Review No. 93: MarketPlace Grill 599 Skyline Drive 47.0 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 336-0011 The Situation She Said: Some morning conference calls for my paying job as a market researcher gave me an appetite, and I recalled MarketPlace Grill, which we had not visited in at least 10 years, maybe more. I figured… Continue reading MarketPlace Grill
Author: Jay Ruud
John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem”
Hostiles
Hostiles Scott Cooper (2017) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hov Hostiles, the new western directed and co-written by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass), begins with a stark quotation from D.H. Lawrence: “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer.” While this does seem to sum… Continue reading Hostiles
Taco Bueno
Review #92: Taco Bueno 1155 Dave Ward Drive 46.8 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 450-3999 The Situation He Said: So She Said was out of town all week, but we didn’t want to skip a week of reviewing (these Conway restaurants aren’t going to review themselves! OK, well, maybe they are, but we’re… Continue reading Taco Bueno
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro (2017) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] With 13 Academy Award nominations, announced yesterday, The Shape of Water leads all other films of 2017. Released on December 22, Guillermo del Toro’s romantic horror-fantasy has had… Continue reading The Shape of Water
Hog Pen BBQ
Review #91: Hog Pen BBQ 800 Walnut St, 46.2 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants (501) 327-5177 The Situation He Said: There are almost as many barbecue places in Conway as there are Mexican restaurants (and, as I have occasionally pointed out very subtly in the past, there are an awful lot of those). But… Continue reading Hog Pen BBQ
William Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Wanderers Nachtlied II”
The Post
The Post Steven Spielberg (2017) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] When first-time screenwriter Liz Hannah wrote the original screenplay for The Post in 2016, it was in response to her reading of Katherine “Kay” Graham’s memoir Personal History. Hannah, inspired by… Continue reading The Post
Burritas
Review No. 90: Burritas 1220 Old Morrillton Highway (501) 428-8514 45.9 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I was coming from a very necessary post-vacation workout, but I was hungry, so I texted He Said and told him to meet me for lunch at Burritas. I’d had my eye on this… Continue reading Burritas