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he Natives Guide has assumed many roles in years past: In the olden, preinternet days, it served as a reference guide to everything — listing politician’s names and numbers, shops, restaurants, mini-profiles of hospitals, real estate sales, how to obtain hunting and driving licenses, even where to dispose of old tires. The days of needing such lists in print have gone the way of telephone books. More recently, the Natives Guide has offered profiles of neighborhoods in Central Arkansas, looked at the singles scene, made sartorial advice for men, noted where to take yoga classes and where to dance. The Natives Guide has even been a guide to what we don’t have, but should. This year’s Natives Guide looks to the past and to the future. It paints a picture of Arkansas history with a story on the restored and hugely important “Struggle in the South” mural by Joe Jones, a centerpiece of UA Little Rock’s new “front door,” as the university puts it: Its meeting and classroom space in the heart of the River Market district on President Clinton Avenue. The Natives Guide also tells the story of 2018 in pictures, from the March for Our Lives to the history-making mayoral election, with the photographs of Brian Chilson. Native or not, you’ll find this issue useful in the future, as it fulfills its guide job with a look at where to find late-night nosh and, on a more serious note, information on where to get help finding work, shelter, medical care and more.

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Joe Jones’ mural preserves the past, offers lesson for the future. By Leslie Newell Peacock

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THE MURAL: The 1935 work by Joe Jones once covered three walls at Commonwealth College in Mena.

hen artist Joe Jones painted a dramatic mural depicting the misery of sharecropping, the plight of coal miners and the lynching and burning of a black man — the “three exports of Arkansas” he’s said to have described it to students at labor/socialist Commonwealth College in Mena in 1935 — he could not have imagined its future. He could not have foreseen that the mural, painted on masonite, would survive intact for only five years before being dismantled — along with the college — and become Depression-era building material for a closet in a home in Mena. That it would be rediscovered 40 years after that and sold to a university. That 73 years after Jones put the last brush stroke on the painting, the mural, restored, would once again hang in an academic space, not in the dining room of a small left-wing college in a remote mountain town, but in a smashing new university venue on the bustling President Clinton Avenue in downtown Little Rock — where its story of Arkansas’s past sins will be seen by many, inspire conversation and, perhaps, show a way forward to Arkansas’s redemption. The mural, UA Little Rock gallery director Brad Cushman said, “shouldn’t exist.” But it does, and can be seen when UA Little Rock Downtown holds the grand opening of its lecture/classroom space at 333 President Clinton Ave. at noon Jan. 16. There will be a program on the mural that evening, at 6 p.m. Since 1940, when Commonwealth College shut down, the mural has taken a beating. It’s been cut up, wallpapered over in places, exposed

to the elements. It might have been pitched into a dumpster had the person who many years later bought the house in Mena not lifted the peeling wallpaper and discovered a painting there. If she had not decided to remove it from the house with the help of antique dealers. If someone had not called Bobby Roberts, then the chief archivist at UA Little Rock, to ask if he wanted to buy it. If a chance offer to restore part of it hadn’t led to a campaign for full restoration, if a state agency had not been so wowed by the mural that it hadn’t made a half million dollars available to make that happen. That’s how the painting, which a labor evangelist artist believed would be appreciated as the most important mural in the South, survived. It’s a story that Cushman, who has been working on the project to restore the “Struggle in the South” since 2009 and with University Television Director Cheryl Hellman on a documentary of its restoration, said is “truly an ‘Antiques Roadshow’/‘This American Life’ on steroids.” Commonwealth College is known to most who are unfamiliar with its history otherwise as the place where Orval Faubus went to school, a wry irony on the man who would go on to be forever linked in history with his prevention, temporarily, of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. The school, the product of a schism among the leadership of another labor college, opened in Mena in 1924, mixing classes in liberal arts with labor ideals. In 1935, the school invited Jones, who by then had gained a national reputation, to lecture on “proletarian art and culture,” the school newsarktimes.com DECEMBER 27, 2018

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GALLERY DIRECTOR BRAD CUSHMAN: He’s shepherded UA Little Rock’s mural’s restoration for close to a decade; the St. Louis Museum of Art got the project started when it asked to repair and exhibit the central panel (below) for exhibition.

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paper reported, and paint a mural at the school. Jones had gained national notoriety after he was evicted from his studio in the old St. Louis courthouse, where he’d been guiding jobless African-American laborers in painting a mural, “Social Unrest in St. Louis.” He had become, Cushman said, “the poster child for working classes and art.” Before starting the mural, Jones traveled across Arkansas, making hundreds of photographs. He saw coal miners in Paris, which in the 1930s had below-ground coal mining, and sharecroppers in the Delta. He knew of Arkansas’s history of lynching — the last documented one had occurred only eight years earlier — and had painted imagery of lynching previously. From Mena, Jones wrote a patron in St. Louis that the food was bad — little meat, he said — but there was a good swimming hole. He wrote that there was “no question the mural will be the most important one in the lower half of the United States as well as important nationally.” Yet the college was able to raise only a portion of the $50 needed for art supplies; Jones ended up burning wood to make his own charcoal for the preliminary sketches. He enlisted students to prepare the walls, painted on the walls of a dining alcove punctuated with two windows. It is meant to be read from right to left, Cushman said: First a scene of miners, who are taking off their headlamps and emptying their buckets in anticipation of a strike. In the middle is the wrenching image of an angry, distraught black woman shaking her fist at white men who are wrestling a black man to get him up a tree for a lynching. A body hangs from a tree to the left; his body is being licked by flames. A woman opposite the body has a torch in her hand; another blonde woman onlooker has a look of horror on her face, yet she may be part of the mob. The final scene, to the left of center, is of an exhausted sharecropping couple, their crying baby and their emaciated oxen in a tarpaper shack, peering out at a white farmer. A tornado is on the horizon. Stylistically, the painting charges the rubbery Regionalism of Thomas Hart Benton — Jones’ contemporary and fellow Missourian — with an angry muscularity. Emotionally, the weird expression on a man struggling to string up his black victim — more grotesque than angry — invests the mural with a grim awfulness.

