The sourdough starter and the backyard shiitake logs you nursed during pandemic lockdown might be cool, but they’ll never be “Nine-year-old learns coding and builds a jam band app” cool. Sorry!
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Doug Stowe believes our brains are in our hands
The acclaimed woodworker’s new book blends philosophy and practical insight.
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Artist V.L. Cox on ‘escape velocity’ and keeping an eye on home from her perch in Peekskill, New York
“I’ve had CEOs of billion-dollar international companies come up to me at events and art openings over the past few years and say, ‘I’m very concerned about what’s going on down there.’ They don’t care if Arkansas is a beautiful state. They don’t care about sports. They care about how people are treated and where to put their next multi-million-dollar business expansion. They care about their investments and their reputation.”
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A Q&A with Arkansas Secretary of Health Jose Romero
The Times asked him about his background and his work heading up the state’s public health effort to contain the coronavirus.
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A Q&A with Denise Ennett
State Rep. Denise Ennett on stronger neighborhoods, affordable housing and tenants’ rights.
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Tackling Period Poverty in Arkansas: A Q&A with Emmarie Gates
Gates is the founder of the first Arkansas chapter of Period, a movement that works to distribute tampons, pads and menstrual cups to those in need, and to educate people about the need for increased access to period products in schools and shelters.
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Marko Monroe on Styling Pop Culture’s Feel-Good Goddess Lizzo
A Q&A with the Little Rock native and stylist to rapper, singer and flautist Lizzo.
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Joshua Mahony thinks there are enough reasonable Arkansans for him to unseat Tom Cotton
Joshua Mahony is running for the Democratic Party nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton in the 2020 general election. I recently spoke with Mahony about his candidacy and policies, including the precarious position of the Arkansas farmer, how morality and justice should shape the immigration debate, and the values he learned growing up in El Dorado.
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Jeff Nichols’ Filmland captures an industry in transition
I know that you’re waiting on confirmation for Filmland’s Thursday night film and can’t talk about that. So let’s start with Friday. You’re hosting an Oscar-winning documentary. We’re going to […]
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The emperor’s new viola: a 1938 instrument makes its way from Little Rock to Tokyo Imperial Palace
Between Tuesday, May 21, and Monday, May 27, 2019, a viola inscribed with the initials “IA” made its way from a quaint 1880s carriage house in Little Rock’s Quapaw Quarter to the hands of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, a gift from President Trump on the occasion of Naruhito’s ascent to the Imperial Chrysanthemum Throne.