Advertisement
Advertisement

Rock Candy

Decked out in totality: an eclipse merch roundup

Look, there are throngs of visitors coming to our state for the solar eclipse on April 8 and somehow the weather prognostications have eclipsed the "what are we wearing" question. Embarrassing! Here are a few sartorial accompaniments we've spotted around town and online as the moon rolls out its shadow over The Natural State.
IT Arkansas job board

Queer passion in Puritan New England: A Q&A with writer Garrard Conley

“All the World Beside,” the new novel by Arkansas native and “Boy Erased” author Garrard Conley, depicts a romantic affair between two men — a reverend and a doctor — in 18th century Puritan New England. As they oscillate between resisting and embracing their love for each other, their wives and children bear the burden of their confusion and become a target of the town’s gossip mill.
Advertisement

First Pentecostal's 'I AM' Easter show is both over the top and riveting

Both avid churchgoers and errant heathens can get hyped about the "I AM" Easter extravaganza. With camels and sheep, a Roman soldier on horseback, smoke, a hologram, live music and a cast of hundreds, you'll not find this much entertainment packed into a $10 ticket anywhere else.

April movie screenings at Ron Robinson Theater

Picks for April include "Citizen Kane," "The Big Lebowski," "Mad Max: Fury Road," "Twister" and more.
Advertisement

Two chances to see Jimbo Mathus at White Water this weekend

Mathus is an enthralling live performer, and this two-show stand at the White Water Tavern — to be recorded for a live album from Single Lock Records — is bound to straddle Saturday and the Sabbath aptly, with doses of both the sacred and the profane.

Kasten Searles’ tornado memoir captures Little Rock, ravaged

Searles — an illustrator, the head of the art department at Arkansas Tech University and the artist behind our cover illustration this month — is creating a graphic memoir about the experience, including depictions of the devastation as she saw it on March 31, 2023.
Advertisement

Mass eclipse wedding ceremony to bring hundreds of couples to Russellville

289 pairs of lovebirds are currently registered to get married simultaneously at Elope at the Eclipse, a mass wedding ceremony in Russellville that will take place just moments before the total solar eclipse on April 8.

On the eve of their comeback album, Gossip scores a New York Times profile

“Real Power,” Gossip’s first album in 12 years, comes out on Friday. Earlier this week, The New York Times profiled the Portland-based band about how they got started, the intervening years since their breakup and what motivated them to get back together.
Advertisement

Oxford American presents first-ever Southern Art Issue

Rather than using visual art to compliment or complicate its writing, the Conway-based magazine’s latest issue, which arrived on newsstands Tuesday, puts the spotlight on artists themselves. 

Pallbearer announces new album, shares first single

“These songs are a deeper exploration of dynamics and sonic color than anything we have done up to this point,” vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell said in a press release.
Advertisement

Slideshow: Professional Bull Riders competition at Simmons Bank Arena

Arkansas Times photographer Brian Chilson stopped by "Unleash The Beast" on Saturday and witnessed Kansas City Outlaws rider Cassio Dias come out on top "with a monstrous walk-off 90-point ride in the championship round."

Kurt Vile at The Hall on Saturday

Vile’s songs are as peculiar and thought-provoking as they are chill and spacious, rooted by a craggy voice full of nooks and crannies.

Arkansas Times Film Series screens Martin Scorsese's 'Kundun' (1997) tonight

More internal struggle than a traditional narrative and propelled by a hypnotic score by Philip Glass and cinematography by the legendary Roger Deakins, Martin Sorsese’s 1997 film “Kundun” is an epic about the early years of Tenzin Gyatso, who was identified as the 14th (and current) Dalai Lama at the age of 2.

Wheatus, of 'Teenage Dirtbag' fame, at Stickyz on Friday

"Listen to Iron Maiden, baby, with me."

Organized chaos: An oral history of Kanis skatepark

Operating without a formal structure or corporate entity, the Kanis skate crew formed an unlikely partnership with the city of Little Rock and became central players in an urban revitalization success story. Initially fueled by hard manual labor and grassroots fundraising, the crew expanded the park with a $150,000 grant from the Coca-Cola Co. in 2016.

Gov. Sarah Sanders inexplicably cheers on weekend's bull riding competition

Gov. Sarah Sanders spent her Friday afternoon flanked by seven stoic, cowboy hat-donned representatives from the Professional Bull Riders league. Why? Your guess is as good as ours.

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra announces 2024-2025 season

Aaron Diehl, Andrei Ioniță, Zee Zee and Simone Porter are among the 2024-2025 season's featured soloists.

Exhibition spotlighting Japanese-American families imprisoned at Rohwer opens Saturday

Once farmers in California, the Shingu, Futamachi, Nakamura, Oshima, Yada and Yoshimura families all settled in Scott following their release from Rohwer in 1945. The exhibition focuses on their post-interment years as sharecroppers in the segregated South.

Introspective folk rockers Fust at White Water on Monday

Based in Durham, North Carolina, Fust is coming to White Water with "a sweet amalgam of soulful alt-rock tunes set adrift with Southern balladry and Crazy Horse-style riffs," as put by Paste Magazine.

The Dreaded Laramie, Two Runner and Kin & Company at White Water on Thursday

Acrobatic power pop, fiddle-heavy folk and sincere indie rock are conspiring to bring you an unforgettable Thursday night.
Advertisement
Advertisement