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.
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‘Llego Hoy’: Inside the mind of Arkansas filmmaker David Cruz
“Llego Hoy,” David Cruz’s debut feature length movie, centers on a mysterious mother-son relationship. The Spanish language film also delivers tense thriller set pieces, a rip-roaring camera, passages of avant-garde animation, meditative natural photography and even manages to toss in a deeply upsetting, bloody micro-spectacle set in the backseat of a car.
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Arkansas Cinema Society announces Filmland 2024 line-up and schedule
The Filmland 2024 line-up — held from Aug. 15-18 — includes “Daddio,” “Los Frikis,” “Sing Sing” and more.
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Arkansas poets Patricia Spears Jones and Kai Coggin awarded $50,000 fellowships
Jones and Coggin were among 22 state, county and city poet laureates across the country who received the funding, which will “support them in creating new work, as well as … enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that enrich the lives of their neighbors, including youth, through responsive and interactive poetry activities.”
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‘Never Leave’: A Q&A with Chris Sheppard of Everyone Asked About You
To exist inside “Never Leave” — the first new release from beloved ’90s Little Rock tweemo band Everyone Asked About You in 25 years — is to be desperate but understood, occasionally even hopeful because someone feels things just as deeply as you do.
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The Head and the Heart to serenade from the Control Records porch on Wednesday
Folk outfit The Head and the Heart is playing at Robinson Center on Wednesday night, but not before they stop by Control Records — Hillcrest’s favorite indie vinyl shop — for a free acoustic performance on the front porch at noon.
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Get to know the director and stars of The Rep’s ‘Jitney’
Late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s “Jitney” is next up at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, running from Aug. 6-18. “August Wilson is the reason I am in the [theater] business,” director Ken-Matt Martin said.
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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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New music from Nick Shoulders
“Apocalypse Never” is short and a cappella, putting the spotlight exclusively on Shoulders’ vocals, which soar over sharp flutters of intentional voice-cracking.
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ACANSA Arts Festival lineup is here
The 2024 ACANSA Arts Festival of the South runs from Sept. 5-21. Performers include the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, Ganstagrass and more.