Kyle Brazzel

No rest for the wicket

Yes, there is cricket in Arkansas, and rivalry is fierce

Outside of high school football and possibly central Arkansas' active kickball leagues, Arkansas doesn't enjoy a bounty of adrenalized athletic rivalries.
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7 kids, 4 days

Movie camp for military dependents teaches self-confidence with a camera

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.
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Lake Nixon offering choices for crafty campers

Arts and crafts skills, with a few updates, are still a staple at summer camp

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.
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Neighborhood watch

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.
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New crown comes with little sleep, full docket

Sarah Slocum went to sleep early Sunday morning not with stars in her eyes but with rhinestones.
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Slocum crowned Miss Arkansas

Former congressional intern will represent state in national pageant

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.
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SUMMER READING: Vampires and admen in a tale of two media

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?
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Tour de pants

The Lance look cycles into the sunset as more bikers want to look like themselves

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.
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Crimes of the art

Some graffiti mark gang turf. Some are meant to be expression.

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.
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Film finds makers of boxcar graffiti

When documentary filmmaker Bill Daniel arrived in Gurdon a few years ago for a meeting with a local artist known, depending on his medium, as either buZ blur or the Colossus of Roads, Daniel soon realized that he was something better than a disappointment but less than a fulfillment of his promise in the eyes of the artist.
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