BEST DOCUMENTARY A short film on an elderly Arkansas
chair-maker may sound sleep inducing, but in the hands of filmmaker Joe York,
it's a fascinating study of craftsmanship passed through the generations. "Bump"
is the story of Dallas Bump, of Royal, a 95-year-old maker of rocking chairs who
was named an Arkansas Living Treasure by the Arkansas Arts Council earlier this
year. He's the fourth generation of his family to make chairs, and even at 95,
he's still turning the wood that becomes the chairs' posts and rungs. The
15-minute film deftly weaves his family's story — Dallas' nephew and his
nephew's wife, Leon and Donna Sutton, are carrying on the tradition; Leon, who's
been making the chairs for six years, says he still has "a lot to learn" from
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sawdust-strewn family chair shop. You can see the film at the Historic Arkansas
Museum's Arkansas Made website, arkansasmade.org. (Full disclosure: Caroline
Millar, wife of Times editor Lindsey Millar, works on the Arkansas Made program
and is a producer on the film). Films on other state Living Treasures are in the
works.
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And beer. Turns out you can order from either menu, but the wait staff will look at you funny, and all sorts of confusion will ensue, if you order from the Subway menu. So you get a po boy. And their po boys are pretty good, only there's one problem: the perfectly fried shrimp is heaped between what is undeniably Subway bread, topped with Subway fixins. And folks are getting good and drunk, and wandering out to the dock outside to take in the sun, and generally having a decidedly non-Subway time.Welcome to Replica Louis Vuitton outlet online store and buy latest replica louis vuitton handbags together with free shipping and best service. Here's the thing. There's probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for the half-Cajun, half-Subway vibe.Latest Trends in Wholesale gucci handbags, Wallets and more. But when we asked a waitress, she looked at us sternly, said "we're not a Subway," and started backing away slowly. Refused to answer any follow-up questions.
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BEST MEAT Hillcrest Artisan Meats gets better all the time, with a growing lineup of cured and fresh well-raised meats, but also with a selection of gourmet grocery add-ons — fancy ketchup and the world's best jerky, for example. But we'd go there for no other reason than to buy the "teres major," a lean and boneless muscle from the shoulder of beef that, in eight-ounce chunks, cooks almost instantly in a grill pan and produces slices of steak almost as tender as a tenderloin, but far more flavorable. It runs around $16 a pound or so, not cheap. But very good.
BEAT REPORTING It's the alternative weekly's duty to pick on the big guy, i.e., the daily newspaper. But we admit readily that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a meaty newspaper with a big staff, far better than you'll find in most cities of comparable size. And Lord knows, if charter schools are your bag, you'll get encyclopedic coverage of THAT. The newspaper's great strength is in the beat reporters, from Capitol to courthouses to school offices, where people with experience and time are sources for lots of of-record news, an old fashioned thing that's out of fashion in some places. Our current favorite of the lot — after the scourge of UCA, Debra Hale Shelton — is Little Rock City Hall reporter Claudia Lauer. Multiple-byline days are routine for Lauer, and they are distinguished by enterprise work as she digs up fresh angles from the agendas of city boards and commissions and the occasional buffoonery of city fathers and mothers.
BEST ARKANSAS BEACH While we don't miss the hurricanes on the Gulf, we do happen to think that thoroughly landlocked Arkansas got the splintery end of the stick when it comes to beach access.Find a great selection of christian louboutin boots deals ! Click on any of the links below. If you don't have the dough or the time to drive 10 hours to the Redneck Riviera, though, there are options. Recently, we hooked back up with an old friend from childhood: the manmade sand beach on Lake DeGray at the Caddo Bend day use area. Just an hour's lovely drive from Little Rock and situated on a peninsula that juts out into the body of the lake, the long, gently-curving beach is a great place to catch some rays, and the swimming ain't half-bad either. PRO TIP: If you go, bring some shoes to wear into the water. While the beach is sand, a lot of the lake bottom is tiny bits of shale that hurt like hell on tender, citified feet.
BEST ROADTRIP TO NEW ORLEANS MYSTERY OK, technically, this is (by 10 miles or so) in Louisiana,Shop for Michael Kors Satchel in many colors and styles at hotmkbags. but any Arkansan who has ever road-tripped down Hwy. 65 has likely passed by The Dock, a little Cajun seafood shack right on Lake Providence (roadside markers let you know it's coming for miles; you'll know you've arrived when you see the friendly crawfish on the big white sign). There's something eerily familiar about the decor and the layout and the tables and the smell of the place — and what you'll realize, after a minute or so, is that you're standing in a Subway. And there, lo and behold, is a Subway menu on the wall and the familiar array of Subway chips and cookies, etc. Only there's also a Dock menu, offering up fried seafood and gator tail and po boys and the like.
And beer. Turns out you can order from either menu, but the wait staff will look at you funny, and all sorts of confusion will ensue, if you order from the Subway menu. So you get a po boy. And their po boys are pretty good, only there's one problem: the perfectly fried shrimp is heaped between what is undeniably Subway bread, topped with Subway fixins. And folks are getting good and drunk, and wandering out to the dock outside to take in the sun, and generally having a decidedly non-Subway time.Welcome to Replica Louis Vuitton outlet online store and buy latest replica louis vuitton handbags together with free shipping and best service. Here's the thing. There's probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for the half-Cajun, half-Subway vibe.Latest Trends in Wholesale gucci handbags, Wallets and more. But when we asked a waitress, she looked at us sternly, said "we're not a Subway," and started backing away slowly. Refused to answer any follow-up questions.
What kind of racket are they running in Lake Providence? Are they on guard against narcs from Subway headquarters? Don't know, never will. We've learned to keep quiet, enjoy the mudbugs and gumbo, the cypress trees and the mystery.
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