Classics

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

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

It's time for a Road Trip!

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. 

How one of the world's foremost Beatles collectors died homeless on the streets of Little Rock.

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

From sexy camping to horseradish souffle.

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.

An oral history of the first 40 years.

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

The last of the real honky tonks.

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.

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.

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.

High school alums celebrate their 45th class anniversaries with reunions, why not us? We’re celebrating our sapphire year by looking outward, rather than inward, with stories that reflect the times. Here’s the way we were (the most popular song of 1974, by the way), the way we went and the way we are now, year by year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steve Barnes is surely the most familiar face in Arkansas political news.

Three men. Thirty years. The story.

Rare woodpecker gives science, struggling towns, new hope.