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6 9 13Currents’ SuperMom Kilgore’s Passion Queen Anne MansionDianna Doss Matzeder has gone through hell and high water to continue mothering her family and her ‘kids’ at school.

Fayetteville-based portrait photographer Andrew Kilgore sees – and photographs – everyone on equal footing.

The three lives of Eureka Springs’ notorious Victorian home are unfolded.

Cover Story Arts Scene Beautiful Buildings

15 20 22Missouri Wine Country The Lady of Diners Basics of ProbioticsThe region around Washington and Hermann has a long history of producing award-winning wines.

Lucy’s in Rogers gives new meaning and a new upscale feel to the warm, welcoming environment of the classic diner.

‘Regular’ medicine is embracing the benefits of Probiotics for good health.

On the Road Again Table for Two Here’s to Health

24 26 30Thunder on the Mountain

Telling Photo Stories Pass the Popcorn

A brand-new country music festival in NWA brings top country stars, revelry and plenty of outdoorsy fun.

Here’s a guide to taking photographs that tell a story – with or without any accompanying text.

This month brings the beginning of the film industry’s blockbuster season, and we’ve got previews of all the highlights of Movie May.

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For this month’s Currents, we wanted to tell an inspiring story of a SuperMom who lives in Carroll County. We put out the call for nominations on the Carroll County News’ and Lovely County Cit-izen’s Facebook pages, and were pleas-antly surprised by how many touching stories we received in the nominations.

To celebrate May, the month of Moth-er’s Day – Moms deserve a whole month, not just a day! – we decided to present not only the winning SuperMom’s story, but also share with our readers some of the nominations we received. Many of them follow:

• Krystal Foster, nominating Tami Changus – My mom has been there for my sister and I every ball practice to every real game we have ever played! She’s my best friend,my hero. She works her butt off for everything she has and if times get rough she’s the tough on to lean on:) I love my mom! GO MOM! ;)

• Leah Mock Hamilton, nominating Rhonda Mock – My mommy is my Su-perMom! She spent the majority of her life raising her 9 children plus being a 2nd mom to so many other children! She still has 2 kids at home and works full time! She spends all of her free time helping her older children learn how to raise our kids as well as she raised us and volunteering her MANY talents all over the community. She has such a giving heart and friendly personality! Over the 26 years we have lived in this community she has touched many lives with her welcoming smile, generosity and positive attitude that is always more than happy to lend a helping hand, no matter who needs it! She is more than just a SuperMom she is more like a su-perhero!

• Rachel Mock Morgan, also nom-inating• Kalyn Hamilton, nominating Teresa Matthews Hamilton – My mom is a SuperMom. She is a single mother of 3. When me and my brothers were younger she would go to all of our activ-ities rather it be sports, choir concerts

or any other form of activities, while working full time. She taught us how to work hard,budget, and be good people. Now she is still working full time and going to school as well as helping with relay for life (an organization that helps raise money to cancer research). I’d say that make her a pretty SuperMom.

• Ashley Anderson, nominating Di-ana Anderson – My mother is a Super-Mom because she is not only my mom but my best friend. She has stood be-side her family through thick and thin. I am a single mom with three children and I work and go to college. My mom babysits for me so that I can achieve my dreams. She supports those dreams and encourages me to strive for greatness and never give up when I feel like doing so. She has my back but also kicks my rear when it needs it. She is amazing!!!!

• Brenda Hamilton, nominating Eu-nice Smith – As long as I can remem-ber, all my friends wanted to have my mom adopt them; she treats everyone she meets the same. She works two jobs at 87 years of age but still has time for family and friends. She always knows the right thing to say and she knows ev-eryone. No matter where we are, people hug her. She’s my best friend and the best mother anyone could have. God truly blessed me when he made her my mom.

• Kaila Inez Conine, nominating Mar-garet Conine – My mother is a Super-Mom. She puts everyone before herself, even when it hurts for her to do it. She raised my older sister, my little brother and myself after her and my father got a divorce. She went to every band com-petition for me and my sister and every football game for my little brother. Even working third shift at Tysons for near-ly 18 and a half years. She came back to help my sister and I back in August and ever since then, I can’t imagine what life would be like if she weren’t. She helps out around the house, cooks, and helps

with my sister’s four children. Add a full time job at Family Dollar in Green Forest and she still somehow has time to just spend with us. I honestly cannot start to even begin thanking her.

• Chelsea Abigail Murray, nominat-ing Charlene Murray – My mother is definitely a SuperMom. She has always done what is best for everyone else. She will help anyone who needs her help, no matter who they are. She has always put my brother and I first, and has never re-gretted anything she’s done for us. She also worked up to three jobs her entire life to provide for us until she couldn’t do it anymore, and instead became a stay-at-home mother. She would give anyone the shirt off of her back, and never think twice about it. That’s why she is a SuperMom.

We think these nominations illus-trate why nearly every Mom we know is a SuperMom. So, to all you Mothers out there, we say, “Thank you.” Thank you for all you do, and for all your love, and for all your leadership and guidance. God bless the Moms!

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ianna Doss Matzed-er has been a teach-er for two-thirds of her life. She has taught fourth grade to high school in public and private

schools from Kansas to California. In Maryland, she taught teenage girls who were incarcerated in the state prison system. For the past 20 years, Matzeder has taught math and En-glish to special education students at Huntsville High School.

As much as she loves working with students, they are not her pri-mary focus.

“My family comes first,” she said. “They’re my priority.”

Matzeder and her husband, Don, who live in Berryville, have two daughters, Kristi Mayfield, 33, and Sarah Decker, 30, and five grand-children. Nominated by Decker, Matzeder has been chosen the Car-roll County Supermom of the Year for the strength and compassion she brings to her job as a teacher and a parent.

“She has been a special education teacher for 35-plus years. She loved and cared for all those children,” Decker wrote in her nomination. “She has two daughters, and she is both our best friend, cheerleader, rock-hard foundation and soft place to land.”

Matzeder had a good role model – her mother, Christina Doss, was

MEET A CARROLL COuNTy A special education teacher at Huntsville High School by day, Dianna Doss Matzeder is SuperMom to her family in Berryville.

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her best friend, she said. The oldest of four children, Dianna was born in Huntsville and grew up in Ber-ryville, where her family moved when she was three years old.

“She took care of Daddy and us,” she said of her mother. “She worked. Each of us girls had chores to do around the house.”

Growing up, Dianna helped her mother take care of her younger sisters. After graduating from Berryville High School in 1967, she attend-ed Arkansas State University and the University of Arkansas, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in education. Her career choice was never in doubt.

“I always knew I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up,” she said. “I always liked working with chil-dren.”

