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Coming soon: Jazz in the Park
The Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau recently announced an upcoming free jazz series at History Pavilion in Riverfront Park. Jazz in the Park will run on Wednesday evenings in June and...
View ArticleMedicaid payment reform may be reducing costs but legislature delays further...
Good news on the Medicaid cost front: in a joint Public Health committee meeting today, Department of Human Services officials testified that for the third straight quarter, cost growth of the program...
View ArticleTGIF
Riverfest. Memorial Day. My car's 10th birthday. I'm going to take it easy, gearing up for about my 20th trip to Arkansas Boys State next week. They're going to roll out instant polling of the...
View ArticleCheck out this vintage Cate Brothers performance
Here's a very tasty jam from Fayetteville's Cate Brothers, performing in 1976 on the BBC's "Old Grey Whistle Test." This tune, "In One Eye and Out the Other," is the title track of the band's second...
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Riverfest opens with perfect conditions, Darius Rucker
Weather was perfect for last night's opening of Riverfest — low humidity, clear, breezy, 70s — so it's not too surprising to see the throngs depicted in the Facebook album Brian Chilson has posted,...
View ArticleNo arrest in early morning death after altercation
The LRPD's Sgt. Cassandra Davis is up early on Saturday:At 2:51 officers were called to 10800 Legion Hut Road to a disturbance. Officers learned that a physical altercation occurred between Mr. Haywood...
View ArticleHow refusing Obamacare hurts the poorest of the poor
David Ramsey illustrated this point yesterday. If Arkansas's adoption of Obamacare through the so-called private option falls apart, the poorest of the state's poor would be left with no health...
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Viva la open line
The line is open.I close with, at top, Brian Chilson's photo from a rally at the Capitol today by a coalition pressing Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman to vote for pending immigration legislation that...
View ArticleGay TV producer at center of Imboden controversy to speak in LR
* REMEMBER IMBODEN? MEET THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT: I was happy to get this Facebook note today from Bryant Huddleston, the Imboden native and California TV producer, whose tentative invitation to...
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Riverfest finale today
Day two continued in spectacular fashion for Riverfest, but the forecast for today's finale mentions the chance of isolated thunderstorms.For those who'd like to attend vicariously, there's lots more...
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The rise in poor in the suburbs; new interest in cities
The Democrat-Gazette today (subscription0 focused on Arkansas figures of a trend found in the 2010 Census and much discussed since — the rising poverty in suburbs, previously seen as the land of milk...
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Coming: Behind-the-scenes account of 1980 Titan missile accident in Damascus,...
This sounds worth looking for:Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford notes a September lecture visit by journalist Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") who'll publish in September a new book, "Command and...
View ArticleMars Attacks!: I think you owe me money, Tim Burton
Okay, not really. But still, I do have my fantasies . . .It all begins with Mars Attacks! - a film which kicks the highly cliched Independence Day right out of orbit for sheer cleverness. Mars Attacks!...
View ArticleSunday night and the floor is open
The line is open. It is almost un-American judging by the racks of ribs I saw in shopping carts today, but I am still cooking shrimp. Key West pink shrimp.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Riverfest goes out with customary bang
A little rain didn't discourage the customary explosive end to what looks like one of the most successful Riverfests ever. Fireworks and Peter Frampton led the card Sunday night.[ Subscribe to the...
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The heart(less) of the Arkansas Republican Party
Stephens Media's John Lyon gathered some good quotes in the course of an article on the future for those seeking General Equivalency Diplomas.A new test nationwide is going to increase the cost of the...
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Maybe the Tea Party groups deserved IRS scrutiny for political activities
The IRS imbroglio looks like a winner for the Republican Party. The agency, under the Obama administration, was, at least, disorganized and incompetent in reviewing applications for non-profit status...
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Catholic hospitals limit women's health services
The New York Times wrote about this earlier and now Daily Kos has expanded on the theme.Catholic hospital systems are the largest in the country and their growth has implications for health services,...
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Tuesday To-Do: Vino's Picture Show: 'A Clockwork Orange'
VINO'S PICTURE SHOW: 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE'7:30 p.m. Vino's. Free.Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic "A Clockwork Orange" is one of those works that stands out among its contemporaries and even among its...
View ArticleJourney’s End: Thoughts on the death of my father
Shortly before Christmas 1994, my father died of cancer. Like all men who have what can most kindly be described as “troubled” relationships with their fathers, my feelings after his death were complex...
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