Review No. 51: Smokehouse Bar-B-Que 505 Donaghey Avenue (501) 764-4227 28.4 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: She Said had actually planned on reviewing a different Conway BBQ place today, but when we pulled up we found they were only open limited days per week. Having primed our taste buds for… Continue reading Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
Author: Jay Ruud
Waffle House-Oak Street
Review No. 50: Waffle House-Oak Street 816 E. Oak Street (501) 329-8290 27.8 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: True-confession time: We have never eaten in a Waffle House in our lives. They are not the cultural icon in the Dakotas and the Midwest where we moved from that they are… Continue reading Waffle House-Oak Street
Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar”
The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife Niki Karo (2017) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SusannTennyson.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Early in The Zookeeper’s Wife, the new film from New Zealand director Niki Karo (The Whale Rider) based on Diane Ackerman’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name, the title character Antonina Żabińska… Continue reading The Zookeeper’s Wife
Mosaique
Review No. 49: Mosaique Bistro 250 Donaghey Ave., Suite 110 (501) 358-6881 27.3 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I was supposed to be “fasting” (eating 500 calories or fewer for the day), which I usually do on Mondays and Thursdays, partly to offset the effects of these restaurant reviews, but… Continue reading Mosaique
Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island Jordan Vogt-Roberts (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-hover’] I admit to having avoided Kong: Skull Island, the latest in the long line of remakes dating back to the first stop-action giant gorilla in the classic 1933 original, that pretty much introduced us to “special effects”… Continue reading Kong: Skull Island
Fuji Japanese Steakhouse
Review No. 48: Fuji Japanese Steak House 1260 Old Morrilton Hwy (501) 328-5888 26.7 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: Conway’s oldest Japanese restaurant has been one of our go-to eateries for more than a decade, but we haven’t been there for some time, since we are committed to visiting every… Continue reading Fuji Japanese Steakhouse
Sir Patrick Spens
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast Bill Condon (2017) [av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SusannTennyson.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] The tale may not really be as old as time, but it’s at least as old as 1991, when in the midst of the Disney Renaissance, the studio gave us a musical… Continue reading Beauty and the Beast