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'Short Term 12' to open Little Rock Film Festival
Director Destin Daniel Cretton's"Short Term 12," which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's SXSW, will open this year's Little Rock Film Festival with screenings on both sides of the river. The...
View ArticleThey say the neon lights are bright on Broadway (Bridge)
Just in this announcement:Entergy to Announce Major Community Enhancement ProjectHosted by the cities of Little Rock & North Little RockMonday, April 22, at 9:00 a.m. The Peabody Little RockEntergy...
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Open line: Nate Bell's Boston comments earn criticism from colleagues and web...
I'm about done. The line is open. Finishing up:* THERE'S NO UNRINGING THE BELL: Huge traffic and comment everywhere over Republican Rep. Nate Bell'sinsensitive Twitter comment about the Boston manhunt,...
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Matthew Lopas to show "Miller House"
Hendrix College art professor Matthew Lopas has completed a 5-by-9-foot oil panoramic view of the parlor of Carl Miller's Quapaw Quarter home, the 1892 Dibrell House, and will show it at the house,...
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The Nate Bell's Itchy Twitter Fingers Edition
The passage of Medicaid expansion and the final days of the Arkansas General Assembly, Nate Bell on Twitter, Mike Ross’s moderate message and Mark Pryor’s gun votes — all covered on this week's...
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A swing and a miss from Loca Luna
Menu writers are a lot like real estate agents: their job is to make something sound incredible, even if that means being a little over-optimistic with the truth. This can result in something commonly...
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Nate Bell's shot at Boston heard 'round the world
More mail arrives on Nate Bell'suse of the Boston bombing and police slayings to take a crack at liberals and gun control. I received this letter by e-mail:I am a proud Arkansas native, and I am a...
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'The spineless gun vote': Why?
Joe Nocera writes this morning about the vote to block legislation to expand gun purchase background checks and his pursuit of an answer to why from the four Democrats, including Sen. Mark Pryor, who...
View ArticleWhy State Representative Nate Bell should resign
It is easy to be brave from a distance. - AesopArkansas State Representative Nate Bell, who has never seen fit to wear the uniform of his country, nevertheless passed judgement on the courage of others...
View ArticleThe gun-waving open line: Benton County and Nate Bell
Saturday night's all right for fighting isn't it. The open line commences with:* REPUBLICAN SCHISM: Well. It is a given when you become the majority party, rifts will develop, even in a party as...
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Help sought for memorial to victims in West Memphis 3 case
May 5 will mark the 20th anniversary of the slayings of three Arkansas children in what would come to be known internationally as the West Memphis Three case. The "three" refers to the defendants...
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Selling Little Rock: Its new 'Southern accent'
Sorry to be behind the times, but I now have some artwork in hand that's part of the "rebranding" of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau marketing effort.The new campaign was rolled out...
View ArticleNow the Kochs target newspapers
The billionaire Koch brothers have a massive imprint, from energy to forest products to multi-tentacled political front groups including the likes of Americans for Prosperity, important in the...
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Republican extremism means never having to say you're sorry
First it was Republican Rep. Nate Bell,with his non-apology apology for slurring Bostonians while trying to score a pro-gun political point in the midst of a manhunt for police killers noticeably...
View ArticleBatman and The Brave and the Bold - 40 years later
Last year I picked up one of those large collections of comic stories in the DC Showcase series, this one featuring stories from The Brave and The Bold, which featured the Batman teaming up with a...
View ArticleMay more Sundays be the same
Nice day wasn't it? Quiet, except for the CYA noise from up in Faulkner County where Rep. Tim "Pipeline" Griffin is busy 'splainin' how that oil-spewing pipeline isn't like the other pipeline he wants...
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Monday morning nut watch
It's Monday. If we're lucky, we have only 36 more hours of extremist Republican lawmaking (Obamacare approval excepted) at the Arkansas Capitol. And speaking of extremists:* BENTON COUNTY BLOWHARD:It's...
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Tuesday To-Do: Leymah Gbowee
LEYMAH GBOWEE6 p.m. Clinton School of Public Service. Free.Liberian social worker and activist Leymah Gbowee has dedicated her life to pursuing peace and advancing women's rights in a nation that was...
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Nichols''Mud' getting lots of attention
Sunday's New York Times included a long feature on Little Rock filmmaker Jeff Nichols, whose latest film, the Arkansas-shot "Mud," opens on Friday. It answered two frequently asked questions: According...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood plans to press Mike Ross on record
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross made encouraging sounds about looking out for women's medical services and the ability to choose abortion when he announced last week. But his past record...
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