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Jones worked at Commonwealth Col- of the panels in 1983 by the home’s new lege in August and part of September of owner. Women he’d been meeting to dis1935. If the federal government knew of cuss jurying an exhibition knew the story. the mural, it hadn’t taken offense: Jones Forty-four years after the college closed, was hired as part of the New Deal’s Works Bobby Roberts got the call, from William Progress Administration to paint a mural Fadjoe Cravens of Fort Smith — a former on the post office walls in Magnolia. Jones’ congressman, about the mural. When he suggested idea for a mural representa- went to fetch the mural, he found it was tive of South Arkansas — a black family lying in 29 pieces in a yard. He paid $500 picnicking in front of their cabin — was for it and brought it back to UA Little Rock. nixed by the feds, who, noting his earlier It was so fragile — ripped, with water damfamous work in Missouri, said he should age in places, frayed masonite in others, paint a scene of men threshing wheat — paint cracked like eggshells — that it was not an Arkansas crop, but more palatable covered in brown craft paper, tucked away to Arkansas tastes, the WPA must have in permanent collection storage and not reasoned. taken out to show students. There were When Commonwealth College, in debt Instamatic photos of the work, and stuand disarray, closed in 1940, many of its dents interested in the mural worked from buildings were torn down. The “Struggle those. in the South” was removed and taken to Another 26 years passed and Cushman, the home, it’s believed, of the daughter of then the gallery director, got a call from the a faculty member, and nailed up; some of St. Louis Museum of Art, which was doing the panels faced in, some faced out. a Jones retrospective and wondered if UA Fast-forward 43 years to 1983. Cush- Little Rock did indeed have the mural, as man learned last year, quite by accident a book on Commonwealth said it had. Yes, on a trip to research the college in Mena, Cushman said, but it was in such poor conabout the circumstances of the removal dition that not even he had seen it, and it

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2018 IN PHOTOGRAPHS

HERE’S A LOOK AT THE YEAR 2018 IN LITTLE ROCK THROUGH

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HISTORIC ELECTION Frank Scott Jr., 35, a banker and pastor, celebrates his victory as the first elected African-American mayor of Little Rock. Scott defeated Baker Kurrus in a runoff vote Dec. 4. The race drew five contestants; the other three were Warrick Sabin, Vincent Tolliver and Glen Schwarz.

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A NEW BRIDGE

In March, commuters could once again cross the Arkansas River on a Broadway-U.S. 70 bridge, when the Arkansas Department of Transportation completed work. ArDOT demolished, with some difficulty, the previous bridge, built in 1923, in 2016.

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Mike Laux addresses members of the press in December to announce the addition of new plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Little Rock Police Department over its no-knock warrants for alleged drug suspects. Plaintiffs say the no-knock warrants are abusive and unconstitutional, citing instances in which police have used explosives to blow off doors off homes to search for drugs based on faulty information from informants. One plaintiff was shot three times during a raid by police officers who’d been told he was operating a meth lab. They found only a small quantity of marijuana; the plaintiff had to have four surgeries because of his injuries. The no-knock policy has gotten national attention thanks to a researched opinion piece about the LRSD in The Washington Post.

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The Satanic Temple trucked in a 10-foot statue of Baphomet, its god, to the state Capitol in August in its campaign to get the statue installed on the Capitol grounds. The group, headed up by Lucien Greaves, was responding to the installation of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds, and said the state’s refusal to allow installation of the Baphomet statue was in violation of the First Amendment. The Ten Commandments monument installation was instigated by state Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway), who has no use for the U.S. Constitution’s establishment clause. A federal district judge has allowed the Satanic Temple to join a lawsuit filed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the ACLU against Secretary of State Mark Martin over the placement of the religious symbol on state property.

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MARCHING IN MARCH

Thousands assembled March 24 at the state Capitol for the March for Our Lives mass protest of America’s loose gun laws that have brought about the slaughter of hundreds of American schoolchildren, their lives sacrificed because of a perverse interpretation of the Second Amendment. The march came on the heels of the killing of 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fla., which sparked student walkouts across the country.

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Women and men dressed in pink T-shirts waved at passersby outside the Little Rock office of Planned Parenthood in May to show their support for the clinic’s right to offer reproductive services. The legislature in 2015 passed a law that required a clinic to have a contract with a doctor with hospital admission privileges to administer the two-drug abortion regimen, pretending it was doing so for safety reasons. After a three-year journey in federal district and appeals courts, the law remains temporarily enjoined from taking effect.

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The Little Rock Marathon on March 4 again drew thousands of runners (and twice as many feet) to its 16th annual test of strength. Runners started off in a drizzle, but the weather cleared up quickly. Drew Mueller blazed in after 2 hours, 32 minutes and 35 seconds for first place. Tia Stone of Searcy was the first woman to cross the finish line, after 2 hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds.

What does it take to host family for Christmas dinner? More planning. More thought. More heart. You expect to slow down to give all your grandkids a hug or to borrow chairs from a neighbor. But, you don’t expect to slow down because you are out of breath. If you are short of breath or tiring more easily than you used to, talk to your doctor. It could be your heart. With more than 50 cardiologists and heart surgeons in more than 30 locations across the state, we give you more options. Find a clinic near you and request a FREE heart health kit at chistvincent.com/moreheart.

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Universal Fairs of Memphis stepped into the breach left by Riverfest organizers, who’d called it quits in 2017, by announcing it would revive RiverFest (top) and hold it over the Memorial Day weekend this year. (The 2017 Riverfest, the 40th annual event, broke with tradition by being in June.) Though the 2018 attendance was low, Universal Fairs says it plans to return in 2019. On a more intimate scale, Jamie Lou Connolly (above) came away the winner of the Arkansas Times Musician Showcase competition in March.

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DRAMATIC The Arkansas Repertory Theatre had a difficult year in 2018. Financial problems forced it to go dark before it had finished its season, and its founder and longtime director Cliff Baker, who was working with The Rep board to find a way to reopen, died suddenly in September. The Rep named the alley behind the theater Baker’s Alley in tribute. Donations from individuals and matching funds from the Windgate Charitable Trust and Robyn and John Horn helped put The Rep back on track and the board announced it will open a new season in fall 2019 with “Chicago.” arktimes.com DECEMBER 27, 2018

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now someone who needs help? Or need help yourself? It can be hard to find. Social service groups come and go, budgets are perpetually strapped and even the most dedicated staffers tend to be overworked and underpaid. Fortunately, Pulaski County has some fantastic nonprofits and a number of public resource programs for those seeking assistance. The trick is figuring out where to begin looking. We can’t hope to offer a comprehensive list, but we might be able to steer you in the right direction. This list is intended to be a jumping-off point for those looking for services or trying to help a friend, family member or neighbor in need of assistance. The first step is to do some homework. There’s not yet a single one-stop shop for finding assistance in Pulaski County, but there are many good guides out there. Search online for “Little Rock Compassion Resources Directory” to find an encyclopedic list of resource providers in the area. Goodwill Industries of Arkansas has a statewide online directory. You might also try the Good Grid and Aunt Bertha, two websites attempting to build a comprehensive list of social services and community resources. Both feature search tools that are slick, promising and still very much works in progress, at least as of December 2018. The Arkansas Department of Human Services, despite its many flaws, is the clearinghouse for most public resources offered through the state, such as Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps) and child care vouchers. Visit the DHS website or call one of the agency’s several locations in Pulaski County (682-9200 for Pulaski County south; 682-0100 for North Little Rock). Check Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s website for a list of social work resources, some local and some national. Good luck. And remember, be persistent. 24

