IN BRIEF
THURSDAY 9/22
FRIDAY 9/23
GLORIA BROWNE-MARSHALL 6 p.m., UALR William H. Bowen School of Law. Free.
Gloria Browne-Marshall’s book “The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice,” her chronicle of the struggle of African Americans to cast a ballot, has been called “riveting,
captivating and awakening.” The civil rights lawyer, an associate professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of the City University of New York and host of the weekly radio program “Law of the Land with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall” on New York’s WBAI-FM, 99.5, will bring that background to a talk about inequal-
ity under the law for women and people of color in this UALR Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity-sponsored appearance in the courtroom of the Bowen Law School. Co-sponsors are the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site and the National Parks Service. LNP
SATURDAY 9/24
ARKANSAS TIMES FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
12:30 p.m. Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub. Free.
After a couple of years on hiatus, the Arkansas Times Festival of Ideas returns with a can’t-miss lineup for anyone who enjoys hearing from smart people, appreciates free things, needs an excuse to get out of the house on Saturday and can use a dose of inspiration from folks work-
FRIDAY 9/23 ing to make their communities better. In the Innovation Hub’s roomy co-working space, we’ll hear from five of the Visionary Arkansans we featured in last week’s issue: Matt Campbell (12:30 p.m.), the Little Rock lawyer, civil rights champion and muckraker; Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira (1:30 p.m.), director of UALR’s George W. Donaghey Emerging Analytics Center and an internationally regarded expert on virtual reality; North Little Rock Police Officer Tommy Norman (2:30 p.m.),
who’s gotten national attention for his devotion to community policing; members of Arkansas’s Citizens’ Climate Lobby (3:30 p.m.), including Chris Balos, who is fighting to save the Marshall Islands from rising seas; and Grant Chandler, a brewer at Lost Forty Brewing who uses his microbiology background to isolate wild strains of yeast and in other experimental efforts. There’ll be plenty of time for questions, perhaps free beer and an after-party at nearby Crush Wine Bar. LM
SUNDAY 9/25
BIT BRIGADE: METROID! 8 p.m. Vino’s. $7.
JAM ON THE BACK 40: Adam Faucett, Knox Hamilton, Bonnie Montgomery, Stephen Neeper and the Wild Hearts and Jamie Lou & the Hullabaloo are among the music scheduled for Nebo Jam, a first-year festival at the foot of Mt. Nebo, Sept. 24, noon, $20-$30.
SATURDAY 9/24
NEBO JAM
Noon. 11711 Bethel Road, Dardanelle. $20-$30.
Once, the guy behind me at an Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass show wandered out between songs to engage with a cigarette or maybe something else, muttering, “It’s too pretty, man. It’s too fuckin’ pretty.” The Otis Redding-tinged bellow that blasts from behind Faucett’s beard is one of at least a dozen reasons to head to Dardanelle and dig this first-year festival. The other 11 are as follows: the idyllic foot-of-Mt. Nebo scenery
Soft-rock radio staple Peter Cetera performs at Oaklawn’s Finish Line Theater, 7 p.m., $55-$65. Hot Springs Horror Film Festival takes place at Central Theater, with free admission to the concurrent Spa-Con for ticketholders, $28-$96. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band celebrates “50 Years of Dirt” at the University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall, Conway, 7:30 p.m. Country trio Rascal Flatts makes a stop at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro on its “Rhythm & Roots Tour” with an opening set from Chase Bryant, 7:30 p.m., $39-$144. “Doubt: A Parable” continues its run at The Studio Theater, 7:30 p.m., $15-$20.
showcased in the video Jamie Lou and the Hullabaloo shot there for her song “Happiness” (“the back 40,” as the festival organizer’s family calls it), Cody Belew, Bonnie Montgomery, Stephen Neeper and the Wild Hearts, Knox Hamilton, Charlotte Taylor, a spendthrifty BYOB policy (no glass) and the fact that a portion of the profits will go to the National Stroke Association and another portion goes to preserving this family-owned-andoperated horse farm. Admission is free for kids under 10, and includes camping. SS
Bit Brigade shows begin with some version of the following explanation from bassist Luke Fields: “This is our lead singer, Noah McCarthy. But he will not be executing any poetry of the winds or of the changing tides or the depths of his heart. He will be vocalizing his emotions via the NES control pad. What Noah’s gonna do is play through a game from the time of the credits about as fast as he can do it, and then we’re gonna play the music that goes behind it, real fucking loud.” Shortly afterward, the discordant notes that announce the opening credits of Metroid — once tinny, staccato, canned, 8-bit synth sounds — ring out instead from electric guitars as McCarthy, seated at the stage’s front and center spotlight, selects a user name and presses start to begin the game, which is projected for the audience on a large screen behind the band. He proceeds to rip through levels at roaring speed without the aid of super-boosting game codes as the band accompanies with the appropriate music to match each mini-world Noah enters. The Brigade stops at Vino’s on the way from a gaming convention in Tulsa to play the HiTone in Memphis, with help from our very own Becoming Elephants, who played a live score to a screening of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” back in June. SS
Adam Faucett, Kevin & Gus Kerby and The Martyrs share a bill at Vino’s, 9 p.m., $6. “Twelve Angry Men” continues its run at The Weekend Theater, 7:30 Fri.Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun., $12-$16. Arkansauce takes the stage at Kings Live Music in Conway with The Shady Rest, 8:30 p.m., $5. Searcy holds its annual “Get Down Downtown” festival on the town square, 6 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m. Sat., free. Coyote Union and The Toos play Smoke and Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville for a free “Bikes, Blues & BBQ” weekend show, 10 p.m. The Randy Rogers Band brings its pop-flavored country music to Revolution, 9 p.m., $22-$25.
SATURDAY 9/24 The Main Street Food Truck Festival takes over Main Street from Third to Ninth from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. (see more on page13). Nashville’s The Nobility (formerly Jetpack) bring tunes from its latest, “Ashford Castle,” to South on Main, 9 p.m., $10. Maxine’s in Hot Springs hosts a showcase of local gems with Chuck Dodson sitting in on keys: The Libras (formerly Love Ghost), Isaac Alexander and Amy Jo Savannah, plus a set from East Texas’ Oh My Blue Sky, 9 p.m., $7. Jim and Suzanne Hale perform “Ballot Box Ballads,” a collection of songs tied to U.S. election history, Historic Arkansas Museum, 2 p.m., free. Daughters of Triton, R.I.O.T.S. and DJ Ike shake it out at the White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5. Dunbar Garden hosts the Urban Raw Festival and a concurrent Community Festival and Marketplace presented by Little Rock Black-Owned Businesses and Services, 9 a.m., free.
MONDAY 9/26 Chinese zheng player Mei Han joins composer Randy Raine-Reusch for a concert titled “Endangered Music of the World” at Hendrix College’s Reves Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m., free. The Film Society of Little Rock presents “Fresh Flix: A Student Short Film Festival” at The Joint, 7:30 p.m., $8. arktimes.com
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