The Door- to-Door Blues: my "career" working on commission
Once again, working on the theory that it’s a poor experience that we can’t get some piece of writing out of . . .Yeah, the “Acme” vacuum cleaner referred to here is really a Kirby. “If you get done...
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Courtway expands on Baker's work at UCA
Sunday or no, University of Central Arkansas President Tom Courtway got back to me on questions I'd asked relative to the hiring of Sen. Gilbert Baker as a $132,000-a-year assistant to the president...
View ArticleThe stormy night line
You are on. I am cooking a mess of okra that I bought yesterday at the Pulaski Heights Baptist Church's Saturday farmers market, now a year-round Saturday event. I've never seen prettier leaf and...
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Political racism and Arkansas becoming Alabama
Arkansas became Alabama and Mississippi last Tuesday in political inclination with the ascension of a Republican legislative majority It may not prove in time as thorough a transformation as in other...
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Duh ... Mark Pryor will have opposition in 2014
Stop the presses. Front-page story in D-G today (pay wall) says U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor will have political opposition in 2014.Maybe a "110 percent chance," says Republican Chair Doyle Webb, demonstrating...
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West Memphis revisited
Race-divided city now finds blacks pitted against one another. by Grif Stockley"The Perfect Racial Storm," the title given to the Arkansas Times' Feb. 8, 2008, cover story following the 2007 shooting...
View ArticleElection fatigue edition
The election is over, and even though The Observer is a fan of political horseracing, let us be the first to say: Good riddance to it.The election is over, and even though The Observer is a fan of...
View ArticlePutting meat on the table, and necks
The point of this one is, now that the long political campaign and the election are over, there are no Ol' Moi opinions left in the old kit bag. by Bob LancasterThe point of this one is, now that the...
View ArticleBoths a crowd
"In Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh, Republicans defeated Democrat Mark Critz in what was one of the year's most expensive races, with both sides spending a combined $13.7 million." by Doug Smith"In...
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Cannibal Corpse at Juanita's
Also 'The Invisible War' at the Argenta Community Theater, Dr. Dog at Revolution, Junior Brown at Revolution, 607 and Bear Colony at Revolution, Timothy K. Moore at Pyramid Art, Bianca Phillips at the...
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The morning report: Abortion, lottery, bonuses for elected officials
Odds and ends from the mail and morning paper:* LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT: News yesterday of a possible split in the House Republican delegation that could produce a compromise House speaker was the...
View ArticleThe tax debate firms up
President Obama indicates he will insist on an increase intax rates for the wealthy. The Republicans hold firm on trickle-down mythology. Polls show, consistently, that American voters think Obama is...
View ArticleThe case for expanding Medicaid
In case you missed it, the message at yesterday's budget hearing on the state Medicaid program was simple:Arkansas can lay out an additional half-billion in state and federal dollars and still be...
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The Voice: Cody Belew and the rest of Team CeeLo make it to the top 10
And then there were 10. America voted on which "The Voice" contestants they liked best, and Cody Belew and his Team CeeLo teammates, Trevin Hunte and Nicholas David, all survived. Appropriately enough,...
View ArticleOil lobby targets Mark Pryor to keep tax breaks flowing
The 2014 election has begun. The oil lobby - struggling businesses like Exxon - has hit the air with TV ads targeting senators up for re-election. If they don't vote for continuation of billions of tax...
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Wednesday: Lo-Pan at Downtown Music Hall, England in 1819 at Stickyz
All you fans of classic stoner rock will not want to miss Lo-Pan, who play Downtown Music Hall, with Red Devil Lies, 8 p.m., $5. England in 1819 is a father-and-sons trio out of Baton Rouge, La., that...
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Food Fight: Damgoode Pies is really just dammediocre
It’s damnear impossible to talk pizza with anyone in Little Rock without hearing mention of Damgoode Pies. The much-celebrated local pizza mini-chain has clearly won the favor of many an Arkansan....
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Thursday To-Do: Argenta Film Series: 'The Invisible War'
ARGENTA FILM SERIES: 'THE INVISIBLE WAR'7 p.m. Argenta Community Theater. Free."The Invisible War" is a documentary about the long-overlooked epidemic of rape within the U.S. armed forces. The film...
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Thursday To-Do: Dr. Dog
DR. DOG8:30 p.m. Revolution. $18 adv., $20 day of.Back in the spring and summer of 2005, Dr. Dog's "Easybeat" was near inescapable among my crowd. It seemed like it was playing at every get-together or...
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Food Fight: A Damgoode place for pizza
When it comes to pizza, I always bring to mind that risque old maxim which compares it to the carnal joy shared by folks in love: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. In the case of Damgoode...
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