Frontman Evan Felker’s songwriting has always been at its best when he blurs the line between poetry and narrative, like a sort of red dirt Rudyard Kipling.
August 2024 magazine
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Reel Queer Film Festival kicks off on Thursday
In addition to a slew of shorts, this year’s lineup includes feature-length films like “The People’s Joker,” “Big Boys” and “Sebastian.”
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August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ opens at The Rep on Tuesday
Oriented around a group of unlicensed cab drivers whose livelihood is threatened by the dubious promise of urban renewal, The New York Times deemed “Jitney” a “free-form urban concerto, shaped by the quick-witted, improvisatory spirit that makes jazz soar.”
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Labor and delivery: How a volunteer-powered group gathered 102K signatures for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment
Sec. of State John Thurston rejected the Arkansas Abortion Amendment based on a paperwork error, but women’s health advocates are not going away without a fight.
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The Observer: Grand Finale
Star-spangled realizations about life, parenthood, and nostalgia.
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The Frontier Circus release show at White Water on Sunday
It gets dimmer with each passing year, but rock ’n’ roll used to be dangerous. Led by the towering, slightly unhinged and indefatigable Danny Grace, there isn’t a band that recalls those antiquated visceral jolts more than Central Arkansas outfit The Frontier Circus.
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Put a ring on it: Olympic storylines we’re following from afar
Woo, oui! Hogs take Paris.
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‘Dovetail Purses’ exhibition on display at ESSE Purse Museum
Who says handbags have to be dainty? That seems to be one of the questions driving New Orleans-based artist Jennifer Dove Cooper, whose handmade, intricately-decorated purses are fashioned from recycled materials, like egg cartons, clothing scraps and water bottles.
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‘Secret doors and lost texts’: A Q&A with writer Jen Fawkes
Partway through “Daughters of Chaos,” Sylvie Swift ventures beneath the brothel where she’s been staying in Civil War-era Nashville and discovers that the prostitutes are up to something darkly mystical, foregoing sex work in favor of feminist rituals through which they subtly reprogram the violence-prone psyches of their clientele. That’s just one of the many forms of masquerading going on in Little Rock writer Jen Fawkes’ debut novel.