Arkansas Times

Abortion-cancer link disputed

Some researchers argue that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, but doctors -- including a Catholic who is opposed to abortion -- say science has proven otherwise.

Nanny Air

The Little Rock Airport Commission will soon take up the issue of whether to censor the airport’s wireless Internet system.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Gripping narrative

Mara Leveritt’s story “A Long Way to Fall” in the Times Feb. 21 was a gripping and disturbing narrative.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Smart Talk, March 13

Grady farmer and locavore impresario Jody Hardin’s plans for an all-Arkansas farmer’s market in Argenta now have a date attached: The Certified Arkansas Farmer’s Market is scheduled to open May 3.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Observer, March 13

The condition of “Crane Unfolding,” the sculpture in the middle of the River Market food hall, tells us something about Little Rock and its attitude toward art.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

March 5-11, 2008

It was a good week for … ARKANSAS. Gov. Mike Beebe announced he’s struck a deal with gas producers to go along with an increase in the state’s almost non-existent severance tax. Can he get 75 percent of the legislature to go along?

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Slow down, Vermont

Long famous for their moonlight and their maple syrup, Vermonters are now winning praise for citizenship.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Misogyny

The twits who have seized the Washington Post and the revival Little Rascals’ Wimmin Haters Club at MSNBC have thought to separate themselves from the media herd this political season by embracing misogyny.

• by Bob Lancaster

McCain’s rage at Pryor

It would not have been a farcical question for many colleagues of Pryor and John McCain in the U.S. Senate, where McCain’s volcanic rages and grudges and Pryor’s bipartisan benevolence were equal legends.

• by Ernest Dumas

Gas tax for dummies

Does it worry you that Gov. Beebe is about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, as a little band of Republicans maintain? A 5 percent tax on the gas that big Texas and Oklahoma companies harvest from the Fayetteville shale in northern and eastern A

• by Ernest Dumas and Max Brantley

Front-page content:

“Former sports reporter William Davis, who has been in the Daily Bugle’s business news department the last four years, has been named the sports content editor effective Monday."

• by Doug Smith

Gender, race and more

Nearly every white professional man in Arkansas who talks to me about politics these days expresses alarm that Hillary Clinton might become the Democratic presidential nominee and president.

• by John Brummett

Citizen Huck

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee officially ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination last week.

• by Max Brantley

John Prine

In case you were wondering, that was me whistling Saturday at the John Prine concert.

Michael Bublé

It’s 9:54 on a cold Saturday night in North Little Rock and if by some chance Michael Bublé doesn’t in fact have the world on a string as he’s claiming in song, then at least he’s well on his way to wowing the 6,350 fans who turned out to see him heat up

• by Bill Paddack

Final score: 607

On his way to the Rev Room for the finals of the Musicians Showcase, 607 spun his car into a retaining wall on I-630.

Fleshed out

Michael Worsham and Jean Flint are Arkansas artists traveling on nearly opposite aesthetic paths, but both are passing through Little Rock currently.

• by Leslie Newell Peacock

Hogs limp into March

Underachievement is a tough cycle to buck.

Singing 100 years away

Just about every professional theater company in the country has an educational program aimed at young artists, says Nicole Capri, the director of education at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.

Western Meds

I approached Monday’s Western Meds show with a fair amount of trepidation.

To-do list, March 13

Inksplosion, Marky Ramone, 'Golda's Balcony', 'Stars & Stripes Pops', Energy Shift, Newsboys, Cloud Cult, and 'Kanye West Was A Neuroscientist', are all happening this week.

Putting the B in ‘B.C.’

Ten thousand years ago, we were all swarthy and hot and had dreadlocks.

• by Matthew Reed

In brief, March 13

At White Water Tavern, indie rocker Chase Pagan performs songs from his latest release, “Oh, Musica!”

Shop Arkansas at the Clinton School

We’re lucky in Little Rock. Even when the Farmer’s Market isn’t in season, there are places we can go to shop for products made by other Arkansans.

• by Jennifer Barnett Reed

Independent smorgasbord

It might be time to start concocting elaborate excuses that can free you from work and other responsibilities for the next few days.

What's cooking/Capsule review

What's cooking: U.S. Pizza

• by Arkansas Times Staff

True romance

What defines a romantic restaurant? We’re not sure — dim lighting, soft music, small tables for two that promote footsy-playing?

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Editorial cartoon, March 13

• by Mike Gauldin

This modern world, March 13

• by Tom Tomorrow

Orval, March 13

• by Tommy Durham