Supporters of Little Rock teachers demonstrated at the Governor's Mansion tonight, but the record to date suggests state ears are deaf to teachers and the reality in the district.

State control of the Little Rock School District with its resegregation and union-busting pushed by the Hutchinson administration continue to draw national attention, the latest in The Atlantic.

Rob Nelson talks about his journey from Northwest Arkansas to Colorado to France and back to Northwest Arkansas.

Donald Trump today compared the impeachment inquiry to a lynching and immediately drew swift condemnation for employing that racially charged word. Some history is in order.

The video news roundup. Climax: impeachment heats up as Trump compares himself to a lynching victim.

Western District U.S. Attorney Dak Kees has announced another indictment of an Arkansas doctor for overprescribing opiates.

Big doings are scheduled at the Clinton Presidential Center in November -- conferences on economic development and women's issues

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has joined 46 other states in an investigation of potential antitrust violations by Facebook. The investigation is being led by the attorney general of New York.

 Joel Lookadoo, a ninth-grade algebra teacher at Lakeside Junior High in Springdale has been chosen as the 2020 Arkansas teacher of the year.

In this week’s edition of our podcast, “The Conversation,” host Matt Price interviews Aptus Financial, Sarah Catherine Gutierrez. They discuss her motivations and insight that led her to start Aptus Financial. Gutierrez's tells Price why the lion's share of their work with clients is around figuring out how to handle massive student loans. They also touch on how to make good financial decisions and making less decisions is probably the best approach.

The fun (and the foam) kick off at 6 p.m. Friday, October 25 at Diamond Bear Brewing (600 N. Broadway St.), and proceeds benefit the Argenta Arts District.

In this alternative telling of "Sleepy Hollow," there is no main event, only a satin pointe shoe covering a bloodied toe. It’s an image that carries its own kind of gore.

The art world has lost a great talent and good guy.

Wide arching double rainbows perfectly framed the stage Oct. 5 at the first event held on the green of the Momentary, a 63,000-square foot-contemporary art and performance space that will open Feb. 20, 2020, in Bentonville. The Momentary is another Walton family project, broadening the mission of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

"In an ideal world, Florence Price would have been invited back to her hometown after the construction of Robinson Center to appear with the Arkansas Symphony as the concerto soloist herself," Holzer said. "Robinson Center was a segregated facility for many years, and that invitation unfortunately never happened during Price’s lifetime."

Barr has written an outstanding novel about characters he deeply cares about. That devotion, in turn, has allowed him to craft a delightful story about this country’s very first experience with a transformative technology, and about the lives of people who made up the first cross-over generation — those before and after the introduction of electricity.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is making a splash with its new, diversified exhibition spaces. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art got there first.

In “Incandescent,” the voices behind the poems are passionate. They don’t over-rationalize humanity or pan its essence through long-winded metaphors. Sometimes they’re overcome with uncontrollable emotion. Sometimes they can’t say anything at all. Sometimes they find fire and life in the unexpected, in a slosh of memory, in the cycles of the natural world.

"Memphysema" really does capture buzz of energy and excitement the band possessed in those days. As a re-introduction to Ho-Hum 25 years on, few bands or fans could ask for anything better.

We ran into new owner Chris Tanner there last week and got a look at the new menu: Blue crab cakes. Fish tacos. Smoked salmon chowder. And more.

The fun (and the foam) kick off at 6 p.m. Friday, October 25 at Diamond Bear Brewing (600 N. Broadway St.), and proceeds benefit the Argenta Arts District.

Clear your calendar, beer lovers. The party of the year is just around the corner. The Arkansas Times Craft Beer Festival returns to North Little Rock on Friday, Oct. 25, 6-9 p.m.

Welcome to Arkansas beer country.

We ran into new owner Chris Tanner there last week and got a look at the new menu: Blue crab cakes. Fish tacos. Smoked salmon chowder. And more.

Our annual event took place on Saturday in Argenta.

Time does wonderful things to pork, and it’s done wonderful things for Arkansas Times’ annual Hog Roast, too — now matured into a block party that celebrates the best parts of the pig. Tickets for the Saturday event, held from 1-5 p.m., are on sale for $15 through tonight. They'll be $20 at the door.

Feast Mode! Bone’s Chophouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas is no stranger to carving premium cuts of beef and more.

This is a milestone year for Lisa Zhang. It’s the fifth anniversary of Three Fold Noodles and Dumpling Co., her wildly popular authentic Chinese restaurant in downtown Little Rock, and her 20th year in the United States. It also marks a year of expansion with the opening in May of her Chinese chicken restaurant Haybird (“Where East Meats West”), and the development of a new 9,000-square-foot project in Riverdale, slated to open next year, which will house three concepts: an expanded and relocated Haybird; Eastern Pantry, a sort of deli with take-home meal options; and a sake brewery. 

It’s growing, and new styles are taking hold.

Taco Mama is a staple of the Hot Springs food scene. We’re meeting up with the one and only Chef Diana Marez Bratton. 'The' Taco Mama! Diana has been turning heads with her culinary delights for years.