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New MOD director: Kelley Bass
Kelley Bass, known to many as the assistant dean for external affairs in the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock but perhaps to more...
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NEA grants for six institutions, one poet in Arkansas
The National Endowment for the Arts announced their 2012 NEA grants today, and six Arkansas institutions and a poet from Benton made the cut, with grants in the state totaling $100,000Poet Stuart...
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The Voice: Cody Belew finds 'Somebody to Love'
Beebe native Cody Belew brought out his inner Freddie Mercury, singing Queen's "Somebody to Love" on last night's top 8 live performances episode of "The Voice."Belew told his coach, CeeLo Green, that...
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Taco time at Local Lime
Few restaurants in central Arkansas have been as hotly anticipated as Local Lime. I will openly acknowledge that I have not been immune to the hype surrounding this place. We were initially promised an...
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New sculpture for the Crystal Bridges landscape
Crystal Bridges Museum of American art posted on its Facebook page today a picture of men installing a new sculpture, "Chaise Gabion" by Celeste Roberge, against a slope on the grounds of the museum....
View ArticleMorrilton church bus crash, with injuries
KLRT reports that up to a dozen people were injured this morning, some of them critically, when their church bus crashed after the driver reported feeling ill and later lost control. The wreck happened...
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Schlafly's Beer and Arkansas Times team up for pub crawl
In continuation of our Craft Beer Fest, on December 5 from 6 to 9 p.m., Schlafly's Beer out of St. Louis will team up with the Arkansas Times to throw a pub crawl benefiting Argenta Arts Foundation....
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Neighbor arrested in death of 6-year-old in Bentonville
Fayetteville TV station 40/29 TV reports that police have arrested the neighbor of murder victim Jersey Bridgeman, a Bentonville six-year old whose body was found in a vacant house on Nov. 20.Zachary...
View ArticleThrowing out an evening line
*LET'S GAMBLE: Or at least try to predict the outcome of the NLR mayor's race and the Arkansas coaching search. The latter has gotten plumb ridiculous. Les Miles to Arkansas for $5 million? Jim Harris...
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Finally, an epic 3D movie
'Life of Pi' mesmerizes. by Sam EiflingIf you know nothing else of "Life of Pi," you likely saw the book's cover a decade ago, when Yann Martel's novel was selling in bales and winning international...
View ArticleIt was a good week for judicial appointments
Also a good week for Kelley Bass, Alexia Weimer and a zoo first. It was a bad week for Arkansas football and public art.It was a good week for...JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS.Gov. Mike Beebe filled a list of...
View ArticleBuffett, Rattner: The rich don't need handouts
Goes there a billionaire more without honor in his own class than Warren E. Buffett? by Ernest DumasGoes there a billionaire more without honor in his own class than Warren E. Buffett?Not unless it is...
View ArticleRole model
Flush with all the Koch brothers' money they got during their election campaigns, Republican legislators could surely scrape up enough to rent a theater and watch the new "Lincoln" movie as a group....
View ArticleDebt jockeying
What with Mitt Romney's presidential campaign having come to an ignominious end, new champions have been called forth lest mobs of pitchfork-waving grandmas and torch-bearing old men rendered fearless...
View ArticleHogs calling Les Miles?
I am in Mumbai, but sober. So I am sure I am not just imagining the Internet is full of talk about a Hog football coaching offer to LSU's Les Miles. I think I'm with this guy at NOLA. Makes no sense....
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One dead in NLR house fire
A North Little Rock woman is dead after a house fire in the 4300 block of N. Gum Street. Firefighters patrolling the neighborhood saw the blaze around 3:30 a.m., and discovered the woman's body in a...
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Thursday To-Do: Super Water Sympathy
SUPER WATER SYMPATHY9:30 p.m. Stickyz. $5.Super Water Sympathy, of Shreveport, La., bills its sound as "water pop," i.e., "a synthesis of classic symphonic ambience with modern ethereal anthems." After...
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Thursday To-Do: 'deepsouth'
'DEEPSOUTH'6 p.m. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Free.The documentary "deepsouth" explores the HIV/AIDS epidemic in — you guessed it — the Deep South, specifically Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana....
View ArticleCAT bus passenger arrested
Just another day on the bus, with a CAT passenger getting unruly, head-butting a mirror, getting violent, trying to get nekkid, speaking gibberish to police and finally getting arrested just before 10...
View ArticleRavitch: Does Arkansas want two school systems?
NYU professor and former charter-school-supporter-turned-critic Diane Ravitch tells KUAF's Ozarks at Large reporter Jacqueline Froelich that Arkansas's experience with segregation should be a lesson in...
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