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Thursday: Green Corner Store's fourth birthday, Mad Nomad, Collin Vs. Adam...
Come out and celebrate the Green Corner Store's fourth birthday from 5-8 p.m. There'll be sampling of local foods, ice cream birthday cake, drawings for door prizes, music and more. Down in Hot...
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Fracking: Good for energy companies, good for earthquakes
Arkansas is already familiar with this story, but it bears mention.Mother Jones reports on new evidence of linkage of practices in fracking for gas and oil with earthquakes, here along the Wilzetta...
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Tom Cotton: His way on immigration reform or no way
U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, the Club for Growth's house boy in Arkansas, continues to have his Senate campaign flogged by the Fox/Murdoch/Club for Growth/corporate lobby forces.Here, the Weekly Standard,...
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Sam Walls retires from Arkansas Capital Corp.
This is news of interest mostly to a fairly small number of business insiders, I'd guess, but noteworthy.Sam Walls is retiring after 24 years as head of Arkansas Capital Corp., a private business...
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Survey rates health facilities on treatment of LGBT patients
The Human Rights Campaign has released its annual Healthcare Equality Index, a survey-based recognition of health care facilities that pledge to provide equal treatment to LGBT patients. The new report...
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Friday To-Do: 'Monty Python's Spamalot' at The Weekend Theater
'MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT'8 p.m. Weekend Theater. $16-$20.Based on the 1975 comedy "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," the smash hit "Monty Python's Spamalot" is without question among the most...
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Friday To-Do: 'Legally Blonde: The Musical' at The Public Theatre
'LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL'7:30 p.m. The Public Theatre. $14-$16.Omigod! You guys! For serious! Community Theatre of Little Rock is totes producing "Legally Blonde: The Musical" at The Public...
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Friday-Sunday To-Do: Eureka Springs Fat Tire Festival
EUREKA SPRINGS FAT TIRE FESTIVALVarious times and venues.The Fat Tire Festival is probably one of the best-loved annual throw-downs in all of Eureka Springs, which is saying something in a town that...
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Friday To-Do: Royal Thunder, Adam Faucett & The Tall Grass Buffalo
ROYAL THUNDER, ADAM FAUCETT & THE TALL GRASS BUFFALO10 p.m. White Water Tavern.Man y'all, "CVI"— the full-length released last year by Relapse Records from Georgia trio Royal Thunder— is...
View ArticleThe glory days when we thought Moonbase Alpha might be a reality - without...
A few weeks ago I picked up up a book from a library used bookstore - Colonies in Space, written by T.A. Oppenheimer (1977) - which is full of detailed plans (including drawings) for space colonies...
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Judge Mike Maggio reduces unanimous jury verdict in nursing home death by 81...
Circuit Judge Mike Maggio of Conway, who hopes to rise to the state Court of Appeals, has sent signals throughout his career and, since he announced for higher office, that he's a right-thinking...
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Driggs gets $468,000 for radios. Yes, Driggs
A reader calls to my attention the joint announcement by budget hawk Dr. No Boozman and Sen. Mark Pryor that the Homeland Security Department had made a $468,000 grant to Driggs, Ark., so the local...
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Friday: Joey Farr, Kentucky Knife Fight and more
"Last Respects Paid: Death of the Godfather" is presented by Murder and Macabre Mystery Dinner Theater. Black attire is requested. The Regency, Hot Springs, July 12-13, 6 p.m., $40. It's a Battle of...
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Thursday: Rebirth Brass Band at Revolution
New Orleans'Rebirth Brass Band comes to Revolution Thursday night for an all-ages show, 8:30 p.m., $15.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleArkansas House Republicans join passage of farm bill opposed by farm groups,...
All four Arkansas Republican members of the House —Tom Cotton, Tim Griffin, Steve Womack and Rick Crawford— joined in the narrow House passage today of a farm bill stripped of nutrition (food stamp)...
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Legislators hear testimony on problems in parole system: UPDATE
Leslie Newell Peacock will be back before long with a report from the legislative committee hearing on the state parole system.The Department of Community Correction isn't always getting the job done...
View ArticleThe Thursday night line
I'm tired of being tired. The line is open. A final word or two:* THE DYSFUNCTIONAL CONGRESS: As I sign off comes word again of another potential bipartisan Senate compromise on government-backed...
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The Edge, with sangria
The Edge Gallery at 301B President Clinton Ave. will be serving up sangria and new artwork for 2nd Friday Art Night tomorrow night from 5-8 p.m. Now in the gallery along with work by owner Avila...
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Saline sheriff's actions night of arrest worse than originally reported
Faulkner County Prosecutor Cody Hiland, the special prosecutor in Saline County on the public intoxication arrest of Saline Sheriff Bruce Pennington, took the unusual step yesterday of releasing...
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Saturday To-Do: Gary Allan
GARY ALLAN8 p.m. Magic Springs' Timberwood Amphitheater. $50-$60.Gary Allan seems to occupy a space in between dyed-in-the-wool honky tonk traditionalists like Dwight Yoakam and the empty-calorie pop...
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