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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 13:17:47
Tuesday: The Lonely H, Lyle Dudley, Nik Parks and more
Throwback, Washington State based rockers the Lonely H stop in at White Water tonight touring behind their new album, "Concrete Class." Rock Thirty is also on the bill, 10 p.m., donations.
Local acoustic performer Lyle Dudley is on the patio of Ya Ya's, 7 p.m., free, playing covers.
Conway's Nik Parks headlines at Juanita's with bouncy electro-pop. Joelle Maddyson and Samuel Pucik play in support, 8 p.m., $7. It's an 18+ show.
At the Afterthought, there's a jam session with Carl Mouton, 8 p.m., free.
Local acoustic performer Lyle Dudley is on the patio of Ya Ya's, 7 p.m., free, playing covers.
Conway's Nik Parks headlines at Juanita's with bouncy electro-pop. Joelle Maddyson and Samuel Pucik play in support, 8 p.m., $7. It's an 18+ show.
At the Afterthought, there's a jam session with Carl Mouton, 8 p.m., free.
Sing your face off, win Kris Allen tix
For those Kris Allen fans who didn't snatch up tickets to see Kris and the rest of the “American Idol” top 10 in concert at Alltel on July 25, the Times has your back. In “Idol” fashion, we're inviting readers to submit a video of them performing any one of the songs Kris Allen performed on “Idol.” At least one talented performer will win a pair of tickets to see the Idols live in concert (and maybe more if the talent pool bears it).
To enter, upload a video of yourself performing a Kris Allen song to any online service (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and send a link to lindsey@arktimes.com. Beyond singing the song, contestants are free to do anything they deem appropriate in the video. Deadline for entry is July 10. Soon thereafter, we'll post the top videos and let our readers, via online balloting, declare the winner.
Tell your friends.
To enter, upload a video of yourself performing a Kris Allen song to any online service (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and send a link to lindsey@arktimes.com. Beyond singing the song, contestants are free to do anything they deem appropriate in the video. Deadline for entry is July 10. Soon thereafter, we'll post the top videos and let our readers, via online balloting, declare the winner.
Tell your friends.
Saturday, June 27, 2009 - 16:48:25
Saturday: "The Room" at Market Street
The trailer. See Agee's tips for watching "The Room" here.
When you think of great cinematic displays of angst, maybe you land on Gena Rowlands wilding out in “A Woman under the Influence.” Or Brando, bellowing up at the balcony in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” But that's only because you probably haven't seen “The Room,” the melodrama-turned-cult-hit that screened at the Little Rock Film Festival in May. It will play again at 9 p.m. Saturday at Market Street Cinema and, if organizer Levi Agee has his way, each subsequent final Saturday of the month until September.
A steamy story about a love triangle involving a banker named Johnny, his best friend Mark and Johnny's fiancee Lisa, who's secretly sleeping with both men, “The Room” has become widely celebrated as the most spectacularly terrible film ever committed to celluloid. It debuted, tepidly, in LA in 2003. In one of the first reviews, Variety's Scott Foundas said that it “may be something of a first: a movie that prompts most of its viewers to ask for their money back — before even 30 minutes have passed.” But slowly, through word of mouth, it became a film to see — to mock.
A steamy story about a love triangle involving a banker named Johnny, his best friend Mark and Johnny's fiancee Lisa, who's secretly sleeping with both men, “The Room” has become widely celebrated as the most spectacularly terrible film ever committed to celluloid. It debuted, tepidly, in LA in 2003. In one of the first reviews, Variety's Scott Foundas said that it “may be something of a first: a movie that prompts most of its viewers to ask for their money back — before even 30 minutes have passed.” But slowly, through word of mouth, it became a film to see — to mock.
Friday, June 26, 2009 - 16:50:13
Slobberbone reuniting at WWT
Kevin Kerby's old pal Brent Best is getting the band back together. Slobberbone, the best terribly named band Texas ever birthed, is playing White Water Tavern on Aug. 11 during a mini reunion tour.
Tickets go on sale Friday, July 3 via lastchancemusic.com and at WWT. They're $12 and limited to 150, so it'll probably sell out.
Kevin Kerby and Battery will open.
Tickets go on sale Friday, July 3 via lastchancemusic.com and at WWT. They're $12 and limited to 150, so it'll probably sell out.
Kevin Kerby and Battery will open.
Review: 'Away We Go'
Ed. note: The timing of advance screeners rarely jibes with our production schedule, so when we do actually get to a film before it opens, I'm gonna try to post reviews on time online at least. Also, virginal eyes beware of the first paragraph. It might make you blush.
