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Left to right: New sidewalk mural at Capitol and Center painted by Terre Tollet and Mandi Houk for Drain Smart. "Lazy River Cats."
At 6t & Center check out "Calling Down the Rain" by Larry Crane, also for Drain Smart.
The kids steal the show at City Year Little Rock's Red Jacket Ball Thursday evening!
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River Market District
May 14, 17. 21: Little Rock's Farmers' Market kicks off its 42nd year in the River Market pavilions with all-new programs, vendors and more! Open Tuesdays and Saturdays through fall.
Learn more.
May 14: Music & Fun with the Kinders, CALS Main Library, 10:30 a.m.
May 14: Star Wars Science, Museum of Discovery, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Recreating and exploring the science found in the Star Wars movies! Hands-on family event for all ages. Regular museum admission.
May 14: International Migratory Bird Day Program: Spread Your Wings for Bird Conservation, Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Features Arkansas birds.
Learn more.
May 14: Love Yourz Music Nite, Zin Wine Bar, 300 River Market Avenue, 9 p.m. With Rodney Block Collective. Reserve seating $15, general admission $10.
Learn more.
May 15: IndiaFest 2016, River Market Pavilions and Amphitheater, 11 a.m.- 7 p.m.
Learn more.
May 19: 2016 Little Rock Regional Chamber Taste of the Rock, River Market Pavilions, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sample the region's best food and drink.
Tickets here or $20 at the gate, space permitting.
May 20: The Gun Show Southern Art Exhibition, Cache Restaurant & Lounge, 6 p.m.. General admission for opening reception $50. Learn more.
May 20: Charlie Rich Jr. and Sonny Burgess & the Legendary Pacers, Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m. $15 general admission. Charlie Rich Jr. will perform a tribute to his Grammy Award-winning father, Charlie Rich, and Sonny Burgess & the Legendary Pacers will present their signature rock music. Learn more.
May 21: Grease, Ron Robinson Theater, 2 p.m. $5.
May 21: Weekend at Bernie's, Ron Robinson Theater, 7 p.m. Tickets $5.
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MacArthur Park
Historic District
May 18: Movies at MacArthur: 16 Photographs at Ohrdruf, MacArthur Museum of Arkansas
Military History, 503 E. Ninth, 
6:30-8:30 p.m. With only a small stack of his grandfather's photos
for guidance, filmmaker Matthew Nash tries to understand a family secret that began on April 4, 1945. Special facilitator-Peter Hartstein, child of the Holocaust. Free. May 20-22: Peter Pan, Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre. Presented by Arkansas Festival Ballet; Rebecca M. Stalcup, artistic director. Learn more.
May 21: Pop! Beaux Arts Ball, Arkansas Arts Center
, 9th & Commerce, 7 p.m. New Portrait of a Patron (POP) event. Honoring Jeane Hamilton, Windgate Charitable Foundation and Winthrop Rockfeller (posthumous). Music by Arkansas Symphony Big Band.
Learn more.
May ongoing:
Stone's Throw Brewing, 402 E. 9th...
Tuesdays, 4-9 p.m., Hops & Hope fundraiser for Preserve Arkansas
Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Better With Beer Free Movie Series
Thursdays, Arkie Pub Trivia
Saturdays, Randall Beer Infusion
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Argenta Arts District
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In Downtown North Little Rock. For more information
link here.
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May 13: Arkansas Times Firkin Fest, benefits Argenta Arts District, Argenta Plaza, 520 Main Street. What's a firkin?
Link here for more.
May 13-June 18: Rednecks in Spandex, The Joint, Fridays and Saturdays. $22, reservations recommended.
Learn more.
May 13: American Craft Beer Week Kickoff, Flyway Brewing, 314 Maple Street, 4 p.m. Benefits Arkansas Brewers Guild.
May 14: Argenta Farmers Market/Certified Arkansas Farmers Market. Open every Saturday, 7 a.m.-12 noon, 6th and Main Street NLR. Free parking. Located in front of the NLR Trolley Warehouse.
May 14: New Dogtown Farmers' Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Parking lot next to Argenta Branch Library.
