Kyle Brazzel
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Features writer, columnist
Recent Stories
Hip, young business owners market their dreams
posted: 01/05/2010 1:55 a.m. Discuss
When Nick Coffin and a business partner announced plans last spring to turn the former location of Little Rock’s Sufficient Grounds, beloved in the 1990s for bringing coffeehouse culture to the city, into a haven of locavorism
No rest for the wicket
posted: 08/31/2009 1:35 a.m. Discuss
Outside of high school football and possibly central Arkansas' active kickball leagues, Arkansas doesn't enjoy a bounty of adrenalized athletic rivalries.
7 kids, 4 days
posted: 08/19/2009 4:50 a.m. Discuss
On a recent afternoon at the C.A. Vines Arkansas 4-H Center, on the banks of the diamond-shaped lake that contributes to the camp's serenity, a few boys kicked around a soccer ball as they yelped and taunted in carefree voices that bounced around the greenery. Nearby, a lawnmower roared.
Lake Nixon offering choices for crafty campers
posted: 08/12/2009 5:31 a.m. Discuss
The rolling hills, picnic pavilions and sandy beach of the summertime day camp at Lake Nixon once represented the whole of recreational activities for Little Rock youth. Many made that pilgrimage down Colonel Glenn Road to the camp, which hosted dance parties for teenagers twisting their way through the 1960s, before its takeover by Second Baptist Church.
Neighborhood watch
posted: 08/01/2009 2:59 a.m. Discuss
National Night Out Dwight Davis calls him "the eyes" - that fedora-topped, silhouetted man seen in shadow, staring out from roadside signs designating a community as a member of Little Rock's Neighborhood Watch program.
New crown comes with little sleep, full docket
posted: 07/20/2009 5:04 a.m. Discuss
Sarah Slocum went to sleep early Sunday morning not with stars in her eyes but with rhinestones.
Slocum crowned Miss Arkansas
posted: 07/19/2009 5:40 a.m. Discuss
Sarah Slocum, a 23-year-old political-science major from Sheridan, who competed as Miss Ouachita River, was crowned Miss Arkansas on Saturday night at the end of a 3 1 /2 hour ceremony to determine the state's next representative in the Miss America pageant.
SUMMER READING: Vampires and admen in a tale of two media
posted: 06/30/2009 1:38 a.m. Discuss
Readers love going on about how the book was better than the movie, but what if it's a TV show the book is supposed to be better than?
Tour de pants
posted: 06/29/2009 1:29 a.m. Discuss
Eric Michael Morris is a great finder. No less than Davy Rothbart, editor of Found magazine, commended him as such, at a reading of some of the annual periodical's best finds - misplaced love letters, incongruous shopping lists - at a Little Rock art gallery last month.
Crimes of the art
posted: 06/21/2009 3:48 a.m. Discuss
Thot, shorthand for the full tag of the prolific Little Rock graffiti writer Thot 3000, appears throughout downtown in myriad ways. He might execute a quick tag, using a marker, on a utility pole, a Dumpster or marble tile, with a calligraphic flourish that makes the letters difficult but not impossible to make out.
