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Arts Council visual artist honorees: Pennebaker, LaTourette, Posnak
Glass artist Ed Pennebaker of Osage, furniture designer and UA professor Timothy LaTourette of Fayetteville and ceramist Adam Posnak of West Fork have won Individual Artist Fellowship Awards from the...
View ArticleMayflower residents to Tim Griffin: "We need help" with oil-related illnesses
U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin Monday called Gov. Mike Beebe's office to suggest the state pursue further health assessments for residents of Mayflower affected by the March 29 oil spill.Griffin promised to...
View ArticleShamrock, Texas: When a place for the dead can be both a cemetery and a...
As I leaned against the tombstone under the hot Texas sun (using a pen to remove burrs from my socks and the inside of my shoes) I considered that the Shamrock Cemetery, with its sections of pristine...
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Philander Smith sets lecture series; includes speaker shunned for Arkansas...
Philander Smith College has announced the speakers in its annual Bless the Mic lecture series, always thought-provoking.Charles S. Dutton, the actor, director and speaker, starts the free series at 7...
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Wanted: 600 volunteers to help kids learn to read
I'm sorry I failed to get around to this yesterday. It's an announcement of an effort by AR Kids Read to recruit 600 people to help tutor elementary kids in Pulaski County schools. Here and statewide...
View ArticleSaline Sheriff Pennington's plea bargain brings release of police video
Saline County Sheriff Bruce Penningtonentered a plea bargain yesterday to public intoxication and resisting arrest in an altercation with Benton police who stopped him from driving home from Denton's...
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What a difference an oil spill makes in U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin's rhetoric
Nothing like a backyard oil spill to make a hard-bitten anti-regulation Republican congressman a little more receptive to increased federal regulation. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Aug. 27, 2013....
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Three state officials get special deals on Razorback tickets
The University of Arkansas Athletic Department responded yesterday to my Freedom of Information Act request for names of other statewide officers who, like Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, got priority seats for...
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Wednesday To-Do: John Hiatt
JOHN HIATT & THE COMBO9 p.m. Juanita's. $40 adv., $45 day of.John Hiatt's career has spanned so many decades and he's penned songs for so many big-name artists and he's recorded so many great...
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Josh Hastings withdraws request to move trial to Perry County
Josh Hastings, the former Little Rock police officer facing a retrial on a manslaughter charge in the death of Bobby Moore, 15, today withdrew his motion for a change of venue. At the scheduled...
View Article48 Hour Film Project screenings start Thursday
The sleepless nights are over, and the films are in the can for the Little Rock leg of the 48 Hour Film Project. Now all that's left to do is watch 'em and decide on the winners. Screenings will be...
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'Ghost' Dr Pepper sign revealed in building demolition
We wrote earlier about the unhappiness of historic preservationists when the Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services demolished the former Massery laundry on Seventh Street to make way for a future...
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Ernest Dumas recalls joining the 1963 march on Washington; was history made?
First-person history in Ernie Dumas' column this week. A young newspaper reporter from South Arkansas drove up to Washington to join the throng that gathered on the Capitol mall Aug. 28, 1963 for...
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Philander Smith announces 2013-14 lineup for 'Bless the Mic' lectures
Philander Smith's free and open to the public "Bless the Mic" lecture series has brought some great speakers to town in the past, and it looks like that trend will continue in the coming year. They...
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Jodie Mahony announces for state House
Jodie Mahony, a Little Rock public relations consultant, announced today that he'd run as a Democrat to succeed term-limited state Rep. John Edwards for the district covering parts of Little Rock and...
View Article"The Big Shootout" to screen at Hot Springs Documentary Fest kickoff event
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival will host a kickoff event at the Clinton Presidential Center Great Hall in Little Rock a week from Thursday, September 5 at 7:30 p.m. In addition to various...
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Mark Pryor pounds Tom Cotton on his votes against disaster aid
I happen to think the Mark Pryor campaign for Senate has put together a good news release. Against the backdrop of Arkansas firefighters dispatched to battle raging infernos in the West, the Pryor...
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Tom Cotton on race: Shut up about it
A writer at Slate finds new writing by Tom Cotton from his Harvard days, this time a review of a book in a conservative Harvard journal that says Democrats just won't accept how much better off black...
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Congressman understands illegal aliens; he came from Arkansas
Thanks to Norma for this link, richest since the Republican candidate who said you needed a passport to go to southern Arkansas. A California congressman told a group of DREAM Act-eligible students...
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Walmart to allow same-sex partners to participate in company benefits
This is big. Will the Republican delegation from Northwest Arkansas mount the picket lines at Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, such as the Bentonville representative who led the legislature to...
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