September 2010
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“It’s a tough state but I think that the real danger to America is the...”
– Former President Bill Clinton on the 2010 elections. (via arktimes)
August 2009
3 posts
April 2009
33 posts
Come On Feel the Noise...
See this week’s Arkansas Times for a story about noise pollution, and so much more.
More Bad News
In what continues to be just a God-awful year for Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon, the gas company’s shareholders are now up in arms over the chief exec’s pay. Visit Shale Watch for more.
“For people who still love print, who like to hold it, feel it, rustle it, tear...”
– Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle editor at large, to Maureen Dowd. (via lanceturner)
What's new at the galleries
arkansasartnotes:
ON THE HORIZON:
Third Friday Artwalk in Argenta — 5-8 p.m. April 17, at Argenta Art Co. (7th and Main), Argenta Studios (401 Main St.), Thea Foundation (4th and Main) and other venues on and off Main Street in downtown Little Rock. Highlights: new work by Dan Thornhill at Argenta Art Co., work by V.L. Cox, Sherrie Sheppard, Doug Gorrell, Delita Martin at Argenta Studios, UCA...
Old. White. Dudes.
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Dylan on Obama’s Life: An Odyssey in Reverse
retropolitics:
twentyfourbit:
By now we’ve heard the summary of President Obama’s biography so many times it’s rarely notable any more, but when you process stories through the brain of Bob Dylan, things always get more interesting.
“He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real,” Dylan told Times Online on his reaction to reading Obama’s autobiography Dreams of My Father. “First off, his...
(via anthrotv)
This Week's Media Column
I know, I know. It’s fun and it’s good for ratings, but it is sexist. It is a popularity contest in which women are judged strictly on physical attractiveness. To hear 103.7 tell it, every one of the “babes” agrees to be seeded and no one has ever expressed a problem with the yearly tournament.
Read the full article in this week’s Times.
Another Win for the Utility Lobby
There was a great piece in this morning’s Arkansas Leader about a bill by Joan Cash, D-Jonesboro, that would set energy efficiency savings goals for public electric and natural gas utilities. The act would also require those utilities to develop an energy efficiency plan for meeting those goals. It sounds like a progressive bill, and it is by Arkansas standards, but the energy saving...
Rethinking the Model
Love watching all those shows for free from the comfort of your own computer, any time you like? Well, that might not stick around, at least in its current form, for very long. Newspapers haven’t been able to monetize internet ads the way they can in print form and it looks like television and cable companies might be having the same problems. Here’s an interesting look at this...
and more art
arkansasartnotes:
Other new exhibits opening this week:
Aj Smith’s woodblock and linoleum prints, Community Bakery, 1202 S. Main St., through April 26.
MaryAnn Stafford’s landscapes and still lifes, Gallery at Christ Episcopal Church, Fifth and Scott, through May.
“Small Works on Paper,” Ozark Heritage Arts Center, Leslie, April 5-25, reception 2 p.m. April 5.
“Small Works on Paper: Retro...
March 2009
40 posts
Frugal AR Weekly Round-up
Get the news on what you can do for free (or almost free) in and around Little Rock. Frugal AR does all the work so you don’t have to:
The round-up is a weekly feature highlighting some of our favorite things to do this week in and around Central Arkansas. April starts off with a bang. There are tons of free and cheap events happening all throughout the month. If you have more...
And it burns, burns, burns...
A fire in Caraway, Arkansas claimed memorabilia from the films Walk the Line and A Painted House, including movie sets, old guitars and a couple of tractors. Too bad. Walk the Line was actually a pretty good movie. Am I way behind on this or did A Painted House ever even get released? Full article here.
The Future of Tomorrow
As of right now, we don’t have any plans to discontinue Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World. Tomorrow’s scorching look at politics has always been a favorite of mine and has run in the back pages of the times for years. In January, the Village Voice dropped the strip, which meant it would no longer grace the pages of 12 papers. That’s a tough break for a syndicated...
How much do you want to bet...
Arkansas still finds a way to go forward with dirty coal plants even after a new report issued today says there’s no need?
From the Sierra Club press release:
“Washington, DC: The government found no need for scores of new coal plants currently on the drawing board, according to the Annual Energy Outlook report issued by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) today. The...
CEO Bailout for Chesapeake?
From Gretchen Morgenson at the New York Times comes another story of corporate bonuses in a time of woe and want. This one’s not about AIG, but about the $75 million bonus received by Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon.
“Political speech is largely the defence of the indefensible… Villages are...”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
