Nineties nostalgia and some much-needed wisdom from Dolly and Tupac await at the opening for “Stay Gold,” mixed media artist Bri Peterson’s new exhibit at THEA Foundation.
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Johnny Cash has a new song and it’s about getting sexy in a laundromat
“Have You Ever Been to Little Rock?” is among the unreleased tracks from Cash, to be released June 28 as an album called “Songwriter.”
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‘Drag Race’ star Q turned a school night into a werk night at Sway
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ star Q charmed the runway at Club Sway last night — and was a wildly good sport about being coerced into calling the Hogs.
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Author Danielle Dreilinger unearths ‘the secret history of home economics’ at CALS Ron Robinson
Author Danielle Dreilinger, as a guest of The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, will tackle the underexplored history of home economics in a talk drawn from her book, “The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live.”
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Arkansas filmmaker Amman Abbasi’s latest debuts at SXSW
Pakistani-American filmmaker Amman Abbasi, who attended Hall High School and Central High School as a teenager, will premiere his 2024 film “Yasmeen’s Element” at this year’s South by Southwest Festival in Austin.
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‘Footloose,’ Jane Austen and work from MacDowell Fellow James Anthony Tyler at The Rep in 2024
The Rep’s upcoming season is made up of five wildly different plays, set up for nearly back-to-back runs in the summer of 2024. You’ve got “Footloose,” tried-and-true musical “Hello, Dolly!” and Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice,” plus work by Little Rock local playwright Joseph Scott Ford and MacDowell Fellow James Anthony Tyler.
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Stark inspirational works, vibrant paintings meet up at Hearne
Black and white scratchboard drawings by Perrion Hurd and vibrant, hyper-saturated with color paintings by Kennith Humphrey create an excellent juxtaposition at Hearne Fine Art.
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Garrard Conley’s new book is a queer love story set in Puritan New England
Glowing reviews of Garrard Conley’s forthcoming book, “All The World Beside,” a queer love story set in Puritan New England, which critic Edmund White says “teaches us that in Puritan America the scarlet letter was not A for adultery but H for homosexuality and that the only romance with God is tense and tragic.”
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Five reasons to go see Stevie Nicks at Simmons Bank Arena in March
In honor of the news today from Simmons Bank Arena that Our Lady of Layered Fabrics Stevie Nicks will be paying a visit to Central Arkansas next spring, here are five reasons to go and pay homage.
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Camden-born singer Ne-Yo would like to clarify his position on trans youth
Ne-Yo’s comments (and apology, and reversal) come at a politically fiery moment, when Republican legislators across the country are pushing to enact bans on gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth, when our own state legislators are interrogating medical professionals about their genitalia and when far-right political fearmongerers would have you believe that healthcare for trans youth is synonymous with surgery.