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Review: The Avett Brothers, Oct. 16 at Arkansas Music Pavilion
Kim LaneThe Avett Brothers played at the AMP in Fayetteville Tuesday. The Arkansas Music Pavilion greeted 3,054 plaid-wearing, longhaired men and women Tuesday night with a hipster-friendly setup of...
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Chili Fights in the Heights returns on Saturday
After you’ve downed liquid cheese by the bucketful, consider heading over to Chili Fights in the Heights, a chili cook-off that benefits the Arkansas Foodbank. Kavanaugh will be blocked off from N....
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Jason Baldwin to Little Rock in December
Via FacebookMark your calendars. In December, the Arkansas Times is sponsoring two special programs in partnership with the Clinton School for Public Service and the Little Rock Film Festival. On...
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Imagine a Mike Huckabee presidency
The CableHUCK DOES JAPAN: Photo appears to show Mike Huckabee with a former Japanese prime minister and a more shadowy figure.Something tells me that Mike Huckabee's encounters with suspect Japanese...
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The Republican purchase of Arkansas
MORE REPUBLICAN LIES: Mike Fletcher didn't vote to raise gas tax, despite what national Republican ad says.Lord how the out-of-state corporate money rolls in. If we had ethical disclosure laws worthy...
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Analyst warns: Be suspicious of poll 'bounce'
Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight gives a good analysis of swings in poll numbers, post-debate bounce and the like. It seems safe, if obvious, to conclude that the electorate is almost evenly split....
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KUAR beg-a-thon alert
Today's the day to do your duty. KUAR, the public radio station in Little Rock (which also operates the classical music outlet KLRE from UALR) is in its semi-annual fund-raising drive. I'll be raising...
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Friday: The BEAT Party 10, War Chief and more
Kari Faux plays at The BEAT Party 10 at Juanita's Friday. "The BEAT Party 10" boasts a huge lineup of hip-hop, with Mannie Gee, Don Key, Theme Musiq, Kwestion, Kari Faux, Trump Fitzgerald, Bobby, Da...
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Beth Ditto and Bonnie Montgomery sing Kitty Wells
Beth Ditto and Bonnie Montgomery at The Fonda Theatre. What an enjoyable and charming assemblage of talented Arkansas folks: Beth Ditto and Nathan Howdeshell, of Gossip, performing the Kitty Wells...
View ArticleDepressed yet? Read this
Liberal columnist Frank Rich has no comfort for those dreaming about an election miracle, whether at the Pulaski Quorum Court, legislature or White House. Tea Party triumphant, he says, although by...
View ArticleBlair Center, Clinton School combine for political program
Don't they call this "leveraging synergies" in businessspeak? It's good news about two University of Arkansas entities, in any case. The Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society and the...
View ArticleFinding Meaning in the Dark: Why it’s hardly ever, “Just a movie”
I wrote this some years ago for Dotty Oliver of the Arkansas Free Press (formerly the Little Rock Free Press), inspired by way too many folks looking down their noses at people talking about film, and...
View ArticleState agency head distributes talking points against medical marijuana
Jennifer Gallaher, director of the Arkansas Division of Behavioral BHealth Services, has distributed a memo to employees with talking points against the medical marijuana initiative. (CORRECTION: A...
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The new 1620 Savoy still has room for renovation
Rush’s OrecchietteThe reincarnated 1620, now known as 1620 Savoy, attempts to cater to both patrons who prefer to get dolled up and fancified for dinner as well as those generally slouchy folks, like...
View ArticlePulaski teachers protest
I'm way behind on this, but I thought I'd post anyway, belatedly, the release I got yesterday from the Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers threatening a strike over the state's refusal to...
View ArticleHawker Beechcraft to go it alone, LR plant future uncertain
Talk Business reports on Hawker Beechcraft's announcement that it hopes to come out of bankrtupcy as a standalone company rather than join with a Chinese investor. Its Little Rock jet production...
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Friday: JWhite at The Joint
JWhite plays Friday night at The Joint. Jazz saxophonist JWhite is kicking off "A New Jazz Swagger," a series of performances named after his recent album on Friday. White will be accompanied by Dell...
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Thursday night line
COMING SOON: A groundbreaking is set Oct. 22 for the Arcade, the mixed-use project of Moses Tucker and the Central Arkansas Library System on what has been a parking lot across the street from the...
View ArticleRediscovering 'September 30, 1955'
From Tyrone Jaeger and the Oxford American blog "A State of Wonder" comes a very interesting story about Paris, Arkansas film director James Bridges (who directed "Urban Cowboy," "The China Syndrome"...
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The 'No' On Issue 2 Edition
The second presidential debate, Koch versus Koch, Dustin McDaniel's early campaign cash and ballot issues one and two — all covered on this week's show. Stream on the jump. Download Subscribe via...
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