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The audience is totally engaged. The actor says, “I don’t know why I’m writing this.” The sound resonates in the screening room of the Argenta Community Theater. “Maybe it will help me.“

The dialogue is from a scene in what local filmmakers term an Arkansas short. This one is directed by Lyle Arnett and is titled “December 1982.” It’s Saturday, the second to the last day of the Little Rock Film Festival. The “Made in Arkansas” film premieres are been considered.

The Army announced this past week that an Army sergeant first class assigned to III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for pandering, abusive sexual contact, assault and maltreatment of subordinates. The ongoing investigation is being conducted by special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, commonly known as CID. 

Little Rock Film Festival Announces Awards

Members and supporters of the film community met on Sunday, May 19, at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock for the 7th annual Little Rock Film Festival Awards “Gala.” Winners of the 2013 festival were as follows:

BridgeGroom, Director Linda Bloodworth Thomason

Heifer Social Impact Award
These Birds Walk, Director Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq

Charles B. Pierce Award Best Short “Made in Arkansas”

Best World Short: When We Lived in Miami, Director Amy Seimetz

Over the past few years, iconic noise artist Nate Young has been carefully crafting his own signature solo sound, as further evidenced through his progressive recordings and performances with American experimental music staples such as Wolf Eyes, Stare Case, Demons, and Moon Pool & Dead Band.

According to preliminary statistics released this week by the FBI, 47 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty in 2012. The total number of officers killed is 25 fewer than the 72 officers who died in 2011. By region, 22 officers were killed as a result of criminal acts that occurred in the South, eight officers in the West, six officers in the Northeast, five officers died due to incidents in the Midwest, and six officers were killed in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

“A highway shall be there and it shall be called the Holy Way;
the unclean shall not travel on it, but it shall be for God’s people;
no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.” ~~ Isaiah 35:8

All good things come to an end, but the ending is just the beginning of something new. This week a fifty year old jockey came out of retirement and rode Oxbow, a 15/1 long shot, into the winner’s circle at the Preakness: they beat the favorite and his mud covered jockey who finished fourth, out of the money.

I have a dear friend who just turned 66 and is contemplating retirement after 40 years in medicine: he wonders what he could have done if he had more time in his career or if he had more time in retirement.

Four out of five U.S. adults report having voluntary smoke-free rules in their homes and three out of four report having voluntary smoke-free rules in their vehicles, according to a study published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.