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52 dishes we crave in Central Arkansas
Fill up a year with one great eat a week. Ashley's Seared duck breast A dish so good it makes lentils exciting: duck breast served a succulent medium-rare, wrapped in skin and crisped to perfection....
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Here's a slideshow from Cirque du Soleil's 'Quidam' at Verizon Arena
From Times photographer Brian Chilson, here are some photos of last night's Cirque du Soleil performance at Verizon Arena. The show is in town through Sunday, with performances tonight and tomorrow...
View ArticleNo rain on St. Pat's parade
Brian Chilson checked out the St. Patrick's Day Parade through North Little Rock, happily held on sunny Saturday the 16th instead of dreary Sunday the 17th. At least the real St. Pat's Day smells good...
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Starting from the top, in Argenta
North Little Rock's Main Street revitalization got a head start on Little Rock's, thanks to Argenta Community Development Corp., whose work to restore 100 houses in the historic neighborhood starting...
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Main Street revival
The past, present and future of Main in Little Rock and North Little Rock. Since the Arkansas Times is headquartered in downtown Little Rock and a stone's throw from Argenta, we've long paid special...
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Photo essay: A hog farm for the Buffalo River watershed
Don Nelms, a former Fayetteville auto dealer, political candidate, environmentalist and photographer, has taken up a roost near Jasper overlooking the Buffalo River. He circulates daily photographs of...
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Fatal police shooting followed by angry protests as crowd gathers
Reporting by David Koon and Brian Chilson: A Little Rock police officer killed a man who reportedly pulled a gun on him during a foot chase near 12th and Jefferson Street about 11:30 a.m. today....
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Police shooting inspires instant protest in Little Rock
Frustration over the Trayvon Martin case boils into a protest at 12th and Jefferson. Nobody has to say it, but the timing couldn't have been worse. Two days after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman...
View ArticleFolk art at Rogers Historical Museum
Get a feel for days gone by at the “Works in Wood: A Folk Art Sampler" exhibition at the Rogers Historical Museum that opens Saturday, July 27. The show includes work from the museum's collection by...
View ArticleThe British are coming: "Crossing Borders" at OA
"Crossing Borders," an exhibition of work by six artists, including British photographer Chris King and organized by British gallery owner and native Arkansan Susan Mumford, opens Wednesday, July 31,...
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Arkansas Times photo intern shoots the drag queens of Sochi
The Olympics are over and the torch extinguished, but it’s still surreal to think that I was there during the first week. Along with 27 others from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., I got to...
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The greatest beards of Arkansas
Last Saturday, the second annual Root Cafe/Arkansas Times Beard-Growing Contest took place at Bernice Garden. Several hundred people attended, which is either a testament to widespread beard fetishism...
View ArticleMatisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec coming to Crystal Bridges
Sixty works of art from the collection of media mogul William S. Paley, the founder of CBS, are coming to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art next week, including Pablo Picasso's "Boy Leading a...
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A night in the life of a drag performer
It’s a chilly Saturday night. 9:30 p.m. Miss Kitty’s is nearly empty. The bar doesn’t fill up until right before 11pm, when the show starts. That’s actually a joke. 11 p.m., drag time. Which means the...
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Calling all cell phone photographers: 'Explore Arkansas' instagram show...
I am looking forward to the "Explore Arkansas" exhibition of Instagram photos at Mugs Cafe, 515 Main St. in Argenta, thanks to pix forwarded to me by Mugs gallery director Diane Harper and Pastor...
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Lot's going up in downtown Little Rock
Wave of Main Street development lifts boats on Center Street as well.
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What to see in "Van Gogh to Rothko" at Crystal Bridges
Van Gogh, Picasso, Kahlo, Rousseau, Modligliani, Dali, Motherwell, Pollock, Lichtenstein, Rothko: Works by these and other masters in the collection of the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, N.Y., opens...
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Win tickets to 'Million Dollar Quartet'
Elvis, Johnny, Jerry Lee and Carl are storming into Little Rock! Enter to win tickets to "Million Dollar Quarter," the Tony-Award winning musical inspired by the electrifying true story of when Sam...
View ArticleDelta Exhibition No. 57: Glowing bird-cage, a bodhisattva, a touch of Miro
George Dombek, who judged this year's "Delta Exhibition" at the Arkansas Arts Center, is a celebrated watercolorist known for his neat, linear, objective work. That might explain the preponderance of...
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Bangin' in the '90s: An oral history
Police, former gang members, city leaders look back at Little Rock's gang wars. It's been 20 years now since the worst of the gang violence in Little Rock, when the neighborhoods south of Interstate...
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