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Call your elected officials If you’re running into trouble with a government agency, be it local, state or federal, don’t hesitate to reach out to the people in charge. Their job is to represent you. For federal issues, try U.S. Sens. John Boozman (372-7153 in Little Rock, 202-2244843 in D.C.) and Tom Cotton (223-9081 locally, 202-224-2353 in D.C.) or U.S. Rep. French Hill (324-5941, 202-225-2506 in D.C.). State agency problems? There are 14 state representatives and six state senators who represent districts in Pulaski County. Find the officials who represent you at the state House or state Senate websites. When the General Assembly is in session, call the House at 682-6211; the Senate’s in-session number is 682-2902. To reach the governor’s office, call 682-2345. For municipal issues, try the city director or alderman for your ward and/or an at-large director and the mayor’s office. Reach out to the cities of Little Rock (3714510), North Little Rock (975-8888), Jacksonville (982-3181), Maumelle (851-2500) or Sherwood (835-5319) for contact information for elected officials. Pulaski County residents are represented by the Quorum Court, which is made up of 15 Justices of the Peace (340-8205). Report child abuse or adult maltreatment If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, call the state’s Crimes Against Children Hotline at 800-482-5964; your anonymity will be preserved. Adult Protective Services, within the Department of Human Services, has a hotline at 800-482-8049 to report suspected abuse of adults who are impaired by mental or physical disease or who pose a danger to themselves. Victims of domestic violence can seek help from the Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violence by calling 800-269-4668 (Arkansas hotline) or 800-799-7233 (U.S. hotline). Food assistance For a list of food pantries and soup kitchens in Pulaski County, contact the Arkansas Food Bank (565-8121) or visit foodpantries.org. Also try the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (399-9999), an organization that’s especially helpful at connecting people with SNAP, the food stamp program.

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Homeless services and temporary shelter There are many organizations serving the homeless in Pulaski County, but shelter options are limited — especially for single men. Our House (374-7383) helps the homeless find employment and independence; it also runs a shelter, though space tends to fill up quickly. As of December 2018, the Little Rock Compassion Center (663-2972 for women, 296-9114 for men/families) was the city’s only emergency shelter that reliably accepted single men, but it charges a small fee and conditions can be austere. The Van (955-3444) concentrates on street outreach and brings supplies such as food, water, clothing and hygiene products to people wherever they are. On weekdays, the city of Little Rock operates the Jericho Way day center (9169859), and River City Ministry (376-6694) is a day center serving North Little Rock. Veterans can find help at the VA Day Treatment center (244-1900). Lucie’s Place caters to LGBTQ young adults (508-5005); Immerse Arkansas (404-9890) helps former foster kids and other youth. For more up-to-date resource lists, search online for Our House’s “Homeless Support Guide.”

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Housing Pulaski County is served by multiple local housing authorities, but their resources are limited. Even if you qualify for a Section 8 voucher or other housing assistance, you may face a waitlist. Contact the Metropolitan Housing Alliance (340-4821) or the North Little Rock Housing Authority (758-8911). If you’re encountering other problems with rental housing, Arkansas Community Organizations (3767151) is a grassroots group that fights for tenant rights. Health insurance Arkansas offers free (or nearly free) insurance to most very low-income people through the Arkansas Works program. Depending on the time of year, those with slightly higher incomes may be able to sign up on the insurance marketplace for a (sometimes) modest premium. Your best bet is to contact one of the state’s three insurance carriers that sell private plans: Ambetter of Arkansas (877-617-0393), QualChoice (800-235-7111) or Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield (378-2000). Or, contact DHS directly. To sign up for a different Medicaid category (such as ARKids or disability insurance), you’ll need to contact DHS. Medical and dental help In case of an emergency, call 911. Otherwise, the first step is to enroll in insurance, if possible. But there are also a number of free and low-cost clinics and other providers in Pulaski County. They include Harmony Health Clinic (375-4400) at 201 E. Roosevelt Road; CHI St. Vincent Community Care (552-4710) at 2500 E. Sixth Street; Southwest Little Rock Community Clinic (364-6560) at 9015 Dailey Drive; and the Westside Free Medical Clinic (664-0340) at St. John’s Catholic Center at 2415 N. Tyler St. For help finding free or low-cost children’s dental care in Pulaski County, call the local America’s ToothFairy representative (819-3979), a program of the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation. arktimes.com DECEMBER 27, 2018

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Mental health services and substance abuse treatment The Arkansas Crisis Center runs the state’s suicide prevention hotline at 888274-7472. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 800-273-8255. You can search for behavioral and mental health providers by ZIP code with an online tool provided by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Little Rock Community Mental Health Center (686-9300) is the public mental health agency for the area, though like many pieces of the safety net, it is often overburdened. The Centers for Youth and Families is a good local provider (666-8686 or 888-868-0023). For inpatient treatment for children and adolescents, try the Methodist Children’s Home (661-0720) or Youth Home (821-5500). For substance abuse services, check out the Wolfe Street Foundation’s (3725662) excellent list of community resources. Contact the Arkansas Central Office for Alcoholics Anonymous at 664-6042 or call their hotline at 664-7303. Narcotics Anonymous in Central Arkansas can be reached at 373-8683. Job search and workforce services Our House’s Career Center is a hub of information for job search assistance and connecting to job training, including for people with a past criminal history; call 374-7383, ext. 3. The state connects residents with various workforce services through two Arkansas Workforce Centers in Pulaski County, one located in Little Rock (682-0228) and one in North Little Rock (376-4119). Goodwill is another major player in workforce training in the area and helps adults earn a high school diploma; call 372- 5100 or 877-372-5151. Legal assistance If you’ve been charged with a crime and can’t afford an attorney, a public defender will be appointed to represent you. The Center for Arkansas Legal Services helps low-income people with civil legal issues. It and its sister nonprofit, Legal Aid of Arkansas (headquartered in Jonesboro), provide free legal services for folks who have been unjustly evicted, scammed or discriminated against, just to cite a few examples. Because they get far more applications for help than they have the resources to provide, they jointly maintain arlegalservices.org. Call 376-3423 or 800-9-LAW-AID (800-952-9243). Also, the William H. Bowen Law School operates a student-staffed legal clinic that provides assistance pro bono to people who can’t afford it. The clinic helps with housing disputes, fraud allegations, credit access, family law and tax issues and also offers mediation. Call 324-9441. Civil rights complaints For workplace discrimination issues, contact the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission’s office in Little Rock at 800-669-4000. If you believe you have been denied access to or removed from housing because of discrimination, call the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission at 682-3247. Disability Rights Arkansas (296-1775) advocates for people with disabilities. Services for the elderly Contact CareLink (372-5300), the Area Agency on Aging for Central Arkansas. CareLink helps with meal delivery, caregiver assistance, Medicare prescription drug counseling, legal assistance and other services. Child care assistance Low-income families should apply for Child Care Assistance, a voucher program offered through the Department of Human Services (682-8947). Thanks to new federal money dedicated to this program earlier this year, there’s no longer a waiting list for the program in Arkansas, though finding a provider that accepts vouchers can sometimes be a challenge.

