News entertainment 2008-06-15 Andanh.com

The Weekend: Silverton, Hey Penny, Chris Denny Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:05:26 -0600

Silverton.

FRIDAY

It's Second Friday Art Night, 5-8 p.m. More here.

At Juanita's, popular folk-rockers Silverton perform with Notion and Nashville indie-poppers Hey Penny, who have Arkansas connections, 10 p.m.

The Hot Springs Music Festival continues with the Festival Chamber Players Potpourri at the Hot Springs Fieldhouse, 7:30 p.m., $10.

Texas alt-rockers the Feds headline at the Village with the Underwater and Sean Michele.

Singer/songwriter Michael Jonathon performs at Studio Joe, 8 p.m., $10.

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tonya Leeks plays the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7.

The Travs continue their home stand against the Drillers, 7:10 p.m., $6-$10.

SATURDAY

Local folk wunderkind Chris Denny performs with his band the Old Soles at Cornerstone Pub, 9 p.m., $5. Judson Spillyards, of Mammoth Orange, makes his Old Soles debut.

The Hot Springs Music Festival concludes with the Festival Symphony Orchestra playing selections from Mahler and Tchaikovsky at the Hot Springs Fieldhouse, 7:30 p.m., $15.

Memphis throwbacks the Dempseys play Sticky Fingerz, 9 p.m.

The Intruders bill themselves as “purveyors of blues, rock, reggae, New Orleans funk and classic dance tunes.” They're at Cajun's, 9 p.m., $5.

Jazz man William Staggers returns to the Afterthought, 9 p.m., $7.

The Travs take on the Drillers, 7:10 p.m., $6-$10, and the Twisters do battle with Lubbock at Alltel, 7 p.m., $11-$28.

Friday To-Do: The Chill Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:04:16 -0600

Slow flow.

THE CHILL
9 p.m., Revolution. $10.

There are talented musicians all over the place in Central Arkansas, but nowhere is musical success tied to the rigors of capitalism like within local hip-hop. A sizeable majority of local artists aspires to live off their music; several even do. No one, locally, thinks more about the business of music than Chane “Epiphany” Morrow, the rapper who fronts the live hip-hop band One Night Stand and heads the local label Conduit Entertainment. The Stanford-educated 28-year-old has elaborate philosophies on everything from hosting parties to targeting demographics when selling mixtapes. On Friday, he celebrates the launch of his biggest endeavor yet, IAmTheLife.net, a promotional website that will highlight the evolving careers of six local acts. Specific details remained closely guarded at press time, but Epiphany has promised the site will include interactive elements, video and downloadable music. The featured artists include Epiphany, Suga City, DK and Souljah T, 607, Carteaire Custom and Sean West. At “The Chill,” the regular concert series Epiphany organizes, Epiphany and One Night Stand perform with 607 and, for the first time in months, slow-roll duo Suga City. DJ Discipline mans the turntables. There's bound to be audio/visual presentations.

The official release won't be a the show. There'll probably just be talk about it.

Friday To-Do: The Drams / Glossary Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:55:30 -0600

The Drams.

THE DRAMS/GLOSSARY
9 p.m., White Water Tavern. $6.

Years before Ben Nichols smoked his millionth cigarette, gravelling his voice to its current phlegmatic depths, there was Brent Best, who fronted a band that sounded as guttural and down-and-out as its name — Slobberbone. For somewhere around a decade, the group, based in Denton, Texas, toured tirelessly and released four albums that got lumped in the '90s alt-country movement, mostly as a consequence of geography. Best's growl came with a West Texas twang, but otherwise the band was stylistically all over the place — messy, Replacements-style bar rock, ruminative folk, with rooftop horns, keyboards, tuba and harmonica featured liberally. Now after a post-Slobberbone hiatus, three-fourths of the group, including Best and guitarist Jess Barr and drummer Tony Harper, have come together as the Drams. They sound an awful lot like Slobberbone, if a little poppier. Fans of bands like Lucero, the Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers, take note. In what's becoming a calling card for White Water, the venue has the Drams playing a two-night stand with Glossary, another band that often unjustifiably gets tagged as alt-country. In the last year, the Murfreesboro rockers have built up a sizeable following with repeated visits to the tavern. Locally revered singer/songwriter Kevin Kerby, who grew up in Texas with Best, opens the show.

