Death comes to the bishop
There are bishops and there are bishops. Indeed, the Diocese of Little Rock had four of them before a priest named Andrew McDonald came out of Savannah, Ga., to become...
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Paul Greenberg: Very well, alone!
It's enough to make a tear appear even on the usually stony face of Clio, muse of history, who you'd think would be used to having her works -- and...
Paul Greenberg: A blow for liberty
The people yes The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. --Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes" . . . By the splittest of split decisions,...
Poor Paul’s Almanac
(With apologies to Poor Richard's Almanac -- and a colonial printer named Ben Franklin.) How to cook pasta: The trick is to keep stirring. Whether it helps the pasta is...
Paul Greenberg: Program notes
The appetizer can be the best part of a festive meal, as violinist Meredith Maddox Hicks and pianist Tatiana Roitman demonstrated Thursday evening at the Clinton Library in Little Rock....
Where does the South begin?
Ever wonder just where the South starts? I used to think I knew: at the bottom of Cantrell Hill here in little old Little Rock, Ark., for every morning I...
The axe vs. the icon
. . . "I care not who writes a nation's laws," a sage once remarked, "but who writes its songs." . . . On one of the last nights their...
Paul Greenberg: What changes and what doesn’t
LITTLE ROCK -- When a retrospective of Carroll Cloar's works opened here, I asked a local art dealer how he would explain Carroll Cloar's appeal. "Appeal or success?" he wanted...
Paul Greenberg: Faceoff in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK -- Mark Pryor (Very D-Ark.) is this state's senior senator, and he should be thanked for making the choice in this fall's election for the U.S. Senate here...
Playing tonight: Mahler
Tuesday night's chamber music concert at the Clinton Library, which have become a mainstay for music lovers here in Little Rock, included a Mahler piano quartet. Good choice. At some...