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Immigration-related services The nonprofit El Zocalo Immigrant Resource Center (301-4652) is a clearinghouse for immigrants seeking assistance in Central Arkansas; it publishes a bilingual resource guide and provides a variety of services. Catholic Charities of Arkansas provides low-cost immigration counseling services (664-0340).

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We provide training and approval for families to serve as therapeutic foster parents for vulnerable youth in foster care. The program offers services designed to strengthen, preserve and facilitate permanency for foster children with the hope of improving the wellness of the family unit and the community as a whole. We offer parenting classes to help you be the best parent of your toddler, child or teen. Our Parent Educators help you navigate basic child development to more intense needs such as trauma,divorce, ADHD or other life challenges.

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NINE FOR THE NIGHTTIME A late-night eatery rundown.

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MIDTOWN AT MIDNIGHT: The bar’s famous burger lays the base for a night of revelry.

The moon is high. The fridge is empty. You haven’t had a bite since the early-bird lunch special and you’re far too considerate a human being to waltz into a local eatery and order up your dinner 10 minutes before closing time. (Aren’t you?) Lucky for you, the late-night dining game in Little Rock has gotten a whole lot stronger, and your options extend far past the realm of smotheredand-covered. Read on, night owl, and patronize some of the fine establishments offering up bar bites and couture fare into the wee hours.

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722 N. Palm St. 4 p.m.-midnight Mon.-Sat. The fact that this Pantry Eateries kitchen stays open late is only the beginning. First things first: Happy hour lasts all evening on Mondays, a day when many area restaurants are shuttered. Choice pilsners and pinot noirs can be had at cut rates, along with a bevy of small plates perfect for sharing after a show or when your after-work meeting ran ridiculously late and you’re ready to consume the first thing within sight that looks like a carbohydrate. There are the decadently Truffled Deviled Eggs; Pommes Frites; the silky House Made Ricotta, served in the center of a ring of charred bread slices; the housemade Liver Paté; the halved-and-charred Brussels Sprouts with Aioli; that apex of all German comfort foods, Cheese Spaetzle; and, maybe the best of all, the salty-sweet dualism of the Bacon Wrapped Dates on toothpick skewers. The Lasagna al Forno’s damned near the stuff of legends; the rotating, one-pot Rustic Bowl is consistently creative; and the house-pressed Country Terrine is a must. (Think: Spam’s erudite Parisian cousin.) Even better: It’s a place you can comfortably go out for a meal with your friends even during the leanest of months; The Pantry’s House-Made Sausage and Bratwurst, topped with mustard and your choice of vegetable lesco or sauerkraut and served on a Boulevard Bread hoagie, are $4.95.

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2. Pantry West 11401 N. Rodney Parham Road 11 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Fri., 4 p.m.-midnight Sat. The Pantry Eateries’ first location, est. 2009, is so many things. It’s the Zeus’ head from which its Hillcrest offshoot sprung in 2014. It’s a place to make you feel a little less plebeian after you’ve just spent an hour in Party City across Rodney Parham Road. It’s a place whose dim lighting and internal architecture seem uniquely suited to intimacy; you could hide away in a corner gazing into your beloved’s eyes for an entire evening without interruption. It is, in most other respects, similar to its Crest counterpart — a cozy Germanic hangout with consistently delightful small plates. It has a couple of major advantages over its off-Kavanaugh cousin: It serves lunch and is the exclusive spot for chef Tomas Bohm’s signature paella, an outsized, jovial celebration of a dish that requires an eight-person minimum and one week’s notice to serve.

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3. Midtown Billiards 1316 S. Main St. 3 p.m.-5 a.m. daily Like a great Phoenix with grease-tipped wings and Camel Lights on its breath, Midtown Billiards has risen from the ashes again and again. Sometimes the ashes were metaphorical; the spot’s revelry has been broken up by more than one booze-fueled brawl. Sometimes they were literal; the late-night dive and perennial Hub of Bad Decisions was forced to close and remodel after a particularly devastating fire in September 2016. And what were we robbed of in the subsequent months? For one thing, a dreadnought of a sandwich called the “Midtown Burger Challenge” that doubles as a gauntlet thrown at the most voraciously competitive of diners. Therein, challengers work their way through a stack of four beef patties, an entire can of Spam, and two fried eggs layered between buns and all the fixin’s. If they do it in half an hour, the sandwich is free; otherwise, they pay $25 for the sandwich and its digestive aftermath. You need not go to such extremes, though, and most don’t; Midtown’s staple — the plain cheeseburger — will do quite nicely, seasoned with all the oily history of that time-honored flat grill and the sloppy romance of marathon drinking.

4. Dugan’s Pub 401 E. Third St. 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Sat., 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun. The Gaelic saying “Céad Míle Fáilte,” literally meaning “a thousand welcomes,” greets visitors above the doors at Dugan’s Pub at the corner of Third and Rock streets in the River Market district. Named for owner Don Dugan, former owner of Markham Street Grill & Pub, the spacious Irish-inspired pub slings customary bar food, such as cheese dip, nachos, burgers and chicken strips, 30

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along with “traditional Irish fare” — shepherd’s pie ($8.95), corned beef hash ($9.95) and bangers and mash ($8.95). A large drink menu welcomes patrons with cocktails, cocktail warmers, brews by the bottle and a rotating draft selection. The pub’s small slice of covered outdoor patio space is often busy, weather permitting, and Dugan’s also sometimes hosts live music. It regularly broadcasts professional and college football games. This corner of the River Market district is also home to Stratton’s Market at Dugan’s Pub, which offers groceries, specialty foods, produce, wine, beer and liquor, with an emphasis on local products. It’s open 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Mon.-Sat.

