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‘Strange’ guitarist Gilewitz quits Skype for live shows

Some musicians communicate with their audience through their instrumental skills and their song lyrics. Not Richard Gilewitz, who instead relies on a combination of his guitar abilities and the stories and jokes he tells between his songs, which are instrumentals.
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Shocked a traveler again in Arkansas

It’s not entirely a coincidence that singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked is booked for a show in Hot Springs during the city’s 18th annual Documentary Film Festival.
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Stiff upper lips to get tickled in murder mystery at Murry’s

If Agatha Christie had dipped her pen into the comedy genre, the result could have been Murdered to Death, which opens this week at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse. The actual author was Peter Gordon, who set the show in the lounge of a country manor house in England in the 1930s.
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THEATER: The Second City returns to improvise at the Rep

In its 50 years as the nation’s premier improvisational comedy troupe, Chicago’s Second City has helped launch the careers of Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, John Belushi, John Candy, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Chris Farley, Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey.
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Taking the plunge

Whether above- or in-ground, pools are swimming with possibilities

Blue sky with no clouds, Hot afternoons can get you down and make you sweaty, Midsummer sun bake, I know exactly what we should do and I think you're ready, Gonna stay cool, cool, cool at the swimming pool.
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A pig in the pool is worth ...

Even finding a pig in your pool is not enough to dissuade a homeowner from its enjoyment, central Arkansans recently learned.
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MUSIC REVIEW Keith Urban's skill, charisma enthrall crowd at NLR arena

It's obvious that Keith Urban loves his work. That's no myth, urban or rural.
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Urban mythology

Reared down under in Australia, Keith Urban is now up on top with a country-music foundation

Keith Urban is such a family man these days that he named his current jaunt around the country the Escape Together World Tour.
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ART Gallery Walk steps into 20th year as Hot Springs art extravaganza

For 20 years, the art galleries of Hot Springs have welcomed art lovers and the merely curious for open houses on the first Friday of each month. From 5 to 9 p.m., the galleries show off what they have hanging on the walls or arranged around their spaces. This Friday's Gallery Walk will be a special one.
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John Charles Ward

OBU honored John Ward this spring as alumnus, trustee and counselor to future students. He has traveled the world faithfully for the Gideons.

When John Ward was a student at what was then Ouachita Baptist College, it took everything he could do to continue to be enrolled each semester, but Ouachita - which is now a university - evidently made a wise investment in its own future as well as in Ward's.
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