Arkansas Times

News

A guide to the 2013 Little Rock Film Festival

May 16, 2013

by David Koon, Lindsey Millar, Leslie Newell Peacock and David Ramsey

With film picks, a survey of the Arkansas program, a complete schedule and more. /more/

Cover Stories

A downtown dream realized for Little Rock Film Festival

May 16, 2013

by Lindsey Millar

Screens straddle the river. /more/

Ten to watch at the Little Rock Film Fest

May 16, 2013

by David Koon, Lindsey Millar, Leslie Newell Peacock and David Ramsey

Films not to miss. /more/

More to watch at the Little Rock Film Fest

May 16, 2013

The rest of the best. /more/

Eye on Arkansas

The honorees

May 9, 2013

by Brian Chilson

Bill and Hillary Clinton walk through the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport on Friday after a ceremony formally announcing the airport's name change. /more/

How is it that a "major and small bowel" procedure at National Park Medical Center in Hot Springs is billed at an average $333,470, but only $19,740 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro? Or that "infectious and parasitic diseases with OR procedures" are billed at $257,369 at National Park and $44,446 at St. Bernards? /more/

Pigging out

May 9, 2013

Around 500 hearty souls braved the wind and the rain on an unseasonably cold May Saturday to attend the first annual Arkansas Times Heritage Hog Roast in Argenta. /more/

Arkansas Reporter

Efficiency program from Entergy Arkansas could save you money

May 16, 2013

by David Koon

It often provides thousands in repairs to your home at no cost to you. /more/

Groups battling SWEPCO encroachment on Arkansas landmarks

May 9, 2013

by David Koon

An odd set of corporate, municipal and grassroots bedfellows has coalesced in Northwest Arkansas around opposition to a proposed Southwestern Electric Power Co. power-line project that critics say could encroach on some of the most scenic places in the Ozarks. /more/

Groups battling SWEPCO encroachment on Arkansas landmarks

May 9, 2013

by David Koon

The Observer

Jim Something

May 16, 2013

Back during grad school, way down in Louisiana, The Observer met a man who — and we're a solid 85 percent sure on this one — was probably in the witness protection program. We can't remember his name anymore after all these years, but we do remember that it was a name as white as mayonnaise. John Something. Or maybe Jim Something. The last name wasn't anything as milquetoast as Smith or Jones, but we do remember that it was beige and forgettable, hence our forgetting, and hence the reason we suspect it may have been selected for him. /more/

True blood

May 9, 2013

The Observer was motorvatin' through North Little Rock the other day with particularly weighty reporter issues whirling in our noggin when we spied a city worker with a leaf-blower, using the contraption to swirl leaves off a sidewalk. It says something about where our head was that day that our literal first thought on seeing him was: "I could do that job." /more/

The Week That Was

It was a good week for medical shopping

May 16, 2013

It was also a good week for a Tech Board reality check, homicide, a new candidate and a shooter. It was a bad week for Pulaski County Special School District, college students and school teachers. /more/

Letters

Health consequences post-spill

May 16, 2013

As a physician from a small community in South Louisiana, I believe that I can speak for my fellow citizens when I state that our most sincere sympathies go out to the residents of Mayflower with regard to their environmental plight. /more/

Jay Barth

It's not just geography that matters in Arkansas GOP primary

May 9, 2013

by Jay Barth

In a blog post last week, I made the case that geography no longer creates a clear barrier to the Republican nomination for a candidate from outside of Northwest Arkansas like House Speaker Davy Carter. /more/

Editorials

Listen, UA

May 16, 2013

Any public-university trustees considering merger of their tax-supported teaching hospital with a Catholic hospital should ponder these wise words from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. /more/

Max Brantley

Partisan justice

May 16, 2013

by Max Brantley

I had a nice visit with Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Rhonda Wood last week. /more/

Ernest Dumas

Forlorn GOP turns to Benghazi

May 16, 2013

by Ernest Dumas

If you are a beltway Republican, no antidote for the blues matches extended congressional hearings on a real or imagined national horror — that is, if it might heap dishonor on a Democratic administration. If Hillary Clinton will be the dishonoree, so much the better. /more/

Words

Where or when

May 16, 2013

"Two women were arrested and charged in a robbery where one of the suspects is accused of carrying pepper spray as well as her 10-month-old child." /more/

Columnists

Max Brantley

Partisan justice

I had a nice visit with Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Rhonda Wood last week. /more/

Ernest Dumas

Forlorn GOP turns to Benghazi

Gene Lyons

Race doesn't fit in a checkbox

Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing re-opened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers "white"? It's a meaningless question. /more/

Arkansas Blog

It Could Happen to You: the open line

The day's not done, but I've seen two excellent films at the Little Rock Film Festival.

Sunday morning: IRS, Kochs and movies

Not much new to report this morning. If all goes well, I'm going to catch at least three movies today at the Little Rock Film Festival.

UPDATE: FBI confirms State Treasurer Martha Shoffner's arrest, apparently for official misconduct

The shoe drops. This mug shot of Democratic state Auditor Martha Shoffner appeared on the Pulaski County sheriff's office jail intake page late this afternoon.

Rock Candy

Video blogger Joseph Birdsong teaches you about Arkansas

Arkansas is full of talented people, and we ran across yet another one of them last night: the thoroughly-hilarious writer and video blogger Joseph Birdsong.

'Short Term 12' folks are really good at Vine

If your first reaction to Vine, the new-ish Twitter app that allows users to post 6 second video clips, was, "This is worthless," you need to check out the Vines "Short Term 12" director Destin Cretton and actor Keith Stanfield did while they were in town for the Little Rock Film Festival.

Saturday: Coolio, Thick Syrup anniversary show and more

Coolio will be at Discovery Nightclub Saturday.

Eat Arkansas

Eye Candy

Popular Events

"Beyond Hunger: Feast in the Field" @ Heifer Village
- Sat., May 25, 6 p.m.
Rainbow Camp @ Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center
- May 24-27
Antique/Boutique Walk @ Downtown Hot Springs
- Third Thursday of every month, 4-8 p.m.