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Times tats
To coincide with the Arkansas Arts Center's upcoming exhibit "Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott," the Arkansas Times decided to highlight photos of the tattoos (and the stories that go along with them) of some of the office staff.
Identifying with McMath, Osborne
Ernie Dumas' story about Sid McMath ("Sid McMath: An Arkansan for All Seasons," special supplement, June 13) was most fascinating and informative. I read the article to the last word. Ernie is a consummate writer, and I always enjoy his tomes.
The price of 'made in Arkansas'
A look at Arkansas's film incentive package.
Another day gone
The sun sets over the Arkansas River as seen from the Fort Roots.
Flower power
There used to be a huge mural of a flower on the side of a building near the corner of Main Street and Third in downtown Little Rock: a vast, lush bloom of some sort (we've heard it called a rose, but it looked to us like something else, maybe a camellia), easily two stories high and done up in Miami pastels, the flower sprouting from a ring big enough to be God's hula hoop.
It was a good week for Otter Creek
Also a good week for Arkansas Razorback baseball and the Arkansas State Fairgrounds. It was a bad week for the Arkansas Lottery and the Arkansas Democratic Party.
Greyhounds put in harm's way so racino can prosper
Over in West Memphis, at Southland Park, they spend hours in the dark, pawing at metal, making money for someone else at no small risk to their health. But the greyhounds, their trainers say, are better off than those gamblers.
Glenwood teen 'stuck' in Mexico
President Obama's order this week that would stop the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the United States before the age of 16 and are high school graduates and meet other conditions will not help Kaiti Tidwell of Glenwood, who returned to Mexico in May to get the necessary papers she needs to immigrate legally, she tells the Times.
Greyhound adoption in Arkansas
Mid-South Greyhound Adoption Option in West Memphis, which is funded by Southland Park, contributions from kennel operators and other gifts, adopts out retired greyhounds.
Columns
Romney bets on suckers
A citizen would have to be awfully naive to expect strict fidelity to the truth from any politician, much less a presidential candidate. As a thought experiment, however, it's interesting to wonder how an epic prevaricator like Mitt Romney would handle the presidency.
Brantley: Who runs Little Rock?
Resolution of the current controversy over the proposed Little Rock Technology Park will say a lot about who runs the city of Little Rock.
2012: A gentle GOP breeze
With the runoffs completed, it's appropriate to dig into the battle for control of the legislature — the centerpiece of election 2012 in Arkansas.
Tea-partying GOP puts coal before kids
If the constant warfare over government regulation of business bores or confuses you, this week's news furnishes a perfect primer. The campaign to stop the government from reducing the mercury and arsenic that coal-fired generating plants belch into the air and streams illustrates better than anything what the regulation battle is all about and what it means for the average American.
For good and forbade
"Her mother told her it was 'prideful' to watch herself on screen, so she didn't. Later, orphaned, she lived with 'nutso' relatives who forbid watching movies."
Don't book 'em, Marko
Would you rather have Mark Martin obeying the law, or Mark Martin enforcing the law?
Seasonal madness
We are coming upon mad cow season, when stricken bovines, sometimes masked, set upon terrified wilderness hikers of the human variety, most commonly in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas.
Entertainment
'Some women get manicures, I just hit somebody'
A look inside women's full-tackle football in Central Arkansas.
'A Loss of Roses' a stunner
Before last Friday night, the saddest, most "depressing" Depression-era story I had read was Horace McCoy's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" However, after watching The Arkansas Repertory Theatre's opening performance of William Inge's "A Loss of Roses," I can attest that this play is as rough and unflinching as that Depression-era tale, or any other.
Travs take on Cardinals
Plus Lydia Can't Breathe at Vino's.
Tattoos for you
Mark Perrott's photographs, tat artists' paintings, at AAC.
If you aren't a 14-year-old boy, avoid 'That's My Boy'
It revives tired Sandler formula.
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers to Robinson
Plus, The Derailers at Stickyz, Whores and The Nigh Ends at White Water, a Night for Jett at White Water, Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, Lost in the Trees at the Artchurch Studio and Hinder at Magic Springs
Hogs rolling in CWS
Sports columnists become notoriously and uncharacteristically reticent when a drum they've been beating bursts in their faces. Pearls About Swine will not succumb to this tendency: I have been wrong about these baseball Razorbacks, and I draw much delight from my shortsightedness.
Dining
Two high fives plus one
On most Sundays, Crystal Bridges' Eleven is slammed around midday. And why not? The food is delicious and reasonably priced, the space is breezy and inviting, and you're seated in the shadow of Claes Oldenburg's 1975 "Alphabet/Good Humor" — three feet of pink cartoon letter/intestines, mounted on a popsicle stick.
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