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Another honor for chef Watkins
You read here in February that Capital Hotel pastry chef Tandra Watkins was a semifinalist for a James Beard Award. Now, Watkins has been nominated by Food & Wine Magazine as a finalist in the...
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Horns double Bernice sculpture award
Attention sculptors applying to the Bernice Garden 2013 Sculpture Project: Art patrons John and Robyn Horn this year are doubling the award amount to $6,000 to artists whose works are selected for the...
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Little Rock Film Festival moves downtown, adds new $10,000 prize
The Little Rock Film Festival will achieve organizers long-stated goal of having a walkable festival this year. All of the festival's venues will be within walking distance from downtown Little Rock...
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House overrides Beebe veto of voter ID bill
At 2:20 p.m., the House is hearing arguments from Rep. Stephen Meeks to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the bill to require a photo ID to vote in Arkansas.The bill is a carbon copy of legislation...
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Little Rock Athletic Club, 3 others sold to group including Stephens members
An e-mail from Pat Riley Jr. announces to club members the sale of the Little Rock Athletic Club and three other fitness clubs, effective today, to a group of executives from Stephens Inc., led by Brad...
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Check out the new Cody Belew video 'Say Love'
As promised, here's the video for the new Cody Belew tune, "Say Love." Belew wrote it for Heifer International and is donating all proceeds from the song to the nonprofit global hunger relief...
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Open line Monday
It's your turn. Closing out:* LEGISLATURE TODAY: Lots of business, though little of high importance. At last check, the House had passed over a scheduled consideration of SB 587, to move school...
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Chef Richardson's case for raw milk sales
Lee Richardson, the award-winning former executive chef at Ashley's at the Capital Hotel, has been keeping busy lately working on a new business venture, but also getting engaged in the political...
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Check out Thea Arts Festival webpage
Paul Leopoulos, director of the THEA Foundation, has shared the link to the Thea Arts Festival webpage, and what a lineup of artists the festival has! There's woodworker Mia Hall, potter Barbara...
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Photos by the children of the incarcerated
The new Children's Library and Learning Center is hosting an exhibit of some 50 photographs by six pre-teens and teens whose lives have been impacted by having a parent in prison or immigration...
View ArticleArkansas “private option” experiment full speed ahead after releases from feds
*UPDATE: The Arkansas legislation took shape today with this extensive amendment, including some new Republican sponsors. While lawmakers will clamor for further assurances and details from the feds,...
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Tuesday night line: Steel mill advances, judgeships, raw milk, gay rights,...
The line is open. Some final notes:* TODAY AT THE LEGISLATURE: STEEL MILL ADVANCES: The Big River Steel project, authorizing millions in state bonds to provide incentives for construction of the...
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The most decadent burger on earth
We've been known to toss around a few adjectives here on Eat Arkansas, but I'll admit that I had a tough time coming up with anything adequate to describe the burgers that my co-conspirator Dan Walker...
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Republican lawmakers weigh "private option" legislation
After weeks of discussion following the "private option" announcement, the legislature finally has an actual bill to debate. The bill's co-sponsors include many key Republicans, but sponsorship doesn't...
View ArticleIt was a good week for suppression
It was also a good week for expansion and inching towards the governor's race. It was a bad week for Mayflower and women.It was a good week for...VOTE SUPPRESSION. The Arkansas House voted 52-45 to...
View ArticleRace has nothing to do with mass shootings
With the exception of sex and religion, nothing makes people more irrational than race. Given the bloody history of racial disputes in American life, one would think that responsible news...
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Arkansas athletic records need integrating
State has racially divided high school sports records. by Evin DemirelWhen Wadie Moore started compiling a record book for the Arkansas Activities Association around 1996, he wanted it to be as...
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Disaster
A duck covered in oil is recovered near the Bell Slough State Wildlife Management Area in Mayflower. On Friday an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured and spilled several thousand barrels of oil. DISASTER: A...
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Tax cuts to fund politics
The policy debate over cutting taxes, so old now that it has become tiresome, has reached the point of absurdity in this legislative session, but the politics of tax cutting, while just as silly as...
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