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Little Rock musician and music educator David Higginbotham will be featured at Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee + Tea, 110 Central Ave.

Murrys Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, opens its production of "Barefoot in the Park" by Neil Simon.

100 years ago

As a large audience of Art Porter Music Education supporters waited for Norman Brown to take the stage Aug. 5 in the Robinson Centers William Grant Still ballroom in Little Rock, mistress of ceremonies Pamela Smith appeared instead with some bad news.

In this week's Rewind Robert Smith presents the monthly feature "Years Ago" in which he recalls a few names, events and highlights from a certain decade.

This holiday season, when even occasional Christian worshippers are likely to head to church, is an apt time to remember the vital roles that Black congregations across Arkansas have played for their members — from slaverys antebellum era to todays tremulous race relations.

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The first week of August in Little Rock has become synonymous with jazz, thanks to the organization known as Art Porter Music Education Inc. ... and despite the fact that A Work of Art, its signature week of fundraising concert performances, went on hiatus for two years because of the covid-19 pandemic.

We last saw Jeff Lorber in 2014 at A Work of Art — the weeklong fundraiser for Art Porter Music Education — as one of a trio of featured performers, Everette Harp and Paul Jackson Jr. being the other two.