLAND, a fun, hour-long Dancing with the Stars-style competition with a panel of judges and votes from the audience via text to select the winners. It takes place from 7-10 p.m. Party attire. Tickets are $69 with tables and sponsorships available. For tickets, visit www. dreamlandballroom.org.

NOV 30

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA returns to Verizon Arena to present “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.” The rock opera includes all of your favorite Christmas songs performed in a grand, theatrical way that you have to experience live. Tickets are $37.50, $51.50, $65.50 and $78 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

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KRIS ALLEN and BARRETT BABER are Back at Home for one night at UCA’s Reynolds Performance Hall.

ADAM HAMBRIC, HANNAH BLAYLOCK and MATTHEW HUFF also perform. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Other shows this month, presented by UCA Public Appearances, include VOCES8 (Nov. 10), Fame (Nov. 12) and Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Nov. 22). For tickets, visit www.uca.edu/publicappearances. n ARKANSAS TIMES CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL - over 300 beers to sample, eight restaurants and Edwards Food Giant serving Brats & fixins, live music and just good ole good time. Go to CentralArkansasTickets.com to purchase.

Starts at 6:00 $35 advance $40 day of. Argenta Event Grounds Main & 6th. n Four Quarter Bar hosts the ARKANSAS TIMES CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY with a performance by Mountain Sprout. n 610 Center hosts DEAD HOLLYWOOD. Go glam, or get ghoulish to walk the dead red carpet. No cover charge.

Costume contest with judging at 9 p.m. Prizes and drink specials all night. n 100.3 The Edge presents TOOL live in concert at Verizon Arena at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $55-$102 and available at www.ticketmaster.com.

UALR’s Maners/ Pappas Gallery has a new exhibit, HOW TO PAINT GOOD BY ERIC MANTLE, through Nov. 23, and the UALR Art Faculty Biennial in Gallery I through Nov. 28.

Wildwood Park hosts VINE & DINE at Chenal Country Club, a fundraiser for the Wildwood Academy of Music and the Arts summer children’s program. Tickets are $200 and include a bubbly reception, live music, auction and six-course meal. For tickets, visit www. wildwoodpark.org.

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REINVENTED VINTAGE will be at Bella Rustina Modern Vintage Market. Come see us at War Memorial Stadium near Gate 7 with lots of great finds and home decor goodies. There will also be over 200 other vendors there. For more info, find us on Facebook at Bella Rustica Home.

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The Oxford American Magazine is excited to present BEAR BONES TROMBONE CHOIR OF UCA at South on Main at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. As part of the OA’s Archetypes and Troubadours Series, Leyla McCalla performs on Nov. 3 at 6 p.m.; the OA’s Jazz Series welcomes Helen Sung on Nov. 10 at 6 p.m.; and singer songwriter Todd Snider plays on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. For tickets and more info, visit www. southonmain.com. n SPARK! IGNITING A PASSION FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MATH FUNDRAISER takes place at Museum of Discovery from 6:30-10 p.m. Tickets are $125 available at www.museumofdiscovery.org/event/spark/

NOV 11

The Arkansas Arts Center hosts its 48TH ANNUAL COLLECTORS SHOW AND SALE from Nov. 11Jan. 8, a tradition that brings the New York art gallery scene to Little Rock with the finest works for sale. For more about the show, visit www.arkansasartscenter. org. n 2ND FRIDAY ART NIGHT

NOV 19

LEE ANN WOMACK performs CenterStage at Choctaw Casino in Pocola, Okla., at 8 p.m. Tickets are $49 and available through Ticketmaster at www. ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800745-3000.

NOV 2

Colonial Wine and Spirits hosts a HOLIDAY FOOD AND WINE PAIRING from 4-7 p.m. Hosted at the Colonial Tasting Bar, experts will pair wine with recipes from the Junior League of Little Rock cookbook, Big Taste of Little Rock. Colonial is located at 11200 W. Markham Street in Little Rock.

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THE CRUCIBLE, Arthur Miller’s chilling portrayal of the historic Salem Witch Trials, has become an American stage classic as well as a terrifying metaphor for modern times. See it now through Nov. 13 at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Tickets are on sale at www.therep.org.

The hilarious Christmas comedy SORRY WRONG CHIMNEY opens at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse.

Enjoy dinner and a show for the perfect date night.

Season tickets make a great gift. For show times, reservations and more info, visit www. murrysdp.com.

