Daniel Grear

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As May comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes the Eat Arkansas team came across over the last month. Send us your favorite bites and food selfies from the last four weeks as we plan our June dining schedules. Honey chipotle sauce at Slader’s Alaskan Dumpling Co.After a last-minute invite to join a coworker for a night of trivia, I headed to Stone’s Throw Brewing and hoped they’d at least have a food truck outside where I could grab a bite.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Daniel Grear

In February, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre named Steve H. Broadnax III as its permanent artistic director. Now, it’s officially time for the public to see the man in action. Like Ken-Matt Martin, who held Broadnax’s position in an interim capacity and is now The Rep’s producing director, Broadnax is both a native of Little Rock and a graduate of Parkview Arts and ScienceMagnet High School.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Daniel Grear

Combine the extra time contained in each extended version of the three “Lord of the Rings” films and you get a whopping 125 minutes, amounting to pretty much a fourth movie’s worth of additional material. If that registers to you as more exciting than excessive, the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy is screening in its unsullied entirety at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Center in June, spread over three successive weekends.

2 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Daniel Grear

Join Cinema I/O, Little Rock’s “nomadic, non-profit microcinema,” for a special showing of Sam Raimi’s cult classic and directorial debut “The Evil Dead” (1981) in partnership with Madame Mae’s Horror Frights, a traveling group based in Wichita, Kansas, that programs all sorts of eccentric activities alongside beloved horror films.

3 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Daniel Grear

Curious about what became of the long-unhoused Little Rock icon known as Punk Rock Ian? When we last spoke with Ian in August, he was preparing for a show benefitting his recovery journey at White Water Tavern with his band, Lords of Rock Bottom. “It’ll be the first time I’ve played sober in … ever,” he told the Arkansas Times, an accomplishment that came after struggling with addiction and living on the streets of Little Rock for “eight or nine years.” He hadn’t performed live in nearly a decade.