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Saturday To-Do: Little Rock Fashion Week's Big Night
LITTLE ROCK FASHION WEEK'S BIG NIGHT6 p.m. Robinson Center Music Hall. $38-$80.Little Rock Fashion Week has been under way since Monday, with a plethora of events for designers, aspiring designers and...
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Friday: Trey Hawkins Band, Dirty Streets and more
The Trey Hawkins Band plays an 18-and-older album-release show at Revolution, with Cons of Formant, 9 p.m., $8 adv., $10 day of. This weekend is your last chance to see comedy troupe The Main Thing's...
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Friday To-Do: Cruz Way
CRUZ WAY9 p.m. Juanita's. $10.Salsa fans in Central Arkansas seem to be well served by a variety of opportunities for dancing at several venues. Little Rock Salsa organizes weekly salsa nights at...
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Friday To-Do: Reproacher, Primitive Man
REPROACHER, PRIMITIVE MAN8 p.m. Downtown Music Hall. $7.For the last few years, we've seemed to be in this sort of revival period for the crusty, heavy, ragin' hardcore of the '90s and I am way into...
View ArticleThe Republican fringe
A back-bench legislator's support for an extremist gubernatorial candidate isn't big news, but I'll mention anyway that Republican Rep. Richard Womack of Arkadelphia has endorsed Curtis Coleman for...
View ArticleLewis Black messes with Texas
Not suitable for some places of employment, but time was you could get a cheer from most Arkansans at anything that so robustly put down the Lone Star state.I like Lewis Black generally. Enjoyed this...
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Playing arithmetic with Lt. Gov. Mark Darr
Lt. Gov. Mark Darr popped off a bit on Twitter yesterday and I think his comments are worth more than 140 characters.First of all, he said (and the Arkansas Republican Party duly cheered) that he'd...
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Police search for missing man, friend of man found dead at UALR
The Little Rock Police Department issued a missing person report today on Jonathan Eiland, pictured here.He was described as a "running buddy" of a man found May 31 in Coleman Creek on the UALR campus,...
View ArticleExtended hours tonight for "Rembrandt"
The Arkansas Arts Center will stay open from 5-9 p.m. tonight for an after-hours showing of “Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London,”its wonderful exhibit of...
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Democratic Party rips Mark Martin for wasting tax money on outside lawyers
The Arkansas Democratic Party follows up today on Blue Hog Report's research that indicates 1) Mark Martin is the first secretary of state to rely on outside legal counsel (costing more than $100,000,...
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Good food, good music at 2-year-old Root
The Root cafe, which reached its two-year milestone June 14, will celebrate the anniversary with a potluck from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday (July 20) at the cafe at 1500 S. Main St.The locavore's delight...
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Asa Hutchinson at 35
I was cleaning my office yesterday and happened on a copy of the 1986 Best and Worst edition of Arkansas Times. From back in our monthly days. Former Razorback great Mike Conley and a young woman...
View ArticleExxonMobil unit settles fracking pollution case with EPA
The subject is ExxonMobil, actually a subsidiary, XTO. The subject is also fracking. That's three-for-three in terms of subjects that also are relevant in Arkansas.The news is from Pennsylvania and...
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The cheesekeeper open line
Kind of a boring day. So I open the line. To finish up:* A NOSE FOR NEWSPAPER EDITING: A reader complained because the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette again seems to have protected readers of the comic pages...
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One happy hour at The Packet House
It’s undeniable that the people running The Packet House have done a magnificent job restoring and revitalizing the old 1869 home that resides along Cantrell Road. It’s a gorgeous structure inside and...
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Judge Leon Holmes recuses from challenge of Arkansas same-sex marriage ban
Federal Judge Leon Holmes has recused from hearing the federal civil rights lawsuit filed this week challenging the Arkansas ban on same-sex marriage.Holmes cited his long professional and personal...
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State Police officer arrested on cocaine charge
A State Police lieutenant, Sedrick Reed, 43, of Hope was arrested yesterday by federal marshals and held in the county jail pending arraignment today. Another man was arrested in the same case, Lamont...
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Caution: Vanity license plate editors at work
Thanks to Rob Moritz of Stephens Media for coverage of a legislative discussion yesterday of evolving law on vanity license plates. All states try to police applications for naughty or inflammatory...
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Saturday To-Do: Anthony Hamilton, The Whispers, Doug E. Fresh
ANTHONY HAMILTON, THE WHISPERS, DOUG E. FRESH7 p.m. First Security Amphitheatre. $30-$100.All right, guys out there? You need to go ahead and hire a babysitter if you need to and then get tickets to...
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Saturday: Ralphie May, Four on the Floor and more
Clarksville native and standup comedy star Ralphie May performs at a benefit for the Officer Will McGary Memorial Fund, with opener Angry Patrick, The Brick Room in Conway, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $30...
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