Jack Weatherly
Recent Stories by Jack Weatherly
Mixed-use project set for Blass site in LR
posted: 03/08/2012 3:41 a.m. Discuss
Two companies that have changed the skyline of Little Rock said Wednesday that they plan to add to that downtown presence by converting the former Blass Department Stores flagship at 324 Main St. in Little Rock into a mixed-use project.
COLUMNISTS: A Southern classic
posted: 12/01/2011 3:53 a.m. Comment 1
Walter Ely is just too colorful to fade to black. A longtime copy editor at newspapers, including this one, he signed off recently with the mortal equivalent of -30the telegrapher’s old symbol for End of Story.
True Wit
posted: 01/09/2011 2:43 a.m. Discuss
Watching movies still doesn’t count as reading, even in our multi-platform communications world. But the latest film version of the Charles Portis classic True Grit is about as close as you can get, outside of a Hollywood treatment of Shakespeare.
A Funeral in Mississippi
posted: 07/05/2009 3:38 a.m. Discuss
The silver double-deck City of New Orleans overtakes us and slips southward through a curve in the tracks, disappearing into the Delta as we start our abrupt ascent into the hills.
On the Memphis edge
posted: 08/17/2008 5:26 a.m.
A minor Porgy and Bess character would cross our little stage in the summertime-a black man walking down our street, balancing a hands-free loaded basket on his head, African-style, and chanting, "Tahmay-tahs, tah-may-tahs." That's as close as black folks got to us in my neighborhood in the 1950s.