The American Princes play tour-guide Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:44:00 -0600

The American Princes' two front dudes contribute a round-up of their favorite spots in Little Rock for Aquarium Drunkard's recurring Off the Record feature. They represent admirably. The Big Dam Bridge, White Water, Sims and Pinnacle Mountain all get mentions.

And:

The House With No Windows, Rock St. :: Now, this is actually no longer around, so I’m un-sportingly telling you of a Little Rock That Once Was, but this place was awesome enough to deserve a mention. Decades ago, this insane owner of several area pawn shops decided that anyone walking by his house would be tempted to rob him of his ill gotten gains (which, I guess, he stored at his house). Rather than installing bars or a security system, he walled in his entire home with a brick facade so that it looked like a normal two story house, only with no windows. It was so unspeakably creepy. Naturally, in high school, it was a great place to skulk around, My best friend and I convinced ourselves it was a vampire den. A few years ago, they ripped up the facade and now it’s just another boring building, but for a time, it was a weirdness unlike anything I’d ever come across.

More.

Summer jams Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:52:34 -0600

The best spooky, late-night summer jam ever.

Rock Candy homie Corporal Bubonic is returning to the airwaves tonight after a three week hiatus. He usually does the 10 p.m.-midnight slot on KABF 88.3 every other Thursday. Tonight, he tells me, is all about summer jams, past and present, evocative and literal.

Which is a good jumping off point to ask, what makes a good summer jam?

Mentioning summer helps. See countless iterations of "Summertime" (but not the Fresh Prince one), Springsteen's Magnetic Fields-ish "Girls in the Summer Clothes" (a sub-topic worthy of entire mixes) and Kool and the Gang's Moog-awesome "Summer Madness."

The Beach Boys, obviously. Or more broadly, maximalist pop. Like muti-part harmonies, lush orchestration, lots of hooks, sunny dispositions. So: Phil Spector, Van Dyke Parks, Jan and Dean, the Elephant 6 bands, Caribou, the New Pornographers, etc. etc.

Ubiquity, but in a way that takes a while to get terrible. Vulture and Idolator and are doing "Umbrella" watches and Summer Jam Tournaments, series of posts that try to guess what this year's summer jam is going to be. No, no, no to "Love in the Club." Yes, yes, yes to "American Boy."

Thoughts? Or favorite summer jams?

Check, too, the Soul Sides spin-off, Soul Summer, for a diverse mix of summer related mp3s.

Thursday: John West, Randy Kohrs, Eli Young Band and more Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:30:09 -0600

John West.

Acoustic soul man John West dips down South (he's from L.A.) for a mini-tour that brings him to Crush Wine Bar, 8 p.m., $5. Upscale Underground hosts. Lydell Williams opens.

Renowned producer and guitarist Randy Kohrs brings his country band to Juanita's with Indian Rodeo, 9 p.m., $10.

From Denton, Texas, the Eli Young Band specializes in catchy country-pop. They play Revolution, 8 p.m., $10. Jeff Coleman opens.

Oklahoma-based cover act Full Flava Kings comes to Cajun's, 9 p.m., $5.

The Weekend Theater hosts its annual gala, featuring performance of “Sweeney Todd,” 6:30 p.m., $50, reservations.

The Hot Springs Music Festival, a worldwide showcase of musicians from all over the world, continues through Saturday. Tonight, at the First Christian Church, there's a family concert featuring Tuba Todd & Friends, 6 p.m., $5. Also, at the Hot Springs Fieldhouse, the Festival Chamber Orchestra performs, 7:30 p.m., $15.

