Philip Martin

6 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Philip Martin

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. There’s a moment in Hal Ashby’s “Shampoo” (1975) where the camera floats with a detached observational air over Beverly Hills; it captures not the glimmering golden promise of 1960s America, but the rotting...

6 days ago | nwaonline.com | Philip Martin

Philip Martin has been a columnist and critic for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 1993. In that time, he has won more than 100 regional and statewide journalism prizes, including five Green Eyeshade awards, published six books and released eight albums of original music. He appears weekly on “The Zone” with Justin Acri and D.J. Williams on 103.7 FM in Little Rock.

6 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Philip Martin

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve known Christian Huisman since before he was old enough to drink. Even back then, it was clear he was going to be great at working with people. Now a career bartender with a decade in Little Rock’s service industry, Christian has become a cornerstone of the city’s cocktail and beer scene.

1 week ago | arkansasonline.com | Philip Martin

On the move? Let us read it for you. LISTEN NOW Your browser does not support the audio element. "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, blossoms in the summer, and fades away in October.""The Green Fields of the Mind" (1977)Baseball has always been my favorite sport, though I sometimes have trouble explaining why. It goes back to childhood--to summers spent with a scuffed Rawlings glove and a sandlot brewing by late morning.

1 week ago | arkansasonline.com | Philip Martin

On the move? Let us read it for you. LISTEN NOW Your browser does not support the audio element. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. There's a strange TV series called "Severance," where workers at the mysterious Lumon corporation have their minds surgically split in two: a Work Self (an "innie") and a Home Self (an "outie"), neither aware of what the other one does. It's a clean break, a partition in the brain. When you leave work, you really leave it.