Ron Wolfe
Recent Stories
FEBRUARY CALENDAR: FEBRUARY CALENDAR: A bit of a leap
posted: 01/31/2012 3:06 a.m. Discuss
February is all about that tingly feeling. Might be love — might be cold rain. Groundhogs watch for their shadows. Grocery stores hunt for their shopping carts full of cherries.
Cast your gaze skyward: The national bird is soaring
posted: 01/30/2012 2:50 a.m. Comment 1
Three signs posted halfway on the trail to the observation deck at Pinnacle Mountain State Park tell what a person might see up there in the wind and the romping treetops.
Symbol of ... whatever fits?
posted: 01/30/2012 2:35 a.m. Discuss
Some people watch quietly for eagles, and some feel moved to say something profound about the national bird: Things named after eagles include the Eagle Bank and Trust Co. of central Arkansas, Eagle Brand condensed milk, American Eagle Outfitters jeans, Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle motorcycles and Eagle Claw fish hooks.
Golden arches to shine on chocolate fountains
posted: 01/29/2012 3:29 a.m. Discuss
“Sweet” is the word for the ninth annual Chocolate Fantasy Ball, a concoction of generosity swirled with February’s favorite candy flavor to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas.
Riding the rails for a visit to yesteryear
posted: 01/29/2012 3:05 a.m. Discuss
Trains have been chugging across movie screens at least since The Great Train Robbery (1903). But trains don’t just show up on the set like movie extras, and trains can be as puffed up as the biggest stars.
Movie posters: From the reel to real thing
posted: 01/29/2012 3:04 a.m. Discuss
“Ark in the Dark: An Exhibit of Vintage Movie Posters About Arkansas” shows how people have seen the state reflected for almost 100 years.
Double exposure
posted: 01/29/2012 3:03 a.m. Discuss
The art and history of movies and Arkansas are on display in related exhibits at two galleries in Little Rock.
So imaginative, and so little help
posted: 01/03/2012 3:08 a.m. Discuss
Haven’t written a New Year’s resolution this year? Welcome to Arkansas’ nonresolvers’ club, in which the membership of those who refuse to write seems to be exclusively, well — writers.
And same to you, McDuck
posted: 01/03/2012 3:07 a.m. Discuss
Stuck for a New Year’s resolution, comics historian and author (Hollywood Cartoons) Michael Barrier of Little Rock wondered what sort of goal Scrooge McDuck would set.
