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.
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‘Footloose’ charms at The Rep
Full of standout performances by Spencer LaRue, Ray Robinson and Emily Royer, the production’s virtues are located in the little things instead of its overarching themes.
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Chappell Roan is coming back to Arkansas
As predicted, the venue this time around — the Walmart AMP in Rogers — is exponentially bigger than her Natural State appearance just a month ago, with the AMP’s 11,000-person capacity eclipsing The Hall eightfold.
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Lake Street Dive in Bentonville on Wednesday
Ask any Dungeons & Dragons fan and they’ll tell you: The possibilities a 20-sided die can yield are endless. You’ll get a co-sign on that, too, from Brooklyn-based jazz-pop group Lake Street Dive, who used the D&D centerpiece to generate songs for their new record.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ (1985) Tuesday night
In Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” housewife Roberta Glass reads the personals section and is taken by the story of the bold and mysterious Susan Thomas (Madonna, in her first major screen role) and Jim Dandy, who appear to be involved in a torrid love affair. Their lives soon become dramatically mixed up.
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‘I’m gonna tattoo till I die’: Robert Berry’s 7th Street Tattoo and Piercing is a Little Rock institution
Little Rock native Robert Berry, 67, opened 7th Street Tattoo and Piercing in 1998. He has no plans to slow down.
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‘It’s all frequencies’: A Q&A with artist Zina Al-Shukri
Little Rock-based, Baghdad-born artist Zina Al-Shukri’s gestural portraits brandish undaunted hues and unabashed gazes, displaying an amorous relationship with the materiality of paint and an intimacy with the spectrum of life’s blows and balms.
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Trust Tree fundraiser at Museum of Discovery on Saturday
Since 2017, Central Arkansas nonprofit summer camp Trust Tree has been putting rock ’n’ roll instruments and art supplies in the hands of girls and queer youth ages 8-18 with the express purpose of catching early the self-limiting beliefs imposed by a tough world and replacing them with a more expansive idea of what’s possible.
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‘Delta Triennial’: A first look at AFMA’s newest excavation of the Mid-South
“Delta Triennial” is remarkably diverse in terms of proportion, subject material and medium, but thanks to an intentional layout design by AMFA curators that prioritizes associative groupings over simply organizing by geography, the viewing experience is one of surprising resonances.