Bobby Ampezzan
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Recent Stories by Bobby Ampezzan
HOW COME?: Where in the Sam Hill did we get that saying?
posted: 05/22/2012 1:50 a.m. Comment 1
A friend recently said, “Well, let’s go up to the peanut gallery... where’d that expression come from?” How come we use these figurative expressions instead of saying the thing directly? How come these figures of speech, which begin life as local or occupational expressions, end up here and there, across centuries and oceans?
Louis Clark Brock
posted: 05/20/2012 4:55 a.m. Discuss
Lou Brock. The sound of it calls to mind an idling dragster — L-o-u — suddenly stoked, spitting fire. BROCK!
POP NOTES: 3-year Evolution complete
posted: 05/15/2012 2:22 a.m. Discuss
Gina Gee Evolution of a Woman Ferocious B Those with an ear tuned to the local music scene have been waiting a while now for Gina Gee, nee Regina D. Gulley, to drop a solo album. Evolution of a Woman has been in the works three years.
Ballet monkeys with Aladdin
posted: 05/13/2012 4:33 a.m. Discuss
Oh, the pageantry, the pirouettes, the play — dancers, en pointe! Now, do de deux.
MINT JULEPS AND SILVER CUPS: In the money
posted: 05/13/2012 4:29 a.m. Discuss
The Kentucky Derby is a celebration of earlier times — men in bow ties and saddle shoes, women in loud hats and silk gloves, coolly sipping sweet mint juleps from sweating silver cups.
Library Journal praises 2 state literary upstarts
posted: 05/13/2012 4:22 a.m. Discuss
Imagine you’re from Idaho Falls, a mile high up a Rocky Mountain slope, and your name is Margie. You’re a middle-aged, young-at-heart reference librarian at the local campus of the state university.
NINTH STREET REVISITED: Historic joint was jumpin’ at Heritage Month starter
posted: 05/13/2012 4:14 a.m. Discuss
Broadway and Ninth Street may be the center of the state’s black heritage today, but there was a time when it was the center of black culture in Little Rock.
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.
Authentically Arkansas
posted: 05/08/2012 2:37 a.m. Comment 1
Inside the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau depot in the River Market downtown you can buy an assortment of souvenirs, from city shot glasses and Central High School mouse pads to Clinton Presidential Center mugs and metal pillboxes.
Tokens get under your skin
posted: 05/08/2012 2:12 a.m. Discuss
“A permanent reminder of a temporary feeling,” Jimmy Buffett sang of tattoos, but isn’t this just what we want of our souvenirs?
