Gifted Marc Webb (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=”] Diane Adler was a brilliant mathematician, a prodigy whose talent had put her on the fast track to scholarly fame and immortality. She is on the verge of solving one of the most difficult and… Continue reading Gifted
Author: Jay Ruud
Linda Pastan’s “To a Daughter Leaving Home”
Tour of India
Review No. 53: Tour of India 2750 Prince Street, #79 (501) 499-8625 29.5 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation He Said: Good news, naan fans! You won’t have to drive to Little Rock for your Indian food any more. Just two weeks ago, a new restaurant, the “Tour of India,” opened on Prince… Continue reading Tour of India
W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Stoby’s Express
Review No. 52: Stoby’s Restaurant (Stoby’s Express) 1310 Prince Street (501) 327-6161 29.0 percent finished reviewing Conway restaurants The Situation She Said: I had had an overstimulating day, and I wanted some yummy food I could eat quietly at home without having to make it. We decided that Stoby’s Express was the way to… Continue reading Stoby’s Express
“In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae
Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
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
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