POPNOTES | OPINION: The good and the bad of 2023’s small screen viewings
It is said we're living in a golden or silver age of television, but I'm not sure I'm a fair judge of that.
It is said we're living in a golden or silver age of television, but I'm not sure I'm a fair judge of that.
The hot dogs at Franks weren't cheap -- but neither was he. They were popularly priced.
I've been following our Frank Lockwood's fine reporting on the regrettable situation at Immanuel Baptist Church, where in 2015, a church employee was accused o…
Divorce was rampant when I was a kid. It was a kind of primal fear, hard-wired into our brains.
Sometimes longevity is indicative of nothing other than stubbornness.
One way to look at Michael Mann's "Ferrari" is as an unauthorized prequel to 2019's "Ford v. Ferrari," James Mangold's crowd-pleasing semi-accurate account of …
A good writer of nonfiction once told me the reason he never attempted a novel was because "his taste was too good."
"Man is a creature who can get used to anything, and I believe that is the very best way of defining him."
The church is a black box. Windowless, metal and brick, somehow commercially grand and utilitarian all at once.
So, let's be clear: The following are books I think you ought to think about reading if you are interested in rewarding these kinds of books. These are not the…
Most times Shelton presents as an effervescent figure, one of those energetic souls who gets up early and accomplishes more before noon than some of us do all …
There are still a couple of weekends to go in the year, with at least seven major movies opening.
"The Boys in the Boat" is the sort of movie they don't make anymore -- the sort of movie that used to win Academy Awards and slip smoothly into our collective …
My latest ploy is just before bedtime to tell wonderful Yuletide stories to the kiddies about Santa turning at midnight into a hideous man-eating bat and the s…
We had one of our occasional get-togethers at the office the other afternoon; there were cupcakes, veggies and dips, and Christmas bonuses were handed out. It …
I turned out of the Arkansas PBS parking lot and drove about 100 yards before the SUV behind me hit its flashing blue lights.
Aziz Isa Elkun is a British poet and academic. He is also a Uyghur.
American humorist Charles Godfrey Leland was not quite a folklorist; he tended to embroider the stories he collected with touches of his own. He groomed myths …
There are lots of obscure artists, but Hot Springs-based David Malcolm Rose might be the most accomplished obscure artist in Arkansas.
For years it has been my habit to come into the office on Sunday to get a jump on the coming week.
According to a 2022 Forbes report, among the alumni of Harvard University there are 188 billionaires. This is more than any other school in the world.
"All I can really say about him is, you know, we loved him. We told him, fortunately, at any given opportunity, you know any time we had we always told him we …
"Now melodrama never makes me weep anymore ... "
"This is a true story. The events depicted took place in [location] in [year] ... "
Carol never had much business at the pawn shop, but sometimes he liked to stop in and talk to the owner and look at the watches on Saturday mornings. Carol had…
I expect my sister Jackie to be dead by the time you read this; I expect I will be making somber plans if I'm not already boarding a plane and flying off to do…
I was staying at the Westin
This film follows Mississippi-based Andrew Bryant, as he records his sixth solo album "Prodigal," working with remarkable producer Bruce Watson at Watson's Del…
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Arkansas PBS will broadcast Larry Foley's 2020 documentary "Indians, Outlaws, Marshals and the Hangin' Judge."
I'm inclined to think George Santos is none of our business.
There are a lot of stories about Bass Reeves, not all of them credible.
Just when you thought you were safe from all the ghosts, ghouls and skeletons of the spooky season, Arkansas kept the Halloween party going for one more weeken…
I no longer have a turntable.
November is my favorite month. The weather is generally not harsh; we can cuddle together on the couch under a blanket with the heat off.
King Canute was Viking King of England, Norway and Denmark.
I've been on a red wine kick since 1985. I remember the Big Bang. It occurred on a rickety third-floor balcony of Café Sbisa in New Orleans, when I took a sip …
A couple of weeks ago Bruce Flett, formerly the bassist for Shreveport-based A Train (which in the '70s and '80s could claim to be the country's best bar band,…
I saw a headline on another review of this film that read: "In 'The Killer,' Michael Fassbender is a different kind of hit man." That's not true. In "The Kille…
I was among the first million or so people to hear the new Beatles song "Now and Then" last week. About 30 minutes before it was officially released, I receive…
Arrichion of Phigalia was a mixed martial artist. Maybe the greatest of all time, though he was never once on TV.
A few years ago, there was a rumor that Sly Stone was going to perform in Hot Springs.
The co-pilot came back to tell them the engine was gone and they were going to have to make an emergency landing. He said they should put their heads down betw…
There's a house in our neighborhood that has a few stand-up Halloween decorations in its front yard. Among them a smiling ghost; a cute orange-faced witch: hor…
I can't unpack the Israeli-Hamas war for myself, much less for you.
A friend -- a fine filmmaker, novelist and musician -- announced on social media her intention to read Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita."
I was playing the new Rolling Stones album the other night, while Karen was working in her office. After three or four songs, she walked into the living room a…
Baseball does not reward the casual fan.