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Where in Arkansas? for July
Know where this slice of life in Arkansas is? Know where this slice of life in Arkansas is? Send along the answer to Times photographer Brian Chilson and win a prize. Once a month in this space, we'll...
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Catching up with Bonnie Montgomery
The singer/songerwriter celebrates EP release on Saturday. By Robert Bell by Robert BellSearcy native Bonnie Montgomery moved back to her home state in 2009 and quickly became one of the most active...
View ArticleBack to the future
The Observer doesn't make a whole lot of endorsements in this space. We figure you get enough of that in the rest of the world, chock-full as it is with advertisements for diet shakes, warshing...
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"It can be nerve-racking at times, thinking in your head 'I've got to perform at my highest level, this is my one chance.'"... by Doug Smith"It can be nerve-racking at times, thinking in your head...
View ArticleFrontier Fourth of July at Historic Arkansas Museum
Also, The OD Upscale at Revolution.THURSDAY 7/4The Historic Arkansas Museum's Annual Frontier Fourth of July includes an old-time parade, living history performances, crafts and more, 2-4 p.m. If...
View ArticlePassing up Blueway would be loss to all Arkansans
The National Blueway designation for the White River would bring the state resources for conservation efforts that would give landowners, hunting and fishing enthusiasts, and anyone who enjoys the...
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High on Mellow Mushroom
Chain's specialty pizzas explain success.For a pizza chain that's been around for nearly 40 years, with locations stretching from coast to coast, it's remarkable to see how much excitement has...
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"It can be nerve-racking at times, thinking in your head 'I've got to perform at my highest level, this is my one chance.'"... by Doug Smith"It can be nerve-racking at times, thinking in your head...
View ArticleSpurious SCOTUS
So fears have come to pass. After the Citizens United court comes the anti-equality court, rejection of DOMA not withstanding. Married partners of every stripe still may have hurdle after hurdle to...
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8Ball & MJG at Discovery
Also, Pops on the River at Riverfront Park, Minsk at Downtown Music, Lynyrd Skynyrd in Magic Springs, La Luz at White Water Tavern and Chad Griffin at the Clinton School for Public Service. by Robert...
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Little Rock Confidential 2013
Trade secrets from a Hooter's waitress. What it's like to spend your life doing needle drugs. How a skin care specialist thinks about aging, and why a sound engineer spends so much time playing on his...
View ArticleGay marriage: 1st person
Max Brantley gives his space today to an Arkansas Blog contributor who uses the pen name Mrs. Sistertoldja. She's a Little Rock woman who was married in a state where same-sex marriage is legalMax...
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A hot mess of a character
Melissa McCarthy steals the show in buddy comedy 'The Heat.' by Sam Eifling"The Heat" is that rare and wonderful sort of movie in which the characters haven't the faintest notion they're in a comedy....
View ArticleIt was a good week for the kooks
It was also a good week for W.P. Sooie, a move towards equality and a merger. It was a bad week for Maynard Mayor Gary Hart and residents of Forest Place Apartments.It was a good week for...THE KOOKS....
View ArticleSame-sex rights in Arkansas's future
Although they are guaranteed in the Constitution, actually granting basic liberties to broad swaths of people, whom we may call the socially unappreciated, has been a long and tortuous process. by...
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No way to Blueway, agency heads say
Won't fight the current to stop White River designation. by Leslie Newell PeacockLike dominoes, state and private conservation agencies heads fell before a legislative committee last week, renouncing...
View ArticleRepublican justice
The Arkansas Republican Party, in its first year as the majority party in the Arkansas legislature, now has its eyes on the judicial branch.The Arkansas Republican Party, in its first year as the...
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Facts versus melodrama in Zimmerman trial
In my experience, whenever criminal cases turn into symbolic melodramas, reason goes out the door. Almost needless to say, I'm referring to the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin murder trial currently...
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State tax dollars at work promoting Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today followed (but didn't credit) the Arkansas Blog disclosure that $5,000 in state General Improvement Fund money would pay for a July 4 fireworks show tonight at the...
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