Jack Schnedler

Permanent collections are the bedrock of museums in central Arkansas

In football terms, special exhibits are the glamorous quarterbacks of the museum world. They’re the ballyhooed stars, sweeping into town for a temporary stay and grabbing the headlines, as with the exemplary “World of the Pharaohs” show now in the limelight at the Arkansas Arts Center.
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Recipes, ballad spice book for state’s ‘Rhubarbarians’

It’s almost impossible to grow rhubarb in central Arkansas. So how to explain the Little Rock provenance of a jovial book packed with 50 recipes employing this tart and sometimes disrespected vegetable?
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Downtown then and now

New book portrays changes, too often for the worse, at the heart of Natural State cities and towns

Main Street in so many places across Arkansas, as elsewhere in America, is no longer the vital heart of the community — although there are happy exceptions to that sad fact of the evolving urban landscape.
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Buehler pulling strings for Power of the Purse

Lisa Buehler, serving her third straight year as chairman of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas’ Power of the Purse luncheon, exemplifies that organization’s avowed mission “to promote philanthropy among women and to help women and girls achieve their full potential.”
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Arthur's: Steak at any price

The printed menu at Arthur's Prime Steakhouse highlights in bold red type "Japanese Kobe - the ultimate beef experience... (upon availability - by the ounce, market price)."
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The scoop on ice cream

Dishing up cold hard facts on frozen treats in central Arkansas

In Stanley Kubrick's marvelously mad movie classic, Dr. Strangelove, Sterling Hayden's delusional Gen. Jack D. Ripper sincerely believes that part of the Communist Cold War conspiracy against America involves fluoridation.
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'56 saw Little Rock face tough choices: 28 flavors

The most familiar icecream chain of post-World War II America arrived in central Arkansas in August 1956. That's when Howard Johnson brought its 28 flavors to a new restaurant and motor lodge on University Avenue just south of Asher Avenue, along what was then the recently completed New Benton Highway.
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Ciao sets table for frugal or flush

One dish chalked on the lunchtime specials board at Ciao Italian Restaurant could induce sticker shock - or an assumption that the posted price is a typographical error.
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Union taps tastily into the tapas trend

A tapas place like the new Union Restaurant on Old Cantrell Road is a promising venue for dithering diners who have a hard time deciding what to order.
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CHEAP EATS: Tasty Cafe@Heifer portions could feed a village

A dash of whimsy seasons the menu of Cafe@Heifer in Murphy Keller Education Center, the museum of recently opened Heifer Village on the far eastern fringe of Little Rock's River Market District.
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