Armed robbery at LR Kroger store
The Kroger store at 8415 W. Markham was robbed this morning by an unknown assailant brandishing a pistol. The Kroger is near the intersection of W. Markham and Rodney Parham.Workers at the store told...
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Saturday: Easton Corbin at Timberwood Amphitheater
Easton Corbin comes to Timberwood Amphitheater at Magic Springs on Saturday, 8 p.m., $50-$60. Ryan Couron opens the show.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Walmart workers protest in Bentonville during shareholders week
About 200 people, many of them Walmart employees, marched from the Bentonville town square to Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art yesterday to protest the labor policies of the...
View ArticleNSA surveillance: not just phones
The Guardian reports: The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the...
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Vesuvio moving to El Chico's
Vesuvio's Bistro, the popular Italian restaurant tucked away in the Governor's Suites Hotel on Merrill Drive, and moving to a refurbished stand-alone space at 1315 Breckenridge Drive, the former...
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Ark. Times' Celebrate the Grape wine festival sold out
Sorry wine-fans. You snooze, you lose. Tickets for the Arkansas Times'"Celebrate the Grape" wine festival, scheduled for tonight at 6 p.m. 6th and Main Streets in North Little Rock's Argenta district,...
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Read an excerpt from the oral history of Upright Citizens Brigade
Over at Vulture, you can check out an excerpt from "High-Status Characters: How the Upright Citizens Brigade Stormed a City, Started a Scene, and Changed Comedy Forever." As you might surmise from the...
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Walton giving in 2012: $432 million
The Walton Family Foundation made grants of "more than" $432 million in 2012, the foundation has announced. (The foundation has filed an extension for reporting its 2012 990 tax form, so an exact grant...
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2013 Porter Fund Literary Prize awarded to Pat Carr
Writer Pat Carr has won the 2013 Porter Fund Prize, an annual award presented to "an Arkansas writer who has accomplished a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition,"...
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Cushman, Edgington thinking prehistorically
Gallery 26, at 2611 Kavanaugh, is showing an exhibit of mixed media work by Brad Cushman, the Little Rock artist also known as the gallery director at UALR; and collages by Amy Edgington, the artist...
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Actress arrested for sending ricin letters to Obama
Major news stations are reporting that actress Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson ("The Walking Dead,""The Vampire Diaries") has been arrested in Arkansas (latest sources say Mt. Pleasant, Tex.) for...
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Cloar in Memphis
The Brooks Museum tomorrow opens a summer exhibition of works by Carroll Cloar, the pointillist Arkansan who painted what he saw around him in East Arkansas and lived his adult life in Memphis. The...
View ArticleJay Moody being reviewed for federal judgeship
An American Bar Association committee has begun soliciting comments on Circuit Judge Jay Moody as a potential nominee to a federal district judgeship. There are no vacancies currently, but Judge Susan...
View ArticleEnvironmental groups meet with ADEQ on hog-farm permit
Officials from the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality met today with representatives of the Ozark Society, the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance, the Arkansas Canoe Club, and the National...
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TGI FFA Open Line
Was trying to decide whether the picture above — of Mike Ross receiving an honorary degree from the Future Farmers of America — looks more like a David Lynch movie or an Alexander Payne movie. Anyways,...
View ArticleVirginia GOP lt. governor nominee: birth defects caused by sin
Shades of the three stooges in Virginia. Buzzfeed quotes from a 2008 book by the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia, E.W. Jackson, who was a minister at the time. "“It is the...
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Luke Bryan to Verizon Arena Oct. 17
Country singer Luke Bryan will bring his genteel country anthems to the Verizon Arena long about Oct. 17. Bryan performed at last night's Thunder on the Mountain up near Ozark, and judging from some of...
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Wilkins announces departure from White Water Tavern
In a statement on the Kitchen at White Water Tavern's Facebook page today, bar food genius Jonathan Wilkins announced that he will be leaving the Tavern in July to "pursue other opportunities."...
View ArticlePryor campaign pushes back against the latest lame ad from Super Pac
Super Pac puts out forgettable ad. Pryor campaign says we don't need no stinking outsiders. Rinse, lather, repeat. The latest ad out today from Senate Conservatives Action is more or less a re-hash of...
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The 3 Best: Cookies
A cookie is probably one of the hardest things in the world to pass up. Perhaps it’s due to their portability, simplicity, their hand-held nature. Not so heavy and filling that one would really...
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