"Away We Go"
Market Street, opens today
“Away We Go” announces in its first scene that it’s aiming to be a different sort of romantic flick. Burt Farlander (a hirsute John Krasinski) goes down on his girlfriend Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) in their small bed and giddily diagnoses that, by dint of her changed flavor, she may be with child. The couple are framed from afar in the long shot, and afforded the privacy of a sprawling sheet, but the emotional nakedness of the dialogue (her exasperation, his enthusiasm) affords an intimacy that lasts for the next hour and a half.
Co-written by literary wunderkind Dave Eggers and his wife, the author Vendela Vida, “Away We Go” asks what two 30-somethings do when facing impending unplanned parenthood and a gnawing sense that they might just be “fuck-ups,” as Verona puts it. The new life on the way brings, well, the chance for a new life. At six-months pregnant, the couple pack their suitcases and visit Phoenix, Madison, Wis., Montreal and Miami in hopes of finding a kinship with a place. When they describe their state of being “completely untethered” as a “dream scenario,” the irony doesn’t strike them that they’re setting out specifically to put down roots somewhere.
"Away We Go"
Market Street, opens today
“Away We Go” announces in its first scene that it’s aiming to be a different sort of romantic flick. Burt Farlander (a hirsute John Krasinski) goes down on his girlfriend Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) in their small bed and giddily diagnoses that, by dint of her changed flavor, she may be with child. The couple are framed from afar in the long shot, and afforded the privacy of a sprawling sheet, but the emotional nakedness of the dialogue (her exasperation, his enthusiasm) affords an intimacy that lasts for the next hour and a half.
Co-written by literary wunderkind Dave Eggers and his wife, the author Vendela Vida, “Away We Go” asks what two 30-somethings do when facing impending unplanned parenthood and a gnawing sense that they might just be “fuck-ups,” as Verona puts it. The new life on the way brings, well, the chance for a new life. At six-months pregnant, the couple pack their suitcases and visit Phoenix, Madison, Wis., Montreal and Miami in hopes of finding a kinship with a place. When they describe their state of being “completely untethered” as a “dream scenario,” the irony doesn’t strike them that they’re setting out specifically to put down roots somewhere.
The HSDFI goes underground
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute is teaming with Low Key Arts to put on the First Annual Arkansas Underground Festival on July 17-19 at the Malco in Hot Springs. The idea, according to a recent release, is to showcase films too bizarre for mainstream festivals.
Dan Anderson, newly hired as technical director and outreach program assistant, is programing the fest.
"For the most part, the film world is still very narrow, very closed minded,” he said in the news release. “The most innovative and radical film and video art rarely gets seen by the general public. Here is a chance for people to see what is being made on the fringe.”
The schedule hasn't been released, but the three days of the festival will be divided into three themes: surrealist, which'll showcase the work of George Melies and Salvador Dali; pop cultural and outsider film, which'll have film by Warhol and William Burroughs and experimental, with special attention paid to Stan Brackhage.
I'll post more info when I've got it.
Dan Anderson, newly hired as technical director and outreach program assistant, is programing the fest.
"For the most part, the film world is still very narrow, very closed minded,” he said in the news release. “The most innovative and radical film and video art rarely gets seen by the general public. Here is a chance for people to see what is being made on the fringe.”
The schedule hasn't been released, but the three days of the festival will be divided into three themes: surrealist, which'll showcase the work of George Melies and Salvador Dali; pop cultural and outsider film, which'll have film by Warhol and William Burroughs and experimental, with special attention paid to Stan Brackhage.
I'll post more info when I've got it.
Saturday To-Do: Celtic Woman
CELTIC WOMAN
8 p.m., Alltel Arena, $40-$58.
Flipping channels recently, I paused on AETN to watch an ensemble of five young women sing traditional numbers and perform in what appeared to be a European cathedral, accompanied by a composer and beautiful stage scenery. I was either stoned (as a co-worker charges), or maybe the angelic voices hailing from five criminally attractive Irish women were enough to pierce the hard exterior of this weathered acid rocker. Although the foundation for Celtic Woman's popularity outside of Ireland and Europe was previously set by artists Enya and Clannad, along with stage shows “Riverdance” and “Lord of the Dance,” credit Celtic Woman's American popularity to a 2005 PBS broadcast that resulted in their debut album skyrocketing to No. 1 on Billboard's World Music charts and holding that position for a record 81 weeks. Expect the heavens to part when these lasses deliver their world-class performance at Alltel Arena.
