by Dwain Hebda Lance Carpenter didn’t catch the “go” sign from the bartender following a Nashville set once, and the oversight put him right in the path of a barfly who’d been laying for him all night. What followed next still cracks up the Ozark-born singer-songwriter. “I was playing The Commodore (bar), and I…
by Dwain Hebda At the distal end of Little Rock’s Rivermarket — two doors down from the highway bridge where the neighborhood yawns into green space surrounding the Clinton Presidential Library — a warm breeze plays about the star-studded night. A mere half-block east from the enveloping neon and noise of the tourist district, the…
America in a Bowl: The Saga of America’s Favorite Comfort Food Being a nation of immigrants, there are very few things culinary that America has not borrowed and thrown into the great melting pot that is our culture. This comes with the territory of being a relative whippersnapper among world powers and other countries around the globe.…
Heather Outler has endured more trauma before the age of 30 than most people do their entire lives. As a child, she was sexually assaulted and raped by a family member and was a passenger in an automobile hit head-on at 90 mph by a drunk driver; as an adult, she endured life in an…
To know Geneva Lamm and Gina Marchese, co-executive directors of the Little Rock Marathon, is to know eternal optimists. For nearly 20 years, the duo has led the signature springtime road race through brilliant sunshine and ice showers, all while watching the event grow to mammoth proportions. And if things hold as planned, they…
The restauranteurs who made gyros cool via Taziki’s, redefined casually elegant dining with Petit & Keet and Cypress Social and introduced Wendy’s hot ‘n’ juicy hamburgers to Arkansas are at it again. The Keet family of JTJ Restaurants fame will soon unveil the state’s first Waldo’s Chicken and Beer. The concept is currently under construction…
The Table of Plenty: Holiday Food Bucket List by Dwain Hebda Last month, a nasty bit of fake news swirled around the internet, besmirching our beloved state and the people who live here. Amazingly, it had nothing to do with COVID-19 cases, the outcome of the presidential election or the beloved Hogs,…
Making Seasons Bright: Nonprofits Struggle to Meet Needs During COVID-19 by Dwain Hebda Sarah Riffle, chief development officer for Arkansas Foodbank, has at her disposal an arsenal of attention-grabbing statistics, which she deploys at will to underscore the problem of hunger in the Natural State. Arkansas ranks second in the nation in food…
Starting today, Arkansas Razorback fans have one more piece of memorabilia to add to their collections or stash under the tree this holiday season. Alimited-edition bobblehead commemorating the Arkansas–LSU football rivalry, the latest installment of which will be played Nov. 21 at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, was unveiled today by the National Bobblehead Hall of…
The tenth installment of The Go!bbler Run will come off this Thanksgiving, albeit in a virtual format. Founder Gary Taylor, who owns Go! Running in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood, said he couldn’t bear to put runners in harm’s way, but he also couldn’t bear to deprive the many people who benefit from the food-and-fundraising run.…