The Travs take on the Drillers at Dickey-Stephens, 7:10 p.m., $6-$10.

Bard season Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:56:01 -0600

Tis that time of the year again. For the second summer in a row, the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival takes the stage in Reynolds Performance Hall in Conway for two weeks of family entertainment.

The line-up includes “The Tempest,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Sound of Music” and the children's comedy “The Arkansaw Bear."

The season kicks off tonight with “The Sound of Music” at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for individual performances are $25, except showings of “The Arkansaw Bear,” which are $5. Season tickets range from $24 to $60. For a complete schedule, go here.

More on the festival.

Wednesday: 'Rocky,' the Heat Machine, Oh No Not Stereo and... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:33:44 -0600

Find out why people are always saying, "Yo, Adrian!" and running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tonight at sundown at the Rivermarket Amphitheater as part of Movies in the Park. Free.

"Putting the SKA in Nebraska," the Heat Machine bop into Sticky Fingerz, 9:30 p.m., $5. With your favorite morbid punk-rockers, Ace Spade and the Whore's of Babylon opening.

At Juanita's, Cali alt-rockers Oh No Not Stereo headline with Rigby Fawkes and Appetite for Orange opening.

Wednesday To-Do: Demon Hunter / Living Sacrifice Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:16:04 -0600

Hating the devil.

DEMON HUNTER/ LIVING SACRIFICE
7:30 p.m., the Village. $17 adv., $20 d.o.s.

Spiritual warfare is serious business. At least for the legions of fans of the Christian metalcore band Demon Hunter who have the group's symbol, a demon skull (sort of like a goat's) with a bullet through it, tattooed on them. Or maybe it just looks hard. The lines are easily blurred in the Christian death metal scene, where melody is important, but only as a counterpoint to sonic annihilation, where songs are about faith, but are sung incomprehensibly. It may not square for you, but you better believe that the Village will be packed to the brim on Wednesday. Demon Hunter comes to town with Living Sacrifice, historically one of Little Rock's most popular acts. In fact, because of Living Sacrifice, Little Rock was the epicenter of the Christian metalcore movement in the '90s. Apart for five years, the band has reformed, with not quite the original line-up, but one that's not likely to draw any complaints. In the same ilk, Oh Sleeper, the Famine and Advent open.

'Wake the Dead' Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:34:18 -0600

North Little Rock native Jay Russell is moving away from family fare like “My Dog Skip” and “The Waterhorse.” Variety reports that the director is slated to helm “Wake the Dead,” a modern retelling of “Frankenstein” based on Steve Niles' graphic novel of the same name.

Tonight: Chase Pagan, free film, Big John Miller Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:17:31 -0600

Chase Pagan.

Indie yelper Chase Pagan continues to tour ceaselessly behind his debut 2007 "Oh, Musica." If you like his show tonight at White Water, 9 p.m., donations, you can catch him in Wynne, his hometown, for Farmfest on Saturday.

It's Bluesday Tuesday at the Afterthought, with blue-eyed crooner Big John Miller and Steven Winter, 8 p.m., free.

Florida alt-metal act Another Black Day is at Juanita's with Psychosys, 9 p.m., $8. All ages.

At the Darragh Center in the Main Library, the Arkansas State Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System presents the BBC documentary "Hearing Voices: Approaches to Managing Psychosis," 6 p.m., free.

'Shotgun Stories' on DVD Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:09:23 -0600

Own it on July 1.

Alan Disaster is having a good month. First, the mini-tour with Green Day. Now, he makes it on the front of the DVD.

Pop! in the Park Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:51:11 -0600

Yes!

More diverse local bills!

History Pavilion is brick, arbor-looking thing adjacent to the Junction Bridge. The Indian Head is inside.

Tuesday To-Do: Indigo Girls Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:44:54 -0600

INDIGO GIRLS
8 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall. $27.75-$37.75.