She started teaching at Elmdale Elementary in Springdale, and worked nights at WalMart to pay off student loans. That’s where she met Don Matzeder, the store’s sporting goods manager. They married on June 27, 1973, in Berryville, and

moved to Leaven-worth, Kan., Don’s hometown. While Don worked for the Department of Justice, Dian-na taught science at the Catholic school, raised two children and worked on a mas-ter’s degree in spe-cial education.

“It was just something I was interested in,” she said of the choice.

Her first special-ed job was at Alessandro Middle School in San Marino, Calif., where Don was transferred. When he was transferred to Washington, D.C., Matzeder got a job teaching girls

I always knew I wanted to be a teacher when I

grew up.DIANNA DOSS MATZEDER

Dianna Doss Matzeder poses with her husband, Don; her daughters, Kristi Mayfield and Sarah Decker; their spouses; and two of her grandchildren.

Dianna and Don Matzeder live just south of Berryville.


incarcerated by the Maryland Department of Justice. Some were right off the streets of Baltimore.

“They were tough cookies, but they were also babies – they wanted to sit in your lap and cry,” she said. “They wanted to go home.”

The job required you to inure yourself to their situation, Metzeder said, knowing that the girls were being given the educational skills and counseling they needed to change their lives. She did try to steer them onto the right path, she said, but realized it was up to them.

“Whenever anyone had a minor suc-cess, we were very proud of them,” she said. “Whenever one of them got to go home, we were very proud of them. But we were also afraid they would come back, and some-times they did.”

Matzeder and her family moved back to Arkansas in 1992. The next year, Christina Doss passed away at the age of 63. It taught Matzeder not to take anyone for granted.

“You need to appreciate people while they’re here,” she said. “Nothing is as im-portant as being with your family.”

That lesson came home to her daugh-ters on Aug. 26, 2008. Driving home from Huntsville on Highway 412, Matzeder was a mile from the Berryville exit when another

car hit hers head-on. The impact broke her left arm, split her

right knee open to the bone and broke her left leg below the knee. In her nominating letter, Decker recalls getting the phone call telling her mother had been taken to the hospital.

“They didn’t know her condition, just that it was bad,” Decker recalled. “I was three months pregnant and it completely shook me to the core.”

While doctors worked to wire her knee together, Matzeder’s blood pressure plum-meted. It was a week before she was able to undergo surgery to put her arm put back with plates and pins. Then she was in a reha-bilitation center for a month.

On Oct. 6, Matzeder rolled up the hall-way to her classroom in an electric wheel-chair. She had braces on both legs and one arm, but was determined to come back be-cause of the kids – she was concerned that they would get behind in their work.

“No matter what, she puts everyone in front of herself,” Decker wrote.

Outside of school, Matzeder’s job is mak-ing sure the grandkids are okay and taking them places they need to go. Mayfield has three children by marriage: Heather, 21; Emory, 19, and Ike, 11. Decker has two chil-dren: Christina, 11, and Cade, 4. On May

2, Matzeder took a day off from school to drive to Fort Leonard Wood to watch Em-ory graduate from Marine Corps military police training school. She took her father, 87, also a Marine.

Each grandchild is special to her, she said, just as she and her sisters, who are very different from each other, knew that their mother considered each of them special in their own way. Both of Matzeder’s daughters and their families live in the Berryville area.

“You couldn’t get them very far from us,” she said. “We’re a real close family.”

But she always gave her daughters space to live their own lives and make their own decisions when they were growing up, Decker said. Matzeder’s advice to parents: don’t tell your children what to do, because they aren’t going to do it anyway.

“You’ve gotta listen to them,” she said. “You let them talk and don’t you give them the answers. If they make a mistake, they make a mistake.”

Her job as a teacher is both rewarding and frustrating, she said, because she can work really hard to get students to a certain point and then if something happens that throws them for a loop, has to start all over. But when she retires, she doesn’t want any hoopla.

“It’s what I chose to do,” she said.

Diana Matzeder has two daughters, Kristi Mayfield, left, and Sarah Decker.

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Kilgore was born in 1940 in Charlottes-ville, Va. His family lived in several different states in his early years, including the Chica-go area and El Paso, Texas.

After completing high school he attend-ed Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., and graduated with a degree in philosophy.

He planned to become a minister and at-tended Union Theological Seminary in New York City, but he didn’t finish.

Kilgore decided he wasn’t cut out for the ministry and studied acting for a while.

In 1968, he joined the Peace Corps, which took the place of military service and

a sure trip to Vietnam. Instead he spent two years in India, which would have a lifelong profound effect on him.

After leaving the Peace Corps he spend three years living in Austin. He was on his way to San Francisco when he stopped by Fayetteville to visit with friends.

Kilgore fell in love with Arkansas in gen-eral and Fayetteville in particular. There’s an old saying about people like Kilgore, who “come for tea and stay for two weeks.” And that’s his story. A short visit turned into six months, which turned into 40 years, with a sojourn in Little Rock.

He bought his first real camera in 1970 in Hong Kong, on his way back to America from India.

Today he uses a Canon 5D Mark III dig-ital SLR full-frame camera, with a 24-105 mm lens. The full-frame RAW format gives him a large digital file with the flexibility and size to crop, if needed, and still have a usable, very high quality image.

Andrew Kilgore’s photographs display a quiet elegance regardless of the subject, an elegance that is only enhanced by being black-and-white. The classic portraits he makes are not “out there” on the leading edge of contemporary photography. The dignity of his photographs comes from his genuine love for humanity and the respect he has for his subjects, regardless of their station in life.

Photographically, Kilgore was influenced by the honesty and simplicity of the black-and-white photographs by both great and

Quiet and passionate about photography –and people

black-and-white portraits made by Andrew Kilgore hang in homes costing hun-dreds of thousands of dollars as well as in homes of much more modest means. When perusing one of the numerous books or exhibits he has produced over the years, it is hard to tell if the person in the photograph is a bank president,

the U.S. President, a school teacher, or an unemployed laborer. And that’s just fine with Kilgore. He puts the same time and effort into producing exquisite photographs of the very wealthy and the poor man or woman.


little-known photographers from the 1930s through the 50s. In particular, the photos of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon helped mold his approach to photography. But one of the big influences on his work came about when he was the University of Arkansas Art Department’s photography instructor, from 1973 to 1977. It was during this time that the work of an obscure, long-deceased portrait photographer in Heber Springs, Ark. was re-discovered. Mike Disfarmer photographed the people of the rural berg in a way that is as close as a photographer can get to truly capturing the essence of a person on photo-graphic paper.

