In defense of cats
Sitting on my front porch a while back, I was watching two bald eagles perched on a cypress limb overlooking the bayou while hummingbirds swooped and buzzed around my ears — an everyday event around...
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No rights for tenants in Arkansas
Study panel wants landlords to fix properties, end retaliatory eviction. by Cheree FrancoIn early October, Petrice Howard noticed hundreds of tiny water droplets beading the ceiling of her daughters'...
View ArticleToday's crisis
The cover story of this issue of the Arkansas Times reminds us of another day when zealots tried to hold themselves above the law. Then it was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that they didn't want to...
View ArticleIt was a good week for gubernatorial race jockeying
It was also a good week for delaying and a tort reform battle. It was a bad week for secrecy and bookbag snatchers.It was a good week for ...GUBERNATORIAL RACE JOCKEYING. Lt. Gov. Mark Darr said he's...
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Jimbo Mathus at White Water Tavern
Also, Winston Family Orchestra at White Water, the 18th Annual Custom Knife Show at Robinson Center Exhibition Hall, Suzanne Vega at Juanita's, Lacuna Coil and Sevendust at Revolution, Mushroomhead at...
View ArticleStill amazed
I am writing this with a heavy vagina, in response to the "War on Women" (Feb. 6) article.Still amazedI am writing this with a heavy vagina, in response to the "War on Women" (Feb. 6) article. Having...
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Proposed land deal between CAW and Planning chair stirs controversy
A possible conservation easement deal with the chairman of the Pulaski County Planning Board has angered a group of Lake Maumelle Watershed landowners, who lodged complaints about a perceived conflict...
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Top of the morning — new library, abortion, schools, rails to trails
Odds and ends:*CHILDREN'S LIBRARY TO OPEN: I've marveled at the beautiful building as it rose along Jonesboro Drive on the south side of Interstate 630 across the freeway from the Little Rock Zoo and...
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Saturday and Sunday To-Do: 18th Annual Arkansas C
18TH ANNUAL ARKANSAS CUSTOM KNIFE SHOW10 a.m. Robinson Center Exhibition Hall. $10.Arkansas has long been to big ol' knives what Kentucky is to bourbon, with the state's historical influence in the...
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Why is Tim Griffin pushing Keystone Pipeline so hard? Things go better with...
U.S. Rep. Tiny Tim Griffin of Traskwood built his 2012 re-election campaign around advocacy of construction of the Keystone Pipeline, a potential environmental disaster that's about moving Canadian...
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Homeland Security blamed for cooler crackdown
The Hogosphere has been buzzing with the news, first reported in the UA newspaper, that searches will be conducted on all bags and coolers taken to baseball games at the Baum Stadium on the UA campus...
View ArticleTexarkana auto dealer appointed to Game and Fish Commission
The appointee WAS from Texarkana as I predicted. And he is a well-to-do white guy. But not old. I refer to Gov. Mike Beebe's appointment to the state Game and Fish Commission to complete the term of...
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Scholarship winners, bowl makers at Thea
The Thea Center features work by its Visual Arts Competition winners along with ceramic bowls made by students at Hall and Parkview High School for tonight's Argenta ArtWalk, 5-8 p.m.The arts...
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Food Feedback Friday: Jerks, Shrimps, and Stalkers
Well folks, you survived the most disgustingly love-drunk day of the year, and now you have 364 days to recover. But I bet you guys ate some good food, amiright? So dish it up, it’s that time of the...
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Dr. Timothy Cloyd stepping down as president of Hendrix College
This just in from Hendrix College:CONWAY, Ark. (February 15, 2013) — Dr. J. Timothy Cloyd today is stepping down as President of Hendrix College after 12 years in that position. The announcement was...
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House approves bill to permit guns on college campuses
The House this morning approved 70-11, with one abstention, the bill by Republican Rep. Charlie Collins of Fayetteville to allow guns on college campuses. HB 1243 was amended to let staff carry...
View ArticleWesterman government strangler delayed UPDATE
Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman's HB 1041, to put an arbitary 3 percent cap on annual state spending increases was at the top of the House agenda this morning but passed over. That's an indication it...
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Sunday To-Do: Suzanne Vega
SUZANNE VEGA8 p.m. Juanita's. $25 adv., $30 day of.There aren't too many other artists who are still making rewarding, relevant music three decades or more into their careers. But not everyone can be a...
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