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OA Best of and DVD Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:59:09 -0600

The Oxford American "Best of Issue" is out July 1. Like past installments, it's a mish-mash of odes to the weird and wonderful South —"the wildest river in America, jailhouse cuisine, skinny-dipping in the Big Easy, two larger-than-life world explorers, a Texas con man who discovers the biggest oil field in America, war art from the front lines, the best damn football book."

Plus, Times columnist Derek Jenkins has assembled a companion DVD that includes lost footage of Big Star, excerpts from the likes of Ed Pincus and Ray McKinnon and lots of zany, awesome looking other stuff.

I can't get enough of that Johnny Cash clip.

That's El Dorado native Richard Leo Johnson's music on the trailer.

Tuesday: Denny Malone, Magic Hassle, Girl in a Coma and more Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:34:53 -0600

Denny Malone.

Austin indie-folk-rocker Denny Malone is at White Water with American Princes side-project, Magic Hassle and local singer/songwriter Mandy McBryde, 10 p.m., donations.

At Sticky Fingerz, Texas' Girl in a Coma, which has opened for the likes of Frank Black and the Pogues, plays an angsty brand of alt-pop, 9:30 p.m., $5

The Arkansas River Blues Society celebrates its 24th anniversary with a big ol' blues jam at Juanita's, 9 p.m., $5.

John Miller and Steven Winter headline Bluesday Tuesday at the Afterthought, 8 p.m., free.

What's Cooking, June 26 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
There?s a new restaurant coming to booming downtown Conway.

New couple, same Italian Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
There wasn?t any need to change the name: Longtime restaurateurs Michael and Yuli Waters sold their restaurant, the Italian Couple, to another Italian couple, Claudio and Zarina Fornaris.

Mike Myers goes meta Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ah, Mike Myers, you?ve broken ground yet again, but I have questions.

June 4-10, 2008 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
It was a good week for ? BARACK OBAMA. The primary season completed, he claimed the Democratic Party?s nomination for president, the first black person to achieve a major party nomination

June 18-24, 2008 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
It was a good week for ? CONWAY. Hewlett Packard announced it would put a service center employing 1,200 people in Conway. The jobs in the service center are expected to pay about $20 an hour.

Cotter Girl Scouts help the environment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:25:00 EST
Cotter Girl Scout Troop 476 completes its first highway cleanup since adopting U.S Highway 62B in Cotter. The group collected six bags of garbage, of which they took one bag of plastic and one bag of metal to be recycled. Several items of interest they found were two golf balls, a spent shotgun shell, a smashed cell phone and an animal skull. Shown are (from left) Madeline Tucker, Shelli Graham, Judi Graham, Destinee Camacho, Rachel Rasmussen and Sunshine Tucker. They plan to clean the mile of adopted highway four times a year.

Family relieved son home safe Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:51:00 EST
Aiden Mullin was asleep on his father's shoulder Tuesday as his parents recounted their nightmare upon learning their child had been kidnapped from a Mountain Home day care facility.

Report: Millionaires up Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club.

Turn a sandwich into fun Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Put down that boring sandwich — yes, you, the one eating the same sandwich over and over again. There's a world of culinary delights out there; explore it. You may be busy, but sandwiches don't have to be blah. If you're in a rut, try these ideas:

Sweet to a ... Tea Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Nothing is more southern than sweet tea, a staple of many meals. Sweet tea is a specific form of iced tea where the sweetening agent (sugar, simple syrup or sugar substitute) is added to hot tea once it is brewed. Additional water is added later to make a sweetened iced tea.

L.G. Benton, 83 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
YELLVILLE — A funeral for L.G. Benton, 83, of Berryville will be 10 a.m. Friday at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Yellville. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Burns Funeral Home. Mr. Benton died Saturday, June 21, 2008.

Are we willing to change save Earth? Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Summer has arrived and with it a climate change/global warming debate that keeps getting hotter.

'Consumer confidence at 16-year low' Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Adam Zyglis

Errors plague Exterminators to loss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Paragould Glen Sain Ford took total advantage of 10 errors by Mountain Home Hopper Termite and turned a 3-3 game into a 14-3 victory Tuesday in Junior Legion baseball at Cooper Park.

Police uncover alleged motive for abduction Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:53:00 EST
A Norfork woman accused of abducting a 16-month-old child Monday from a Mountain Home day-care facility did not know the child's family but was fixated on having a baby, investigators said.

Veterans' home's status report Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:26:33 -0500
Today's the second anniversary of the day the Fayetteville Veterans Home took in its first patient.

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