—Paul Peterson
8 p.m., Alltel Arena, $40-$58.
Flipping channels recently, I paused on AETN to watch an ensemble of five young women sing traditional numbers and perform in what appeared to be a European cathedral, accompanied by a composer and beautiful stage scenery. I was either stoned (as a co-worker charges), or maybe the angelic voices hailing from five criminally attractive Irish women were enough to pierce the hard exterior of this weathered acid rocker. Although the foundation for Celtic Woman's popularity outside of Ireland and Europe was previously set by artists Enya and Clannad, along with stage shows “Riverdance” and “Lord of the Dance,” credit Celtic Woman's American popularity to a 2005 PBS broadcast that resulted in their debut album skyrocketing to No. 1 on Billboard's World Music charts and holding that position for a record 81 weeks. Expect the heavens to part when these lasses deliver their world-class performance at Alltel Arena.
—Paul Peterson
The great Michael Jackson link round-up
Friday To-Do: Justin Moore
Friday To-Do: Pink Spiders
Friday To-Do: Foam Fest
RIP: King of Pop
Shake-up at Vino's
Thursday: Stella Fancy, Whale Fire, Paradise City and more
Thursday To-Do: Hill Country Revue
Ben Nichols is at WWT tonight
The trailer for "The Beatles: Rock Band" is probably better than the game.
Wednesday: 'Shrek the Third,' Men of Playgirl, Paul Morphis and more
Download "Music for Men"
Q&A: Brandon Campbell, founder of Little Rock Fashion Week
The Televisionist: 'NYC Prep'
Saturday: Levon
Saturday: River City Tanlines
Now you don't need to swipe show posters from the White Water bathroom
Saturday To-Do: Levon Helm
Saturday To-Do: River City Tanlines
Saturday To-Do: 'Voltaic'
Saturday To-Do: Pop the Top Fest
Saturday To-Do: Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom
Op-Ed: On Juneteenth and Liberation
The Weekend: Foam party, Adam Carroll and Owen Temple, Electric Mudd, Little Rock Pride Picnic and more
Rock Candy on Facebook
Q&A: Al Roker
Friday To-Do: Sky High
Friday To-Do: Marcy Playground
What no one's told you about "Tommy"
Thursday: Ted Ludwig, singles auction, Ace Spade and more
Ben Moody's got a new Amy Lee
Wednesday To-Do: King Biscuit Fundraiser
Wednesday: 'Batman Begins,' 'Tommy,' Skindred and more
Time to live vicariously, parents
The Gossip on the Gossip
Write a screenplay, win money
Art Note: Ben Whitehouse and Jun Kaneko at the Arts Center
Korto to singlehandedly save Dillard's with new handbag line
A short history of Nate Powell, musician
The Times wants to give you a ticket to the American Idol concert
Keith Urban coming to Alltel
Bonnaroo recap
The Princes do Bonnaroo
17 ways to say no thanks to dudes hustling CDs on the street
Monday To-Do: Malcolm Holcombe
Review: Cotton Jones at Sticky Fingerz
Friday To-Do: Smoke Up Johnny
Friday: Tom Sweet Band, Eclipse Glasses, the Fuchsia Band and more
Thursday: Colossus of Roads, Kevin Gordon, Jonathan Wilkins and more
Thursday To-Do: Cotton Jones
Wednesday To-Do: Movies in the Park
Review: MGMT at the Village
Last night: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Bjork film coming to the Malco
Tuesday To-Do: MGMT
Review: Merle
The Weekend: Cornerstone's Sixth Anniversary
Review: 'Tommy'
Monday To-Do: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Sunday To-Do: Merle Haggard
Saturday To-Do: American Aquarium
Weekend To-Do: Heifer Village Grand Opening
The Weekend: The Juke Joint Duo, Poptart Monkeys, Cornerstone's anniversary and more
Friday To-Do: Too $hort
Friday To-Do: Localist Release Party
Friday To-Do: Chase Pagan
Friday To-Do: 'Oliver!'
'Tommy' video
Q&A: Chase Pagan
The mystery of the Hillcrest streaker
Thursday: Stella Fancy, Jason Boland, Travs and more
Thursday: Black Moth Super Rainbow / School of Seven Bells
Weekend To-Do: Wakarusa
Movies in the Park cancelled
It's Miley!
Wednesday To-Do: Mr. Lif
Wednesday To-Do: 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
Clinton School and Movies in the Park team up
Tuesday: The Detroit Cobras, Little Rock gets a windmill, more
Monday To-Do: Found Magazine's 'Denim and Diamonds' Tour
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