Rock Candy: July 2007 Archives

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 17:38:25

Because you DO care

"Trapped in the Closest" chapters 13-22 will run in their entirety on August 13 on IFC and come out on DVD on August 21. Here's a look back with a few sneak previews.

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!!! + The Field

Dance punk heroes !!! come to Revolution on October 3. John Pugh, in the pink shirt, is a native Little Rocker. You can find him all up on the Towncraft site. That's also him singing the impossibly high hook on "Heart of Hearts" and in the black leather vest on the voodoo orgy video for "Must Be the Moon." The eight-piece act used to come to town all the time. Scenesters will remember shows at the Belvedere. But since they blew up (improbably with a name like !!!; which is pronounced "chk chk chk"), they haven't been to Little Rock in six years.

They're also bringing critically adored minimal house DJ the Field. He's from Sweden. Hearts will swoon.

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 d.o.s.

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Alice Walton ranks highish

From our art correspondent Leslie Peacock:

ARTnews magazine has named Alice Walton one of the top 200 art collectors in the world. She didn't make its top 10, however ... perhaps because she's buys early American art, which isn't in the big league of prices. Or perhaps its because she's discrete about what she buys. Who knows? Maybe she did pay $78 million for the Mark Rothko that sold earlier this year at auction. The magazine cites only "The Editors" as its source of information.

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Monday, July 30, 2007 - 13:40:52

Lucinda Williams to Walton Arts

Lucinda Williams will play at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville on Thursday, September 20. All proceeds of the concert will go toward the creation of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, named in honor of Lucinda's dad, the Arkansas poet and current director of the the University of Arkansas Press. Tickets will range from $35-$250 and will gon on sale, through the Walton Arts Box office, on August 15.

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Free Movie

We're giving away free movie tickets to a special preview showing of "Arctic Tale," the latest documentary from the folks who brought you "March of the Penguins." As you might guess, it's about Polar Bears. Queen Latifah narrates. The screening is Saturday, August 4, at 10 a.m. Tickets are available at our front desk, second story in the Heritage building on the corner of Scott and Markham.

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Friday, July 27, 2007 - 11:39:06

Ditto

Kensett navitve Beth Ditto, lead singer of the Gossip, continues to land on magazine covers. Here she is with celeb leech Perez Hilton. Actually, this isn't the cover yet; it's one of two choices Urb readers can select as part of some contest. Slow week at Urb, I guess.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 13:42:14

Matt White: White Water going nowhere but up

Two of the original partners in the young management team of White Water Tavern that took over for Larry "Goose" Garrison earlier this year have left the business, but Matt White, one of the remaining partners, assures me that he and Sean Hughes are as committed as ever and plan to take the bar to new heights. He says he's "pretty much just working and sleeping now," but continues to look at the bar as a community development sort of project, and he says his heart is still fully in it. White says Seth Baldy, who runs the kitchen, will step in with a fuller role in the biz, and will continue to expand the menu (he's already been doing shrimp boils and catfish fries). August promises to be one of the band's best months for live music, White says.

Nick Coffin, an original partner, left a month or two ago for New Zealand to travel around and do organic farming, and M.C. Fergason, the other original partner and the initial financial backer, is set to wed Christopher Denny, the local folk-singer, and travel with him as he tours. His CD comes out August 7 and two CD release shows, one early evening and one normal time, will happen at bar on August 24 and 25.

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