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5. Waffle House Various locations. 24 hours daily Waffle House, the pervasive diner chain that offers cakey waffles and hash browns served in a delightfully long list of ways — smothered, covered, chunked and, among many other options, the coyly phrased “all the way” style, which combines every option together for what must be a sight to behold — has a familiar appeal that’s rooted in the fact that Waffle House is for everyone. Teens squeeze into the booths in the thrillingly empty hours between dinner at home and an 11 p.m. curfew; early risers and folks getting off their overnight shifts line the counter at 5 a.m.; hungover college kids stumble in around noon to slurp down coffee and strips of crispy, greasy bacon, of which the Waffle House website says it slings 341 rashers per minute. The chain is dependable. Waffle Houses are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so the warm, beckoning lights of each establishment, scattered like its hash browns across 25 states, are perpetually accessible for hungry, bored or weary travelers, drawn to those yellow block letters in the sky like moths to a flame.

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6. Four Quarter Bar 415 Main St., North Little Rock 3 p.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-2 a.m. Sun. Bar grub’s come a long way in Little Rock in recent years, and Four Quarter — an offshoot of Maggie Hinson’s Midtown Billiards family — is leading the charge in the Argenta Arts District. The shotgun dive smokes its own pork and serves the best veggie hash in town. Elevated fare, such as Chicken Cordon Bleu rillades, arrives unceremoniously in those red checkered paper trays you get from food trucks; a pool of otherwise elegantly plated chorizo shrimp cheese grits lands on the table in a styrofoam bowl. It’s not unusual at all for the 4Q to smoke a pork belly to perfection, for example, and do something wild with it — batter it up like a corn dog, to pick a recent example. The food’s so good it’s almost a joke: a high-art-meets-low-art farce. Whatever it is, it translates on the paper plate to a barfly’s sweetest dream and a tongue-in-cheek mashup of fine dining with a state fair/gas station nachos aesthetic.

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At the Rock Creek Square Plaza shopping center at Bowman Road and West Markham Street sits JJ’s Grill, a bar/restaurant that could be described as a bizarre hybrid of Applebee’s and Hooters. It has a few slogans, including “Do your mouth a favor” and “Boots, class and a lil’ sass.” In the “Meet Us” section of the restaurant’s website, a short video features narration by Jody Thornton, owner of JJ’s, as well as testimonials from customers and waitresses (whom Thornton and Andrew Locke, JJ’s general manager, refer to as “the girls”) about the live music, fresh food and friendly atmosphere. A menu of American bar food favorites is spiced up with some odd originals, such as the PB&J burger ($9.99), topped with grape jelly, bacon, peanut butter and Sriracha. Pricier “serious meals” on the menu include fish ’n’ chips ($14.29) and JJ’s salisbury steak ($12.59), and there are a variety of salads, tacos and wraps to round out the eatery’s offerings. An addendum at the end of the menu asks “Date not hungry?” and lets customers know they can double an order of fries HAND CRAFTED and add three onion rings for $3.29. This section also adds that while JJ’s is a “true short-order grill,” patrons will have to pay more for extra fixings because “if it costs me, it’s gonna cost you.” This Arkansas-only restaurant

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8. Brewski’s Pub & Grub 315 Main St. 11 a.m.-midnight Sun.-Wed., 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Thu.-Sat. Fratty vibes notwithstanding, the service at this double-decker Main Street pub belies the usual sports-bar mediocrity: The servers and bartenders may not be hip to the ways in which that Brewski’s logo was derived from a certain Boston bar of sitcom renown, but they still make you feel welcome to pull up a chair and order a tall one. Wall-filling flat screens surround diners. The beer is served killer cold and the wings piping hot. During some particularly long stints this summer staring (and OK, yelling) at a giant television in the cozy Brewski’s basement during the 2018 College World Series, we appreciated the variety of spots to perch on or curl up in: tall stools, low couches, cozy booths or convivial tables. Don’t sleep on those cheese curds, either.

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9. Ciao Baci 605 N. Beechwood St. 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Mon.-Fri., 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Sat. The cozy atmosphere of Ciao Baci, the Hillcrest bungalow-turned-eatery, welcomes guests to a friendly space that encourages conversation over its tapas-style small plates and appetizers, such as its rich, smokey sweet potato fries basket with chipotle honey ($8) or the utterly decadent baked pimento cheese, served with grilled pita and pepperoncini ($9). These “Ciao Baci Food Favorites,” as the menu describes them, are available from 4 p.m. until midnight, while the larger entree plates, described on the restaurant’s early fall 2018 menu as “Food Features,” are available 5-10:30 p.m. They include an ambitious chef’s tasting menu for $45, which, according to the menu, is a five-course progression of “what you should be eating.” Other food features, such as the pan-roasted duck breast ($24) or the butternut squash tamale ($14), come paired with well-conceived, complementary side dishes for a satisfying, full-belly experience. Ciao Baci hosts happy hour from 4-6 p.m. daily, and for those in the mood for a cocktail or glass of wine to get through the midweek slump, select bottles of wine are only $20 on Tuesdays and it’s happy hour all day on Wednesdays.

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FRIDAY 12/28

BIG CATS, JOSHUA ASANTE

RETT PEEK

9 p.m. White Water Tavern.

CHRISTMAS AT WHITE WATER TAVERN: Josh Bentley, Colin Brooks, Burt Taggart and Jason White — Big Cats — reunite for a show at the White Water Tavern with Joshua Asante.

FRIDAY 12/28

SATURDAY 12/29

SEAN FRESH & FRIENDS

CELEBRATE KWANZAA

10 p.m. South on Main. $10-$15.

Three of Little Rock’s most charming soul/R&B singers are on this late-night bill at South on Main, so believe us, the mood will be elevated and the singing will be robust and polished. Sean Fresh, the perpetually well-dressed and silver-tongued crooner behind the two-part “Teshuvah Project” album, shares the stage with Ashley Evans and with Davison and Bijoux — two fellow vocalists who have followings in their own right. Call 501-244-9660 to reserve a table. SS

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It’s that time of year: Central Arkansas expats are back in town, which means Little Rock’s Big Cats — Josh Bentley, Colin Brooks, Burt Taggart and Jason White — are using part of their holiday reprieve to play a show at White Water. Formed from the dissolution of some of the bands that shaped Little Rock’s punk-rock identity in the ’90s — Towncraft-era bands like Chino Horde and Substance — Big Cats put out a triple LP called “The Ancient Art of Leaving” in 2011 (their “Sandinista,” they’ve joked), and manage to remind us annually of their power-pop prowess, despite family obligations, geographical distance and White’s role as touring guitarist for Green Day. Expect to hear folks you haven’t seen since your punk-rock friends started making babies, in the hazy, soft-focus glow of that golden week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Vocalist/loop composer/ Amasa Hines frontman Joshua Asante opens the show. SS

FRIDAY 1/4

ICE BOX 4

1-3 p.m. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

7 p.m. Gallery 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road.

