Philip Martin

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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: The case for anxiety I read Josh Snyder's story about the mental health of Arkansans last Sunday. It is interesting and sad, because it basically points out that we were worse off than just about anybody when it came ... September 26, 2023

OPINION | ON BOOKS: John Hunter book on band R.E.M. is big and impressive Arguing over pop music is a young person's game. It's like Paul Simon said: "Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts" and who we cherish is as likely an accident of birth an... September 24, 2023

The mystery of a man As part of Six Bridges Literary Festival, I'll be at the Ron Robinson Theater in downtown Little Rock at noon Thursday talking with New Yorker writer Ben McGrath about his 2022 book "Riverman... September 24, 2023

OPINION: Los Lobos is an American band The best rock 'n' roll show I ever saw was Los Lobos at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas on April 22, 1987.The band was at the height of its power, a finely calibrated, piston-slamming beast of... September 22, 2023

Talking Heads brilliant all over again in Demme’s ‘Stop Making Sense’ revival via IMAX It has been years since I've been to the Toronto International Film Festival, and most of the time I don't miss it. There's a lot of standing in line and jostling for position at the Press... September 22, 2023

OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Uncle Walt and Il Duce We were talking about Walt Disney and Benito Mussolini the other day.My friend swears he's seen the photograph: Disney and Mussolini, in Italy in 1931, giving the Fascist salute, extending their r... September 19, 2023

Five questions with zookeeper, musician Randal Berry Randal Berry is an interesting guy, an amateur historian who is one of the leading lay experts on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (and a vociferous critic of JFK assassination theories), founder ... September 17, 2023

A game that’s meaningless Imet Robert Redford in October 2000.I'd come to New York for a screening of his film "The Legend of Bagger Vance," and was scheduled to interview Redford (and Will Smith and Matt Damon a... September 17, 2023

Superstar Pola Negri dazzles after 100 years "Pola Negri comes to Yorkshire!"-- Lady Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern), remarking on the makeover of Lady Mary in a 2015 episode of "Downton Abbey"I never met the woman who considere... September 15, 2023

OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Coach Prime and the mandarins Part of me appreciates what Deion Sanders has accomplished with the University of Colorado Buffaloes football team. He's disrupted an institution that deserved it.The NCAA's noxious euphemism ... September 12, 2023