Arkansas's immigrant future
Arkansas is an outlier in the big immigration debate, the assumption being that Republicans have it about right: White Arkansans hate the influx of immigrants, particularly Latinos, over the past 20...
View ArticleWhat Obama should learn from Tom Cotton
Fat lot of good it's done Barack Obama to pose as The Great Compromiser. The more "Grand Bargains" he's proposed, the further Republicans have fled in the opposite direction. Is it really possible...
View ArticleBeware of your TV, Pryor and Cotton are coming for you
I'm already depressed thinking about the avalanche of 30-second TV ads soon to descend on Arkansas. The campaigns themselves will spend millions. Millions more will be spent by other groups, some more...
View ArticleMatter of fact
"In today's Times [July 25] we find that a federal court ruling in Ohio 'deals directly with a fact circumstance identical to Arkansas ... ' Leaving aside the fact that whatever that thing was it...
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Lucero Family Picnic at the Riverfest Amphitheatre
Also, 'The River Niger' at the Weekend Theater, Jim Mize at the Afterthought, No Kid Hungry at the Capital Hotel, Fatty Acids and Glittercore at Maxine's, Rod Bryan's mini tour, Arkansas Eclectic...
View ArticleEarly season predictions for Hogs
I hinted last week that we'd entrench our hooves a bit deeper into the 2013 Razorback football season, and alas, the eternal jokester was not joking. Akin to the way Pearls completely misfired in a...
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A day at Jericho Way
At long last, Little Rock opens a shelter. by Leslie Newell PeacockA woman named Jacquie and a man named Arthur talked to a reporter Monday about how they ended up in Jericho Way, Little Rock's...
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Almodovar returns to wackiness
With slapstick 'I'm So Excited.' by Mike PowellPedro Almodovar's new movie, "I'm So Excited," opens with the disclaimer that none of what we're about to see has anything to do with reality. Minutes...
View ArticleIt was a good week for safe school districts
It was also a good week supporters of a higher minimum wage, tax subsidies to right-wingers, shrinking Cotton and confusing Pryor with Obama. It was a bad week for room at the jail and feeding hogs in...
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The forgotten in Mayflower
People who live within sight of the ruptured Pegasus pipeline say they've been ignored by ExxonMobil and government officials. by Sam EiflingIn the week after an oil spill strangled the air in Ann...
View ArticleObama is Bush squared
Is it a prerequisite to writing for your publication that the writer must be a hack for the Democratic Party, wholly convinced of the righteousness of Barack Obama (no matter how many scandals and...
View ArticleTerry's restaurant: France in Little Rock
One true delight of life in France is a leisurely meal in a classic French cafe or bistro. And thanks to Ellen and Lex Golden, died-in-the-wool Francophiles, anyone who can afford a nice restaurant...
View ArticleBrother, can you spare a mocha?
The Observer went to the city gym in War Memorial Park last Sunday to work out. He was greeted as he left by a young boy, maybe 8 or 9, wearing swim trunks and a T-shirt.The Observer went to the city...
View ArticleIce cold
Republican politicians do not empathize well. "My job is to get mine," Ronald Reagan used to say. "I'm not my country's keeper just because I'm in the White House." A giant of indifference, his party...
View ArticleDavid Olney and Sergio Webb play White Water
Plus, Kottonmouth Kings come to Juanita's.THURSDAY 8/8The venerable David Olney and Sergio Webb return to Central Arkansas. If you dig singer/songwriters with a sound that falls on the darker end of...
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Fayetteville's Arkadia Retrocade packs 'em in
With $5 for all-you-can play on vintage games. by Zach HollandNostalgia often makes me sick to my stomach. But it depends on the general type of nostalgia I'm experiencing. One is provoked by old...
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Sunset cruise
The Mark Twain Riverboat on the Arkansas River. Paul Barrows submitted this photo to our Eye On Arkansas Flickr website. SUNSET CRUISE: The Mark Twain Riverboat on the Arkansas River. Paul Barrows...
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Jokes on 'Big Brother' reality TV show raise an eyebrow at Conway police
Spencer Clawson, a Conway resident who's a contestant in the "Big Brother"TV show, has stepped in it again. (Though that may be the idea on these shows.)TMZ reports that Clawson went on a joking riff...
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What's killing Florida's manatees?
Yesterday's story about the environmentally catasrophic giant sinkhole in South Louisiana's oil patch was bad.This is worse, particularly for a manatee lover like myself.A rash of unexplained manatee,...
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