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This trailer for Ballet Arkansas's 'Dracula' looks horrifying and awesome

The show goes up Oct. 20-23 at UA Pulaski Tech's Center for the Humanities and Arts, and the performance on Friday night includes complimentary Halloween-themed libations courtesy of Colonial Wines & Spirits.
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Work from Lauren Wilcox Puchowski and Liz Sanders goes up at Historic Arkansas Museum

"How Did the Feeling Feel To You" pairs Liz Sanders' documentary photography with Lauren Wilcox Puchowski's playful and modern enamel-on-copper sculptures.
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Central Arkansas Pride Fest and Parade this weekend

This year features headliner Robin S. (Remember “Show Me Love”?), and the parade begins at noon at the intersection of Broadway and Broadway in North Little Rock.

Ray Allen Parker's 'Lit' up at Boswell-Mourot Fine Art

It might seem counterintuitive that a painter’s depictions of Virginia Woolf and Walt Whitman and Gabriel García Márquez could be a self-portraiture, but for Egypt (Craighead County) native Ray Allen Parker, the works in “Lit” are just that.
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King Biscuit returns with Mavis Staples, Devon Allman, memorial jam for Michael Burks

The Biscuit is back.

Yoga, moonwatching and geocaching at Buffalo National River next weekend

Who says the Buffalo River season ends when the water levels at Ponca get low?
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Hot Springs Documentary Film Fest returns with tons of in-person screenings at the Arlington

As ever, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival is a week-plus of films you’ll think about for years, plus parties you hopefully won’t regret the next morning. Highlights of 2022 include Mark Fletcher’s (“My Octopus Teacher”) undersea conservation tale, “Patrick and the Whale”; Kathlyn Horan’s “The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile”; Shaunak Sen’s award-winning tale of a bird hospital in polluted New Delhi, “All That Breathes”; Violet Columbus and Ben Klein’s portrait of Tiananmen Square massacre documentarian Christine Choy, “The Exiles”; and loads more, much of it with connections to the American South.

Performances of 'Kinky Boots' at The Studio Theatre are selling out; get in if you can

Last week for a take on Harvey Fierstein's "Kinky Boots" at the Studio Theatre in downtown Little Rock, and word has gotten out that the cast is fantastic. 
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Block party on Sunday for Recycle Bikes for Kids

Bike races, lawn games, food and music celebrate the efforts of Recycle Bikes for Kids, a program that collects bikes through individual donations, community bike drives and scrapyard donations and re-distributes the repaired bikes to kids who need them, often through partnerships with organizations like Our House, Habitat For Humanity and Arkansas CASA.

Garry Burnside at Four Quarter Bar tonight

Real deal blues at Four Quarter tonight from Holly Springs, Mississippi royalty, Garry Burnside.
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National Poet Laureate Ada Limón to give reading at Hendrix

Limón's sixth book, “The Hurting Kind,” came out this year and, like its predecessors, lends itself to being spoken aloud in exactly this type of in-person gathering.

ACANSA Roots kicks off with Tatiana Mann, Big Piph, Stuart Montez and Ben Grimes' 'Death of Kings'

September is the "traditional festival performance month" for ACANSA, but since the arts organization threw its three-week long ACANSA Arts Festival of the South in March due to pandemic-related delays, we get a mini-fest in September anyway, with performances from pianist Tatiana Mann, hip hop statesman Big Piph and his band Tomorrow Maybe, guitarist Stuart Montez and actor Ben Grimes.

Ani DiFranco with Diane Patterson at UA Pulaski Tech

Expect the seats at UA Pulaski Tech to be filled with new converts as well as longtime fans who know just where every pregnant pause falls in “32 Flavors.” 

'Radium Girls' opens at The Weekend Theater Friday

Tricia H. Spione directs D.W. Gregory’s rapidfire two-act play “Radium Girls,” penned in 2000 through the lens of young women working in factories in the early 1900s, where they were hired to paint the faces of watches and dials with radium, often dipping the brushes in their mouths to moisten them — and, for many of them, unknowingly accelerating their death by radium poisoning.

Seis Puentes hosts Hispanic Heritage Month Art and Food Fest Saturday

Seis Puentes Education and Resource Center marks the occasion with a festival in the Argenta District of North Little Rock, offering in its second year free dance workshops from Ballet Quetzalli; interactive activities with Laman Library and Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub; and food from local vendors and food trucks like Kalua’s, DolceLuna Bakery and Tacos Godoy.

Fula Brothers at The Joint on Thursday night

Kamale ngoni player, Mamadou Sidibe, hails from the Wassoulou Region of Mali, West Africa, and his interplay with the fingerstyle guitar work of Walter Strauss is going to fill a 100-seat cabaret theater in Argenta Thursday night. 

Kevin Brockmeier and Meghan Reed at Argenta Reading Series Saturday

A gifted fiction writer with a knack for teasing out the subtleties of adolescent awkwardness and for reinventing the art of the ghost story, Little Rock author Kevin Brockmeier is the featured speaker for the rekindled Argenta Reading Series, which takes place in a charming storefront-turned-church-turned-nightime literary venue.

Pianist Michelle Cann gives recital at UA Little Rock Thursday night

On the program are some dreamy selections with an eye toward women composers: Florence Price’s “Sonata in E minor” and “Fantasie Nègre No. 1 in E minor”; Clara Schumann’s “Four Pièces fugitives, Op. 15”; Margaret Bonds’ “Troubled Water,” and ballades by Chopin and Brahms to boot.

The Mountain Goats and Lilly Hiatt at The Hall Sunday

They come to Little Rock with some new album energy (“Training Montage” is my best bet for the set opener) and with rock royalty Lilly Hiatt, whose birdsong voice and noise-rock sensibilities have established her bona fides far beyond being John Hiatt’s daughter.

Arkansas House of Prayer hosts Interfaith Food Festival and celebration of peace

"Love Thy Neighbor: Sowing Seeds of Peace," a celebration of peace featuring interfaith prayers, musical performances and speakers from several of the world’s religions will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (1000 N. Mississippi St, Little Rock).
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