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Name notwithstanding, YaYas recently opened in the eastern third of the Promenade at Chenal shopping center (if you get to ...
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Feb
21
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Hall of frameA tour de art comparing and contrasting the artistic range of local galleries.If you’re like many people, you probably suspect art galleries are only for people with thick wallets who never forgot all of the terms they learned in art class. Maybe you’ve visi...
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Feb
21
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Everyone's a criticAn expert explains local public art. Then random Facebook critics speak their piece.Imagine a city without public art.
New York without the Statue of Liberty. Chicago’s Millennium Park without the Cloud Gate. Eureka Springs without the giant Jesus.
Public art ...
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Feb
21
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Courting the prospects of a new lifeNigerian-born Parkview student turning heads on Parkview’s basketball team.Emmanuel Adoyi isn’t typically moody.
Diligent, yes. Hard-working: no doubt. How many teenagers spend hours each Saturday morning cleaning their family’s bathroom? Or regularly hi...
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Feb
21
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Life on recordEpiphany’s experience shows on new release, Such Is LifeEpiphany jokingly calls the newly released Such Is Life his “second” debut album. There was a previous debut by the Little-Rock-by-way-of-Pine-Bluff hip-hop artist. About eight yea...
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Feb
21
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Specialty baker does lunchDempsey Bakery has high-quality, allergen-free soups, sandwiches and desserts.Specialty eating. It’s all the rage. Organic. Gluten-free. Nut-free. Vegetarian and vegan. Dairy-free. Food sensitivities and food allergies. So it goes.
Admittedly, I view all o...
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Feb
21
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Action-romance hybrid settles date-night feudMoviegoers could do worse than This Means War.This Means War sounds like a good compromise for a date night. If your date wants to see Safe House, you could steer him in the direction of This Means War with the promise of CIA ...
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Feb
14
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Carnival viewsMardi Gras celebrations and events lining up in Little Rock.Fat Tuesday marks the end of the carnival season, and the last day and night for blowing it out before Lent commences.
The observance of Fat Tuesday might have started in the U.S...
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Feb
14
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Walking the PATHLocal organizations join forces to combat trafficking in Arkansas.This single mother and victim of trafficking was arrested just three months ago in Little Rock. She came to Arkansas with the promise of a new job, only to find she had become part...
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Feb
14
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Pep in their stepBoom the Wheel spins fun, energetic rock on its new EP.It’s a Saturday night at Juanita’s, and the River Market restaurant is hopping with a weekend crowd. One of the tables is occupied by the five, young members of Sherwood band Boom ...
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Feb
14
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Razorback retrospectiveComparing Arkansas’ most celebrated classes in basketball.Seldom does an Arkansas freshman class enter the season with as many expectations as this year’s quartet of B.J. Young, Hunter Mickelson, Rashad Madden and Devonta Abron. Rarely ar...
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Feb
14
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Burgers and a full barBurger Mama’s makes the move from Kanis to Cantrell.There a few choices mankind must never be forced to make, and choosing between progress and hamburgers is one of them. I mean, new development is all well and good, but what is a h...
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Feb
14
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Out in the coldSafe House pairs talent and commercial appeal and gets predictable, myopic results.As in nature, February at the box office can be a cold and desolate month. It is a time at which studios generally release their titles not deemed big budget enough to draw in summ...
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Feb
07
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Natural reflectionArkansas Darwin Day celebration evolves into an event with science, art and lectures.Were he still alive at this hour, noted author and scientist Charles Darwin would this weekend reach the ripe old age of 203, and this state is joining communities across the count...
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Feb
07
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Chocolate dipsTaking the plunge into Golden Corral’s chocolate wonderfall ... with every single thing on the buffet.Love, according to spiritual texts so often quoted in the process of uniting in holy matrimony, is both patient and kind. According to modern commercialism, it’s also coated in cho...
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Feb
07
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A super day without the bowlSports writer chronicles a Super Bowl Sunday sans the big game.It’s Monday morning, and I’m relieved to not know who won last night’s Super Bowl.
I don’t regret my decision to skip our country’s biggest sporting event while enjoying the parti...
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Feb
07
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Deadly, but respecting the craftFayetteville death metal trio's latest is one super heavyweight album.“Doomwhore.” Now, there’s a song title. It’s the third track from Fayetteville death metal trio Vore’s newest album, the nine-track Gravehammer, and it’s hard believing three guys ...
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Feb
07
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Campered chefAbernathy’s food truck carts and creates meals from homegrown ingredients.It’s an unlikely spot for lunch. The traffic of Interstate 630 is purring just beyond a steel fence, with an occasional vehicle honk or ambulance wail breaking the monotonous hum. ...
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Feb
07
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Found, should be forgottenChronicle tells an original story but is ultimately a detriment to the genre.Perhaps Chronicle will be the death knell for this whole found-footage genre of moviemaking. It does things with the genre other movies of its ilk have not, and moves the genre clo...
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Jan
31
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Knighten's next levelIn two seasons of high school football, he was as close to unstoppable as we’ve ever seen. The Sun Belt, though, is a different story.As a child, Fredi Knighten excelled at sprinting. He swam the breaststroke well, and thanks to a hyperactive family dog with the full name of Tasmanian Devil, he could really giddy...
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Jan
31
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South Side's permit problemsNeighborhood association fights the approval of more alcohol permits in an area it says has too many.In January, the South Side Neighborhood Association successfully blocked an alcohol permit application at the Quick Stop store at the corner of Roosevelt Road and Dr. Martin Luther...
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