For every non-perishable food item donated to any CALS library during Dec. 11-17, they will forgive a dollar’s worth of late fines from your account.
Daniel Grear
Daniel Grear is the culture editor at the Arkansas Times. Send artsy tips to danielgrear@arktimes.com
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UPDATE: CANCELED Douglas Brinkley, New York Times best-selling historian, to speak at Clinton Presidential Center on Tuesday
Douglas Brinkley’s latest book, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening,” takes an 856-page look at the 1960s and ’70s leaders responsible for nudging the national and political consciousness away from protecting aesthetic beauty and toward a critique of corporate excess and a stoic reverence for the existential threat of climate change. See him speak at the Clinton Presidential Center on Dec. 13.
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Humorist David Sedaris returns to Little Rock in April
David Sedaris is uncommonly funny and insightful on the page, but something really transcendent happens when you hear him read his essays aloud. He returns to Little Rock on April 24.
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Sunny and wistful new single from Turquoise Tiger
North Little Rock indie pop duo Turquoise Tiger (Kyle R. Goff and Tristan Bethea) has a new song out today called “The Sun Burns The Horizon.” The tune is slow and wistful, but still blithe with open hi-hats that stay rattling much of the time, as if to simulate an open window.
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ASO announces the E. Lee Ronnel Music Academy in a moving tribute to a lifelong volunteer
When Ronnel passed away in early 2022, he left behind the largest individual gift in the nonprofit’s 56-year history. In addition to expanding educational efforts like Arkansas Youth Orchestras, Strings Class, Summer Strings Camp and ASO Community Orchestra, his donation will also go towards the construction of the Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, which will serve as the home for all of ASO’s community programming.
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The Reverend Horton Heat to haunt The Hall on Friday
Come out to The Hall to hear The Reverend Horton Heat’s spooky baritone float above guitar riffs that glide chromatically and drums that shuffle to the time of their own manic whims.
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Tanya Tucker to perform in Forrest City in January
Tucker rose to prominence at the age of 13 with 1972’s “Delta Dawn,” a tune fixed somewhere between country and hymn, but this is your chance to catch her making a late-career victory lap.
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Kenny Chesney graces North Little Rock in April
Kenny Chesney, Knoxville-born country music crossover legend, is gliding through North Little Rock on Saturday, April 22.
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WWT’s Holiday Hangout is sold out, but you can still go to these events
If you’re sad about White Water Tavern’s annual Holiday Hangout being sold out, there are some non-ticketed events you can still attend. Saturday promises a songwriter showcase. Come out on Sunday for brunch, a book sale and a discussion on the legitimacy of comics as an art form.
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‘Y entonces el mar te habla,’ experimental video installation, premieres at The Momentary on Tuesday
“Y entonces el mar te habla,” Coco Fusco’s experimental video installation, cultivates a juxtaposition between cushy, simulated struggle and legitimate strife. Free screenings of the 45-minute film show on a loop at The Momentary starting Tuesday, Dec. 6 and continue through most of December.