May 14: Legends in Argenta, 6th and Main.
Learn more.
May 20: Celebrate the Grape Wine, Food & Jazz Festival, Argenta Plaza, 6-9 p.m. Presented by
Arkansas Times. Benefits Argenta Arts District. Sponsored by North Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Learn more.
Ongoing: Arkansas Travelers Baseball, Burns Park, check the schedule
here.
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Verizon Arena
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In Downtown North Little Rock,
1 Verizon Arena Way. For ticket information
link here (Verizon Arena) or here (Ticketmaster).
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| May 18 Dave Matthews Band June 11 Erykah Badu with Rickey Smiley On sale May 13 June 12 Brit Floyd-Space and Time Continuum World Tour 2016 June 25 Steely Dan & Steve Winwood July 16 Maxwell Summer Tour with Fantasia and Ro James July 29 I Love the 90's-featuring Vanilla Ice, Salt-n-Pepa with Spinderella, Kid'n Play, Tone Loc, Rob Base and Young MC August 17 Journey and The Doobie Brothers August 19 Outcry September 9 Dixie Chicks October 18 Five Finger Death Punch & Shinedown March 3, 2017 Twenty One Pilots |
Downtown Runs
May 14: 2016 Bridging the Gap: HIV/AIDS Walk, 7:30-11:30 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center. Benefits Arkansas Aids Foundation. Learn more.
June 11: Tenth Annual AMI Walks, Arkansas Travelers, Dickey Stephens Park, North Little Rock. Benefits The BridgeWay and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Learn more.
October 22: Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Arkansas.
Learn more.
March 4-5, 2017: Little Rock Marathon. Benefits Little Rock Parks and Recreation. Learn more.
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June 3-5: Riverfest!, Riverfront Park. Learn more.
June 10: Feast in the Field, Heifer International.
Learn more.
June 18: Juneteenth, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free and open to the public. Interest vendors should email Brian Rodgers.
July 4: Free Day at
Clinton Presidential Center
September 10 Little Rock Paper Airplane Championship, Clinton Presidential Park, benefits Lymphomaniac Society. For sponsorship information email Griffin Coop.
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September 24: Main Street Food
Truck Festival.
For more information contact Chellie Longstreth, Downtown Little Rock Partnership
Events Director 375-0121 or email.
November 12: Opus Ball, debut of newly renovated Robinson Center ballroom.
Learn more.
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Downtown Notes
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Pulaski Technical College board of trustees unanimously approved on Wednesday a motion to enter into a formal partnership with the University of Arkansas System. The UA System will in turn consider the merger at their board meeting May 25-26. Learn more. (Arkansas Business)
A press conference on Monday at 5 p.m. will be held by the Venture Center naming 10 startups from around the world who will participate in the upcoming VC Fin Tech Accelerator program.
Learn more.
(Arkansas Business)
The City of Little Rock will be considering the rezoning of the Donaghey Building at Main and Seventh streets on May 17 for a project that will include apartments. Learn more. (KATV)
Millie Ward,
Stone Ward, was honored by the Rotary Club of Little Rock this week as its
2016 Business and Professional Leader
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of the Year. She also received the club's highest civic honor, the Sidney M. Brooks Fellow medal and certificate. She currently serves on the Venture Center's Board of Directors and has been an early supporter of The Venture Center since it was founded. She is a past president of Downtown Little Rock Partnership.
Movies in the Park in the River Market will kick off June 8 with Monsters University. Also in the summer lineup announced this week are Guardians of the Galaxy, Brewster's Millions, Lego Movie, The Campaign, Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol, Dirty Dancing, and Captain America: The First Avenger. Learn more. (Little Rock Soiree)
Summer reading on your "to do" list? Check those books or movies out at CALS and enter for a $100 gift card (drawn monthly) or year end grand prize...a weekend getaway to an Arkansas State Park and a Yeti ice chest stuffed with travel goodies.
Learn more.
Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects' design of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library and Learning Center in Little Rock has been honored in the American Institute of Steel Construction's annual awards.
Learn more.
