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Win a pair of tickets to see Ben Taylor at Juanita's
Your good friends here at the Times know how much you all love the music concerts, and also how much you all love winning free tickets to the music concerts. So how would you like to win a pair of...
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The Body releases 'Master, We Perish' EP, signs to Thrill Jockey
The Body has a new three-song EP out this week called "Master, We Perish." Reviews have been positive, with Popdose noting that the three songs "aren’t just punishing but incredibly unique as well."...
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Hot Dog Mike fundraising for new brick-and-mortar dog shop
Hot Dog Mike— AKA Michael Juiliano —has started a fundraising campaign online to help pay for a new downtown storefront where he'll sell favorites from his mobile hot dog cart plus "featured specials...
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Mother's Day Strawberry Festival
The Arkansas strawberry is a sweet, ephemeral thing, and so are mothers. They are worthy of celebration, and that's exactly what the Bernice Garden, at Daisy Bates and Main streets, plans to do on...
View ArticleThe Tuesday night line
The line is open. Final words:*WALTON ANNOUNCES NEW MONEY IN WAR ON EDUCATION: The Walton Foundationannounced today an $8 million infusion into the school "reform" lobbying outfit headed by the...
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Sierra Club says ExxonMobil far short of accounting for spilled crude
The Sierra Club said today that the ExxonMobil cleanup effort after the pipeline break at Mayflower remains several thousand barrels short of accounting for the estimated 5,000 barrels of heavy crude...
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Thursday: Mark Edgar Stuart at White Water Tavern
Pine Bluff native and longtime Memphis music fixture Mark Edgar Stuart plays at White Water Tavern with the great Jim Mize, Thursday, 9 p.m., $5. Read more about Stuart and his new album, "Blues for...
View ArticleState revises tax income estimates upward
The state Finance and Administration Department today issued revised forecasts for state tax revenue through the end of fiscal 2014 (June 30, 2014). The trend is upward, with increases in revenue...
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Blake Rutherford moves to McLarty Companies
Blake Rutherford, who's been chief of staff to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, is moving to the McLarty Companies to be a vice president advising on "communications, strategy and social...
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The mid-week line: Bomber sentenced, politics, George Jones
The line is open. Final thoughts:* BOMBER GETS LIFE IN RESENTENCING:Randeep Mann, the doctor convicted of conspiring to bomb the chair of the state Medical Board, was re-sentenced today in federal...
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Find your thrill at Buffalo Grill
You all won't find a bigger fan of crazy, out-there, off-the-wall food than me, but there are times when all I want is some comfort food. In those times, all the foreign spices and eclectic flavor...
View ArticleAccidents
Spring is upon us at last, it seems, fingers crossed and no takebacksies, Ma Nature. We were beginning to wonder if it would ever get here, seeing as how we had to break out the jacket once again last...
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How the private option flipped the Medicaid expansion debate in Arkansas
It took a group of clever and obstinate young Republican legislators who refused to go along with Medicaid expansion but weren't ready to close the door on other ideas. They helped force a crafty...
View ArticleQueens and usurpers
"Despite the help, Mustain couldn't usurp Barkley, and when Carroll left for the Seattle Seahawks, new coach Lane Kiffin stuck with the incumbent." by Doug SmithUsurp, mesurp:"Despite the help, Mustain...
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Nichols goes big in the Arkansas-set 'Mud'
The latest from the Arkansas-born directors should be a crowd pleaser. by Lindsey Millar"Mud" starts with a boat in a tree. It's a thing of otherworldly beauty — seafoam blue and white and perched, as...
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Brantley: Nuts about guns
by Max BrantleyU.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said on Fox News Sunday that he wanted to try again to get Senate approval of the modest legislation to expand background checks for gun...
View ArticleStrange Cotton
There's an old and morbid joke whose punch line is, "Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" It came to mind after U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton of Dardanelle recklessly compared President...
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A Little Rock pig tale
LR resident prepares to fight City Hall — and seemingly contradictory ordinances — for her non-traditional pet. by David KoonAmerica is a country that loves to argue. Chocolate vs. vanilla. Democrat...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi at the Clinton School
Plus, Pokey LaFarge at White Water Tavern.THURSDAY 5/2House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will discuss current affairs at the Clinton School of Public Service, noon, free. You can help support...
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