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Little dog lost
The Observer headed to Lower Arkansas over the long holiday weekend to visit the in-laws, who live in the thickets outside of Strong, pretty much as hard up against the Louisiana border as you can get without dipping a toe over the line.
Where in Arkansas, Sept. 5
Send your guesses to brianchilson@arktimes.com.
UA trustee seeks senate seat
Akin, Cheatham in race.
It was a good week for jobs
It was also a good week for exploring a partnership. It was a bad week for Allen Meadors, Bill Walker and Mike Huckabee.
Unfair to Rapert
As a longtime reader of the Arkansas Times, it is rare that I feel compelled to comment on the content of your publication.
Influential Arkansans
We highlight more than 50 who shape our state.
Save the puppies
Arkansas has been identified by the Humane Society of the United States as one of the top 10 puppy-producing states, but that's not as warm and fuzzy a statistic as it sounds. It means, among other things, that Arkansas needs a state dog-breeder law to protect these puppies, according to the HSUS.
Columns
Dropping the French
The Aug. 29 column mentioned that St. Louis is sometimes referred to as St. Looey, as in the song "Meet me in St. Looey, Looey." I asked the Times' Brian Chilson, a former resident of the Gateway City, if the people who live there call it St. Looey. He said no.
No degrees of separation
The other day someone mentioned Razz Poe, a colorful character in these parts some years ago, whose handle won him a spot on the list I used to keep of interesting and unusual Arkansas names. Razz Poe wasn't as good a name as Norvel Gooley or Duford Lafoon, but it beats a hacking cough.
Aggressors
The Amish we see at the Little Rock Farmers Market every week, selling their baked goods and produce, are a perpetually pleasant, unargumentative group, but some of their faithmates in Ohio are of a different temperament, evidently.
The news never sleeps
The mostly lowlights of what I missed on a long vacation.
The race beat
The epiphany came while disking a field in 1984. "Journalist" would be a great job. "Sportswriter" would be even better — getting paid to go watch games would be the ultimate cush career.
Lyons: Paul Ryan doesn't need facts
Back in my college days, a fellow from my hometown went around telling people he'd been an all-state high school football player. In reality, he'd been a benchwarmer. He was a big strong kid, but you could watch him walk down the stairs and see he was no elite athlete.
For the millage
The Arkansas Times supports continuation of the tax millage for street and drainage repairs.
Entertainment
Legacies and Lunch with Kevin Kerby
And Bubba Hernandez at White Water.
'Lawless' near flawless
Best studio movie of the summer.
Razorbacks following a trend
I scarcely realized it at the time, but by the time the first, boring-ass Saturday of the 2012 college football season was a done deal, two things occurred that should've been forecast long ago.
Rep opens season with 'Henry V'
It's larger-than-life and the first ever of Shakespeare's history plays to be staged at The Rep.
Arkansas Black Independent Film Festival
Also Glen Campbell at Robinson, 'Electile Dysfunction' at the Joint, Ralphie May at Robinson, 'Good People' at the Weekend Theater, Arkansas football at War Memorial and Little Feat at Revolution.
Dining
Fat Jack's Oyster Sports Bar: a seafood fix in the Spa
Plates piled high for low dough.
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