Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:15 a.m.

Werner Trieschmann

THEATER Young thespians show off fruits of summer labor

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: November 1, 2009 5:14 a.m.

Nicole Capri Bauer compares Follie Holidays, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s latest annual production by young performers, to the 1942 movie Holiday Inn that starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.
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Documentaries will span spectrum in Hot Springs

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: October 11, 2009 5:24 a.m.

The poster for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, which will kick off its 18th year Friday, screening scads of nonfiction movies, promises that the event running through Oct. 25 will offer “windows into the world.”
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One brick at a time

Businesses build on a new 'old' resource

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: August 8, 2009 4:21 a.m.

As far as antiques go, the simple, rectangular brick wouldn't seem to be more valuable whether it was old or new. A brick is a brick is a brick, yes?
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MUSIC REVIEW: Wiggles show a bit scaled back than in past

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: August 6, 2009 3:13 a.m.

The Wiggles show at Robinson Center Music Hall on Wednesday afternoon had all the elements that any fan - be they of the toddler or adult handler variety - of the primary-colored Australian fab foursome would expect.
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Wiggles go from birthday parties to world tours

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: August 2, 2009 4:29 a.m.

Special event The Wiggles Go Bananas Live! 3 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Robinson Center Music Hall, 426 W. Markham St., Little Rock Tickets: $18- $35, available at Ticketmaster locations (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com
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FILM T Tauri festival celebrates work of young filmmakers

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: July 26, 2009 4:41 a.m.

T Tauri Film Festival Thursday-Saturday, screenings at Independence Hall, University of Arkansas Community College, 2005 White Drive, Batesville. Preliminary programs at 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday.
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How does the garden grow?

Garvan Gardens' new adventure area aims to inspire children's imaginations

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: July 15, 2009 4:42 a.m.

Right before we left the air-conditioned sanctuary of the welcome center and stepped out into the smothering midmorning heat, a man told my 3-year-old to watch out for bears.
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Allan Edwards Meadors

This Allan Meadors is a successful insurance salesman, not a college dean like his grandfather. He has built a business that is celebrating its centennial.

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: July 5, 2009 5:27 a.m.

His cuff links are a matching coat of arms. On his desk stands a tiny Mel Gibson as William Wallace, the fighting Scotsman from Braveheart. The desk is also conspicuous in that there is no computer on it.
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Only the fingers smoke on this guitar

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: June 28, 2009 3:11 a.m.

In a small and unassuming house in North Little Rock, a quiet and unassuming computer repairman looks at a stack of used wooden cigar boxes, rectangular and colorful. What he sees is opportunity.
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Carla Killough McClafferty

Having never written even a letter to the editor, Carla McClafferty was motivated by a family tragedy to do a book. Now her fourth nonfiction volume for young adults has been published.

By Werner Trieschmann
Posted: June 7, 2009 3:01 a.m.

Varian Fry's life story is notable for its heroism. Fry, an American magazine editor, made his mark in history when he went in the summer of 1940 to Marseille, France, on the clandestine mission to help more than 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, including artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, flee from the clutches of the new Nazi regime.
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