(Arkansas Business)
Mural masterpieces in downtown Little Rock and around are on the increase. Little Rock Family features 6 of these "urban canvases" that you need to check out! Link here.
Congratulations to 40 Under 40 2016 honorees who are DLRP members: Scot Carver, AT&T; Chris East, Cromwell Architects Engineers; Christian O'Neal, UALR; and Bill Pendergist, Flake & Kelley Commercial. Tickets for the awards luncheon on June 22 can be ordered here.
Juice Leaf has opened at 402 Louisiana, hours 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Breakfast, lunch and smoothies! Make a healthy stop and try the Brain Blast, Mango-Berry Smoothie, Pear Ginger Water, California Hash and much more! The restaurant is a new Downtown Little Rock Partnership member. Welcome to downtown!
Preserve Arkansas announced
Arkansas's Most Endangered Historic Places this week and included the Ray House (1917) at 2111 Cross Street, the KATV Building (1929) on 401 Main Street and the Mosaic State Temple Building (1921), 906 Broadway.
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Around Downtown
May 13-21: A Piece of My Heart, The Weekend Theater, 1001 W. 7th. Powerful, true drama of six women who went to Vietnam. Learn more.
May 13: Empty Bowls, Statehouse Convention Center, 6 p.m., benefits Arkansas Foodbank. Tickets at the door.
May 13: Organ Concert with Alex Gilson, First Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. Gilson is the organ scholar at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas.
May 13: Second Friday Art Night around downtown at participating businesses and organizations, 5-8 p.m.:
BUTLER CENTER GALLERIES
401 President Clinton Avenue, 320-5790
Exhibitions: Culture Shock-- Shine Your Rubies, Hide Your Diamonds; Jeanfo: We Belong to Nature; Twists & Strands: Exploring the Edges. Music by DJ Harlem James.
COX CREATIVE CENTER
120 River Market Avenue, 918-3093
Little Rock Young Artists Student Art Show. Thru May 28
ARKANSAS CAPITAL CORPORATION GROUP
200 River Market Avenue, Suite 400
Exhibitions: Naturals: Artworks by Virmarie Depoyster; Heidi Hogden; Logan Hunter and Anna Sheals. Robert Bean, Curator
COPPER GRILL, 300 Third Tower, 375-3333 Supports
Second Friday Art Night.
HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM
200 E. Third Street, 324-9351
Opening Reception for Robert Lemming & Louis Watts. Live music by Marchese Hendricks Project, featuring Jessica Lauren. Arkansasmade beer from Bubba Brew's Brewing Co.
MATT MCLEOD FINE ART GALLERY 108 W. 6th, Main Street Creative Corridor, 725-8508, mattmcleod.com
Collection of drawings, paintings, and sculpture from some of the country's leading artists.
May 14: ALS in Wonderland Presents Neverland, Alber Pike Masonic Center, 712 Scott, 6:30-9 p.m., benefits ALS.
Learn more.
May 19: Something "Blue", Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott Street, 7 p.m. With the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Ticket information here.
 May 20-27: Ditch the Keys Week in Arkansas. Commit to cleaner air in central Arkansas by using alternate modes of transportation. Learn more.
May 20: Aldersgate After Dark Live, Clinton Presidential Center, 7-11 p.m., Benefits Camp Aldersgate. Learn more.
May 21: Bridge to the Future, Clinton Presidential Center, 10-2.
Free community festival presented by
Clinton Presidential Center in partnership with Hippy Arkansas and Special Olympics Arkansas.
May 21-22: Yay! Yoga with Kino MacGregor, The Dreamland Ballroom,
800 W. 9th Street. Instructor of Ashtanga Yoga.
Learn more.
May 24: 53rd Annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner, Just Communities of Arkansas,
Statehouse Convention Center, Wally Allen Ballroom, 6 p.m. Benefits JCA, honoring Jerry Adams, Hugh McDonald and Sophia Said. Learn more.
May 24: Conversation with Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased, Clinton Presidential Center, 6 p.m. Story of Garrard Conley from a small town in Arkansas, who silently struggled with his sexuality. Outed to his parents at nineteen, he faced an ultimatum: go to Love in Action, the largest conversion therapy organization in the country, and be "cured" of his homosexuality, or risk losing his family, friends, and church community. He went. Open to public, free;
reservations only here.