It was Disfarmer’s simple forthrightness in his portraits that helped set the bench-mark for Kilgore’s own work as he began to work as a full-time fine art portrait pho-tographer. Using Disfarmer’s work as his inspiration, Kilgore developed his own style of compelling portrait photography. But un-like the often obstinate and odd-behaving Disfarmer, Kilgore possessed a love for peo-ple and a respect for them, not just as pho-tographic subjects but as co-creators in the process of making the photograph.

Essentially, Kilgore sits the subject in front of his camera and carries on a conver-sation with them, snapping the shutter while

getting to know them. He gives very little direction to the person he’s photographing, instead allowing them to pose themselves in the ways in which they feel comfortable. He prefers to have them look into the camera, reminding them that they are actually look-ing back at him through the lens. Kilgore has a soft-spoken, easy-going personality that helps the subject keep from putting up masks.

Perhaps that’s why his portraits are al-most always against a plain, non-descript background. Such a neutral background does not influence how the viewer relates to the subject. Regardless of the person being photographed, all are equal in front of the lens of Andrew Kilgore.

Kilgore’s lighting is as simple as his shoot-

ing technique.“In my old studio I used to have a (won-

derful) north window,” he said. “The light was exceptionally nice.”

This natural-light studio was used for Kilgore’s first major project, “The Fayetteville Townfolk Portfolio Project.” Kilgore photo-graphed the entire spectrum of the people who lived in his adopted home, from the wealthy and influential to the elderly to the dispossessed. Everyone was a subject who might sit in front of Kilgore’s lens.

The 60 framed prints which eventual-ly made it into the project were winnowed down from literally hundreds of portrait set-tings from the late 1970s through the early 80s. The project was funded by a grant from the Arkansas Endowment for the Arts. These photographs toured the state, and 12 were selected for inclusion in a prestigious show of nationally recognized photographers.

Today Kilgore’s studio uses a bank of stu-dio strobe lights behind a soft box of his own design.

“This nicely duplicates the north window light I had (in my first studio),” he said.

This helps with subjects who are unable to hold absolutely still during longer avail-able light settings.

He does not have a conventional film

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darkroom. He uses Adobe LightRoom software on a large-screen Macintosh iMac computer. He shoots in color but converts to black-and-white in LightRoom. He prints on a large-format inkjet printer that uses ar-chival inks. To use negatives from his files Kilgore scans the negative and prints the digital image on his inkjet printer.

Kilgore’s other print and book projects are “We Drew a Circle,” 80 images of the de-velopmentally disabled in Arkansas, and the reason he began using studio flash; “Keeping In Touch,” a project for the Arkansas AIDS Foundation; “Arkansas People,” a portrait documentary project for the 1986 Arkan-sas Sesquicentennial; “Healing Changes,” images of the mentally ill; and “Community Meals (A Reluctance to Engage),” portraits of the jobless in Fayetteville, through the coop-eration of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s meal program.

“I find I’m drawn to those who are on the margins (of society),” Kilgore says of his pho-tography, which is why everyone has dignity in an Andrew Kilgore portrait, a direct result of an experience he had in his Peace Corps days in India.

Kilgore, coming back from a place he had traveled to for his work, was heading to the bus stop. It was extremely hot and the wind

fierce. He sat down to wait for the bus and a very thin old man, carrying a large basket of bottles, sat down beside him.

“His skin was dried out and brittle,” Kil-gore said. “The calluses on his feet were so thick that the cracks in them went a quarter of an inch into his foot. He was probably an untouchable, or lower-cast person.

“As I looked at this man I realized that there was nowhere on this earth where I could (find) someone more different from myself than him,” Kilgore recounts. “With an incredible shock that still often brings tears to my eyes, I realized that what I experienced in that moment (was) that it was not his dif-ference but his sameness, that in fact he and I were one. That his most basic inner expe-rience of himself and my most basic inner

experience of myself, stripped of all culture and personal history, were exactly the same.”

That experience 45 years ago on a hot, dusty road in India has shaped Kilgore’s pho-tography and how he approaches not only his subjects, but everyone. Whether it’s the CEO of a corporation or a homeless person living out of a shopping cart it’s the sameness of the two that drives Kilgore, not the obvi-ous differences. And that’s what stands out to most people who view his portraits.

Though he gave up his ambitions of be-coming a minister in the 1960s, he hasn’t given up his faith. Andrew Kilgore has lived his life with the belief that all are created in the image of God and are due the respect and dignity that entails.

Kilgore sums up his work on a website when he says, “Over the years, I’ve produced several exhibits involving particular groups of people, most of whom are misunderstood or simply not ‘seen’ by the general public. These opportunities have given me a gift. I get a chance to take a really deep, long look at mankind, and I continue to marvel at the light which illumines us all. My work with various advocacy groups is extremely satis-fying to me because I get to do some good in the world, and I get to make art that is simply good to look at.”

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The three lives of the


How long does it take for a building to become an icon in a city? 100 years? 75 years? How

about 27 years?That’s how long it has been

since the the Queen Anne Man-sion was disassembled in Car-thage, Missouri and reassembled in Eureka Springs. And in the relativity brief time since then the grand Victorian lady has be-come a classic icon in its adopt-ed home.

Life OneThe Queen Anne was build

in 1891 in Carthage by Curtis Wright. It was for his wife who was reluctant to leave her Indi-ana hometown of Connerville. The level of elaborate detail in the home is remarkable, which was perhaps not all that uncom-mon in the Victorian era. While the magnificent mansion was an architectural showpiece in the Carthage, it was still a home and experienced all the day-to-day rigors that come from raising a family.

Life TwoAfter 94 years as a private resi-

dence, the Queen Anne Mansion was destined for another life. It was deconstructed, all the parts metic-ulously labeled and shipped to a true Victorian city in the heart of the Ozarks. After a year and a half, it had been reassembled in Eureka Springs and was opened as a tour home, giving thousands of visitors each year a look at the luxury of a bygone day. In the process, it be-came the iconic structure it is today.

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The eclectic design of a Victorian building is unmistakable. The Queen Anne type is one of six different Victo-rian styles. Victorian houses in general have steeply pitched gable. Queen Anne’s type has irregular roofs and cutaway bay windows. The Victorian style in general was a reaction to the symmetry of the Gothic revival style. They were influenced by Middle East-ern and Asian design elements. Vic-torian buildings are characterized by mulch-textured and multi-colored el-ements. Of course, gingerbread is also a feature of Victorian architecture. The entire city of Eureka Springs in general, and the Queen Anne Mansion in par-ticular, are wonderful examples of the Victorian style.


