Little Rock School District gets no help from the legislature on regaining local control. But it gets a hazy promise from the governor,

Lots of legislative news of the usual dispiriting sort.

Federal money for electric vehicle charging stations rejected today in the House.

A continued small rise in cases.

A bump to a $4 million base with potential for more.

The third time was not charmed.

Quite a display in committee today.

A school voucher billl, sold as a tax bill, cleared a Senate committee today.

A watered-down renters' protection bill making its way through the Capitol offers little in the way of actual renter protections. But a meatier version remains stalled out, and it looks likely that Arkansas will remain the worst state in the country for renters.

See The Allman Betts Band • Indoor Music Concert at the First Financial Music Hall in El Dorado Saturday, May 1.

Happy 75th, Reverend.

This Thursday, Austin-based drummer Brannen Temple brings his band Temple Underground to Little Rock's Afrodesia Studio of Performing Arts for a live recording and concert, featuring sets from Dallas-based Suthurn Faze and from Rodney Block, Joshua Asante and Tim Anthony. 

Dunbar Garden, the 2-acre outdoor classroom that serves students from Gibbs International Magnet Elementary School and Dunbar Magnet Middle School, is throwing a spring shindig, COVID-cautionary style.

The museum founded by Alice Walton will be enlarged by 50 percent to increase gallery space and community educational and gathering venues.

Finders, keepers.

We caught up with 2021 Grammy winner and UA Fayetteville professor Murdock to learn more about his trajectory as a teacher, the importance of representation and about what he’s blasting on his car stereo right now.

Ahead of Arkansas Youth Poetry Day, we talked with state poet laureate Jo McDougall about her work and about her drive to foster new young poets.

Hamid speaks as a guest of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language; email hendrix-murphy@hendrix.edu to register for the talk.

The Little Rock octogenarian and free jazz legend returns with "Promises," an enchanting 46-minute exercise in free jazz and meditation.

There is a Tiny Town of my dreams. Tiny Town is a real place, of course, in my hometown of Hot Springs. It is a unique tourist destination on Whittington Avenue, just northwest of downtown. I visited once as a child, and I remember it as this odd place, created as a labor of love, which is exactly the kind of thing I value now that I am older.

Flyway Brewing Co. and Stone's Throw Brewing are hosting an '80s comedy double feature with screenings of "Spaceballs" and "Three Amigos"  Fri. May 7 at War Memorial Stadium.

Margarita season is upon us, and Arkansas Times is celebrating the perfect mixture of tequila, freshly squeezed citrus, orange liqueur and salt with its 4th annual Margarita Festival on Fri., June 18 at the River Market Pavilions from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Throughout the month of April, the Arkansas Local Food Network and Bernice Garden will host “Playing with Produce: A Family-Friendly Fundraiser,” a series of virtual cooking classes to raise funds for after school and summer cooking and nutrition classes for students at Washington Elementary.

After two cancellations, UA Pulaski Technical College foundation's annual Diamond Chef Arkansas fundraising cooking competition is going forward virtually as "Diamond Chef: On Demand" on April 22 at 6 p.m.

Vendors including Flake Baby Pastry, AR-T's, El Sur Street Food Co., Farm Girl Meats, Southern Jewells, The Root Cafe, West Markham Gardens and Sardis Gardens will set up at Whitewater Market on Saturday, 4/3, to raise money for transgender rights.

Some new additions to Me & McGee Market for the 2021 season include partnering with chef Josh Smith of the Southern Standard food truck, which will be exclusively located at Me & McGee during the market’s open hours.

The Downtown Little Rock Partnership announced that the SoMa Outdoor Dining Room will reopen Friday night after shutting down for the winter.

To celebrate Governor Hutchinson's lifting of the mask mandate, Fort Smith Brewing Company is throwing a public mask burning on Friday.

Ottenheimer Hall, the River Market's dining hall located at 400 President Clinton Ave., will welcome back its vendors on May 1 after being shuttered for a year as well.

A survey of some of our local favorites.