Out & About
East Arkansas offers joyful noise
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Music fans who have been praying for a free festival of major proportions will see their prayers answered this weekend in Helena-West Helena, with the return of the annual Arkansas Delta Family Gospel Festival, to be held downtown, Jack W. Hill writes in Thursday’s Arkansas Weekend section.
THE WEEKEND TEN
posted: 05/10/2012 3:59 a.m. Discuss
1 BIKES Motorcycle shows and games, hours of music and mounds of crawfish are planned for the annual Bugs, Bands & Bikes Weekend, Friday-Saturday in downtown El Dorado. This year’s performers include The Kentucky Headhunters and Jay Paul and R.J. Molinere from TV’s The Swamp People, who will present the Swamp People VIP Experience, $10 in advance. General admission is free, although there are fees for some activities. Call (870) 862-4747.
CALENDAR
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Art & Exhibits CENTRAL ARKANSAS ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets.
Fast Forward
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NEXT WEEK Pas de deux: Arkansas Festival Ballet takes on a Middle Eastern flavor as it presents the storybook ballet, Aladdin at the Arkansas Arts Center’s Children’s Theatre. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m.
Sonny’s aged steaks grand
posted: 05/10/2012 3:56 a.m. Discuss
My brother and his wife came into town from Maine, where they treat lobster as deferentially as we do crawdads, and call them “bugs” to boot.
THE TV COLUMN: TV watchers’ thumbs work more than remote
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Multitasking.
TELL ME ABOUT IT: Brother-in-law’s bullying is elephant in family room
posted: 05/10/2012 3:53 a.m. Discuss
DEAR CAROLYN: I’ve written before, but in a much elongated version. Yet the problem persists: My brother-in-law, husband to my husband’s sister, has been verbally abusing my husband for over a year now (well, actually, through e-mail to him and rants to other relatives). His sister will not intervene, since her husband has proceeded with her knowledge and approval.
MUSIC: ASO guests are 2 ‘Wicked Divas,’ in a good way
posted: 05/10/2012 3:51 a.m. Discuss
The two singers joining the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor Geoffrey Robson for a pair of “Wicked Divas” pops concerts this weekend at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall say they aren’t really divas.
MUSIC: Bentley has family roots in Arkansas lumber town
posted: 05/10/2012 3:50 a.m. Discuss
Country singer Dierks Bentley, who now lives in Nashville, Tenn., has performed in Nashville, Ark., but has never been in nearby Dierks, the city from which his name originated. The town was named for some of Bentley’s ancestors, who started their lumber company in 1900 and sold it to Weyerhaeuser Corp. in 1969 (after having been the largest family-owned landholding company in the United States).
MUSIC: Rockabilly acts promise all-day romp on river
posted: 05/10/2012 3:48 a.m. Discuss
Ten acts will get down to their rockabilly roots Saturday in downtown Helena-West Helena at the second annual Arkansas Delta Rockabilly Festival.
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
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Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend: Artwork ‘discovered’ “Creating the Elements of Discovery: Tim Imhauser, Jason Powers and Emily Wood” opens Friday in the Trinity Gallery for Arkansas Artists at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock.
CHEAP EATS: Meatball sub a fine find at Marco’s Pizza in NLR
posted: 05/10/2012 3:46 a.m. Discuss
Did North Little Rock — particularly the John F. Kennedy Boulevard stretch — need another pizza place? With local businesses like U.S. Pizza and Larry’s Pizza and national chains like Papa John’s and Domino’s Pizza dominating? With a new take-and-bake place, Papa Murphy’s, (expect a review of that one eventually — so many pizza places, so little time and slack in our jeans) that recently opened around the bend on North Hills Boulevard ?
TRANSITIONS
posted: 05/10/2012 3:44 a.m. Discuss
The coffee shop and bar portion of The Joint, 301 Main St., North Little Rock, is set to open at 7 a.m. Monday, with the first item on its entertainment calendar, which will mostly involve sketch and improvisational comedy Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and music on Thursday, for June 2, “our official grand opening,” says managing director Vicki Farrell.
Selected restaurants
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Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges.
