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Botanas bar The Fold opens

The Fold, the new taqueria and cocktail bar from Bart Barlogie and Wilson Brandt, opened this weekend in Riverdale.

Greek week continues: Little Greek Restaurant UPDATE

Coming to the Pleasant Ridge Town Center.

A perfect sausage from Butcher and Public

Travis McConnell serves up the good stuff at the Bernice Garden Farmers Market.

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LaToya Hobbs at Hearne Fine Art

"Beautiful Uprising" reception tonight, talk by artist Saturday.

Angela Davis Johnson at Gallery 360

Reception for artist is tonight.

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An A for E's Bistro

May 16, 2013
An A for E's Bistro
Fine dining at bargain prices. /more/

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Fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss raises millions for Heifer

May 16, 2013
Fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss raises millions for Heifer
His love of Heifer has morphed into a fundraising juggernaut with a life of its own. /more/

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Tom Keifer at Revolution

May 16, 2013
Tom Keifer at Revolution
Also, 'J Dilla Change My Life' at The Joint, Nathaniel Rich at South on Main, Good Time Ramblers at Stickyz, 607 Presents: Block Monster Party at Revolution, Running of the Tubs in Hot Springs and 'Buzz-B-Q' at the North Little Rock RV Park. /more/

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Max Brantley

Partisan justice

I had a nice visit with Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Rhonda Wood last week. /more/

Ernest Dumas

Forlorn GOP turns to Benghazi

If you are a beltway Republican, no antidote for the blues matches extended congressional hearings on a real or imagined national horror — that is, if it might heap dishonor on a Democratic administration. If Hillary Clinton will be the dishonoree, so much the better. /more/

Gene Lyons

Race doesn't fit in a checkbox

Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing re-opened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers "white"? It's a meaningless question. /more/

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Book report

May 16, 2013
Book report
'Gatsby' goes 3D. /more/

Pearls About Swine

Football Hogs in transition mode

May 9, 2013
There isn't any reason to read tea leaves with searing scrutiny when there's a minor mass exodus of football players after spring practice ends, right? /more/

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 14:48:00

Jarod Varner picked to lead Central Arkansas Transit

JAROD VARNER
  • JAROD VARNER
Jarod Varner, who's been vice president of transit operations for the Denton County (Texas) Transportation Authority, where he's worked since 2005, has been selected to be the executive director of the Central Arkansas Transit Authority. He succeeds the retiring Betty Wineland.

Varner has a bachelor's degree from Harding University and a master's from the University of North Texas in public administration.

 

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 14:25:00

Appeals court strikes down 20-week abortion ban

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the Arizona law that put a ban on abortions beginning with the 20th week of pregnancy.

This good news for abortion rights generally, though not necessarily in Arkansas since we are in a different judicial circuit. But it should give some ammunition to fire at the new Arkansas ban on abortions at 20 weeks, a law that takes effect this summer. Legal action is being planned on that Arkansas law, but it presents more difficulties than the 12-week ban, recently enjoined by federal Judge Susan Webber Wright.

Very few abortions are performed in Arkansas at 20 weeks or later (50 in 2011 according to state statistics) and they are not routinely provided by the centers that provide most of the abortions in the state, many of them medicine-induced abortions at the early stage of pregnancy. So the abortion providers who are plaintiffs in the 12-week suit aren't readily suited to be plaintiffs in the 20-week case, Most likely, a Jane Doe will be necessary and time will be critical, particularly to the woman, since abortions provided late in pregnancy are invariably prompted by a serious medical condition of the woman or the fetus.

Arizona tried to use the same defense for its 20-week law that anti-abortionists cooked up in Arkansas for the 12-week ban. Because the law allows some exceptions, it didn't amount to a total ban. But the 9th Circuit rejected that reasoning, saying the law still banned many abortions before viability, or the time the fetus could live outside the womb.

 

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 14:20:00

Two shot at Verizon Arena this morning

Officers with North Little Rock police responded to a call about a shooting at Verizon Arena this morning around 11 a.m. and found two people shot.

A female student from Little Rock's Parkview High School was one of two people wounded in what a Little Rock School District official told KTHV is a "domestic situation." The suspect in the case, a male who is not a student at Parkview, was also shot, and is in serious condition. The relationship between the suspect and the female victim — and how both wound up wounded — hasn't been released.

Parkview had just completed practice for their graduation ceremony at the time of the shooting. Parkview's graduation is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. tonight at Verizon, and will apparently go on as planned. We're trying to reach a NLR police spokesman for more information, and will post if anything else becomes available.

 

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Monday, May 20, 2013 - 10:04:00

Johnny Cash mashed with Jackson 5, Steve Miller

Here's what you get when you combine "Rockin' Robin" with "Folsom Prison Blues" and "The Joker." What say you — abomination or finger-snapping good time?

The mash comes courtesy of DJ Faroff.

H/T: egotripland

 

Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 22:42:00

Little Rock Film Festival 2013 award winners

Winner of the $10,000 Oxford American prize. Bayou Maharajah image
  • Winner of the $10,000 Oxford American prize.

I'll have more on my impressions on this year's festival tomorrow. In the meantime, here are this year's prize winners.

Oxford American Best Southern Film Award ($10,000 prize money): "Bayou Maharajah"
Heifer International Social Impact Film Award ($10,000 prize money): "These Birds Walk"
Golden Rock Narrative Film: "Short Term 12"
Golden Rock Documentary Film: "Dirty Wars"
Extraordinary Courage in Filmmaking: Jeremy Scahill ("Dirty Wars")
Arkansas Times Audience Award: "Bridegroom"
Made in Arkansas Best Feature: "45 RPM"
Made in Arkansas Best Short: "The Discontentment of Ed Telfair"
Made in Arkansas Best Director: Mark Thiedeman for "Last Summer"
Made in Arkansas Best Actor: Liza Burns in "45 RPM"
World Shorts: "When We Lived in Miami"

A previous version of this post incorrectly listed the World Shorts winner as "When We Live in Miami."

 

Friday, May 17, 2013 - 11:26:14

Video blogger Joseph Birdsong teaches you about Arkansas

Arkansas is full of talented people, and we ran across yet another one of them last night: the thoroughly-hilarious writer and video blogger Joseph Birdsong. In the video seen above, Birdsong, who was born in Arkansas, schools out-of-staters on some skewed facts about the Natural State, including: "People in Arkansas are born with the ability to recognize 30 different kinds of roadkill based on scent alone," and "The first gay person to ever come to Arkansas was George Takei, and that was because he was forced here to live in an Arkansas Japanese internment camp during World War II." Just remember, he's laughing WITH us, not AT us. Okay, he's laughing AT us as well, but a great sense of humor covers a multitude of sins.

If you're looking for a good laugh, you can check out almost 200 of Birdsong's quirky videos on his Youtube site, cupofjoeshow.com. He's also got a site where he blogs, a very funny Twitter account. and a video blog for My Damn Channel's Answerly page where he talks about sex and relationships.

 

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A guide to the 2013 Little Rock Film Festival

May 16, 2013
A guide to the 2013 Little Rock Film Festival
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Efficiency program from Entergy Arkansas could save you money

May 16, 2013
Efficiency program from Entergy Arkansas could save you money
It often provides thousands in repairs to your home at no cost to you. /more/

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May 16, 2013
Any public-university trustees considering merger of their tax-supported teaching hospital with a Catholic hospital should ponder these wise words from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. /more/

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