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Beebe appoints two to UCA Board of Trustees

Gov. Mike Beebe has filled two vacancies on the University of Central Arkansas Board of Trustees: He named Brad Lacy of Conway, an economic developer, to replace Randy Sims and Elizabeth Farris of Hot Springs to succeed the late Harold Chakales.
- by Max Brantley
- Jan 13, 2012

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Little Rock Film Festival's downtown debut a success

If anyone was skeptical of the Little Rock Film Festival's move away from a cineplex in Riverdale to downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock, surely their doubts were assuaged after this year's fest.
Ready for Riverfest

Good times start rolling Friday.
Slide into Slim Chickens

Arkansas-born Slim Chickens does wings and tenders fresh and fast.
Loca Luna loses court challenge of parking plan for The Fold

The Arkansas Court of Appeals today affirmed a circuit court ruling upholding a zoning variance given for The Fold, a new restaurant at 3501 Old Cantrell Road, just a few yards from Loca Luna.
The crash of Martha Shoffner

My overriding emotion about the fate of state Treasurer Martha Shoffner is sadness.

The Damien I Know - The Architect and the Inmate

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship
Make a pilgrimage to Pho Vietnam in Fort Smith

For the vegetarian banh mi sandwich.
'A Loss of Roses' a stunner

Before last Friday night, the saddest, most "depressing" Depression-era story I had read was Horace McCoy's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" However, after watching The Arkansas Repertory Theatre's opening performance of William Inge's "A Loss of Roses," I can attest that this play is as rough and unflinching as that Depression-era tale, or any other.
TV producer Bryant Huddleston disinvited as Imboden Ark., high school graduation speaker because he's gay

Our news partner Channel 4 has a news story that deserves repetition in full. More national headlines for the small people of Arkansas should follow directly.
Loy Mauch update: The Republican rep is on record on slavery, too

Perhaps U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin might want to reconsider his earlier decision not to include Republican Rep. Loy Mauch on the list of Republican candidates he'd asked not to use his campaign contributions, having read some of what they'd written.