The female bonding continues. If the male-female ratio at the opening weekend of “Sex and the City” was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1:200, expect similar numbers at Tuesday's concert. (Maybe there'll be a demographic shift from the coutured-up to the hemped-out. Maybe I'll get sucker punched for pigeonholing.) Of all the acts to rise out of the late '80s folk revival — 10,000 Maniacs, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega — the Indigo Girls have managed to stay relevant the longest. Now more than 20 years into their career, Emily Saliers and Amy Ray still thrive off a pretty simple recipe: two guitars, harmony, literate lyrics and diverse influences (Saliers comes from the Joni Mitchell tradition; Ray draws from more abrasive influences, like the Jam and Husker Du). The duo's latest, 2006's “Despite Our Difference,” finds them crafting some of their strongest and most raucous material in years. Up-and-coming folky Brandi Carlile, whose latest album, “The Story,” was produced by T. Bone Burnett, opens the concert.

Twin Lakes Classic Quarterfinal Scores Update 3:30 p.m. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:42:00 EST
Scores from Saturday's quarterfinals of the 2008 Brooks Robinson Twin Lakes Classic at Cooper Park.

Mountain Home edges Miller, Mo., in Classic Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:20:00 EST
The Mountain Home Lockeroom overcame seven errors and only managing three hits to post an 8-7 win over the Miller, Mo. 39ers Friday night at Cooper Park to end their run in the Twin Lakes Classic on a winning note.

Better than a tie Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:30:00 EST
Cam Cardow / The Ottawa Citizen

Father's Day gift: Soldier home for son's birth Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:30:00 EST
Cody Phillips doesn't have anything planned for Father's Day.

Joseph E. Arnold, 91 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
A funeral for Joseph E. Arnold, 91, of Mountain Home will be 2 p.m. today at Roller Funeral Home. Mr. Arnold died Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

LRC defeats Mountain Home Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Four costly errors doomed the Mountain Home Lockeroom to a 7-2 loss to the Little Rock Continental Express and an 0-2 mark in Pool A play late Thursday night in the Twin Lakes Classic at Cooper Park.

Leader needed, not mumbler Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:33:00 EST
The last thing America needs is another four years of listening to a president mumble. I don't care how great the man is otherwise, and a quick look at the amazing progress in present-day Iraq accomplished by the president reveals a greatness that offends liberals, but if he's a mumbler that's what he'll be seen as.

Blanchard Springs Caverns only a short trip away Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:29:00 EST
About an hour away from Mountain Home is a whole new underground world — Blanchard Springs Caverns where the temperature is always 58 degrees with almost 100 percent humidity, no matter what the weather is like outside.

William Leroy Bell, 69 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
A funeral for William Leroy Bell, 69, of Flippin will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Grace Baptist Church. Visitation will be noon until the service time at the church. Mr. Bell died Thursday, June 12, 2008.

Searcy, LR Blues post victories Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Searcy Crain Automotive improved to a 2-1 mark in Pool B play with a 9-8 win over the Texarkana, Texas, Indians Friday on the final day of pool play in the Twin lakes Classic at Twin Lakes Park.

CALENDAR Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:18:00 -0500
Art & Exhibits CENTRAL ARKANSAS AEROSPACE EDUCATION CENTER 3301 E. Roosevelt Road. Oasis in Space program. Hours: 7, 8 and 9 p.m.

MUSIC: A man, a plan, a banjo - bingo! Folk singer Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:18:00 -0500
Some folk singers come to their calling naturally, while others make a deliberate choice. Most famously, Gillian Welch did so, despite her Southern California upbringing. Then there’s the case of Michael Johnathon — a self-described folk singer, songwriter and tree hugger — who also elected to pursue folk music after hearing one song that changed his life.

RESTAURANTS: Pizza-and-salad crowd goes gaga over ZaZa Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:17:00 -0500
ZaZa already needs more tables and chairs to handle the throngs descending upon this stylishly casual salad and pizza spot since it opened last month in the former Heights Theater along Kavanaugh Boulevard.

