Arkansas Times
Arts & Entertainment
Last call
Date: 3/4/2010
By: Lindsey Millar

We started with somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 local acts, pared those down to 16 semi-finalists and now, after five weeks of competition, here we are. The final showdown. Friday, at Revolution, five acts, none of which sound anything alike, square off to join the likes of 607 and Velvet Kente as a winner of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. /more/
The To-Do List
To-Do List, March 4-9
Date: 3/4/2010
By: Lindsey Millar and John Tarpley

Best bets this week: Cadillac Sky, Mix Master Mike, George McConnell, Inga Swearingen, Arkansas Chamber Singers, 'Cabaret,' 'Ferdinand the Bull,' George Strait and Reba McEntire, Trainwreck and Xiu Xiu. /more/

A&E News
A&E News, Feb. 25
Date: 2/25/2010
By: Arkansas Times Staff

Local promoters and men-about-town Erin Hurley and Mike Brown have partnered to develop what they call Little Rock's first "rock 'n' roll grocery and bodega," where they'll sell staple groceries; tourist items; locally-produced clothing, art, and CDs; smoothies, tickets to local concerts and other sundries. "It'll be a little store with a lot going on," Hurley said. /more/

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 15:43:42

Brace Paine, blogging


Drawing of Beth Ditto by drummer Hannah Blilie.

The Searcy-born Gossip guitarist, whose real name is Nathan Howdeshell, has a pretty rad tumblr page going. Especially, if you're into oddball art and fashion, post-punk, '80s ephemera and photos of cows in Arkansas.

There's plenty to make you jealous, too

And some funny stuff.

Tuesday To-Do: Xiu Xiu



XIU XIU
9 p.m., Sticky Fingerz. $10.

While they're a three-piece from San Jose, there's no use in pretending that the critically-fawned over Xiu Xiu is anything other than the brainchild of Jamie Stewart, the brilliant avant-pop experimentalist who orchestrates the band's challenging sound: confrontational and oft-disturbing but inexplicably revisitable. And they're prolific, to boot. In eight years, they've released nine albums of David Lynchian arrangements draped upon intense, jostling and auteurian vocals. Ever confrontational, their album titles include “Knife Play,” “Fag Patrol” (Stewart is a bit of a gay icon) and their newest, “Dear God, I Hate Myself.” It's been a while since Little Rock has seen an outfit this severe and uncommercial playing outside of house shows, so if you're not attending as a fan, attend for the spectacle. Girl in a Coma and Noveller provide support.

John Tarpley

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Music Review
Review: Exene Cervenka and the Dexter Romweber Duo
Date: 2/11/2010
By: Natalie Elliott

Though it was a brief encounter in a night of three, Exene Cervenka's visit to White Water proved to be a charmingly intimate set. Exene, like someone's spunky aunt bedecked in multiple rosaries and a silk apron, grinned and chatted the whole time, engaging in banter with even the youngest and the drunkest present. /more/
Martina McBride/Trace Adkins
Date: 1/28/2010
By: Erica Schaffer

I can officially say that I have been mooned by Martina McBride. /more/
Media
You don't need a .
Date: 3/4/2010
By: Gerard Matthews

When it comes to the science behind the climate-change debate, most climatologists (and by most, I mean somewhere around 98 percent of them) are in agreement. It's real. But if you ask the general public, for some reason, the issue isn't settled. /more/

Shopping
A reason to splash
Date: 3/12/2009
By: Jennifer Barnett Reed

For me, most of the fun of playing in the rain is actually getting soaking wet. /more/

Art Notes
New work for CB
Date: 3/4/2010
By: Leslie Newell Peacock

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (aka Alice Walton) made public a couple of acquisitions for the future Bentonville showplace last week: Kerry James Marshall's "Our Town" and Mary McCleary's "The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer." /more/
A Boy Named Sooie
The Kiffin mess and looking ahead hopefully
Date: 1/21/2010
By: Derek Jenkins

Dissecting Kiffingate, considering the football Hogs' chances in 2010 and c'est la vie for now. /more/
The Televisionist
The Televisionist, Feb. 27
Date: 2/25/2010
By: David Koon

?In a world where global warming, terrorism both foreign and domestic, double-digit unemployment and congressional gridlock threaten to dissolve the fabric of American reality itself, who can the people turn to? Why 00bama, of course. /more/
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