Classics

A look back at the weird and wonderful world of Bob Lancaster.

Arkansas Times Recommends is a weekly series on our blog Rock Candy in which Times staff members (or whoever happens to be around at the time) highlight things we've been enjoying lately. This edition is for the hordes of students returning to classes this month.

'Blaze' film makes a name for a Malvern songwriting legend — and now it's all different for Ben Dickey, the Little Rock musician who portrays him onscreen.

This is the story of how the Little Rock landmark came to be and how it persists as told by staff, friends and customers.

A look back at the highs and lows of the last two decades, through the eyes of the Arkansas Times.

The man in the middle of Arkansas's vast public corruption scandal.

What the Affordable Care Act means to the people who need it the most in Arkansas.

All the stories fit to print (and some that probably aren't) about the legendary dive bar.

Sue Cowan Morris won the battle to equalize pay of black and white teachers. It cost her her job.

A witness murdered, a drug ring exposed, a snake in a box.

A lawsuit seeking $75,000 in damages was filed last week in Pulaski Circuit Court by Brooks Jansen, a former valet at the Capital Hotel, over the actions of a visiting Canadian investment tycoon, Michael Wekerle.

It's time for a Road Trip!

Portis accepting the Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature award. Photo by Rett Peek.

Police, former gang members, city leaders look back at Little Rock's gang wars.

An oral history of the first 40 years.

Rep. Justin Harris blames DHS for the fallout related to his adoption of three young girls, but sources familiar with the situation contradict his story and paint a troubling picture of the adoption process and the girls' time in the Harris household.

Asa Hutchinson wants voters to keep politics and religion apart in his campaign for the Senate. Will we? Should We?

The fight over the herbicide dicamba has cost one man his life and turned neighbor against neighbor in East Arkansas.

The Tyrannosaurus Chicken frontwoman talks cacti acoustics, korma and craft.

Some photographs are worth revering because they imply a sense of motion. Matt White’s photographs are worth revering because they imply a pause.

In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of people whose families had abandoned them. Courage, love and the 30-year secret of one little graveyard in Hot Springs. 

From sexy camping to horseradish souffle.

Rare woodpecker gives science, struggling towns, new hope.

Okay, I’m just going to say it. Jay “Sweet Tea” Grelen, the columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, might have a problem. I’m not saying it’s a big problem, or even an uncommon problem. But still, it’s a problem.