Saturday is the fourth day of Kwanzaa, the sevenday holiday season celebration of African-American culture and values, and it’s focus is Ujamaa, the concept of “cooperative economics.” Mosaic Templars will celebrate the day with its Arkansas Made, Black Crafted initiative to teach children crafting skills, business basics and money management. Mosaic Templars is particularly appropriate for the celebration because of its mission of recording black entrepreneurship in Arkansas. There will be sale in the Museum Store, as well. LNP

Artist and organizer Matthew Castellano talked in early November 2018 with the Arkansas Times on our entertainment podcast, “No Small Talk,” and in that session he described the ways in which events like this one — part of a series called “Ice Box” — are not exclusively about the art on the wall, but about the social phenomenon that happens when people gather around it. “It’s just social experiments, really,” he said. “Little Rock is such a putty; you can mold it into something if you’re just diligent enough.” The “Drink and Draw” sessions Castellano hosted in 2018 molded friendships and tiny networks of emerging artists, some of whom present their work here, at this fourth “Ice Box” show: Hannah V. Lemke, June Pham, Rayna Mackey, Anaka Njeri Smith, Olivia Pate, Lauren Crosthwait, Jennifer Perren, Brittney Marie and Hannah D. Hinojosa. The show remains up at Gallery 360 through Jan. 26. SS

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ARKANSAS SHORTS

4 p.m. Malco Theatre, 817 Central Ave., Hot Springs. $10-$20.

Low Key Arts’ annual film throwdown is manyfold: It’s a kins’ “Chess”; Devin Castle’s music video for Ghost Bones’ “Lipraucous marathon of a party inside a vintage moviehouse on Hot shifter”; Baylie Kilian’s “Grasp”; Madeline Finne Snapp’s “Gwen”; Springs’ Bathhouse Row. It’s an entire evening of short films. It’s Thomas Tanner’s “Haircuts”; Dan Anderson’s “Kipple Project”; an excuse to get out and commune with creative people just when Robbie Brindley’s music video “Clean Gift”; Havilah Rodgers’ “My you might need it most: at the onset of the January doldrums. The Story”; Johnathan Woodson’s “Spiderland”; Trevor Davis’ “Stay/ 12th annual such festival is directed by Jennifer Gerber, the badass Go”; Kelly Griffin’s “The Company”; Aaron Buckley’s “The Great at the helm of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. The Pizza Race”; Matthew Magdefrau’s “Trails” and “Yellow”; David day kicks off with a reception at 4 p.m. A block of international Malcolm Rose’s “Virtual Reality Check”; Amy Evans’ “Wonderful shorts follows, 4:30-5:30 p.m., then a block of U.S.-made shorts, 6-7 World”; and Michaela Skaggs’ “Wonderland.” Plus, Thomas Petillo p.m. Jury-selected short films made in Arkansas run from 7:30- will be on hand taking photos, so you can bust out that New Year’s 10:15 p.m. with a brief intermission and include Ron Teague’s “A Eve outfit one more time. An awards ceremony and an after-party Day with Bigfoot”; Brooklyn Nicole Alexander’s “Bingo Night”; at SQZBX Brewery & Pizza Joint follow the screenings. See lowkeyLisa Cole’s “Buford Gomez, Jr. Wants You to Vote!”; Denzel Jen- arts.org for tickets. SS

MINI-FEST AT THE MALCO: Devin Castle’s music video for Ghost Bones’ “Lipshifter” is part of the lineup at Low Key Arts’ Arkansas Shorts: A Night of Short Film, Saturday, Jan. 5.

THURSDAY 1/10

MONDAY 1/14

ROCKEFELLER STRING QUARTET

‘WOMEN OF A NEW TRIBE’

6:30 p.m. Dee Brown Library, 6325 Baseline Road. Free.

Did you know that Central Arkansas Library System’s Arkansas Sounds has a program in which local musicians perform free concerts in area libraries? Sounds in the Stacks has hosted sets from pianists, guitarists, and now, string quartets. The Rockefeller String Quartet — violinists Trisha McGovern Freeney and Katherine Williamson, violist Katherine Reynolds and cellist Ethan Young — takes a chamber music set to Southwest Little Rock’s Dee Brown Library. The quartet next plays at the Sue Cowan Williams Library, 1800 S. Chester St., Tuesday, Feb. 12. See the “Education/Community” tab at arkansassymphony.org for more about the Rockefeller Quartet tradition, and see arkansassounds.org for more on the Sounds in the Stacks series. SS

6 p.m. UA Pulaski Tech Windgate Gallery. Free.

A reception opens this exhibition of black-and-white photographs of African-American women by Jerry Taliaferro of Charlotte, N.C. Taliaferro’s photographs, of women of all ages and walks in life, made use of dramatic lighting to emphasize their “physical and spiritual beauty,” UA Pulaski Tech says in a news release. Garbo Hearne, owner of Hearne Fine Art, will give a talk at 6:30 p.m.; music will be provided by Tech jazz professor Dr. Barry McVinney on saxophone and Julia Buckingham on piano. LNP

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THURSDAY 1/17

HIROYA TSUKAMOTO 7:30 p.m. The Joint Theater & Coffeehouse. $30.

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This Kyoto, Japan, native and cohort of Esperanza Spalding picked up a five-string banjo when he was 13 years old, moved to the guitar soon afterward and doesn’t seem to have put it down much since. In a video of a live performance at Oberlin College in Ohio, he gets laughs when he confesses unfamiliarity with the dialect in the Okinawan folk song he’s about to perform, “Asadoya Yunta,” saying, “I hope you don’t understand.” What follows is proof positive Tsukamoto’s as dexterous with the staccato strikes and five-note pentatonic scale germane to that tradition as he is with the lush eight-note landscapes he employs when performing more traditional acoustic fingerstyle fare. Tsukamoto visits the Argenta Arts District as a guest of the Argenta Acoustic Music Series; see argentaacoustic.com for tickets. SS

ACOUSTIC IN ARGENTA: Fingerstyle guitarist and composer Hiroya Tsukamoto lands in North Little Rock Thursday, Jan. 17, as a guest of the Argenta Acoustic Music Series.

THURSDAY 1/17

‘ON THEIR OWN TERMS’

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UA Little Rock Windgate Center for Art and Design.

7:30 p.m. Verizon Arena. $53-$228.

