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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.

Dining Review

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 - 10:50:00

NLR woman dies after fiance sets her on fire

Worst local story today so far is from Fox 16:

A North Little Rock woman has died after her fiancee poured gasoline on her and set her on fire.

 

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 10:00:00

Cathi Compton also in circuit judge race

CATHI COMPTON
  • CATHI COMPTON
We're one day into the official campaign period for judicial offices (the election is May 20, 2014) and we already have a race for circuit judge of the 13th division, covering Pulaski and Perry counties.

Cathi Compton has just begun a Facebook page for her race for the seat being vacated by the retiring Judge Collins Kilgore. She's been a member of the attorney general's staff and made a race for circuit judge in 2008.

Yesterday, Little Rock lawyer Mike Reif announced for the seat.

 

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 09:41:00

Conservationists call for Buffalo protection on river, hog farm tour

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State legislators have an interesting twofer today and tomorrow — a Buffalo River float trip and a visit to a mass hog feeding operation that conservationists fear holds peril for the pristine national river. Hosts will include the Arkansas Farm Bureau and agri-giant Cargill.

A news release follows from the National Parks Conservation Association, one of several groups that have criticized an inadequate permitting process for the C&H Hog Farm at Mount Judea, which will house 6,500 pigs for Cargill. It says, in part:

By forcing a permit through that has tremendous holes with a lack of adequate public input, these agencies have endangered our treasured landscape and the livelihoods of many individuals — including the owners of C & H. The organizations concerned about the impact of C & H are pro-farm, but we are also pro-Buffalo National River, and the threat to the nation’s first national river is real.

Don Nelms, the environmentalist business tycoon/photographer who watches over the Buffalo River from a bluff-top home above Jasper, is urging a demonstration of river advocates at lunch Wednesday in Jasper. Earlier, we posted his photo slideshow on the issue. He sent the artwork above with the following message:

Until Cargill acknowledges that they made a mistake and rectify their mistake, there will continue to be a large hog farm in the Buffalo National River watershed.

Cargill is hosting a luncheon for the Arkansas Senate and House Agriculture Committees at the Ozark Café on Wednesday, May 22, in Jasper. This would be a perfect time for you to send a message to Cargill. If everyone would show up on the square of Jasper by about 10:30 and protest until the legislators leave around 1 o'clock, I think it would have a profound effect on the disposition of this whole issue.

Cargill thinks they're going to just wait this thing out and that the people voicing opposition to their locating this hog farm in Newton County are just a bunch of wacko environmentalists. Let's prove them wrong. Let's show them that the opposition comes from all walks of life.

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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.

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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
With film picks, a survey of the Arkansas program, a complete schedule and more. /more/

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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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