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derwent further restoration, which lasted until 2010. It was reopened as an event facility and museum showpiece, garnering the praise of visitors from across the nation. Then in 2011, the additional res-toration work was completed, and the wheels were put in motion for the current phase of its life, that of a Private Residence Club. Approx-imately 77 people may purchase and own equal shares of the grand lady, with a minimum of 28 days a year available to each owner for overnight stays, as well as other

benefits of ownership.The Queen Anne has been

filled with period antiques as well as modern amenities. But while it will no longer be open as a public tour venue this beautiful piece of Victorian architecture will con-tinue to grace the landscape of its adopted hometown.

For more information on The Queen Anne Mansion Preser-vation Trust Inc., a Private Res-idence Club, contact Steve and Lata Lovell, The Queen Anne Mansion, 115 W. Van Buren, Eu-reka Springs, AR 72632; [email protected] .

Top left: Stairway down to lower level rooms, with opening into dining room. Left: Second floor canopied bed. Above, top: First-floor sitting room in the corner tower. Above, bottom: Lower-level game room and parlor, with gallery of photographs showing the history and moving of the Queen Anne Mansion from Carthage to Eureka Springs.

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I’m not a sommelier nor am I the son of one. What I’ve learned about wine I learned from the movie “Sideways” and from shows on the Food Network. I can throw around phrases such as “a full-bodied, varietal with a complex, oakey bite”

and “it has a wonderful bouquet, a buttery mouth feel, and a de-lightful aftertaste.” But it’s all a bluff.

However, I know what I like and I can distinguish between a good wine and a bad one and I know a red from a white. I know that generally white wine is served chilled and reds are served at room temperature. Oh, and I know that James Bond recommend-ed never serving a Dom Perignon above 38 degrees Fahrenheit.

In my travels, I have visited several of mid-America’s vine-yard-packed areas and enjoyed each. One of my favorites is in the northern-most reach of the Ozarks along the Missouri River, around the German-heritage towns of Hermann and Washington.

There seems to be a common story in many of those German communities that were settled in America during the waves of im-migration in the 19th century. It goes like this: Those who were emigrating settled in places along the great rivers of America’s heartland that reminded them of the Rhine Valley, heart of Ger-many’s wine-making region. The lay of the mountains, and how the terrain faced the sun and the river reminded the immigrants of home and encouraged them to live there and take up vinicul-ture.

And so it is with this area of Missouri. Some of the newcomers to America were lured to central Missouri by a German entrepre-neur promoting, among other things, the mild winter weather; though it turned out that they were experiencing an abnormal

Fine wine, German heritage, and Americana make a visit to the heart of Missouri’s Wine Country region a cultural experience – vinicultural, that is.

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stretch of mild weather and reality even-tually struck. Luckily, harsh winters didn’t keep the hearty Germans from flourishing. In spite of the climate reality-check, the im-migrants created a thriving wine industry in central Missouri.

Until the institution of the 18th Amend-ment – Prohibition – Missouri was the second-most-productive wine-producing state in the nation, behind New York. But the great social experiment put an end to the nation and Missouri’s wine business. In 1919, there were 48 Missouri counties with wineries.

In 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment; Prohibition had last-ed almost 14 years. And in the home state of Anheuser-Busch, the prohibition against more than 5 percent alcohol wasn’t entire-ly repealed until 1975, though allowances were made for wine because in 1965 Jim and Betty Held reopened the historic Stone Hill Winery. Prohibition had so decimated the industry that the dark, cool cellars at Stone Hill were used for growing mushrooms until the Helds began making wine again. True to its name, the winery sits high on the top of a beautiful hill in the middle of one of the first German towns in the area, Hermann.

Missouri wine todayToday, there are more than 115 winer-

ies in Missouri, in four different regions. And the Washington/Hermann region can arguably lay claim to the heart-of-Missouri-wine-country designation because the first

wineries in the state were established in the area. Washington and Hermann are both historic, quaint and photogenic burgs and the area around both is steeped in Missouri’s wine history. But today each is imbued with decidedly different personalities and histo-ries.

Hermann, population of about 2,000, is 80 miles west of St. Louis, is a tourism-ori-ented berg with many quant B&Bs, antique and other shops and restaurants. Washing-ton, population of about 13,000, is 30 miles closer to St. Louis. It is larger and more com-mercial, though tourism is important to the

city. Settlement of the area around Washing-ton is dates back to the Spanish occupation, and Daniel Boone played a role in the the American-era of the town.

Hermann plays up its German heritage and wine-culture to a large degree, with two major wineries within city limits. Washing-ton doesn’t have a winery within town, but just across the classic steel trestle bridge over the Missouri River, in the hills above the fer-tile river bottoms, there are several. Traveling east on the serpentine river road – MO 94 – several fine, distinctive wineries can be found.

One of those wineries I found worth

Above, left: A young couple take advantage of a long Labor Day weekend to enjoy the festive atmosphere at Hermannhof’s wine garden. The garden provides music, fellowship, and a shaded place to enjoy your wine. Above, right: An employee at Stone Hill Winery inspects a glass of red wine. The casks store the wine until it has aged to perfection.

The beautiful historic cellars at Stone Hill Winery were once relegated to growing mushrooms. Today, Stone Hill’s cellars once again fulfill their primary purpose of aging fine wines.


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discovering is a small boutique winery,Blu-menhof Vineyards and Winery. Boutique wineries produce small quantities of high-end wines, often with a dedicated following. In the case of Blumenhof all of their pro-duction - many of their vintages are interna-tional award winning wines – are sold only on site or shipped to customers. Tasting at Blumenhof is sheer joy. This is one of those places where you will find wines that you won’t stumble over in a store. You have to seek them out and make purchases directly.

Further down MO 94 is Mount Pleasant Vineyards and Winery, a larger-volume win-ery established in 1859. It’s the second-oldest winery in Missouri and sits high above the Missouri River valley. It is true to its name with a beautiful, commanding view looking north across the fertile bottom land of the Missouri. The grounds are extensive, the wine garden spacious, and its fantastic view of the river bottom lands below make it a nice place to enjoy a glass of their fine wine. Wines from Mount Pleasant are available at outlets other than the winery.

Hermann also sits on the Missouri River, about 30 miles west of Washington. It is rich in and proud of its German heritage, just as Eureka Springs, Ark., is steeped in Victorian heritage. And part of that heritage, and in-deed a good portion of its economy, is cen-tered on the wine culture of that German heritage. To understand the importance of that, one need only look at Stone Hill Win-ery.

The buildings and cellars of Stone Hill Winery are beautiful examples of the archi-tecture of the era. The cellars are the largest series of vaulted wine cellars in America. Stone Hill was the first winery in Missouri, established in 1847, and before it fell from its lofty perch and it’s cellars became a farm for mushrooms, it was the second-largest win-

ery in America.But thanks to the Held family, Stone Hill’s

cellars are once again full of both wooden and stainless steel vats and casks, filled with wines aging at their own pace. I always find it interesting to tour old wineries and cellars, especially those with classic designs listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Now Stone Hill, true to its history, is a commercial winery. It ships its produc-tion to 27 different states. Since 1965, it has won over 3,400 national and international awards. It also produces short-run, high-end wines – similar to those of boutique wineries – which compete with the best in the world.

