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Friday, September 29, 2006 - 12:58:27

Best of T Tauri Films on Saturday at Market Street

The "Best of the T Tauri Film Festival," featuring short films by young filmmakers including one from Little Rock, will be shown Saturday at the Market Street Cinema.

The films start screening at 7 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $4 for seniors 55 and up and students.

The T Tauri films are a project of the Ozark Foothills Film Festival that gives young filmmakers a chance to get their short movies sceened.

Here's the lineup:

T Tauri Film Festival - Where Stars Are Born
The River: Abbie Hoffman Takes A Stand
Choking on Smoking - Filmmaker in Attendance
A New Day In A New Life
Who's Watching?
What Is Normal Anyway?
My Snowman
Separate But Equal: The Ruling That Changed the Future - Q&A with Filmmakers
Fear: From Paint to Pixels
Annoying Dog
Just Another Passerby
Dream of the Invisibles
Forget About It
This Is Keith Rolyat

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What a night for music in Little Rock

All of this tonight in river-rock city:

Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Sticky Fingerz.

Cowboy Mouth at Juanita's.

Jack Ingram at the Rev Room.

Wow.

Read more about the club scene for tonight and the rest of the weekend on Cat Gilbert's blog Cat on the Prowl, updated daily.

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The Mind of Matt: More from Detroit

Rock and movie fan Matt Smith checks in with more from his trip to Rock City Detroit:

We stopped by Cobo Hall last Friday. This is a legendary concert venue that is famous for hosting heavy metal bands. KISS had their first big break out show away from New York at Cobo. In addition to being a center for concerts and shows, the arena contains the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
All types of professional and college level sports are well represented.
The one thing that really sets this museum apart is the operating hours.
It is open 24 hours a day. You can just stop by any time. It is
impossible to be more convenient than that!

We attended the NHL Detroit Red Wings vs. Tampa Bay Lightning game tonight. The place was packed, even for a pre season game. The cities in the northeast love hockey. Arkansas couldn’t care less, and I hate that fact.
I really enjoyed the Glacier Cats and River Blades, but unfortunately central Arkansas couldn’t even keep a really MINOR league hockey team in business. Those two teams were from different leagues, at least some one tried to have a hockey team in Little Rock.

Joe Louis Arena is nice. The fans seem to love it, and it contains most of the amenities that I have seen at NHL facilities across the nation.
However, the word is that Joe Louis is coming down. They plan to build a new home for the Red Wings, and soon according to spectators in the stands. I guess that is to be expected. Comerica Park for Detroit Tigers MLB baseball, and Ford Field for NFL Detroit Lions football appear to be almost brand new. The city must feel like a new hockey arena should be next.

After the game we took the People Mover around town. This is basically a subway train on a raised rail line above the city. It has a dozen stops.
The entire loop runs about 20 minutes. The fare is .50 cents. This is an easy, quick and simple way to get around in down town. Hockey Town was our destination for food and drinks after the game. This café / bar is just like an ESPN Zone restaurant. Flat screen TV’s all over the walls with sports playing, as well as jerseys and helmets on the wall for décor. The food is the same: Hard Rock Café, Hooters, Planet Hollywood, et al. I
mean there are just so many ways to do burgers, fries, and pizza. But, the atmosphere was great, and that’s why I go to these sports grills. Hockey Town benefits from two things, the fact that Detroit doesn’t have an ESPN Zone, and location. They are right across the street from the football and baseball fields. The FOX Theater is one block away. The State Theater is two blocks down. CZ Sports Zone is close by for your sports memorabilia needs.

More to come from Detroit Rock City. -- Matt Smith

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 08:10:33

Review: 'Second City' at the Rep is great fun

Joy Ritchey got a lot of laughs out of opening night of The Second City's improv show at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. The famed Second City is in town until Oct. 8:

Opening night of The Second City's "Truth, Justice or The American Way" at the Rep was great fun. I've been going to the Rep since I was a child and this was by far the youngest crowd I've ever seen there, with the exception of Skip Rutherford and his companions. I predict the crowds will continue to be young in response to the ireverant humor and the
Skip Ruthurford-crowd will grow as word spreads about the smart political humor.

