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Saturday To-Do: DJ Muggs
DJ MUGGS2 a.m. Discovery Nightclub. $15.Is there a more appropriate way to mark the occasion of April 20 than listening to the man who crafted the highly influential sonic template behind the...
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Saturday To-Do: Grupo Fantasma
GRUPO FANTASMA10 p.m. Juanita's. $10 adv., $12 day of.Grupo Fantasma has spent the last decade-plus cementing its reputation as one of the finest musical exports from Austin, Texas — no small feat...
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Food Feedback Friday: sausage, sashimi, and Santa Lucia
We welcome you back to a little feature we like to call Food Feedback Friday. If you’re just now joining us, this is the portion of the program where you take control, you call the shots, and you share...
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Saturday: Don Haney & The Prime Rib Special, Tyrannosaurus Chicken and more
Blues guitarist Don Haney & The Prime Rib Special perform at Cregeen's Irish Pub, 8 p.m., $5.Indie Music Night — 420 Edition features 5:40, Doe Boi (of LabRatz), Stamp Gang, OZ Slim, Rated Thoad,...
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Sunday To-Do: GWAR
GWAR8 p.m. Revolution. $17 adv., $20 day of.If getting covered in all manner of fake blood, vomit and, uh, God only knows what other types of disgusting bodily fluids by some dudes wearing outrageous...
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Sunday To-Do: SL Jones
SL JONES7:30 p.m. Vino's. $5.Last we heard, SL Jones was still in Atlanta, where he moved from Little Rock more than a decade ago to attend art school. There he fell in with Killer Mike's Grind Time...
View ArticleArkansas unemployment rate holds steady
The unemployment rate in Arkansas in March held steady at 7.2 percent, while the workforce dropped slightly. Full report here.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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A half-measure from the Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts leadership is preparing to consider a policy change that would allow gay youths to join Scouting, but still prohibit gay leaders. They can still keep the Eagle badge I sent back.[...
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Student art, McLeod piece for TAF
The Thea Center, 401 Main St. in Argenta, hosts the"North Little Rock High School Art Show & Sale" and is exhibiting Matt McLeod's painting commissioned for the 2nd annual Thea Arts Festival...
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What, me worry? Beebe to sign tax cuts
Gov. Mike Beebe said today that he'd sign a raft of tax cut bills— heavily tilted toward the wealthy — that could reduce state income by $140 million or more in three years. Do the math: He won't be...
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Saturday: Lenny Williams at Blues on the River
Little Rock native and longtime Oakland soul singer Lenny Williams (formerly of Tower of Power) co-headlines the festivities at Blues on the River this year, with Mel Waiters and many more, Saturday, 3...
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UPDATE: Nate Bell shoots from lip on Boston violence; Speaker Carter...
UPDATE:A Twitter by Nate Bell set the web on fire this morning. His post, responses and more follow below. But to get quickly to the latest news. He's issued a non-apology apology by Twitter and...
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'In the name of God, go'
360 years ago tomorrow, on April 20, 1653, Oliver Cromwell spoke words to the House of Commons that seem ever so pertinent more than three centuries later in Little Rock, Arkansas.Tax cuts for the...
View ArticleFormer GOP sheriff candidate pleads to federal charge over political dirty trick
Harold Allen Smith, 47, of Greenbrier, pleaded guilty to transferring a false birth certificate via the United States mail. Authorities say it was part of a political dirty trick when he ran for...
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Saturday is Record Store Day
So it's been a tragic and bizarre week, and I think it's perfectly understandable if folks wanted to take a day to decompress and think about something else for a while, perhaps with a little retail...
View ArticleLegislature's 'wrong-headed' approach to tax cuts
It's all over but the gold-counting for the Arkansas legislature's orgy of tax cuts for the rich and businesses.Just listing them all takes so much space that the daily Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which...
View ArticleAlso overlooked: Partisan takeover of elections
Speaking of overlooked legislative items. Here's another topic lost day to day in the welter of stuff being generated by a new Republican majority anxious to rewrite every element of Arkansas...
View ArticleSo Lost finds Tim Hursley's silo again
Architectural photographer Tim Hursley's years of photographing a toppled silo in Hale County, Ala., has gotten new attention from the Oxford American magazine's So Lost series, with this video by Dave...
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Saturday: Arkansas Times' Pub or Perish at Stickyz
If you can believe it, it's been 10 years since Yours Truly, David Koon, Arkansas Times reporter and definitely not the secret identity of The Plump Shadow, who strikes fear in the hearts of criminals...
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Levon Helm doc headlines Little Rock Film Festival line-up
Whoa! The Little Rock Film Festival just announced easily its strongest documentary line-up yet. It includes multiple SXSW and Sundance winners and films — about civil rights and music and Branson —...
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