Rock Candy

The Little Rock Touchdown Club just announced its spring meeting, which will feature Arkansas head football coach Houston Nutt speaking next Tuesday at Keith Jackson’s P.A.R.K. facility at 6915 Geyer Springs Road in Southwest Little Rock.

  AmyB checks in with tonight’s must-do musical romp:

If the “Movies in the Park” trend for 2006 holds up, it’s going to rain tomorrow.

 It’s a ‘Blast’
 
There is definitely a Broadway sheen on “Blast,” a fun musical and visual adventure based around the traditional outdoor marching band.

Jack Utsick, a Florida-based promoter who has financed a few shows in Central Arkansas (such as Hootie and the Blowfish at the amphitheater back in 2000), has run afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the Dow Jones news service.

The Arkansas Travelers opened their last season in Ray Winder Field under perfect conditions Sunday afternoon.

Count Lifehouse among the bands committed to play Riverfest in Little Rock and North Little Rock along the Arkansas River this Memorial Day weekend.

J.R. and Henry: N.C. State Coaching Search a Lesson for the Razorbacks
When University of Memphis head basketball coach John Calipari turned down $2 million a year earlier to become the head coach at North Carolina State, few were surprised.  Calipari has never been on our short list of favorite coaches, long before he cancelled the entertaining Arkansas-Memphis series saying that he favored playing “national” programs like Villanova and Purdue, instead of “regional” teams like Arkansas and Tennessee (UT pulled the football card and Calipari was forced to keep playing the Vols). 
Come on, John.

AmyB’s got a ton of fun outlined for you, from the Amy Garland Band at White Water  to Sugar and the Raw at Sticky’s, all after the jump:

Little Rock and Fayetteville both are the national hotbeds of amateur teen-age boys basketball, with Rockin’ the Rock Spring Classic being held for three days in Little Rock and the “Real Deal on the Hill” being held in Fayetteville over the same period.