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Saturday: SEC Gymnastics Championship, Air Review and more
Former Razorbacks track and field coach and living legend John McDonnell will do a book-signing at Go! Running in the Heights, noon.Verizon Arena hosts the 2013 SEC Gymnastics Championship, 2 p.m.,...
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Saturday To-Do: Pinback
PINBACK9 p.m. Revolution. $12 adv., $15 day of.For the last 15 years or so, West Coast duo Pinback has been crafting airtight, intricate indie pop with no rough edges at all and not so much as a note...
View ArticleGay discrimination endorsed in House committee
I've mentioned previously the curious absence of gay bashing by the new Republican legislative majority. It's a favorite base tickler, after all, and considered political gold by Republicans.I needn't...
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Food Feedback Friday: SoMa, Sundaes, and Superdan
Spring has sprung, folks, which means it’s finally time to start living outdoors again…at least until the fiery inferno of summer begins to beat down upon our fair city. Food trucks are beginning to...
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A fairer tax cut from Democrats
Rep. Warwick Sabin says he's amended his income tax realignment proposal,HB 1926, to eliminate a new 7.5 percent top rate for the highest income taxpayers. That increase on the top end made his...
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Sunday To-Do: Lee Fields & The Expressions
LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS8 p.m. Juanita's. $12 adv., $15 day of.While the last few years have seen a steady interest in historically precise old-school soul and funk, few of these acts have been...
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The gordita of variable price
Those of you of a certain age will remember the old Life cereal commercials featuring Mikey. Being a kid named Michael at the time those commercials aired meant that every unoriginal jacknape around me...
View ArticleThe Song of the Giraffes
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the...
View ArticleThe legislature today
Senate didn't meet today and the House mostly dealt with minor matters. Among them, from Fox 16:By a 76-8 vote, the House approved a bill to prohibit minors from having or buying e-cigarettes.[...
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Fire on Cantrell Road
Fox 16 supplies the photo of a fire in a house on the south side of Cantrell Road, across the road from the Packet House at 1406 Cantrell. In flames is the house at 1317 Cantrell, occupied by the Boyd...
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There Rapert goes again: Liberals = Taliban, Nazis
From Twitter:One is tempted to suggest that the fiddlin' demagogue stick a vaginal probe in it.Or maybe Matthew 7:1 would be a more appropriate response.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Expand-o-meter: chances of expansion getting higher and higher
Today’s chances of passing expansion: 82%Last week’s chances: 75%See here for previous entries on the Expand-o-MeterIt’s getting down to the wire and the Expand-o-meter remains bullish. The big news...
View ArticleStill no numbers behind DHS “private option” study, plus another clarification
The Department of Human Services this week sent me another clarification about the new “private option” study. The mechanics behind their conclusion are a bit different than what they told reporters...
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The Max is Back, But Depleted Edition
The private option, tax cuts, school choice, voter ID, Big River Steel, the political impact of a Republican majority in the legislature, the governor's race, the tech park and delay tactics in the...
View ArticleFriday night line
The evening line is open. Finishing up:* TEXARKANA ON FAA TOWER CLOSURE LIST:The FAA has published its list of 149 airport towers to be closed as a result of federal budget cuts. They include towers at...
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Gun nuttery and the race for U.S. Senate
The gun nuts are spoiling to go after U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor. No surprise. The gun nuts and Republicans have become one. Alice Stewart had me on her new radio show this week and the conversation was...
View ArticleYour Congress at 'work' with meaningless political votes
An all-night session by the U.S. Senate last night included votes on dozens of budget amendments with no chance of becoming law, but proposed to score political points.A couple of votes concerned the...
View ArticleStand up for women today at the Capitol
A reminder of the rally at the Capitol at 3 p.m. Saturday over the legislature's unprecedented and unconstitutional infringement on women's medical rights.All it takes is showing up. Plenty of details...
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Opening March 23: Robin Hazard-Bishop, Hans Feyerabend
Boswell-Mourot Fine Art opens an exhibition today of pastels by Robin Hazard-Bishop and paintings by Hans Feyerabend in a show called "Looking Out." There will a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The...
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The women's rights open line
A two-week grassroots campaign on social media brought maybe 500 people to the Capitol on a cold, rainy Saturday to protest the legislature's attack on women's medical rights. Speakers invoked a range...
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