One of the highlights of my visit to Stone Hill was supper at their Old World-style Vintage 1847 Restaurant. I had the German sampler platter with sauerbraten, schnitzel and knackwurst, and it was excellent.

The other winery within Hermann is the namesake, Hermannhof Winery. Like Stone Hill, Hermannhof was originally established in the mid-19th century. It was purchashed by the Dierberg family in 1974, and the orig-inal and additional historic cellars moved to the extensive grounds to provide a wonder-ful winery with wine garden, lodging, and a restaurant. The lodging includes both an inn and luxury suites and rooms in rock cellars.

The centerpiece of the Hermannhof Winery complex is its wonderful wine gar-den. The pleasant, downtown wine garden is expansive with plenty of seating and tables. When I was there on a late-summer evening it was full of people enjoying their wine and snacks. A musician was playing the accor-dion and singing to the delight of the large crowd, many of whom were dancing to the music. As opposed to the quiet and serene surrounds at Mount Pleasant’s beautiful patio, the tree-shaded wine garden at Her-mannhof was festive and lively. The grounds of Stone Hill Winery at sunrise.

Looking west at downtown Hermann, Missouri.

A beautiful trestle bridge spans the Missouri River at Washington. A similar bridge at Hermann was replaced with a modern, generic style bridge several years ago. The time to appreciate the Washington bridge is now, before it, too, is replaced.


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breakfasts were always excellent. At Wash-ington’s elegant but homey Guest Haus B&B, the breakfast spread included quiche, fruit and yogurt, bacon, cereal and sweet rolls.

Supper one evening in Washington was at a place that attracts people from St. Louis: American Bounty Restaurant. It features the best in wines and cuisine. The railroad passes along the river through Washington, right in

front of American Bounty. Any given week-end will find folks from St. Louis disembark-ing from Amtrack coaches to dine at the restaurant, then catching the late train back to the city after enjoying the great food and spirits at American Bounty.

In Hermann I stayed at one of Hermann-hof ’s wine cellar luxury suites. The cottages are old area wine cellars disassembled and relocated to Hermannhof ’s complex. The lodging is truly upscale and breakfast was at the Hermannhoff Inn, located in downtown

Hermann along the riverfront.One evening for supper I stopped at

one of the most unique theme eateries I’ve even encountered:s Wings-A-Blazin’. It’s not wine-oriented or of German heritage. It’s prices are moderate and the menu typical for a wings place – burgers, wings, shrimp, onion rings, their famous fried pickles, etc. But there are lots of joint with good food, but it’s the décor that set Wings apart. It’s owned by a Southwest Airlines pilot who also flew for the Air Force and Air Guard. A buddy of his had to bail out of his F-18 fighter. He ac-quired parts of the wreckage from his friend, who had acquired it from the Air Force. That wreckage now decorates the interior of restaurant – the ejection seat, wing tips, vertical stabalizer, and more. It’s truly a one-of-a-kind restaurant that couldn’t be easily duplicated by a chain.

Many Currents readers have probably visited Arkansas’ wine-producing region, around Altus. For an interesting change, give Washington and Hermann a try. It’s only three to four hours away and definitely worth a weekend jaunt.

Breakfast at Washington’s Guest Haus Inn.

The classic German fare is wonderful at Stone Hill’s Vintage 1847 Restaurant.

Folks enjoy the numerous festivals on the Riverfront at Washington.

Folks come from far and wide to enjoy Hermannhof’s wine garden.

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Is there anything more American than the classic diner?

Norman Rock-well made iconic paintings about

them. Movies frequently use them as scene settings. And there’s very few Americans who haven’t eaten at one.

The first diner opened up 1872. With some regional vari-ations the menu at most diners is very similar. When someone mentions “diner fare,” most folks know what to expect: Foods that are grilled or deep-fried, breakfast foods, burgers and patty melts, fries and rings,

chicken, beans, slaw, and more.Diners have become en-

grained in American culture as a place where folks can get a decent meal at an affordable price. These meals can often be had 24 hours a day.

Most cities of even mod-est size have a diner, usually a chain. I remember in high school going out with friends to a chain diner, and though I can’t remember its name, I do remember great times I had with dates and friends, long after other restaurants had closed.

I recently discovered a diner in Rogers that’s a breath of fresh

air in this era of national chain diners with their commercially prepared and company-ap-proved food items.

Lucy’s Diner, at 511 West Walnut, serves the standard diner fare but with a big differ-ence. “[Over] 90 percent of all our menu items are scratch-made,” said Eric Pike. In all honesty, Lucy’s is the latest din-er in a chain – of two. There’s another one in Fort Smith. But both restaurants have the same menu, “mostly from old family recipes [of the own-ers],” Pike says. Pike has been in the restaurant business for 25 years, 10 years as an execu-tive chef. So he knows “scratch” cooking.

On my first trip to Lucy’s, I had the chicken fried steak. I love chicken fried steak and know the difference between good, bad, so-so, and really good. And Lucy’s was really good. They make their batter from scratch and hand-dip

each steak. Most of the time, I prefer fries with my chicken fried steak, drenched with the same white gravy as on the steak. The order of fries that was huge and were hand-cut arrived well seasoned.

The first Lucy’s was opened in Fort Smith three years ago. Lucy’s in Rogers was opened two years ago in the former Hi-Di-Ho drive-in. The iconic Rogers drive-in was remodeled into a diner, and Pike was hired to be the regional manager of

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both stores, with expansion defi-nitely in the future. “The sky is the limit so far where we could go,” Pike says. He added that plans are in motion to open up a third Lucy’s soon. “In a yet-un-disclosed location,” he says with a smile.

Lucy’s diner designation is a description of its menu offerings and its all-day hours of opera-tion – not the quality of its food. “We have a lady who comes in at 4 a.m. and starts [preparing] for the day,” Pike explained.

Diners aren’t fast-food restau-rants. But they’re also not where you go to relax for two hours or so while you wait for your meal. “We thrive on getting things out in a timely fashion – but we’re not fast food,” Pike says. If you could envision a gourmet diner, then Lucy’s would be at the top of most anybody’s list.

On another recent visit to Lucy’s we tried a variety of other dishes. I had the bacon-wrapped ground sirloin with a salad and

baked potato. “Are the dressings made here?” I asked our waitress. “All but two we make here,” she replied. “Then bring me ranch,” I said. And it was a great com-pliment to a garden-fresh salad. I added a side of turnip greens, seasoned and cooked perfectly – a rarity at most places.

