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There she is, Miss Gay Arkansas America
The annual female impersonation event returns to the Argenta Community Theater. by Sandy SarloKristian Martin, who won the Miss Gay Arkansas America 2012 pageant performing under the stage name...
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Bald Knob goes back to school
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Hog farm near the Buffalo River stirs controversy
Critics say farm was carelessly approved and threatens watershed and community. Farmers say they followed law and permit protects environment. by David RamseyThe community of Mt. Judea sits on a hill...
View ArticleCleanliness important
"Mariah White says it takes about an hour of milking between the two cows to produce their combined 10 to 11 gallons a day. That doesn't include the time they spend cleaning the cows' utters and...
View ArticleWhale Fire plays The Joint
Plus, Mulehead does White Water Tavern.THURSDAY 8/15Little Rock's Whale Fire brings their melodic indie rock to The Joint, with a solo performance from Bryan Frazier starting things off, 9 p.m., $5....
View ArticleReturning
The Observer called UCA on a tip the other day and learned that Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three will be coming there on Nov. 11-12 to speak and to teach a mini-class with their crop of eager...
View ArticleWaltons attack Little Rock School District
The latest Walton fortune-funded attack on the Little Rock School District would create a neighborhood charter middle school in majority-white upscale West Little Rock. by Max BrantleyThe latest...
View ArticleIt was a good week for a race to the bottom
It was also a good week for owning Obamacare, Kali Hardig and special chickens. It was a bad week for Secretary of State Mark Martin and school choice.It was a good week for...A RACE TO THE BOTTOM.Lt....
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Johnny Cash Music Festival returns to ASU
Also, the Eureka Springs Blues Festival, Foul Play Cabaret and The Frontier Circus, Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition, Joseph Israel at Stickyz and Young Joc at Discovery. by Robert...
View ArticleHow the war will end
It's appropriate that the Supreme Court's decisions in the marriage equality cases — the cases evaluating the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 — came just days before...
View ArticleInfamous
"News just broke that Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan snuck off to the Koch brothers' infamous secret gathering of right-wing millionaires.""News just broke that Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan snuck off to the...
View ArticlePreview of Razorbacks in SEC play
Last week, we suggested in this space that Arkansas would be buoyed by raw exuberance of a new regime and the fortuitous structure of the schedule to bolt out to a 4-0 start in 2013. The second third...
View ArticleRhetoric versus reality for Republicans
So what's it going to be for GOP hotheads in Congress this fall? A soul-satisfying episode of adolescent nihilism culminating in a government shutdown and yet another debt/default scare? Or an abject...
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Not an inviting House
Service, new menu disappoint.The House in Hillcrest should be one of Little Rock's top spots for dining. It boasts a prime location on the corner of Palm and Kavanaugh, sports a funky decor that seems...
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Did quick response on the day of the Mayflower spill keep oil from reaching...
ADEQ says yes. A lakeside resident is skeptical. by Elizabeth McGowanAnything for his treasured fishing hole. That was the mantra cycling through Jimmy Joe Johnson's head on the afternoon of Friday,...
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Dull dystopia
'Elysium' lays it on thick. by Mike PowellThere is a moment during the explosive, confused third act of the new sci-fi action movie "Elysium" when mercenary agent C.M. Kruger (Sharlto Copley) is...
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Saturday: Coco Jones at Magic Springs
Disney star Coco Jones will perform at Magic Springs' Timberwood Amphitheater Saturday, with opener Pricecrew, 6:30 p.m., $50-$60.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Saturday To-Do: Johnny Cash Music Festival
JOHNNY CASH MUSIC FESTIVAL7 p.m. Arkansas State University. $38-$150.The Johnny Cash Music Festival enters its third year this weekend, and according to a recent press release from Arkansas State...
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Saturday To-Do: Joseph Israel
JOSEPH ISRAEL9 p.m. Stickyz. $8 adv., $10 day of.So a few years ago, I was living in Fayetteville and I walked into the natural foods store to buy some organic Cheetos or something, and I look up and...
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Saturday: Deadstring Brothers, Mulehead and more
Bloodshot Records country-rockers Deadstring Brothers play at Maxine's, with Mad Nomad and Swampbird, 8 p.m., $7. Over at White Water Tavern, the boys in Mulehead will convene to corrupt the innocent...
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