Arkansas Times

About race

As a resident of this area for over 5 years, an active political junkie, former history teacher, and survivor of Grif Stockley’s law course, I am again perplexed at how this man’s inane ramblings, misunderstandings, and small-town gossip column style of w

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Westside killer seeks handgun permit

An application for a concealed handgun permit filed by one of the shooters in 1998’s Westside Middle School Massacre in Jonesboro has been denied by the Arkansas State Police, citing the objections of the Sharp County sheriff and at least one answer on th

• by David Koon and Max Brantley

Dec. 3-9, 2008

It was a GOOD week for … MARIANNA POLICE. The Delta town’s small force, including a one-man detective squad, got national publicity for its vital role in arresting a suspect in the slaying of TV anchor Anne Pressly. He’s also a suspect in a Marianna rape.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Westside killer seeks handgun permit

An application for a concealed handgun permit filed by one of the shooters in 1998’s Westside Middle School massacre in Jonesboro has been denied by the Arkansas State Police, citing the objections of the Sharp County sheriff and at least one answer on th

• by David Koon

About race

As a resident of this area for over 5 years, an active political junkie, former history teacher, and survivor of Grif Stockley’s law course, I am again perplexed at how this man’s inane ramblings, misunderstandings, and small-town gossip column style of w

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Acting on Act 1

It looks like the ACLU of Arkansas will file a lawsuit challenging Act 1, the new law that prohibits cohabiting adults from adopting or fostering children.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Smart talk, Dec. 11

Rep. Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs, has finished the first draft of an immigration bill he hopes to introduce in the next legislative session.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

The observer, Dec. 11

Heavy metal music for Christmas. That’s the ticket. Or it was for this Observer.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Mutts like us

Should "biracial" go the way of "mulatto"?

• by Mara Leveritt

Doing the Little Rock hula

It’s been a tough year all over and it’s getting tougher. And it’s been an uncommonly mean one in Little Rock.

• by John Brummett

No parking

Choosing between a park and a parking lot should be easy.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Words, Dec. 11

“Oklahoma will do its best to make [its] case amid Bedlam … This year’s Bedlam rivalry game finds the Sooners facing what figures to be an even greater challenge than in 2001.”

• by Doug Smith

W.: As bad as Hoover?

With six weeks to go before his exit and a longer period after that needed for reflection, it is too early to settle the big academic question of our time: Was George W. Bush as bad as Herbert Hoover?

• by Ernest Dumas

Digital TV countdown

John Lennon once said, “It’s fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.”

Tale of two cities

It’s the best of times in North Little Rock, the worst in Little Rock. Consider:

• by Max Brantley

All starting with I

I noticed a columnist for the local daily is concerned about restraints on the “legitimate press,” and I wondered what it is that makes the legitimate press legitimate.

• by Bob Lancaster

Just for kicks

Nothing says Christmas like the pitter-patter of little tap shoes on cold asphalt.

• by Katherine Wyrick

“It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play”

The ambiance at opening night of the Rep’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” was, I think, exactly as director Bob Hupp intended.

• by Shelle Stormoe

‘History Boys’

Set in a London boy’s school in the 1980s, “History Boys” is about eight grammar school (what would be called high school in the U.S.) whose sights are set on getting into the most difficult of English universities, Oxford and Cambridge.

• by Jonelle Doughty

Raising a hot glass

It’s a long road from the Bluebird of Happiness to art glass, but Gary Carter traveled it as an artist at Terra Studios up in the Arkansas Ozarks.

• by Leslie Newell Peacock

To-do list, Dec. 11

UALR Percussion Band Ensemble, Joe Buck, Arkansas Chamber Singers, Reverend Horton Heat, Dub Trio, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves and Hana Pestle with Ben Moody should provide various fun-seeking options this week.

• by Lindsey Millar

Played again

“Cadillac Records,” the story of the revolutionary Chicago record label Chess, begins in 1941, with Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) squinting in a cotton field in a Mississippi sun.

In brief, Dec. 11

Fresh off a European tour, Nashville pop-punks Autovaughn headline at On the Rocks’ regular night of live music, with Atlanta rockers Elevation in tow, 9:30 p.m., $5.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Stanton Moore Trio

Although the Stanton Moore Trio is named after a drummer who plays in numerous other projects and has his own signature series of cymbals, sticks and a prototypical snare nearing the production line, the operative word in the band’s title is “trio.”

• by Paul Peterson

The season of hope

There’s something a tad unseemly in how fascinated we are by the way John Pelphrey cracks the whip.

What's Cooking, Dec. 11

Brian Deloney, who’s served as the executive sous chef at the Capital Hotel for the last two years, plans to open a casual Southern cuisine restaurant early in 2009.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

Artist’s rebirth

A longer string of complimentary adjectives can be applied to Starving Artist Cafe than any other area eatery that immediately comes to mind.

• by Arkansas Times Staff

This modern world, Dec. 11

• by Tom Tomorrow

Orval, Dec. 11

• by Tommy Durham

Editorial cartoon, Dec. 11

• by Mike Gauldin