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Karen Martin

Associate Editor, Perspective.

Latest Stories

  • A big-screen view of Bentonville

    A recent invitation to a screening of a made-in-Bentonville film mentioned the event would take place at Skylight Cinema. “I didn’t know Bentonville had a movi…

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    How to be the life of the party

    An instructive episode of the animated streaming series "Bob's Burgers" features mom Linda spending an evening teaching her children Tina, Gene, and Louise pro…

  • SCREENTIME/OPINION

    We are immensely enjoying Brie Larson in "Lessons in Chemistry," which is now streaming on AppleTV. This week the Oscar winner (Best Actress 2016 for "The Room…

  • A wise decision

    Last week, the Federal Reserve did the right thing by leaving well enough alone, keeping the benchmark interest rate at about 5.4 percent. With the pressure th…

  • SCREENTIME/OPINION

    Elvis Presley famously met 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu in 1959 when he was in the U.S. Army, stationed in Germany. She was the daughter of an Army officer a…

  • SCREEN TIME

    Scary season continues this week as "Five Nights at Freddy's," a PG-13 horror comedy with its roots in a popular video game series opens in theaters and begins…

  • Tax collection, poorly done

    The U.S. budget deficit for fiscal 2023 ending Sept. 30 was $1.7 trillion. Any pragmatic politician knows that reducing such a massive shortfall will require s…