A seminal exhibition of works by important African-American artists, including 19th century masters and 21st century superstars, opens Jan. 17 in both the Brad Cushman Gallery and the Small Gallery of the Windgate Center. From landscape artist Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872) to social justice artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988), from wry stereotype-busting artist Kerry James Marshall (1955-) to Michelle Obama portraitist Amy Sherald (1973-) and former Arkansas multimedia artist Delita Martin (1972-), “On Their Own Terms” portrays a family tree of artists addressing the issues of their times and illustrates their influences on one another. The works were assembled by curator Brad Cushman from the Juan Rodriguez Collection in New York, Hearne Fine Art, Darrell and Lisa Walker, Karen and C.J. Duvall, Karen and Kevin Cole, Pamela and Anthony Vance, Dr. Imani Perry, Pierrette van Cleve, the Arkansas Arts Center, UA Little Rock’s permanent collection and individual artists and other collectors. LNP

He’s here, the pop mogul who’s giving Madonna a run for her money in the Reinventing Yourself game: formerly of boy band NSYNC, formerly formerly of “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,” now the suavely baby-faced tenor responsible for lusty pop confections like “SexyBack,” “Cry Me a River” and “My Love.” (Let us agree not to speak of “Dick in a Box.”) The year 2018 has Timberlake trading in his tailored suits and driving bass beats for a lumberjack look; expect this concert’s momentum to be stalled only by the innocuous, breezy pop tracks like the title track for Timberlake’s latest, “Man of the Woods.” See verizonarena.com for tickets. SS

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MONDAY 1/21

THE BEACH BOYS 7 p.m. Robinson Performance Hall. $63-$83.

Who could fault the baby boomers for sidling up to decades of Beach Boys melodrama with a wide grin and a bucket of popcorn? The California Dream was, after all, sold to those original fans with such devotion and verve. Never mind that Dennis was the only one who could really surf; to hear the Beach Boys’ debut is to hear Malibu in 1962 distilled into crystalline ear candy — not as that beach party scene was in actuality to those on the coast, but as it was presented to listless teens in landlocked suburbia — in Omaha and Wichita and, probably, in Cabot and Conway and Malvern. And, whatever mess has been made by way of all the dirty laundry aired — battling memoirs, revolving lineups, the tabloid fallouts and the hasty cinematic caricaturizations of Brian Wilson and Mike Love — “Pet Sounds” remains clean as a whistle, one of the most important and thrilling records ever cut. For what it’s worth to those who have kept up with post-50th anniversary reunion quibbles, this concert comes from Mike Love’s lineup, sans any Wilsons at all: founding member Mike Love and Bruce Johnston (who joined in 1965), along with Tim Bonhomme, John Cowsill, Jeffrey Foskett, Keith Hubacher, Christian Love and Scott Totten. SS

FRIDAY 1/25

TERMINAL NATION, MY HANDS TO WAR, GO FOR GOLD, COLOUR DESIGN

ELIZAVETA PORODINA

7 p.m. Vino’s. $10 suggested donation.

‘TO THE SUNSET’: Violinist/vocalist Amanda Shires takes center stage for a Sunday show at the Rev Room.

SUNDAY 1/27

AMANDA SHIRES 8 p.m. Rev Room. $17-$20.

That Amanda Shires could do much more than fiddle and sing ginger harmonies in the service of spouse Jason Isbell’s songs has long been clear. Shires has played violin with no less than the Texas Playboys, and she recorded solo before her marriage and creative partnership. That she’d translate a master of fine arts degree in poetry and a well-earned sense of self into an album like “To the Sunset?” — I’m not sure that was predictable, maybe even to Shires herself. “I assumed my range was, like, three or four notes,” she told Rolling Stone in October, speaking about the early days of finding her voice as a songwriter — a songwriter everyone figured for just a good fiddler. It’s safe to say, with driving, danceable anthems like “Take on the Dark” and keening enigmas like “Mirror, Mirror” under her belt, three or four notes was a woeful miscalculation. The record reminds me of Dolly Parton and Luscious Jackson and Tom Petty all at the same time, and I’m so thrilled a Little Rock audience gets to see what it’s like when Isbell’s other half shifts to center stage for a while. SS

THURSDAY 1/31

SARAH ELIZABETH CHARLES

MATTHEW PANDOLFE

8 p.m. South on Main. $35-$44.

Vocalist and composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles’ third album with her jazz outfit, Scope, is called “Free of Form,” and it seems to me that is exactly what her compositions want to be. In a performance at the Community School of Springfield in January 2018, Charles looped and layered her soaring vocals atop glassy piano accents and inquisitive guitar chords. Charles is an educator who works with Rise2shine, an early childhood education nonprofit in Haiti, and with Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and her public performances exemplify that exploratory, workshopping spirit. This is amorphous jazz at its best, tied less to answers and more to questions: As she told NPR in 2017, the question “What is needed for the change to come?” was born of Charles’ need to respond artistically to the injustices she’s seen through her work in Haiti and here at home, ‘FREE OF FORM’: Educator and composer with the deaths of Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Sarah Elizabeth Charles and her band Scope Mike Brown and others. This one’s for fans of Esperanza Spaldgive a concert at South on Main Thursday, ing, Tori Amos or Miles Davis. SS Jan. 31.

Sometimes you’ve got to take matters into your own hands, as these four bands are doing to remodel Vino’s wobbly, ancient stage at Seventh and Chester streets. The pizzeria and brewery has hosted shows people still talk about decades later: Green Day, Gossip, Jawbox, Evanescence, Queens of the Stone Age, Fugazi. From the bands that made Little Rock’s ’90sera music scene so powerful — Soophie Nun Squad, Ho-Hum, Lucero, Trusty, Substance, Sugar & The Raw. All that sweaty, beer-soaked history has taken its toll on the Vino’s stage, and four heavy-hitting Central Arkansas bands — Terminal Nation, My Hands to War, Go For Gold and Colour Design — are raising money to rehabilitate it. Your suggested donation of $10 goes toward a $1,600 goal, which organizers say should cover all materials and labor needed to make sure no future rockers fall through the damned thing. SS

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ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CHOPIN & MENDELSSOHN 7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. Robinson Performance Hall. $16-$68.

Thanks to a gift from supporters Pat and Jim Wallis, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra has a bangin’ Steinway now, and what better to do with a worldclass piano than invite a world-class player for a good rollicking bout of Chopin, right? Pianist Andrew von Oeyen, who made his debut at age 16 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whoa, pays a visit to Little Rock to play Frederic Chopin’s demanding “Concerto No. 2 in F Minor” with the full orchestra, bookended by Verdi’s commanding, majestic overture for “La Forza del Destino” and Mendelssohn’s jaunty, pastoral “Symphony No. 3 in A Minor,” known more widely as the “Scottish Symphony.” Von Oeyen sticks around for a chamber concert Tuesday, Jan. 29, at the Clinton Presidential Center as part of the River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series, at which he’ll perform selections from Chopin’s works for solo piano and George Enescu’s “Piano Quintet in A Minor,” introduced by Haydn’s “String Quartet No. 4.” See arkansassymphony.org for tickets and details. SS

