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(Friday, May 9, 2008)
(ARA) - There has been a lot of talk lately in households across America about cutting back. The national debt is in the trillions, the sub-prime mortgage mess has left more than a million homes in foreclosure, gas prices are at an all-time high and budgets are tighter than ever. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, out on his “Small Town USA” tour, will play his first central Arkansas show tonight at the Revolution Room, 300 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
Art & Exhibits CENTRAL ARKANSAS AEROSPACE EDUCATION CENTER 3301 E. Roosevelt Road. Oasis in Space program. Hours: 7, 8 and 9 p.m. today, noon-9 p.m. Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $5.50. (501) 376-4629. » Read story.
By Jack Hill (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
As with many a liberal arts student, Hendrix College in Conway prepared Hayes Carll for jobs waiting tables at Red Lobster, digging ditches and tending bar. But the graduate with a history degree and a minor in theater also learned how to think for himself, and after giving it some thought, Carll embarked on a career as a singer-songwriter. » Read story.
By Jennifer Nixon (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
1. Kid around. An energetic gradeschool pupil takes to the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre stage in Ramona Quimby. » Read story.
By Jennifer Christman (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
We’re not usually brunch people. » Read story.
By Eric E. Harrison (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
For more than two years, owner-chef Donnie Ferneau Jr. swore he wouldn’t open his eponymous restaurant on Sundays, arguing, quite reasonably, that he worked hard enough during the week and needed that day of rest. » Read story.
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
The Maumelle Players, Maumelle’s community theater troupe, will stage B-I-N-G-O Spells Murder by Robert Mattson, an interactive comedy-murder mystery with a three-course dinner served between acts, at 7 p.m. today and Saturday and May 16-17 at the Maumelle Senior Wellness Center, 550 Edgewood Drive, Maumelle. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
New Orleans’ legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band will join the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra to help close out the 2007-08 Acxiom Pops Live! Series in concerts at 8 p.m. today and Saturday at Robinson Center Music Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. » Read story.
The Arkansas Art Center’s ‘Hot Color cool glass’ exhibit will leave visitors glassy-eyed
By Werner Trieschmann (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
The temperature of a glass-firing kiln can reach 2,400 degrees. » Read story.
By Eric E. Harrison (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
On the heels of our recent discovery that Season’s in the Heights had vacated the ground floor of Prospect Place, 1501 N. N. University Ave., comes the news that its successor, Salut! at Prospect Place, will open for lunch Monday, with dinner hours to follow in a few weeks. » Read story.
By Jack Hill (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
As we all know, prudent people are now concluding their Christmas shopping, since May is here. » Read story.
By Eric E. Harrison (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
The Arkansas Arts Center Studio Theatre will stick its nose out this weekend with a production of Cyrano de Bergerac, translated and adapted from Edmond Rostand’s original French play by Alan Keith Smith, who also directs. » Read story.
By Eric E. Harrison (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
Cliff Fannin Baker is blossoming in his debut as artistic director of what is now being called the Wildwood Park for the Arts with a two-day flower-centered festival and a performance piece with music remembering Arkansas’ first ladies. » Read story.
By Eric E. Harrison (Contact)
(Friday, May 9, 2008)
Three accomplished musicians and a bevy of young apprentices from Louisiana State University and the University of Oklahoma will provide the instrumentation for the 10th annual Heber Springs Chamber Music Festival, Sunday through May 17 in Heber Springs and Fairfield Bay. » Read story.
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