Current events, including teen-agers' addiction to computers, a love song to Barack Obama, who's to blame for the war in Iraq, requirements for Army enlistment, the need for a black
Republican robot, current office politics, and a scene with Condi Rice riding George Bush like a mechanical bull, all will draw in crowds and amuse. While many of the skits were much too short, all were funny. The cast of six was each talented and Julie Nichols, musical director, was a particular standout.

Owing to audience participation sprinkled throughout and a third act made up entirely of Improvisation, "Truth, Justice or The American Way" is sure to be a new and wonderful show each night of its run through Oct. 8. And, really, how can you miss a show with a caricature of a Hendrix graduate (he's legally retarded), an improvised song called "Cranberry Love" and that has a soundtrack that includes the Jackson 5?

And, as they say, "We're smart/ Or at least/We know enough!" -- Joy Ritchey

P.S. Call the Rep at 378-0405 for tickets, and for those interested in an improv class, there are classes for youths ages 13-17 and adults on Saturday at $60, but space is limited; call 378-0445, ext. 215, or e-mali hollyg@therep.org for class information.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 15:22:23

This is how the nation sees the Hogs and Nutt

We love this irreverant site about College Football, called Every Day Should Be Saturday. If you're a fan, bookmark it, because it's worth your time every week. In this edition, read about halfway down when the writers address Arkansas and the Hogs' win over Alabama.

Here's a snippet:

If you’re a charter member of the Houston Nutt fan club (which we are) then your dessert for the weekend came in the Alabama/Arkansas game. The formula for a big Nutt-y win unfolded with mathematical precision:

1. Being completely outplayed by the other team for 58 of the 60 minutes of regulation.

2. Catching every break imaginable, including fluky turnovers, missed kicks by the opposition, and subintelligent strategic decisions made by the other side. (Shula’s playing for the field goal with a kicker whose confidence was visibly shattered by that point in the game.)

3. Winning in a manner that could only be described as de puga, or “from the buttocks/ass.”

The from-the-ass element comes with Alabama missing a potential game-winning field goal in overtime and then dying when Mitch Mustain completed a brain-frying touchdown on an audible after doing nothing over the last four mintues of the game but give Alabama every chance imaginable to win the game. His last seven passes went something like this: 1/7, 3 ints, 1 td. Equals…victory.

The peak of the Houston Nutt Victory game came with the reviewed call in the fourth quarter and the reaction shot. We can’t recall the exact details of the review, but Arkansas won the call, and the split-screen reaction nearly made us drop our drink. On one side, Mike Shula, just a few eye-twitches away from catatonic calm on the Alabama sideine, turning to his assistants to confer; on the other side is Nutt, whooping, hollering, fist-pumping and twitching like a hillbilly who just fell drunk into a nest full of yellow-jackets. Nutt, at times like that, resembles nothing as much as a single Lynyrd Skynyrd fan rocking out to the guitarapalooza section of “Free Bird” alone in his bedroom.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 18:07:53

Check out "Cat on the Prowl," our new club blog

Catherine Gilbert has the daily report, "Cat on the Prowl," on where to go and what to do in the music and club scene. Check her out here.

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Lord Byron passes on

Golfing great Byron Nelson died today in Roanoke, Texas, at age 94 of natural causes.

Nelson was a pro for one year in the 1930s at Texarkana Country Club. He nicknamed the course "Little Augusta" and would stop at Texarkana on his way to Augusta, Ga., to play in the Masters. Nelson appeared in Little Rock in 1999 when Pleasant Valley Country Club unveiled its redone first 18 holes. Nelson was a guest with course designer and friend Joe Finger.

Nelson won a record 11 PGA tournaments in a row and 18 for the season in 1945. He retired early from the weekly professional tour grind, but was all around golf, including for years helping Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead start the Masters and being on hand every year for his tournament in Irving Texas.

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