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Central Arkansas offers an abundant array of services to its citizens. From world renowned health care providers including retirement options including independent living to in-home temporary and permanent options. Behavioral healthcare options including inpatient and outpatient options. ARKANSAS CHILDREN’S Arkansas Children’s is the only health care system in the state solely dedicated to caring for children, which allows the organization to uniquely shape the landscape of pediatric care in Arkansas. Arkansas Children’s is more than a hospital. The system includes a 336-bed hospital in Little Rock with the state’s only pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, burn center, Level 4 neonatal intensive care and pediatric intensive care, and research institute as well as a nationally recognized transport service. It is one the 25 largest children’s hospitals in the United States and is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in cardiology/heart surgery, neurology/neurosurgery, nephrology and pulmonology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest in Springdale includes 233,613 square feet of inpatient beds, emergency care, clinic rooms and diagnostic services. Arkansas Children’s also blankets the state with outreach programs that include telehealth, mobile health and school-based health solutions. A private nonprofit, Arkansas Children’s boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking research and is committed to providing every child with access to the best care available, regardless of location or resources. Arkansas Children’s is driven by four core values: safety, teamwork, compassion and excellence. These values inform every decision and every action, from the aggressive pursuit of zero hospital infections to treating each family with dignity, kindness and concern. These core values fundamentally guide our work at Arkansas Children’s. Arkansas Children’s places children front and center in all that we do. We have dedicated more than a century to providing care to critically ill and injured children, but our work will not be complete until Arkansas is the healthiest, safest place to be a child. In order to make children better today and healthier tomorrow, we are working to deliver care to reach more of the 710,000 children in Arkansas where they live, learn and play. For more info, visit www.archildrens.org.

CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILES

Centers for Youth and Families provides critical behavioral health care services to children, youth, families and adults all over Arkansas. The Centers is a collection of programs and services that benefit the community at large through counseling services for adults, as well as programs that target vulnerable populations, including foster children and parents, emotionally and behaviorally disturbed youth, impoverished youth, victims of human trafficking, learning disabled youth, and pregnant and parenting teens. Most of the people we serve are living at or below the poverty level. The agency has sites in Harrison, Little Rock and Monticello. The Centers and its more than 250 committed employees strive to heal children and youth from complex trauma through services that include residential care for victims of abuse, neglect, abandonment or human trafficking; therapeutic foster care; outpatient counseling; day treatment; and transitional care. Centers for Youth and Families offers the community a continuum of care—with prevention and education on one end and intervention and treatment on the other. These services include: Prevention services: he agency focuses on the outreach, education and wellness of families. Programs include: the Healthy Families America-Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and Personal Responsibility Education Program. Prevention services also include parenting classes for those wishing to learn or improve upon their parenting skills. Intervention services: The agency provides counseling and therapy to treat children, youth and adults who are struggling with emotional or behavioral problems. The Centers has both Englishand Spanish-speaking clinicians who offer same-day appointments in Little Rock and Harrison. If you or someone you know is struggling with issues such as anxiety or depression, your primary care physician can refer you to The Centers for counseling. Treatment services: The agency has residential treatment centers that provide intensive, inpatient, psychiatric help and educational services for children and adolescents who have suffered trauma and are exhibiting serious social emotional and behavior problems. These centers are located in Little Rock and Monticello and care for youth ages 5-17. Children, youth and adults in The Centers care are struggling to heal from abuse, abandonment or neglect and often need help managing their emotions and behaviors. The Centers is helping these Arkansans heal from abuse, recover from trauma and manage emotional issues to create a positive future. AN ARKANSAS TIMES ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT

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PINNACLE POINTE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Pinnacle Pointe Behavioral Healthcare System offers a full continuum of behavioral health care services to meet the emotional and behavioral needs of children and families throughout the state of Arkansas. The hospital is Arkansas’s largest behavioral inpatient facility for children and adolescents ages 5-17 who find themselves struggling with the pressures often experienced by today’s youth. In addition to our inpatient facility, our system also brings hope and healing to families through our statewide continuum of compassionate services through programs such as partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, school-based mental health and traditional outpatient. Pinnacle Pointe’s 15 outpatient clinic sites are spread throughout the state to provide care in the local communities we serve. Individualized mental health treatment is offered in a secure and nurturing environment, and Pinnacle Pointe’s staff is dedicated to helping children, adolescents and families find their path to living happier lives. Pinnacle Pointe Hospital offers no-cost assessments 24 hours a day, seven days a week to children and adolescents who are struggling with emotional or behavioral issues. For more information, visit pinnaclepointehospital.com or call 501223-3322 or toll-free at 1-800-880-3322.

PET CREMATION SERVICES OF ARKANSAS When we think about our pet’s health, we often think about annual vet visits, flea protection and heartworm prevention. These things are always important to make sure that our furry friends stay happy and healthy. While we have enjoyed the time we have spent together, unfortunately the day will come when that life will come to an end. When faced with the difficulty of saying goodbye to our beloved pet, we must make the decision of where our pet’s final resting place will be. One of the most honorable ways to pay respect to your pet is through pet cremation. Pet Cremation Services of Arkansas has been providing services to Arkansas families since 1995. Whether it’s a standard, wood or metal urn or a pawprint plaque, Pet Cremation Services can provide the perfect means to memorialize your pet. Your best friend has always been there by your side, so when the time comes to say goodbye, we invite you visit us www.petcremationsar.com or visit with your vet for further information.

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The Little Rock Southwest High School project is making great progress and is on schedule. In the academic building, the structural steel is complete, roofing has begun, and you can even see brick going up. Most of the stairwells are complete, including the collaboration stairs in the academic building, cafeteria and Fine Arts wing. On the interior, drywall installation began in November, and more detailed items such as millwork and finishes followed. On the exterior, window framing and glass will begin to be installed soon. After roofing is complete, the building will be in the dry. At the arena, the steel frame and roof are complete, and the precast bleachers are being installed. Concrete block walls are being installed at the locker rooms, offices and storage areas. The Athletics Fieldhouse walls are under construction and roof framing will begin soon. In the near future, the infrastructure for the football field, track, baseball, and softball fields will be installed. Site work on the parking lots and site utilities is ongoing, including the planning for the construction of the roundabout on Mabelvale Pike at the front entrance. The Little Rock School District celebrated the building “topping out” in October by hoisting a bright green beam bearing the Gryphon Flag to the top of the building. Students and the community were given the opportunity to tour the building and sign the last beam that will be installed. Discussions regarding transitioning to the new building continue with teams from J.A. Fair, McClellan and Hall (Hall students who reside in the LRSW attendance zone area will br able to attend the new school) meeting monthly to ensure a smooth move for students and staff into the new state-of-the-art facility. LRSW will open in 2020. A special thanks to Nabholz, Doyne, Carson, and Ace Glass construction teams; Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects; and LRSD’s Facilities Department for their support in making the topping out event memorable.

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