Arkansas Times

Sounding the alarm against gays

They still haven’t worked out all their differences in Eureka Springs.

• by Doug Smith

Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2008

It was a good week for … POLITICS. Uncommonly interesting races commanded huge attention for the Super Tuesday presidential primary voting. (Alas, we went to press before the polls closed. Mike Huckabee and Hillary Clinton seemed likely to win Arkans

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Severance tax

The biggest problem some people have in understanding the severance tax debate is in its name: severance tax.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Bang

Arkansas scores near the bottom of the Brady bunch thanks to its lax gun control laws.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

The Observer, Feb. 7

The Observer, inspired by the Times’ cover story this week on the history of racial strife in Crittenden County, was yearning to lay our hands on images from that county’s past.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Gall, in several parts

Full and half-page ads the new charter school eStem has run in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since Sunday have public high school teachers gagging.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

The perfect racial storm

Crittenden County’s troubles -- including the 2007 shooting of 12-year-old DeAunta Farrow by a West Memphis policeman -- are rooted in its racist past.

• by Grif Stockley

Talk Business invests in ink

Central Arkansas has what can only be called a vibrant spread of free publications, including the Arkansas Times, our Spanish-language sister paper El Latino, the black-community-oriented Stand! News, the Dem-Gaz’s free weakly Sync, and a whole box full o

• by David Koon

Don’t try to lay no rockabilly on the kings of rock and roll:

Pioneer rock-and-rollers have blocked, at least temporarily, a proposal to call their music “rockabilly,” an artificial term applied years after rock and roll had transformed American music.

• by Doug Smith

Will Mr. Smith go back to Washington?

Senate Democrats put on what they called a “progressive media summit” last week on Capitol Hill.

• by John Brummett

Knavery

If wanting to raise the severance tax to a fair level is “clownery,” as Sen. Bob Johnson calls it, what is the proper name for Senator Johnson’s position, resisting any attempt to make rich special interests pay their fair share of taxes? Stealery? Whorer

• by Arkansas Times Staff

History in the making

In February, the Arkansas Times always devotes a cover story to Black History Month.

• by Max Brantley

Rebate an empty gesture

President Bush and congressional leaders put aside their acrimony long enough to agree to send a check to nearly everyone in America with a regular job and a tax cut for every company that is so prosperous that it plans to expand.

• by Ernest Dumas

More cowbell

It was a tough decision, but if you’ve followed the popular culture over the last dozen years or so, you’re well aware that more cowbell is the consensus modern-day answer to all the great moral and philosophical questions.

• by Bob Lancaster

History in the making

In February, the Arkansas Times always devotes a cover story to Black History Month.

• by Max Brantley

The Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase continues!

The first round of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase couldn’t have gone any better.

To-do list, Feb. 7

'Doubt,' Jim Mize and Isaac Alexander, the ASO does Andrew Lloyd Weber, Cross Canadian Ragweed, David's Pegasus, H.A.P.S. Live, Victor Wooten and 'Annie.'

Calendar, Feb. 7

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Hogs finally look, act their age

So the Hogs are on a roll. I was still getting over the much more impressive Mississippi State spanking when the Gators came to Bud Walton.

Toys plus for 2nd Friday

It will be a playful Second Friday Art Night Feb. 8, when gallery-goers will be treated to after-hour tours of toys new and old at the Arkansas Arts Center and the Historic Arkansas Museum.

• by Leslie Newell Peacock

Dumbing down genius

Honestly, I’m just not sure where to begin here. There’s just too much to cover.

• by Matthew Reed

Reviews, Feb. 7

In the words of David Lee Roth, “three originals and one inevitable” came to town last week and, as I saw it, they kicked some ass.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

In brief, Feb. 7

Just in case you’ve breezed through the paper and landed on this section, the ARKANSAS TIMES MUSICIANS SHOWCASE, round two, is tonight, featuring the Reds, Bryan Frazier with Action Figures, Notion and Epiphany and One Night Stand.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Fresh tastes in a small space

The Heights’ newest culinary resident, Sushi Cafe, may teeter, a little dangerously, on the claustrophobic side, but after a couple of visits we’ll readily recommend to anyone that what it lacks in space, it makes up for in location and seriously fresh fo

• by Arkansas Times Staff

What's cooking, Feb. 7

Roger and Missy Tucker, who owned Paul’s Restaurant in the Park Hill neighborhood of North Little Rock from 2000 to 2005, have returned to the business.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Editorial cartoon, Feb. 7

• by Mike Gauldin

Orval, Feb. 7

• by Tommy Durham

This modern world, Feb. 7

• by Tom Tomorrow