OLD NEWS: The earth shakes and an Arkansas editor says goodbye
As of today, Old News is old news.
As of today, Old News is old news.
Let's play one last game of Obfuscation together before I hand you off to your new obfuscationer, Kelly Brant.
One hundred years ago this week, a fierce cold front laid siege to the South and a sober and shivering Little Rock press corps faced a wintry problem: slow new…
On Dec. 10, 2003, Janet Korenblat was asked to balance on a BOSU ball while extending her legs.
In December 1923, when Curtis Wain Gates was just 7 years old, a 21-year-old aviator from Arkansas made headlines by flying from San Diego to Washington. Lt. J…
Today we present a Christmas quiz inspired by the occasional Monday Style feature Remember when, Arkansas? Only it's not much like Remember when. In this multi…
Let's play Obfuscation.
Let's play Obfuscation.
One hundred years ago, a fireproof swimming pool burned to the ground at Summit and 11th streets in Little Rock.
Times surely have changed in the last 100 years in Arkansas. And so has time.
"How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?" by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press, Sept. 12), 4-8 years, 32 pages, $18.99 hardcover
A fireproof swimming pool burned to the ground in Little Rock 100 years ago this week.
Who here knew that our Dec. 4 word — "end" — is a fundamental unit of measurement in archery contests? Common words commonly have uncommon meanings.
The Pine Bluff Arsenal used to be home to 12% of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile, including 3,850 tons of chemical agents distributed among rockets, la…
When wars and rumors of wars billow up like storm clouds, it matters that an adult can tell a worried child about peace, how it remains a hopeful possibility w…
On the first of December a century ago, the Arkansas Gazette ran quite an intriguing little story atop Page 1. The headline: "Tries Out Effect of Bite by Spide…
In 2008, a mouse got onto the stage of the Arkansas Children's Theatre at the old Arkansas Arts Center. This mouse really, really wanted a cookie.
Let's play Obfuscation.
In 2008, the Little Rock Zoo acquired two chimpanzees raised as pets in a human home. Mikey, 6, and Louie, 5, came from a Maryland woman who had dreamed of bec…
Let's play Obfuscation, the little game where I give you some of the definitions of a common word, and you recognize the word -- or not.
The little game is indebted to reader David Kelley for his timely observation Nov. 13 that the answer "retire" fit all the clues but is not a noun as well as a…
Yates Standridge was a taciturn, violent son of Newton County whose many escapes from Arkansas jails, prisons, prison farms and prison camps in the early 20th …
Who here knew that a verb meaning to steady or reinforce using a rope, chain, rod or wire was "guy," our Nov. 6 word?
In October 1913, the Arkansas Gazette published a letter from Mrs. R.H. Rosamond, widow of one of Yates Standridge's victims. Her letter described what she wit…
Displaced and denied their favorite prey by logging, relentlessly winnowed by hunting, a few wolves still padded quietly about Arkansas in the 1920s. Loathed, …
Reviewers usually notice only the most recent books. We participate in a group delusion that book lovers all read very, very quickly and have already been thro…
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport was still Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, when explosives-sniffing dogs landed in its parking lots in 2004.
Tuesday, Nov. 7, will see the release of two heart-stirring new contenders for space on the nursery bookshelf.
A century ago, one of Arkansas' good old-fashioned career criminals completed a 15-year prison sentence and was officially freed to return to his leafy home in…
Let's play Obfuscation.
The Arkansas Health Care Association crowned its first State Senior Queen in two years Oct. 17, in a pageant at the Little Rock Marriott. Started in the 1980s,…
1923 was quite the year for C.T. Davis, poet and editorial paragrapher of the Arkansas Gazette.
Let's play Obfuscation.
Now students, take out a piece of notebook paper and write your name in the top left-hand corner.
A meme lurking around social media aptly illustrates the hazard of genealogical research.
Once upon a time there was a newspaper column titled Read to Me, and it was about books for little kids.
The Oct. 18 ribbon-cutting for the new North Plaza and Judy Lansky Pavilion revived memories of another opening at the Big Dam Bridge 17 years ago.
The little game we call Obfuscation goes like this: I give you some definitions of a common word, and you recognize the word. Or not.
Let's play Obfuscation.
Here are the second- and third-place high school essays in the 2023 Arkansas Peace Week contest.
Will you recognize the common word described by all these definitions?
The 80-ton Songahm Martial Arts Gate beside the Statehouse Convention Center was crafted 17 years ago by five teams of South Korean artisans to honor a martial…
In 1923 Arkansas, L.E.A. Yeager was a man with a plight. Or was he two men? Certainly two very different characters were portrayed in newspapers at the time.
Style is publishing the winning art and essays from this year's Arkansas Peace Week statewide contests for schoolchildren.
Reading 100-year-old editions of Arkansas newspapers, Old News stumbles across extraordinary ordinary lives. One such case is L.E.A. Yeager, former lawman. Yea…
Who here knew that "hutment" meant camp, our Sept. 25 word?
Here are the seventh- through ninth-grade second- and third-place winning entries in the 2023 Arkansas Peace Week statewide essay contest. Look here for the 10…
Let's play a game of Obfuscation.
One hundred years plus five days ago, a curious incident occurred at the prison known as The Walls in Little Rock: A convicted murderer walked free, because sh…