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Main Street Creative Corridor
May 13, 20: Main Street Food Truck Fridays,
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orner of Main and Capitol,10:30-1:30. Fridays thru June 17. For updated food truck participation and menus link here.
May 20-22: Under the Lights with Ballet Arkansas, Arkansas Repertory Theatre,. Annual spring mixed-repertory show featuring an eclectic group of works of various dance styles including Nashville Ballet dancer Christ Stuarts' Under the Lights, set to Johnny Cash sons performed live by Nashville band Sugar+The Hi-Lows. Learn more.
May 21: Arvest Little Rock Gran Fondo. Main and Markham, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn more.
May 21: Evening at the Garden 2016, Urban Garden Montessori, 610 Main, 7-10 p.m. Music, food and wine. Silent auction. Benefits Urban Garden Montessori, presented by the Urban Garden Montessori Parents Association. Learn more.
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SoMa (South Main)
And the SoMa neighborhoods of the Quapaw Quarter: Governor's Mansion and Pettaway
Ongoing: South on Main Events (link here for details)--
May 13: Bijoux, 10 p.m.
May 13: Lunchtime in the Garden with AHA!, 12 noon to 1 p.m., The Bernice Garden. Come-as-you-are Yoga. $5 Learn more.
May 14: Bernice Garden Farmer's Market, 1401 W. Main, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
May 14: South Main Vintage and Craft Market, The Bernice Garden, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
May 19: Beyond Cotton and ESSE, Esse Purse Museum, 6-7 p.m. Cocktail party and fashion extravaganza "Around the World." Learn more.
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Clinton School of Public Service
All events are free and at Sturgis Hall unless noted otherwise. Reservations are requested by email or calling 683-5239. Link here to learn more about each event.
May 19: The Sustainable Development Goals and What They Mean for Africa," Robin Sanders. Sanders is the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and the Republic of Congo, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and former director of the Africa National Security Council at the White House. She currently serves as CEO of FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative, which focuses on food security, education, environment, economic development and self-help projects, particularly in Africa.
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A snapshot of temporary exhibits offered at museums and other organizations and businesses throughout downtown. For more information and hours click the museum or gallery name.
9th & Commerce, MacArthur Park
Free docent tours at 1 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays.
Industrial Beauty: Charles Burchfield's Black Iron.
Bouguereau's "Admiration." On special loan thru May 15.
Paul Signac Watercolors and Drawings: The James T. Dyke Collection.
Thru July 17.
Miranda Young: A Printed Menagerie.
Thru May 29.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Admiration: A Special Loan. Thru May 15.
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ASI Building, 401 President Clinton Avenue
Jeanfo: We Belong to Nature. Thru June 25.
Twists & Strands: Exploring the Edges. Thru May 28.
1200 President Clinton Avenue
Oval Office "Opening"--have a commemorative photo taken.
American Champions: The Quest for Olympic Glory. Thru September 11.
Changing Tides: 100 Years of Iconic Swimwear, on loan from the collection of the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.
Thru August 7.
Pyramid Place, 221 W. 2nd
The Natural World by watercolorist William McNamara. Thru May 21.
200 E. Third
75th Anniversary exhibit: A Diamond in the Rough: 75 Years of Historic Arkansas Museum.
MacArthur Park, 503 E. 9th Street, free admission
War Comes Home: The Legacy. Thru May 14.
Undaunted Courage, Prove Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II.
Vietname, America's Conflict
Waging Modern Warfare: General Wesley K. Clark
501 W. 9th Street
Kinsey Collection. Thru July 2.
500 President Clinton Avenue
Imaginate Thru
October 2.
Building Buddies Construction Exhibit.
Thru May 15.
300 W. Markham Street
602 President Clinton Avenue
Lil' Wild Ones, second Saturday, 2 p.m. for 4-8 year olds.
Fish feeding every Wednesday, 2 p.m.
Alligator feeding every Friday, 2 p.m.
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