My sister-in-law had Lucy’s delicious beans and ham, and my daughter had chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and fried okra, which of course I made her share. There’s no mistaking hand-battered okra, and Lucy’s has that unmistak-able look. We also feasted on the wonderful yeasty dinner rolls, made daily on site.

Another trademark of the classic diner is a glass case full of pies. Like their rolls, Lucy’s makes pies every day. I had the chocolate cream. Baby girl who’s 25 (but still my little girl) had the coconut. “Can I have a bite of yours?” I asked her with a piti-ful look in my eyes. “Sure,” she

replied. “If I can have a taste of yours.” The crust was flaky and tender and the filling absolutely perfect.

As I was sitting with my daughter, new granddaughter and sister-in-law, I glanced over at the couple at the table next to me. I saw the man’s plate and immediately knew what I would

have for lunch on my next visit to Lucy’s... two over-easy eggs, a gorgeous slice of ham, hash-browns and biscuits and gravy. Hey, that’s a diner breakfast any-time. And at Lucy’s I know it will be great.

Lucy’s Diner has an extensive menu. It may take me a while to work through all of it.


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If you read the May issue of Currents, you already know

about Wakarusa Music Festival and the

650-acre mountain-top ranch, Mulber-

ry Mountain, where Wakarusa is held, just

north of Ozark near Cass on the Pig Trail / Highway 23.

This year, the folks who put on Wa-karusa each year have started up a new country music festival that has caught the attention of country music fans and critics across the nation: Thunder on the Moun-tain.

“With tons of country music along with camping/RV camping, food & craft vendors, river floats, fishing, hiking and

other activities, Thunder On The Moun-tain is one ticket that’s hard to resist,” writes Pollstar.

“In addition to some of the top names from Nashville, fans can expect scenic camping and wide-open areas to fish, hike or take a float down the Mulberry River,” said the Country Music Blog about the festival.

Loaded to the brim with top-shelf country talent, Thunder on the Moun-tain Country Music Festival is set to go down Thursday-Saturday, June 6-8 on the beautiful Mulberry Mountain. Not just a party for country music and everything it stands for, the event boasts a range of activities – from over 800 acres of ATV tracks, waterfall hikes, whitewater rafting opportunties and even a ferris wheel from which to watch it all go down from above. Not to mention tons of property to stretch out for tailgating and revelry.

With little more than a few weeks to go before the inaugural Thunder On The Mountain, preparations are heating up at Mulberry Mountain in anticipation of the

thunder on the Mountain bringstop national acts to northwest Arkansas

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nation’s premier country music and camping festival.

Cowboy rockstars Big & Rich will be getting the party started early on Thursday night, June 6, so strap on your spurs and dig in for an action-packed weekend of great music, food, and adventure.

Newly crowned ACM Entertainer of the Year, Luke Bryan, will headline Friday night’s performances on the Main Stage and, as he quips in his 2012 single of the year, you “won’t want this night to end.”

Then, make sure to have your Red Solo Cup ready for Saturday night’s knockout show by America’s favorite superstar, Toby Keith.

So if you are a country music fan – and especially if you like to camp and enjoy oth-er outdoor activities – check out previews of some of the headliners below, and then get ready to saddle up for some fun on the mountain!

Tickets to Thunder on the Mountain Country Mu-sic and Camping Festival start at $91 for a sin-gle-day pass (available for any day of the festival)

and go up to $151 for a General Admission three-day, full-event pass or $207 for a full-event pass with re-

served seating at Main Stage. A few regional ticket outlets, including George’s Majestic Lounge in Fay-etteville, are selling GA full-event passes for just $143, while supplies last.

Camping passes, one of which is required per ve-hicle, range from $39 for West Woods, across the highway

from the venue, or $79 for Main Stage camping, which is right in the middle of all the action. RV passes at Riverside, down the mountain from the venue, also are available, as are day parking passes for those who don’t want to camp overnight.

For those who don’t mind spending a little more for special treatment and amenities, VIP tickets and hotel packages also are available.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.ThunderOnTheMountain.com.

Following is the complete list of musical acts slated to perform at Thunder on the Mountain:


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Most of us remember this song taught to us as we grew up. It was a pretty good way to teach anatomy and the connected-ness of the skeletal system to children. As adults, we know nothing in life is quite as simple as the song teaches, actually the body is far more complicated than we currently understand. Such is life as an adult. Did you know the digestive sys-tem and all of the billions of bugs living within us influence our bone health? It doesn’t stop with bone health either as the immune system and the cardiovas-cular (heart and blood vessels) system is connected to the digestive system. Good digestion along with good sleep are the first markers of good health.

Regular medicine is starting to strongly embrace the role of probiotics with stud-ies showing the linkage to heart disease, bone density and the immune system. Some science connects them to reduced depression and improved mental health. Probiotics (pro = benefiting and biotic = life) are those good bugs that live in our digestive system, mainly the small bow-el and colon. You’ve heard of acidophilus as it is found in live culture yogurt from the grocery store. While this is good for you it is only one family in a long list of other probiotics all adding to your health and wellbeing. There is at least a dozen families found in a high quality probiot-

ic supplement who apparently contribute in different ways to our life quality. So, the active culture yogurt is tasty and good for you but not really strong enough.

Other than supplementing, fermenting your home grown or Farmer’s Market veg-gies is another way of getting good bugs in your internal garden. Fermenting food was a way of being sure food was available to the family during winter, long ago. This was before canning came along and with canning food became more aplenty but no longer a source of our special friends, probiotics. Fermenting is simple to do and can be as easy as chopping veggies, mixing with a teaspoon of salt per quart, stuffing in a lidded jar then placing in a cool dark

place for a few days or longer. At the prop-er time the bottle is placed in the refriger-ator to slow or stop the process. I’ve done this and found the food to be sauerkraut like and delicious though I had to get over my 21st century idea of the funk factor.

Swallowing one capsule of a high qual-ity supplement is much easier. A properly made probiotic supplement should have a dozen or more families with billions of members each. It has to be enteric coated (meaning made to break down in the small bowel) or made to resist the high acid found in the stomach. Think about it… one of the purposes of stomach acid is to kill bacteria in your food so a lot of the good bugs, but not all, never make to probiotic Eden, the

Swallowing one capsule of a high quality probiotic is the easiest way to populate your gut with good bacteria.

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small bowel. Unless, the supple-ment is made to be the ark car-rying them there.

