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FINALIST, PROFILES PORTFOLIO, 2011 GREEN EYESHADE AWARDS HOT SPRINGS — It was the year he turned 40, the year he won his biggest race, the year he shattered his right wrist and the year he stopped “flipping.” Today, Calvin Borel, the uneducated…
LITTLE ROCK — The closest thing Arkansas has to real angels are two great steel machines with 20-foot propellers for wings, multipaned safety glass for eyes and a big blue belly for moving babies. These angels are not of God but very…
The easiest thing for Lou Brock is the compensation — travel, food, you name it. The hardest? Kids want to race him. “I go into a town, get introduced, and a kid invariably will say, ‘You wanna race?’ And when they ask…
A lifelong fisherman and storyteller, Cotton Cordell is credited with inventing the safety-pin spinnerbait — a mainstay in most tackle boxes and a favorite of professional bass fishermen. But the renowned fisherman is most proud of being elected a Baptist deacon. 1st…
3rd place, Best Restaurant Criticism of 2013, Association of Food Journalists LITTLE ROCK — Earlier this year a couple of vogue publications wondered aloud, how many years pass before we recycle an earlier time into an entertainment and fashion trend? In The…
“Hey,” came the call from across the street. I know this beckoning. It won’t snare me. Besides, it’s dark, I have a right to be leery. Just then, a woman screamed. I turned to look. “Hey, can I ask you a question?”…
So many stories begin with an email and end with a keystroke. If in between a reporter finds himself on U.S. 61 headed north to Blytheville, that’s unusual. But this is the story of an unusual bachelor farmer from Blytheville who hopped…
There was a time when Anthony Freeman wanted to be a Razorback. Arkansas’s original land-grant university was the very picture of “college” he held in his mind. He visited and applied and, he says, got in. That’s as far as it got….