MUSIC SCENE: Cowboy Mouth opens wide on Peabody rooftop Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:17:00 -0500
New Orleans rockers Cowboy Mouth return to central Arkansas to perform at tonight’s Peabody RiverTop Party at the Peabody Hotel, Markham and Louisiana streets, Little Rock.

MUSIC: Chill’s ‘Influences Edition’ weds the old, new Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:16:00 -0500
The big draw for the June installment of the Chill, the regular showcase staged by Conduit Entertainment, would seem to be the opportunity to hear Little Rock’s first names in rap take their new material out for a spin and show what it can do.

Transitions Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:12:00 -0500
The Ryan’s Family Steak House, formerly the Fire Mountain Grill, 4000 Springhill Plaza Court, off East McCain Boulevard, North Little Rock, has closed.

Hulk wimps out Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:35:00 -0500
Ever since receiving a massive dose of gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) has had to curb his emotions lest he morph into an angry green giant.

ON FILM: Summer is season for adding machine Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:35:00 -0500
In 1928, when the population of the U.S. was 120 million, 65 million movie tickets were sold each week. Now, fewer than one in 10 Americans goes to the movies in any given week.

REVIEW: The Happening Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:34:00 -0500
If water naturally gravitates toward the lowest point it can find, then perhaps with The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan has reached his true depth as a filmmaker.

FILM CLIPS Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:33:00 -0500
70 BABY MAMA, PG-13 Tina Fey plays a successful executive who, when she finds out she’s unlikely to be able to get pregnant, hires a rowdy surrogate mother (Amy Poehler).

COMING ATTRACTIONS Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:28:00 -0500
(opening dates are tentative) Deal, PG-13 An ex-gambler (Burt Reynolds) becomes first a mentor and then a competitor for a cocky Texas hold’em-playing Yale senior (Bret Harrison).

REVIEW: Priceless Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:26:00 -0500
Priceless is slight and sweet as a meringue, an insubstantial and surprisingly chaste French sex farce set on the Riviera. It’s cute, full of sunshine and enjoyably free of American-style prudery.

MUSIC: Thomas’ Starship lands Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:16:00 -0500
Starship Starring Mickey Thomas will be the headliner in the latest concert of the 2008 summer series at Timberwood Amphitheater at Magic Springs & Crystal Falls theme park in Hot Springs this weekend.

MUSIC: Pete Morton back at Folk Club Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:14:00 -0500
The Little Rock Folk Club is bringing back one of its members’ favorite singersongwriter-guitarists, Pete Morton, who will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Thomson Hall at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1818 Reservoir Road, Little Rock.

MUSIC: Innovative Mates of State are a singular duo Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:43:00 -0500
Mates of State have no connection to the U.S. State Department, but they do admit to be being mates in the marital sense.

Students taking notes Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:57:00 -0500
You can’t always judge a music academy by its cover.

Gabriel Stephen Gentry Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:40:56 -0500
Gabe Gentry was so enthralled as he listened to the World War II veteran sitting next to him on a bus 10 years ago in Washington that he felt compelled to preserve that Arkansan’s memories for future generations.

Jason Bourne outsourced Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:53:48 +0000
Privatizing Intelligence

Daddy Warbucks Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:51:09 +0000
Tyson does the right thing

On the Aisle Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:36:53 +0000
Sex and the City

Film Times Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:35:42 +0000
Film Times are for Friday, June 13th through Thursday, June 19th.

Highlights Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:29:31 +0000
Chactow Bingo, Deadbird, Bloomers and Wings

8 Days A Week Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:26:38 +0000
Wine and Roses

Live Music & Clubs Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:23:19 +0000
Live music in clubs and restaurants around NWA

Artist of the Week Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:11:52 +0000
Kate Barger

E Wine of the Week Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:03:59 +0000
Riesling Revival: A refreshing warm weather wine

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