We all know the good an-tibiotic drugs can do and have done. But, this lifesaving class of drugs through overuse is now not as good as it once was. They are known to kill the beneficial garden in our bel-lies,too. You’re medical doctor should suggest that following an antibiotic therapy regimen a course of probiot-ic therapy commences. I tell people to supplement with a probiotic daily for the same period of time they were on antibiotics. If you were on a Z-pack for 10 days then you would supplement with probiotics for 10 days after.

Ever notice bloating and discomfort happens af-ter eating different food? Folks used to a meat diet

when shifting to a vegetar-ian diet, or vice-versa, often

get uncomfortably bloated. This is because the digestive system had been set with specific families specialized for the foods you most commonly ate. New food? Need new families of probiotics. Start supplementing right away and the troubles melt away.

One of the most interesting scientif-ic reports I’ve recently read goes hand in hand with this. Certain amino acids (protein building blocks) found in red meat are implicated in causing hard-

ening of the arteries. But it’s not that simple as you need those amino acids to live healthfully. Turns out it isn’t the red meat so much as it is not having the proper probiotic in your system to di-gest the amino correctly. Again, probi-otics come to the rescue.

These days I think it is right for ev-eryone to include a source of probiotics into their daily diet. Especially, moth-ers to be, breast feeding mothers, those with challenged immune systems, peo-ple with clogged arteries… well, most everyone. A small amount as low as one capsule daily can be a lifesaver. Is the toe bone connected to all parts of the body? Yes, but you have to think about it or just trust creation.

the active culture in yogurt is tasty and good for you, but not

really strong enough.

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have portraits and fine art pictures hanging on our walls; commercial photographs in the brochures and catalogs we pick up; and we have photojournalism in the magazines and newspapers we read. We have wedding albums and family scrap-books on our coffee tables, and let’s not forget thepictures on our com-puters.

It’s my contention that the pho-tojournalistic discipline of photog-raphy is the best model for most people’s personal photography ac-tivities. Photojournalism borrows from most other disciplines but does so with the goal of capturing “the story-telling” moments in our lives.

Since the first days of practical photography – 1830s forward – folks have been using pictures for many different purposes. Portraits were one of the early applications of then-new photography.

In the early 20th century, news-papers and magazines began to il-

lustrate articles with pictures, thanks to the development of photo-lithog-raphy. Single photos soon illustrated articles; and eventually multi-photo layouts were in common use. It was just a matter of taking the next step to begin telling stories primarily with photographs.

In 1936, the most famous of all picture magazines, LIFE, be-gan publication. Through its pag-es, readers were shown both the earth-shattering events and the seemingly mundane-everyday stuff, all by both word-journalists and tal-ented photojournalists.

The goal of the photojournalist is to communicate with the viewer what he or she has seen or experi-enced, standing in as a surrogate. if you will. Though the photojour-nalist uses techniques from other photographic disciplines, the end result remains the same... to com-municate. Sometimes that will be accomplished with a single image, sometimes with multiple images. Regardless, here is a concept that will help you improve your photog-raphy immensely.

The SingLe PiCTureEffective single news photo-

graphs give the viewer the feeling of being at the event, whether it’s a city council meeting or a fire. It often catches what Henri Cartier-Bresson calls “the decisive moment” – or the story-telling moment – whether it’s a raised eyebrow, the moment a high jumper clears the bar, or the split second when a kid is suspend-ed in mid-air after having plunged off the high dive at the local swim-ming pool.

The single photograph commu-nicates an idea, concept or activity in a single picture. Sometimes the single picture may be a highly styl-ized image to convey a concept, such as in the silhouette of the nurse and young patient. Or it may be old gas pumps in front of a historic gen-eral store.

Regardless, the picture tells a story; cuts to the chase and conveys the essence of the event or subject. These pictures are stand-alone im-ages, dependent only on a caption to add context, like the captions under a picture in your scrapbook.

This graphic picture made at the Old Fort in Fort Smith was used as the lead photo in a motorcycle magazine. It was selected due to the stark nature of the image and the feeling of “place” and the emotion of the photo.

Photos used to serve as stand-alone pictures need to have impact to draw and keep a viewers interest. In journalism it’s often the picture as much as the headline that lets a reader know what the article is about.

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There are times when the sub-ject is broad and expansive and one photograph will not accomplish what’s needed. That’s when the photographer may want to move to multi-photo coverage. This is more than just taking several pictures, perhaps taken at different times and putting them together. That’s what I call the construction of a portfolio.

The true photo essay or photo story takes at least a minimum of planning or for thought.

The picture-story has been a part of our collective photographic con-sciousness for almost 100 years, the penultimate examples being LIFE and National Geographic. Though many use “essay” and “story” inter-changeably, I split hairs a bit more with my definitions.

I feel the photo essay is more akin to poetry or free verse. The photo essay does not have an ob-vious narrative. Its basic construc-tion is built more around a theme. A collection built around a unified

theme. A walk in the woods to pho-tograph wild flowers or a visit to historic Monte Ne may result in a photo essay.

LIFE magazine’s covered sub-jects such as ground-breaking photo essays taking the view-er into the womb of the unborn child. They gave America an inti-mate, personal look at their new President, John F. Kennedy, and his young family.

Likewise, LIFE excelled at the photo story. “Country Doctor”, a fa-mous LIFE photo story, showed the day in the life of a rural physician, telling the story of his day-to-day life, along with the trials and tribu-lations he experienced in his chosen profession. It told the story of his long day, from early morning begin-ning to the late night end. Another classic photo story let readers expe-rience the life of a single working woman living and working in the Big Apple.

The photo essay works well to show a day with your family at the park. The photo story is a narrative tool better at covering family vaca-

UPPER LEFT: Photos used to serve as stand-alone pictures need to have impact to draw and keep a viewers interest. In journalism it’s often the picture as much as the headline that lets a reader know what the article is about.UPPER RIGHT: This photo of an old country store near Natchitoches, Louisiana, would be a good solo photograph to accompany a piece on the historic P. Phanor Prudhomme General Store.RIGHT: These three pictures represent what I think of as a photo-essay – similar to free verse in poetry. They work well together to give a feeling of the place, but there is no narrative involved.


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The lead photograph. Written narra-tives have an opening, a section that sets the scene for what’s coming next. It’s this open-ing that interests the reader and drives them to continue to delve into the rest of the story. Likewise the lead photograph is typically a strong and compelling broad-scoped image.

The MiDDLeThe middle portion of a photo story tells

the details of the narrative, moving along

the understanding of the subject. Individual photos are the glue that holds the piece to-gether just like nouns, verbs and adjectives in spoken language.

The enDingTo conclude a photo story, the photog-

rapher often looks for a photograph that makes a statement or expresses a sentiment that draws everything together and leaves the viewer with the understanding that the story is over, or that the narrative is conclud-ed.

Try planning a photo-story or photo es-say. You’ll enjoy it.

