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Upset
Stunned Arkansas fans look on as Louisiana-Monroe celebrates a 34-31 overtime victory over the Razorbacks on Saturday at War Memorial Stadium.
Offended
In reading a recent edition of the Arkansas Times I was very offended by the remarks in Bob Lancaster's column.
Mark Martin fires Santa
You may not know attorney Robert Newcomb, 67, but you've seen the full-figured lawyer with the snowy beard repeatedly in the media doing his annual turn as Santa Claus. He's everywhere, from Children's Hospital to CARTI events and all over TV and the papers.
A hazy hazing case at Arkansas Tech
A fraternity pledge spent nearly a month at UAMS.
Dreaming of a catfish car
The Observer was saddened to open the paper this week and learn the tale of how the Obamamobile — a 1978 Cutlass on circus-wagon-sized wheels, emblazoned with President Obama's face — had been stolen from its owner in Little Rock, taken to Pine Bluff and stripped.
It was a good week for the Oxford American
It was a bad week for Josh Hastings, Circuit Judge Sam Pope, State Rep. Hudson Hallum, the Arkansas Razorbacks and Tim Griffin.
Fall Arts 2012
What's to come in music, art, theater and more.
It's the end of the world as we know it
The Razorbacks lost in overtime Saturday to Sun Belt also-ran University of Louisiana-Monroe and Arkansas fans nearly broke the Internet losing their minds about it.
Dying Arkansas firefighter fights to collect stalled pension
Though he risked his life battling hundreds of blazes and Haz-Mat spills during his 24 years as a firefighter with the Springdale Fire Department, Capt. Harold "Bud" Planchon is in the biggest fight of his life right now, battling terminal colorectal cancer that has spread to his liver.
Darr's concerns allayed
In Lt. Gov. Mark Darr's recent tirade over efforts to protect the environment (his SUV isn't hurting any polar bears, he whined) he mentioned a "$500,000 solar panel" that had "never been turned on."
Fall music in Arkansas
Arkansas Sounds, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Brad Paisley and more.
50 for the Arts Center
Dorothy and Herb Vogel's gift to go on exhibit.
Shakespeare to Shrek
Fall theater lineup has something for everyone.
Arkansas fall arts calendar
From Al Jarreau to Yonder Mountain String Band.
Columns
Fraught with naught
" 'I was proud of him,' Winsockey Coach Ram Bamm said. 'I think he's really in a good place in the fact that he got his first start out of the way, which for a quarterback is big. I think it gives him a little more piece of mind ...' "
Romney muddles Obamacare
In Mitt Romney's private imagination, the perfect scenario would be this: He wins the presidency but weakened Democrats in Congress are still barely strong enough to prevent repeal of Obamacare.
Voter cutback
Representative Bryan King, R-Berryville, sponsored a voter-ID bill in the legislature last year, intending to assure that people who might vote Democratic wouldn't get the opportunity to do so.
Are you better off?
News coverage of presidential campaigns used to follow Harold Ross's prime directive: If you can't be funny be interesting. I go back to Mencken's Archangel Woodrow and Thurber's Dewey, Dewey Fog, but I don't remember it rising to funny after Hunter Thompson on Jimmy Carter in 1976. It might've occasionally got up to interesting after that, but it's been pretty categorically dismal for at least 20 years now.
Brantley: A festival for Arkansas
My subscriptions to the New Yorker and New York Times, among others, often give me cause to wish I lived where they are based.
Marriage equality's tipping point
At last week's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, one expected that the Obama campaign would brag to the record number of LGBT delegates about the historic inclusion of a plank in the party platform advocating marriage equality.
Entertainment
Pepperboy and the super hard way
Long-toiling local rapper repents, reinvents and earns international attention.
Keith Sykes at Stickyz
Also, Blue Mountain at White Water.
Cast shines in superb 'Henry V'
Last Friday night, as many Arkansans were having trees flung into their homes by the strongest non-tornadic storm to blow through Central Arkansas in quite some time, I was sitting comfortably in a sold-out theater, watching one of the most compelling, thoughtful, well-acted, and, yes, hilarious, Shakespeare plays I have ever seen. The Rep's current take on "Henry V" is a spectacle to behold.
Worst loss ever
All the spillage of words this week won't change what happened, but it'll damn sure be cathartic.
Meta-junk
'The Words' doesn't have many good ones.
Fantasia to Robinson Center
Also 'West of Memphis' at Market Street, Saint Vitus at Revolution, Ben Nichols and Adam Faucett at Revolution, American Aquarium and Austin Lucas at White Water Tavern, 2 Chainz at the Metroplex and 'Arkansas Champion Trees' at Terry House Community Arts Center.
Dining
RJ Tao goes big
Upon first glance, it would be easy to dismiss RJ Tao as just another Asian-fusion restaurant relying on sleek, modern decor to bring in the crowds, but it would be a mistake to do so.
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