What do England Dan & Jon Ford Coley’s “It’s Sad to Belong,” Anne Murray’s “You Needed Me,” Michael Johnson’s “Bluer Than Blue,” Steve Perry’s “Oh Sherrie,” Toto’s “I’ll Be Over You,” DeBarge’s “Who’s Holding Donna Now” and Jo Dee Messina’s “Lesson in Leavin’” have in common? They’re all written (or co-written) by Hot Springs native Randy Goodrum.
Daniel Grear
Daniel Grear is the culture editor at the Arkansas Times. Send artsy tips to danielgrear@arktimes.com
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Ron Robinson Theater screens ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ ‘Pulp Fiction’ and more in August
“The Mask,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “Repo Man” are also among the August lineup.
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Banzai Florist goes sincere on new single ‘punish’
Melancholic and meditative, “punish” sees singer-songwriter Harry Glaeser simplifying his melodies, taming his tendency to get quirky, and channeling the moody, percussive strums of artists like Hovvdy and Runnner.
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Central High under consideration for World Heritage List nomination
UNESCO’s World Heritage List includes “cultural and natural sites of universal importance” like Grand Canyon National Park, the Taj Mahal and the Galápagos Islands.
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7 artists from ‘Delta Triennial’ to speak at AMFA on Thursday
The artists include Kevin Demery, Christian Dinh, Anita Fields, Coulter Fussell, Letitia Huckaby, Jerry Phillips (who lives and works in Little Rock) and Andrew Scott Ross.
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‘Secret doors and lost texts’: A Q&A with writer Jen Fawkes
Partway through “Daughters of Chaos,” Sylvie Swift ventures beneath the brothel where she’s been staying in Civil War-era Nashville and discovers that the prostitutes are up to something darkly mystical, foregoing sex work in favor of feminist rituals through which they subtly reprogram the violence-prone psyches of their clientele. That’s just one of the many forms of masquerading going on in Little Rock writer Jen Fawkes’ debut novel.
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Melissa Carper’s new album ‘Borned in Ya’ is here
“Carper sounds so natural in each sonic corner of ‘Borned in Ya’ that trying to assign it a genre is a fool’s errand.” That’s No Depression’s take on the new solo album from Arkansas-connected crooner Melissa Carper, which came out today. It’s a sentiment that’s hard to disagree with.
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Good Looks and Adam Faucett at White Water on Thursday
Mixing rollicking bar rock with jangly splashes of guitar sustain, Austin indie rock quartet Good Looks is going to fit right in at the White Water Tavern, but don’t let the good-natured jams fool you into neglecting the searching urgency of their lyrics.
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Cinema I/O to screen ‘Suburbia,’ ‘West Indies’ and more
Little Rock’s Cinema I/O — a “nomadic, non-profit microcinema” founded by Arkansas Times Film Series curator Omaya Jones, among others — is celebrating Art House Theater Day with a series of screenings next week.
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Arkansas Symphony Orchestra announces grand opening of future headquarters
The $11.75 million, 20,000-square-foot space will open in September, a little over a year after construction began.