Sean Harrison looks back on a life of singing, songwriting
Sean Harrison: “I want to tell stories. And they might start out as completely fictional endeavors, but end up reflecting something from inside of me. For the …
Sean Harrison: “I want to tell stories. And they might start out as completely fictional endeavors, but end up reflecting something from inside of me. For the …
In Fort Smith, Jim Kreuz and John Lehnen have stepped up to document more than 200 houses in and around the city with their book "Homes With History: Fort Smit…
I took a risk the other day. I showed Carl Franklin's 1991 directorial debut "One False Move" to my LifeQuest class.
I try not to think about the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
For not the first time, the announcement of Oscar nominations caught me off guard last Tuesday. I was getting out of the car, about to hike into the newsroom, …
Kiley Reid's "Come & Get It" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $29) is sure to be of interest to Arkansas readers because it is set in Fayetteville, mostly in a (fictional)…
The Arkansas Cinema Society, to kick off its new "Sneak Series," is offering a free screening of Jonathan Glazer's film "The Zone of Interest" at the Arkansas …
Ava DuVernay's "Origin" is a movie about ideas, packaged as a drama, as a more or less conventional journey of self-discovery.
Last Friday morning, news came down that Sports Illustrated was on life support and not expected to make it through the quarter. The immediate reason was that …
"Winter is coming. Now. All of it."
Filmmaking is only part of Wilson's practice -- the Little Rock native is a multimedia artist whose work is "Southern (U.S.) apocalypticism, radical histories,…
One way to look at Gabriela Cowperthwaite's "I.S.S." is as a paranoid-claustrophobic workplace drama along the lines of John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982).
A certain kind of moviegoer is going to love Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's "Fallen Leaves," a comedy about the kind of basic lonely people who seldom figur…
"We Have Just Begun" has a place in the ongoing conversation about how we ought to remember and redress some of the terrible crimes of the past, crimes that ge…
Cottrell, who died on Jan. 1 at the age of 79, was a movie business legend, in that if you were in the movie business you knew about him. He was an independent…
The other night a friend summed up my ambivalence about Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Today on Celebrity Lawsuits, we explore how our world is enriched by things like Cameo.
In 2020, just as the covid-19 pandemic was getting rolling and we were all stuck in our houses craving balm for our souls, the giant guitar manufacturer Fender…
By custom, you are presumed dead if you are not heard from for seven years.
Knowing a bad person doesn't make you a bad person.
Karen tells me that when she swims she sometimes zones out by trying to remember all the cars she's owned in her life. Usually she forgets some. She's never ma…
For a few years I thought Ulysses S. Grant was a "slovenly drunk and a bad general" because a high school history teacher told us so.
It is said we're living in a golden or silver age of television, but I'm not sure I'm a fair judge of that.
The hot dogs at Franks weren't cheap -- but neither was he. They were popularly priced.
I've been following our Frank Lockwood's fine reporting on the regrettable situation at Immanuel Baptist Church, where in 2015, a church employee was accused o…
Divorce was rampant when I was a kid. It was a kind of primal fear, hard-wired into our brains.
Sometimes longevity is indicative of nothing other than stubbornness.
One way to look at Michael Mann's "Ferrari" is as an unauthorized prequel to 2019's "Ford v. Ferrari," James Mangold's crowd-pleasing semi-accurate account of …
A good writer of nonfiction once told me the reason he never attempted a novel was because "his taste was too good."
"Man is a creature who can get used to anything, and I believe that is the very best way of defining him."
The church is a black box. Windowless, metal and brick, somehow commercially grand and utilitarian all at once.
So, let's be clear: The following are books I think you ought to think about reading if you are interested in rewarding these kinds of books. These are not the…
Most times Shelton presents as an effervescent figure, one of those energetic souls who gets up early and accomplishes more before noon than some of us do all …
"The Boys in the Boat" is the sort of movie they don't make anymore -- the sort of movie that used to win Academy Awards and slip smoothly into our collective …
There are still a couple of weekends to go in the year, with at least seven major movies opening.
My latest ploy is just before bedtime to tell wonderful Yuletide stories to the kiddies about Santa turning at midnight into a hideous man-eating bat and the s…
We had one of our occasional get-togethers at the office the other afternoon; there were cupcakes, veggies and dips, and Christmas bonuses were handed out. It …
I turned out of the Arkansas PBS parking lot and drove about 100 yards before the SUV behind me hit its flashing blue lights.
Aziz Isa Elkun is a British poet and academic. He is also a Uyghur.
American humorist Charles Godfrey Leland was not quite a folklorist; he tended to embroider the stories he collected with touches of his own. He groomed myths …
There are lots of obscure artists, but Hot Springs-based David Malcolm Rose might be the most accomplished obscure artist in Arkansas.
For years it has been my habit to come into the office on Sunday to get a jump on the coming week.
According to a 2022 Forbes report, among the alumni of Harvard University there are 188 billionaires. This is more than any other school in the world.
"All I can really say about him is, you know, we loved him. We told him, fortunately, at any given opportunity, you know any time we had we always told him we …
"Now melodrama never makes me weep anymore ... "
"This is a true story. The events depicted took place in [location] in [year] ... "
Carol never had much business at the pawn shop, but sometimes he liked to stop in and talk to the owner and look at the watches on Saturday mornings. Carol had…
I expect my sister Jackie to be dead by the time you read this; I expect I will be making somber plans if I'm not already boarding a plane and flying off to do…
I was staying at the Westin