Arkansas Times

Opposes Park Ave. plan

After concerns over the scaled-back Park Avenue mixed-use center at University and Markham, the Hillcrest Residents Association board voted Monday to oppose the plan “in its current incarnation,” HRA president Hank Bates says.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Without Clinton, Democrats face challenge in Arkansas

Though Democrats control the Arkansas statehouse, both the state’s U.S. Senate seats, and three of four seats in the U.S. House, the party likely will be hard-pressed to win the state in November’s general election.

• by John Williams

Change at central historic site

There’s a changing of the guard — and of accents — coming to the Central High National Historic Site this summer.

• by Jennifer Barnett Reed

All the same under the suit

I guess if you like a politician, you have to like them all because underneath the layers of the $1,000 suits they are basically all the same.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

June 4-10, 2008

It was a good week for … BARACK OBAMA. The primary season completed, he claimed the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, the first black person to achieve a major party nomination

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Smart Talk, June 12

State Sen. Sue Madison of Fayetteville joined those who oppose the University of Arkansas’s purchase of Fayetteville High School with a letter last week to the UA Board of Trustees. Why?

• by Arkansas Times Staff

The Observer, June 12

The cement truck behind the Arkansas Studies Institute on President Clinton Avenue on Monday was pouring the Arkansas River into the plaza under construction south of the building.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Funk

Maybe it’s the heat, the abnormally early onset of sticky summertime lassitude; anyhow a vast indifference has settled impenetrably over the ol’ moi sphere exactly like the high-pressure ridge that for a torpid fortnight has held the region against the en

• by Bob Lancaster

Words, June 12

It is generally agreed that the recently deceased Bo Diddley was not born with that name. Where he got it is a subject of conjecture.

• by Doug Smith

How Obama can win

Barack Obama has two chances to win the presidency, one more farfetched than the other.

• by Ernest Dumas

Juneteenth jitters

It’s June, which means it’ll soon be time again for Power 92’s massive, traffic-halting Juneteenth concert, which draws upwards of 12,000 rap and hip-hop fans annually to the Riverfest Amphitheatre.

• by David Koon

Seldom so few

MINNEAPOLIS — Some 3,500 stout hearts attended the National Conference for Media Reform last week, and if that seems few for such a big job, note that their numbers are growing.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

The one they didn’t want

Once again Arkansas Democratic politicians find themselves burdened with a presidential nominee they’d prefer not come near them.

• by John Brummett

Political notebook

I can’t offer much by way of sustained thought this week. Instead, a notes roundup spanning the political spectrum from top to bottom:

• by Max Brantley

A & E news, June 12

For the first time since his co-headlining concert with Willie Nelson at Ray Winder Field, Bob Dylan returns to Little Rock, this time at the Riverfest Amphitheatre on Aug. 26.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Kung Fu to the IMAX

Bit of a switch this week, as we’ve got a two-tiered review for you.

• by Matthew Reed

Bodies and bowls

The human body often figures in art.

• by Leslie Newell Peacock

In brief, June 12

The Hot Springs Music Festival, a worldwide showcase of musicians from all over the world, continues through Saturday.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

‘Sweeney Todd’

On opening night at the Weekend Theater, more than 30 actors performed the dark, carnival-like musical that is “Sweeney Todd.”

• by Dolores Alfieri

Bard season

Tis that time of the year again. For the second summer in a row, the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival takes the stage in Reynolds Performance Hall in Conway for two weeks of family entertainment.

Petrino got slimed

Listen: I don’t care how Petrino got to Arkansas. People can preach loyalty all they want, but with millions of dollars on the line, all loyalty lands you is a career that’s beholden to the whims of others.

An open letter

Dear Major Label Record Executive: The next big thing in hip-hop lives in Little Rock, and his name is 607.

• by TJ Deeter

To-do list, June 12

The Drams/Glossary, The Chill, Cowboy Mouth, Mates of State, Alkaline Trio, Katt Williams and 'The Love Guru' are all happening this week.

What's Cooking, June 12

Acadia has a new seasonal menu, which includes items like New Zealand Green Shell Mussels and buttermilk fried chicken.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

The AUTHENTIC authentic

One of the coolest things about the influx of Latinos into Little Rock in recent decades has been the food they’ve brought with them.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Editorial cartoon, June 12

• by Mike Gauldin

Orval, June 12

• by Tommy Durham