AT LEFT AND ABOVE: These three pictures have more narrative value and have been used as the middle portion of photo stories. They show details about the overall story being told. I always tell my students to “take a picture of your food.” The same goes for signs and interesting architectural details. These give valuable insights to your slide show, scrapbook or magazine submission.

Just as a written story has a beginning, middle, and an ending, so does the photo story. This picture of the fly-over by a ‘30s-era Stinson airplane could be the fitting conclusion to a photo-story on, say, an air show or similar event. It is stark and graphic and has a feeling that says, visually, “fini”.

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Downey Jr.), Rhodey (Don Cheadle), and Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) all return to fight The Mandrin (Ben Kingsley). Shane Black (Kiss Kisss Bang Bang) replaces Jon

Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens) as director. This is probably my most anticipated movie of the year. Huge fan of the first Iron Man and last years The Avengers (my favorite movie of 2012) so May 3 can’t get here soon enough.n The IceMan: Michael Shannon

(HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) plays Richard Kuklinski, a mob hitman who has killed over 100 people. It also stars Winona Ryder (Heathers), Ray Liotta (GoodFellas) and James Franco

(Rise of the Planet of the Apes). I don’t really like these true event inspired movies but it has an excellent cast so I might give it a chance. May 10 n Tyler Perry PresenTs

PeePles: I am not a fan of Tyler Perry movies like last month’s dud, Temptation or his Madea movies, but for a change Perry isn’t the director or star. After years of

dating, Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine) decides it’s time meet his girlfriend’s family, but he soon finds out there are good reasons she has been avoiding introducing him to her relatives. Kerry Washington (Django Unchained), and David Alan Grier (TV In Living Color) co-star. The trailer was really funny, so I am hopeful I might like it.n The GreaT GaTsby: Leonardo

DiCaprio (Titanic), Tobey Maguire (The Spider-Man trilogy), and Carey Mulligan (Drive) star in the big screen (and big budget) adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel. Baz

Luhrman (Moulin Rouge!) directs. It was originally suppose to be released Christmas of 2012 but was pushed back till summer for some reason (maybe to avoid going head-to-head with DiCaprio’s other movie, Django Unchained). This drama will also will be released in 3D. Not a fan of seeing drama’s on the big screen (especially in 3D) and this one might be a bit long and boring but thankfully I’ll be wearing those dark 3D glasses and maybe nobody will notice me sleeping. May 15n sTar Trek: Into Darkness: Captain

James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) must once again boldly go where no man (or Vulcan) has gone before to lead the crew of the USS Enterprise against

a powerful and evil enemy (BBC’s Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch). J.J. Abrams (Super 8) returns as director (maybe for the last time as he was hand-picked by Disney to helm the next Star Wars movie). I like the 2009 movie alot and I have high hopes for this sequel and I think I won’t be disappointed. May 24n FasT and FurIous 6: Dominic

Toretto (Vin Diesel) and former FBI agent, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) again team up with DSS Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) in order to take down (another)

deadly criminal organization...and to find Dominic’s former girlfriend (who was thought to be killed in The Fast and Furious). Justin Lin returns as director (his 4th F&F movie). 2011’s Fast Five was my favorite of the series. I love these characters, I love the action and I am not ashamed to say...I love The Rock! Can’t wait for this movie.n The hanGover: ParT III: Phil

(Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and The Wolf Pack are back...as well as Mr. Chow (TV Community, Ken Jeong). After the huge success of the

first two films, it was only a matter of time (and money) before they would make a third. Todd Phillips again directs. The storyline is being kept

It’s my favorite time of year! No isn’t Halloween or Christmas; it’s summer blockbuster movie time! It’s the time of the year when us action-movie lovers recieve gifts from Hollywood. The movie studios release their big-budget movies which are usually filled with mind-numbing action and adventure. Yes, Hollywood, I’ve been good this past year –

now give me my movies, some hot, buttered popcorn – please. Thank you!

Coming Attractions


Pass the P

opcorn By Russell Pinkston

Russell Pinkston has reviewed movies for his high school newspaper (The Golden Echo), on TV (Reelz Channel) as one-half of the team of CineManiacs that represented Berryville on the nationally broadcast show Movie Mob, and on youTube (TheScreenTeam). His reviews can be heard live on thedirectorscutradio.com podcast every Saturday night from 6-8 p.m. CST. you can find him (TheReelRussell) on Twitter and Facebook. He also posts his movie reviews on his blog on thedirectorscutradio.com webpage. Russell works in Berryville and lives in Harrison.

under tight wraps but rumors say that friends will return to Vegas and have to rescue Alan from a mental hospital. The first two Hangovers were funny (even though they were very simular in story) but I am not sure if I want more of the same thing again.n ePIc: An computer animated

fantasy where a teenage girl (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) is shrunken down and discovers a tiny world where the forest is alive...and at war. Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games),

Colin Farrell (Horrible Bosses) and singer Beyoncé Knowles also lend their voice to this animated action-adventure. Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation in my opinion aren’t as good as Dreamworks or Pixar, but they do know a little something about animation as they made the four Ice Age movies. So hopefully if this movie has a good story it might not be that bad. Regardless, my son and daughter will make me take them to see it.

May 31n The PurGe: In the future, crime

and unemployment are almost nonexisitant. In order to keep the peace the government has created a program called “The Purge,” a once-a-year 12-hour period where

all criminal activity is legal. Ethan Hawke (Sinister) and Lena Headly (HBO’s Game of Thrones) must protect their family against masked homicidal

psychopaths. Sounds a little like a R rated version of The Hunger Games (which might be a good thing).If the story is good, it just might surprise me.n now you see Me: FBI Agent

Dylan Hobbs (Mark Ruffalo) teams up with an Interpol detective and a magic debunker (Morgan Freeman) in order to take down a group of magicians lead by Michael (Jesse

Eisenberg) who use their magic show to rob a bank from thousands of miles away. Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Michael Caine co-star. An excellent cast and idea might make for an interesting and entertaining movie. I’m in.

June 7 n aFTer earTh: Will Smith

(I Robot, I Am Legend) stars with his son, Jaden, (The Karate Kid) in this futuristic action movie. Director M. Night Shyamalan who had a couple of early hits (The Sixth Sense, Signs) hopes

to redeem himself from some recent (really) bad films (The Happening, The Last Air Bender). The trailer is action packed and looks good – I really hope so.n The InTernshIP: Vince

Vaughn (Swingers, The Dilemma) and Owen Wilson (Cars, The Big Year) hope to recapture the magic and success of their last collaberation (Wedding Crashers).

They play salesmen who try to win interships with mega-company Google. The trailer looked funny, but I am a little worried it just might have a little too much Google, which can be a bad thing.

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