NOV 25

Grammy Award-winners AMY GRANT and MICHAEL W. SMITH co-headline their popular Christmas show at Verizon Arena at 7 p.m. Jordan Smith, Season 9 winner of “The Voice” opens. Tickets are $39.50, $59.50 and $150 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

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TRUMP COUNTRY, CONT. of Fayetteville, that region’s higher percentage of better-educated voters might aid Democratic hopefuls Irvin Camacho in Springdale (who is facing Republican Jeff Williams for open House District 89 seat) and Grimsley Graham in Bentonville (who is challenging House District 94 incumbent Republican Rebecca Petty in a rematch of their 2014 race).

The second trend specific to this cycle, Barth said, is that Trump’s strength among less-educated whites may accelerate Republicans’ ongoing gains in rural, traditionally Democratic districts. He pointed to House District 10 in South Arkansas, which stretches between Monticello, Sheridan, Fordyce and Pine Bluff. Republican Rep. Mike Holcomb, a retired educator and county judge, was elected to the seat as a Democrat in 2012 — but despite winning re-election in 2014 with 58 percent of the vote, he switched parties in 2015. His Democratic challenger is Dorothy Hall, a farmer and retired associate director with the University of Arkansas’s Cooperative Extension Service, who narrowly lost to Holcomb in the Democratic primary in 2012. Holcomb’s campaign has been the subject of multiple ethics complaints regarding his campaign finance reporting.

“I think the Republican still wins that [race] no matter how damaged he is,” Barth said. “It is classic Trump territory — you’ve got disempowered, mostly white voters with a low college-going rate. It is kind of the poster child for a very good Trump area.”

In House District 73, incumbent

Republican Mary Bentley of Perryville is another unusually weak candidate who could be boosted by Trump, Barth said. A small business owner, Bentley attracted unwanted attention last year when her husband was cited for baiting wildlife in the Ouachita National Forest; according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission officer who visited the family’s home, Mary Bentley told him that he “need[ed] to be real careful, that times were tough and money was tight and [legislators] are looking for places to get money for funding and the Game and Fish Commission would be a good place to look.”

She’s being challenged by Lesa Wolfe Crowell, a former parole officer and Army veteran of Dardanelle. Crowell is a strong candidate, Barth said, but her odds are long: “That’s a good Trump area.”

Incumbent Democrat Bobby Pierce is fending off a challenge from Republican Trent Garner in Senate District 27, a region that sprawls from Pine Bluff to El Dorado with demographics friendly to Trump. The genial Pierce is a classic old-school rural Democratic survivor — a contractor, small business owner and National Guard veteran, he’s served in the legislature since 2007 — but he faces a wellfunded opponent in Garner, who is a lawyer, a former Green Beret and a staffer for arch-conservative U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton.

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If both of these patterns bear out, the result may be a wash. Democrats could pick up a few surprise seats in suburbs or college towns while further eroding in rural Arkansas. Even though Democrats can’t win control of the legislature in 2017, it matters greatly how many seats they control, both in terms of securing crucial committee memberships and floor votes on controversial issues (such as reauthorizing Medicaid expansion).

On the other hand, Republicans may simply sweep everything, in a reprise of 2014. It’s entirely possible that Trump’s popularity will buoy down-ballot rural Republicans even while candidates in more Trumpskeptic districts remain insulated from his baggage. Janine Parry, a professor of politics at the University of Arkansas, said the more affluent voters of the suburbs are more likely to be self-identified Republicans (and therefore party loyalists) than the rural voters who gravitate toward Trump’s message but have less abiding interest in the GOP as a “brand.”

“In terms of those well-educated, habituated, suburban voters … even if they feel squeamish about Trump, they know their brand is now the Republican brand. … Even with Trump at the top of the ticket, I think it will be Republican down the line,” Parry said. If that’s the case, the first group of legislative races Barth identified may still skew solidly GOP. Nonetheless, Parry predicted that Trump’s margin of victory in Arkansas will be somewhat smaller than was Mitt Romney’s in 2012. “I would just put a fun little prediction out there that that might be the thing that makes headlines among the chattering classes in Arkansas on Nov. 9. But that’s only because it would be pretty hard to outperform the Republican presidential candidate in 2008 or 2012 [against Barack Obama].” Although Hillary Clinton isn’t widely loved, Parry believes she’ll perform somewhat better than the sitting president in parochial Arkansas. “[Obama] was everything we couldn’t recognize. He was urbane and unfamiliar. … [But] Hillary Clinton is a familiar name. She’s white.

She has a long history in Arkansas.

Sometimes, she says things that we recognize. So, in that sense, though she doesn’t stand any chance here of winning, she could narrow the gap.”

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